The Washington critic., 1888-05-08
THE NEWS or THE DAY.

Dr. Charles Sidney Muscrort, one OF
Ciucinnati's leading physicians, died sud-
denly Saturday.
The German man-of.war Ariadne ar
rived at Norfolk, Nay yesterday, and will
remain there six weeks,
Walter Thompson & Co., dealers i'm
brio -a-brac, New York, and S. llirsch "
Son, manufacturers fur trimmings, have
made assignments.
Dan Sale, coored, was lynched Sunday
near the village of Danburg, Ga, for at
tempting TO commit an assault upon Miss
Smith, school teacher.
Coils 7. Huntington was summoned to
appear in Part III of the New York Su.
preme Court yesterday. lie did not ap-
pear and was fined 500.
The wholesale commission house of
w. Il. Coleman u Co. of San Francisco
has made on assignment, with liabilities
ofabout two million dollars.
Samuel Johnston, aged 81 halter, of
Lancaster, Pa, died yesterday When
an apprentice he shaped the blocks for
the hats now universally worn by Dunk
ards and kindred sects.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has re-
yersed Judge Noonan upon the Sunday
law. II is held that the city government
ofSt Louis never had authority to grant
permission for the sale of wine and beer
on Sunday.
Captain Martin Moore of the excursion
steamer Benton was killed on board his
steamer Sunday night, near Mem phis,
Tenn, in q difficulty with Eph Reeve and
w. l. MCGOWAN, who are charged with
the murder.
John r. Sheely, aged 90 of Lancaster
cciycd at steelton. While eating his
breakfast at the steel works the cham of
a derrick broke and let 500 pounds of
iron fall upon him.
At Easton, Pr yesterday DR.. Henry
NJ. Cox of Port Murray, n. j., convicted
of causing the death Of Jennie Osborne by
malpractice, was sentenced to imprison-
ment in the Easton Jail for three years
and to pay a fine Of 500.
At Bardstown, Kyn Sunday, Reeves
| Simmons, u bachelor, who has brought
mp his sisters three children, undertook
to chastise his nephew, Nat. Reeves, aged
| ~, Whereupon Nat. seized a shotgun and
| blew his unCle's brains out.
The United States Fish Commission car
reached Atlanta, Ga, yesterday, and a
change of water being found necessary,
artesian water was supplied. Inside of
an hour 65,O0O young fish were dead and
nearly 100000 eggs are supposed to be
| killed.
Benjamin Palmer the Boston stock
| broker, who is charged with embezzling
his customers money, is said to have lost
! IlOOO of other peoples funds in spccula-
| ton, besides money borrowed from his
relatives. Palmer is only about 90 years
of age.
Fire yesterday destroyed the county
bridge over Lycoming Creek, in the west
err, part of Williamsport, Pa. the wagon
! and blacksmith shop Of Yeakel IL Nc
| Doweil, the barn of II. Barnhart and the
slaughter-house of Samuel Lusk, causing
a loss of $4,000.
The British steamship Benison and the
freight steamship Eureka, from New
York for New Orleans were in a collision
in n fog Sunday noon Off Cape Charles,
and 1t IS believed the Eureka, with her
crew of 3S officers and sailors, was sunk.
The Benison's bow was badly stove in,
and she was towed into Norfolk.
At Jacksonville Fla, J. II. Durkee
sold yesterday, under decree of court, the
Transit Railroad, the Transit and Tropical
Road and the Plant City extension to
the Florida Railway and Navigation sys-
| TEN, w. Bayard Cutting, agent, who
now has control of the entire Florida
Railway and Navigation system.
The bark Gleneida, from Lewes, Del,
for New York, reports that when at Gil
| bara the Chinese steward who had been
showing signs of insanity ever since the
vessel had left New York for the West
Indies, shot himself fourteen times. FL
nally he fell dead literally full of holes.
He Joined the Salvation Army in New
York, and his insanity is attributed to
that cause.
Mrs. Annie Schicll of Philadelphia, the
subject of DR.. J.. Webster Fox's recent
operation of transplanting a portion of
the cornea of rabbits eye to that of q
human being, was examined by the ply
sician yesterday, and the graft was not
only found TO be entirely successful, but
the patient was enabled to distinguish
objects at distance of several feet.
General John Tregaskis of the eXecu-
tive committee engaged in preparing for a
reunion of the survivors of the armies en-
gagged in the battle of Gettysburg, twenty
five years ago, reports that all trunk rail
roads have agreed upon a uniform rate of
one cent a mile to and from Gettsburg-a
trife less than halfrates. The committee
will visit Richmond on Saturday next to
meet the Society of the Army of Northern
Virginia to extend in person the invita-
ton, which has been accepted by mall
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| Funeral of Mrs. Faunce.