Evening journal., 1888-05-28
General News OF she morning.

and st. Paul Road at Mitchell, Dakota.
were yesterday notified that they have
been assessed one-third OF their pay for the
first six days Of the month to help the COM
pany pay damages sustained Ahrough the
20" strike. Much indignation Is felt.
The Official Gazstte of Madrid, Spain,
publishes the text Of an agreement between
Spain and the United States prolonginR
the existing commercial arrangements
pending the conclusion OF q more ample
treaty. The agreement may be terminated
on two months notice being given by either
side.
Ex-Postmaster Manley Is In Washington
and has been in conferences with the Maine
Representatives and the friends OF MIR.
Blaine. This fnvorite lieutenant OF the
Maine statesman reiterates bis opinion that
the letter Of Mr.. Blaine, while withdrawal
in the sense of an aggressive candidate,
does not necessarily admit OF the interpre-
tation that he viii not accept IL nominated
after the attempts Of others have failed
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott informally
accepted the pastorate OF Plymouth Church
yesterday morning on the completion Of
his sermon. He said bis desire was to wait
before making formal announcement OF
his decision, but he could not help giving
word OF bis assent. He had loved Ply.
mouth Church as one OF its children and
dseply honored and respected its former
pastor.
Julius r, Greiswold, travelling salesman
for james B. MacNeal & Co. of Baltimore,
committed suicide about o'clock yester-
day by jumping into the river Off the Mary
land Steamboat Comp0ny's wharf at
Cambridge, Md. GreiswoId arrived there
on Tuesday morning from Baltimore aud
occupied room at the Cambridge Hotel.
While there be ate but one mesl and kept
to his room most OF the time. Yesterday
morning he left the hotel, walked.rapidly
to the river, aud taking his coat, vest and
shoes of, made leap in. He left wife,
who resides in Baltimore
The Democratic ticket to be placed in
nomination at the st. Louis Convention
will contain these names: President
Grover Cleveland. OF New York; Vice
President--Allsn G. Thurman. OF Ohio.
Ex.United States Senator Thurman has
been asked il he will accept the nomination
for Vice President and hehas given his con-
cent to allow his name 10 be presented TO
the convention and will 60 on the ticket.
The nomination has been rendered to the
Ohio statesman with the full knowledge
and the appreciation OF the leading men Of
the party.
Yesterday at a meeting Of nearly two
hundred delegates Of the Irish Catholic so
cieties OF Chicago. motion was offered re.
lating to the mass meeting OF the Irish
Catholics TO be held ct Battery d Armory
in that city on Thursday night OF this
week. The mass meeting will have for its
object the consideration OF the famous
Papal rescript. The motion Ia effect was
that it be the sense Of all Irish Catholics
that they could manage their own political
affairs, and that all the societies 10 the
city should attend the mass meeting to
lend their voice to this belief. The motion
was carried without a dissenting voice.
A sensation was caused at Topeka, Kan
sas, on Saturday, By the escape from the
State Insane Asylum OF Boston Corbett,
who killed Wilkes Booth, the assassin OF
President Lincoln. While out for regular
morning exercise with other patients Cor
bitt suddenly broke from the ranks, jumped
on horse belonging 10 a visitor and was
away befoIe the guard could realize shat
had happened. corbett had been confined
In the asy lum for the past month, and dur
ing that time had been more or less violent,
and threatened to escape and 10 kill the
governor and other officers who had any.
thing TO do with his incarceration. II is
believed that be has gone 20 his home In
Cloud County.
Barclay Peak on trial for the second time
at Mt Holly, N. j., for killing bis cousin
and sweetheart, Katie Anderson, pleaded
guilty on Saturday morning at the instance
of his counsel who found the testimony
stronger on the second test which he had
involved than on the first, and Judge
Garrison instructed the jury to bring in
verdict OF murder in the second degree.
BE will be sentenced in the Supreme Court
Of Trenton next month. Peak has made a
confession to counsel, in which he admite
the shooting, but claims that it was done
while Katie was trying 70 wrest the
weapon from him. The belief ia that be
tried to shoot her in fit Of passion or
jealousy, as she refused to marry him out
Of respect TO her fathers wish, that she
grasped the pistol before it went Off and
that she was thus shot down while holding
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