The Washington critic., 1888-07-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Hasty Reading.

Tor Hasty Reading,
During drunken quarrel between two
deputy sherifis, named James McGeorge
and Bill Smith, near Pineville, KY, on
Sunday night, both men sustained fatal
injuries. They were struggling for the
possession of pistol which was in Nc
Georges hands. During the scuffle the
weapon was discharged, the ball passing
through McGeorge's neck inflicting q
fatal wound. AS he fell he fired at ram
dom, sending ball through Smiths
brain and wounding two bystanders.
Justice Charles K. Fennimore, of De-
lance, N. j., died Sunday night from the
effects of bite by rabid dog received
over three months ago. lie experienced
no Inconvenience until Thursday last,
when he felt strangely uneasy ON drink
ing glass of ice water. Soon afterwards
the symptoms of hydrophobia began to
display themselves, and he continued to
grow worse until he expired.
Mrs. s. N. Brooks, mother of Hugh NJ. I
Brooks, alias Maxwell. the chloroformer,
and her daughter Annie, had an inter-
view i'll st. Louis yesterday with young
Brooks at the Jail. They will be at JET.
ferson City on the 9th inst, when Gov
ernor Morehouse will hear an appeal for
communication of sentence by Brooks
attorneys, and will make personal pleas
for the life of their son and brother.
VIM. Fearing Gill has returned to New
York city and threatens to sue the New
York papers for damages exceeding ST.
oOoo ior it peioTs MS statements about his
Miss Gwyn. He says that he and the
lady will not live together until fall,
when religious ceremony of marriage
| will take place TO supplement the private
| contract. Tho lady will not take the
name of Gill until that time.
Miss Margaret Beecher daughter of
Colonel II. B. Beecher ofOrange, N. j.,
and granddaughter of Henry Ward
Beecher, will be married on Saturday
next to Arthur White, son of Congress
man s. V. White of New York. Another
| granddaughter of Mr.. Beecher, Miss Har-
riet Beecher Scoville of Stamford, Conn,
| was married last week to DR.. Spencer O.
| Devan, U. S. N.
In Cincinnati, on Wednesday last, Miss
| Clara Williams was arrested for stealing
millinery goods from Mrs. Barger, her
employer She confessed that for the
past six months she had been from time to
| time guilty of theft. Sunday she was
| found dead in her room, having taken
her life with chloroform.
A dispatch from Gibraltar states that
| fog of Unprecedented denseness prevails
there. Three British steamers, the Glen
| devon, the Lionel and the Earl of Dunn
fries, have gone ashore since it set in, and
another steamer the Resolution, has ar
/ rived there with her bows much dam
aged.
The new steam barge Servia of Bay
| City, Mich, blew the cover off her steam
chest just before entering Lake Huron
yesterday, severely burning the second
| engineer, II. Robinson of Bay City, Fire
! man j. Thomas, and fatally the deck
hand, J. Rem.
The exercises connected with the cele-
bration of the twenty-iifth anniversary of
| the battle of Gettysburg were con-
tnued at that place yesterday. Several
monuments were dedicated and addresses
made by distinguished military men.
The rate on dressed beef yesterday
dropped from 800 to 264 cents from Chi
cago to New York and Boston, all the
roads meeting the reduction of the Erie
and its immediate Western connection,
the Chicago and Atlantic
In Birmingham, Ala, Saturday night
q. II. Avery, cashier of the cold-storage
warehouse of the Armour Packing Com
pany, was attacked in his Office by two
negroes, who knocked him senseless and
| robbed the safe of 800.
\ party of drunken men Sunday Wis
tied the premises of Wilson Schmeck, q
1 farmer, near Reading, Pa, and com
menced destroying his property. He fired
into the crowd and fatally wounded Wal
lace Matthias.
U. S. Marshals Phillips and McGlaugh-
lin, Saturday night, attempted to arrest
Wesley and Waite Barnet, near Eufala,
l. T, Both Phillips and mclaughlin
were killed and Waite Barnet was fatally
wounded.
Superintendent Walker, representing
Carnegie, Phipps 4 Co., signed the iron
scale in Pittsburg yesterday for all their
mills except the Homestead Steel Works
Thirteen signatures are now attached to
the scale.
Colonel Dave Taggart, aged G7 years,
died at Northumberland, Pa, Saturday
night. lie was prominent Republican
politician ana was a candidate for the
nomination Of Governor in 1868 against
Curtin.
During June 2S0 boats, carrying 81, ,497
tons of coal, cleared from Cumberland ON
the canal. The revenue was about $ll,.
600, The tonnage was only tons behind
that of the corresponding month Oflast
year.
Official reports ofthe Russian crops are
favorable, and indicate yield above the
average. The winter wheat prospects are
very promising. The spring crops are
also in excellent condition.
Tho American bishops now IN London
attended special service at Westminster
Abbey yesterday The Archbishop of
Canterbury preached.
Tho speeches of Emperor William,
opening the ReiChstag and Landtag, are
displayed on bulletin boards on the streets
of Berlin.
Rev. II, G, Pendleton, Il widely known
Congregational Clergyman of ChenOa, ILL.,.
died IN that city onSunday evening, aged
81.
James Q. A. MoConkey, prominent
citizen of Peach Bottom. York County,
Pa, died suddenly Sunday evening
IL is reported that Lawrence Il. Jerome
Is dangerously i'll at his residence in
Sharon, Conn.
There was further fall of Is francs
in Panama Canal stock yesterday in
| Paris.
The Baltimore and Potomac will sell
tickets 70 uynesboro' Park, Nd, at re-
| duCed rates.