The Washington critic., 1888-06-20
.AsHIN GTON CRITIC
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Important Events of the Past Fol
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to DO any arduous manual labor, she was
assigned to the sewing-room, and during
the six months that size is TO remain on
the island she will help make garments
for her fellow. criminals. General Diss
Debar will go to the penitentiary to-day.
His advanced age exempts him from ac-
tive labor, and he threatens to write O
book about the madam and her pictures.
Ann 0'Delia says that when she gets out
of prison she will lecture and produce
spirit portraits for anybody that cares to
pay for them.
Walter A. Heard, one of the wealthiest
men in the region near Canandaigua, N.
y, was found in his room last Saturday
apparently dead. Physicians said that
he had died of paralysis of the heart.
The funeral was arranged for yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock, and at that hour
large number of friends gathered and
services were performed. As the coffin
was about to be carried to the hearse,
Mrs. Rutledge, sister of MI. Heard, de-
clared that she believed that he was
merely in o trance, and insisted that the
body should not be removed. The un-
dertaker, hearse and carriages were then
dismissed, and the body remains in the
house. II looks very life-like.
John Il. Dunn, who was found guilty
of tempting Richard s, Scott the paying
teller of The Manhattan Bank in New
funds, and who took $4,000 for safe
keeping and retained the greater part of
IL in spite of Scotts protests, was yester-
day sentenced to nine years and eight
months imprisonment in State prison.
Judge Barrett imposed the maximum
sentence because, as he said, there was
nothing in the prisoners defense that en-
titled him to mercy. He had not only
tempted weaker.minded man to steal,
but he had deliberately cheated his dupe
out of the fruits of his dishonest act.
The U. s. steamer Yantic. arrived at
Fort Monroe yesterday from Santiago
De Cuba. On May 28' the Yantic was
Minister there had reported revolution
imminent. She arrived at Port Au
Prince on the 4th inst, found that the
revolution was over and quiet restored
and that there had been little danger of
outbreak. President Solomon Of Hayti,
q colored man, upon learning of rising,
had banished the nng leaders and re-
stored quietness.
On the second ballot at Brussels for
members of the Senate and Chamber of
Deputies of Belgium the Clericals gained
all the eight seats allotted to that city
and retained the fourteen seats previously
held by them IN the Chamber of Depu.
ties, besides gaining one from the Lib
erals; the Clericals have majority of
sixty in the Chamber of Deputies and
a majority of thirty-seven in the Senate
In hearing yesterday before the In
terstate Commerce Commission in the
case ofthe Worcester Excursion Car Com
pany against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company the Pennsylvania Company ad-
mitted that they had refused to haul
complainant's. cars, and in defense of
their action submitted testimony tending
to show that the peculiar construction
of the Worcester cars rendered them in
convenient for transportation.
1t is semi officially stated that the Gar
has declined to sanction the proposal of
General Van Novski, Russian Minister of
War, that the number of reserve bat
talions be doubled, on the ground that
the proposed increase would be too severe
a burden on the financial resources of
the Empire, and because the present
political situation in nowise justifies such
measure.
man of Salt Lake City, and Anna Whit
tick, pretty Louisville girl, were mar
ried in Louisville last Thursday and have
gone West on wedding tour. Their
wedding is the result of matrimonial ad-
vertisement inserted in Salt Lake City
paper three years ago by Deutrich, which
was replied to by the lady he just married.
AT the Pennsylvania Railroad locomo-
tive shops, at Altoona, Pa, yesterday, q
locomotive weighing 10000 pounds was
built in 10 hours and IS minutes and
! turned out ready for use, thus lowering
the record, which had previously been 81
hours, the time taken by the Baldwin
Locomotive Works to build an engine.
Yesterday was the twenty-first anniver.
sary of the execution of Macmillan and
his two principal officers, Miramon and
Mia. Solemn requiem mass was cele-
brated to their memory at the old church,
Sanfernando Mexico, and was attended
by nearly all the surviving partisans
OF the dead Emperor.
The National Camp, Patriot Sons of
America, is now in session at Reading,
Pa, and the city Is trimmed from end to
end with national colors in their honor.
Yesterday President Smith made strong
address eulogizing Mayor Hewitt of New
York for refusing to noist any but the
American flag over the City Hall.
The Upper House of the Hungarian
Diet, yesterday on motion of the Presi-
dent, adapted a resolution expressing its
family over the death of Emperor Fred
erick.
The Presse of Vienna says that Prince
Bismarck and Count Kalnoky have eX-
changed dispatches affirming their desire
to maintain the peaceful alliance now
existing between the two countries. ,
An explosion OF dynamite yesterday af-
ternoon at the Riverside blast furnace at
Benwood w. Va, caused the death OF
Samuel Lanthern and fatally injured
Thomas Blade. Six others were more OF
less seriously injured.
Rev. DIR. Coleman, the newly-elected
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of Delaware, has forwarded to l..
w. Gibson of Dover letter accepting the
office.
r. Ashby Ridenour, under sentence OF
death at Winchester for the murder OF
Andrew Bray, has been granted new
trial by Judge Turner of the Circuit Court
In the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
foreclosure proceedings at Richmond
Va, Judge Wexford rendered decision
favorable to the Huntington party.
M. Charlemagne Emile de Maupas, e
years of age, and formerly French Min
lister and member of the Senate, is dead
Adyices from Zanzibar to the JoiUna
des Debates of Paris, state there is little
doubt that Stanley, the explorer, is dead.
There is no basis whatever for the re-
port that King Leopold has received new:
of the death of Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley.
Rev. DIR. Coleman has accepted the
bishopric of the Episcopal Diocese o.
Delaware.
Mrs. Emory A. Storrs, widow of the dis
tinguished lawyer died in Chicago
yesterday,
DIR. A. NJ. Raub has been elected presi
dent ofDelaware College,
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