The Washington critic., 1888-07-28
WASHINGTON CRITIC
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At Brighton, N. y, 06 miles east of
Buffalo, serious break occurred yester-
day in the three-mile level of the Erie
Canal. 1t was caused by rats, which had
made large hole near the bed of the
canal, through which the water found an
exit. Locking was Immediately sus-
pended west of the break and the water
was drawn through the eastern locks.
This action saved the fields along the
banks from being overnowed by waste
water and prevented great damage being
done.
Joseph Welsh, who created reign of
terror some months ago among the
women of the fashionable East End of
Pittsburg by assaulting and robbing sew.
eral prominent ladies in broad daylight,
was sentenced yesterday to twenty-five
years imprisonment at hard labor in the
Riverside penitentiary. One of his vic
Tins, Mrs. b. J.. Wood, the wife of q
wealthy and prominent citizen, died
last Monday from paralysis of the heart,
the result, 1t is believed, of the nervous
shock sustained at the thine of the rob-
berry and assault.
Justice Van Brunt, in the Supreme
Court chambers in New York yesterday,
granted temporary order ito show cause
on August why IL should not he made
permanently restraining the Oregon Rail
way and Navigation Company from
building branch lines and doing certain
other acts which are objected to by Bray
ton Ives, Edward Sweets IL Co. and
Charles Colby, who own 4,Gs5 shares of
the stock. These stireties are suing for
permanent injunction in the Supreme
Court.
]. p. Johnson Howard, colored, whose
reputed wealth gained for him the title
ofthe BLACK Prince and who has for
many years past been active in Brooklyn
politics. was yesterday sentenced by Re
corder Smyth in the General Sessions
Court at New York to imprisonment for
seven years and six months for perjury
in swearing falsely that he owned certain
property IN Kings County when examined
in the Supreme Court as to his qualilca-
ton as bondsman.
A meeting of the directors of the East
and West Railroad of Alabama was held
in New York yesterday for the purpose
Of transferring the control .oi the com
pany to a board selected by Mr.. Eugene
Kelley, in accordance with his purchase
of the interests of Messrs. Browning and
West in that road Foreclosure proceed
iDgs looking to a sale of the road are in
progress.
At q conference of glass-bottle blowers
and manufacturers held at Pittsburg Pa,
on Thursday the wage scale forth ensuing
y
600 workers in the West will resume
operations when the fires are started in
the furnaces September l. The scale
slightly advances wages on novelties, but
otherwise is the same as last year.
The bodies of two children were found
floating in the creek at East st. Louis
Thursday night. The children were six
months old and appeared to be twins.
They were boy and a girl. The girls
throat had been cut, but there were no
marks of violence on the boy.
II. u. MoElroy, chief clerk of the freight
department OF the Mexican Central Rail.
road, was arrested at Vera Cruz Wednes
day night, charged with being de.
faulter The amount of his alleged de-
ialcation is unknown.
Professor Francis ii. Smith ofthe Uni
versity of Virginia lectured yesterday be-
fore the School of Christian Philosophy
of Round Lake, N. Y, his subject being,
The Scientific and Christian Ideals Of
Humanity"
A movement is on foot among the soap
manufacturers of the United States to
form soap trust. The association will
regulate Rices and production, and en-
deavor to secure legislation that will pro-
tect the best interests of the manufac-
turers.
Just before the steamer Adam Jacobs
reached Fayette City, Pa, Thursday
night, Miss Catherine Greenhalgh threw
her three-weeksold baby into the river.
She was arrested and taken to Uniontown.
The child's body was not recovered.
Steve Brodie, who achieved notoriety
by jumping from the Brooklyn Bridge
and by swimming in rubber suit down
the Hudson, was arrested in New York
last night for abducting Gertrude Lord,
10 years old, of Albany.
Later reports of the fires at Port au
Prince, Hayti, say: MANY murders
were committed by the drunken and in
hnriated blacks. Summary justice has
been inflicted upon tile ringleaders of the
violence by the Government"
The expected additional eyctions on
been postponed. 1t is believed that an
other effort will be made to effect set
tlement of the dispute between the land
lord and the tenants.
Thomas Reilly, the noted crook, who
confessed to having knocked down and
robbed Lawyer Wakley was sentenced in
New York yesterday to fifteen years and
seven months IN State prison.
At Pawnee City, Neb., Fremont EN-
mons stabbed Bertha Schultz to the heart
Thursday night, because she refused to
marry him. The girl died in twenty
minutes,
After heated debate the municipal
council of Paris, by vote of 40 to 20. has
rejected a proposal to grant 5000 francs
to and the navvies' strike.
There was very severe storm at Gull
pepper, Va, last night, accompanied by
rain. 1t is thought there was much dam
age done in the surrounding country.
"A thousand miners employed in the
coal mines at st. Etienne have struck,
and II is expected that the strike will
spread.
A continued flow OF Cinnamon into the
United States across the border from
British Columbia is reported.
Nineteen emigration agents have been
arrested in Cracow for melting natives to
emigrate TO America.
1t is reported that Prince Ferdinand
Will receive n summons to abdiCate the
throne of Bulgaria.
Lord Knutsford yesterday unveiled q
tablet in Westminster Abbey in memory
of William Il. Forster.
The Chicago Board of Trade is investi-
eating the dealing in puts and calls by its
members.
General Drentein, governor and COM
mander of the Kietf District, has died of
apopleXy.
Professor Herman Bonitz, the German
philologist, is dead.
The Pope is suffering from liver COM
plant,
POISONED FRUIT.