The Washington critic., 1888-10-03
WASHINGTON CRITIC.
NEWS or THE DAY.
}ocent Happenings Of Interest Condensed
for the Hasty Reader


arrived recently from Liverpool, were
sent on their way to Salt Lake City,
Utah, yesterday. They were to have
been returned to England, but Collector
elagonc ordered their release, after sccur-
ing from the steamship company bond
guaranteeing that the children should not
become public charge.
Ann Scnnlon, aged 40, of IIobolSen,
N. j., while drunk, cut her sons head
with Il bowl. She attacked her husband
with an axe. and later, while he was
asleep, attempted to stab him The
blade of the knife penetrated thick
bed quilt but did not hurt the man.
The employees of the Winton Coal
Company of Winton, Pa, went on strike
yesterday becausc the company wanted
qhc men to send out 3, 90 pounds of coal
for a ton The men agreed TO give
1900 pounds. About two hundred men
and boys are affected.
The president of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union has appealed to the
eight hundred societies of the union to
raise funds to complete an endowment of
$4,000 for the establishing OF chair
in the Catholic University in honor of
Father Matthew.
The rolling mills of the Columbia Iron
Company ut Lancaster, Pa, started last
night after an idlencss of some weeks
for improvements, which gave employ
A Philadelphia syndicate has pur-
chased the Chicago Gaslight & Coke
per cent bonds heretofore held by w.
w. Gibbs, amounting to little less than
S1,000,0 900, at about 40.
Richard Allison Elmer, president Of
The American Surety Company ana second
Assistant Postmaster General from May B,
] 18S1, to February, 1884, died suddenly
of apoplexy in New York City, Monday
night.
The body of woman with the head,
legs and arms missing was found near
the Thames River in London, but 1T is
not known whether this was another Of
the Whitechapcl murdcrer's victims.
Now il seems probable that Judge
Thurman will not write u letter OF ac-
ceptance as he declares he does not see
the necessity for 1t.
There will be q series of joint discus
sions on the tariff in West Virginia cities
between Gen Goff, the Republican NOM
inee for governor, and Congressman VIII
liam L.. Wilson.
The case of Prof. GcilclSen, charged
with giving to a newspaper extracts
from the late Emperor Fredcricl<S diary,
has been remitted to the Supreme Court
at Leipsic.
Fifteen hundred miners of the Belle
willie, ILL.,, district have quit work PC
cause the companies refused to give
them two and one-fourth cents bushel
top weight
Gen. Harrison received delegation
from Minnesota yesterday, who placed
In his garden acknowledgement spec
linen OF iron ore.
The President of France has signed q
decree regulating the residence OF Tor
eigners who have settled or about to
settle in that country.
An inquest was held yesterday on the
body of the woman found murdered IN
a narrow court oil BennerS streeu LOll-
don, Sunday morning
The body of Mary j. Sundstrum was
found in an abandoned prospect hole near
Helena, Mont, and George Bryson has
been arrested charged with the crime
The nine-year-old daughter of G. L.
Williams, Of Parsons, Kan, yesterday
saved the life of her baby brother, III
danger of being burned to death.
After shutdown of fifteen weeks the
window glass factories of the West have
resumed operations, aifordlng employ
ment to several Thousand men.
Minnie Katzenberger, aged thirteen,
of Chicago, has confessed to attempting
to kill her mother, brothers and sisters,
by putting poison in their food.
The So, 500 package of money that sc
mysteriously disappeared from the Ma
tional Bank of New York City, has been
found.
There were 2,361 business failures
during the third quarter of the year II
the United States, and for the nln'
months of 1883 the failures number
1850.
A. A. Carlton, q member Of the Gen
eral Executive Board of the knights
of Labor, has resigned to take part IL
the presidential campaign.
Ninety-eight new cases but no deaths
from the fever were reported yesterday
at Jacksonville, Florida. Four nev
cases at Decatur, Ala.
The planning mills of Booth IL Lea
and John G.. Kline, of Altoona, IA, wer
burned by incendiaries last night. Loss
$35, 200.
There are 45O cases of typhoid fcveI
in Duluth, and the epidemic appears Il
be growing. "A number OF deaths nave
occurred.
The Supreme Court of Nevada ha
decided that the anti-M ormon test oat
passed by the last Legislature Is uncoh
stitutional.
The Grand Lodge of the United State
Junior American Protestant Association
Is in session Mt Pottsville, Pa.
A report comes from Chicago tha
Libby prison will be removed to that GU
George Ii. Norwood, son of Congress
man Norwood, of Savannah, Ga, diet
In that city Sunday.
The seventy ninth annual meeting o
the American Board of Foreign Mission
was held in Cleveland, o.
The Dowager Empress Victoria, VIII
is staying at Kiel with Prince Henry
starts for England on Saturday.
The st. Etiennc miners, at a meetln
yesterday, resolved to terminate TIN
strike.
Admiral Fairfax, who is en- route iron
Tonga to Samoa, will establish Bntlsl
protectorate over Savage Island
The Prince of Wales departed iron
Pesth yesterday. lie Is gong u
Bucharest
By an explosion on the steamer Cha
lope at Aspnwall, recently, six live
were lost and two vessels blown up
Patrick O'Brien, Nationalist membc
of Parliament, has been released fror
prison looking pale and worn
Gen. Fislle is conducting his Prohib
tion campaign in the far West, yesterda
speaking to three thousand people in Dc
troit
The New York State Court of Appeal
has ordered n new trial for Alderma
McQuade.
There arc snowstorms in the Yves
an inch deep on the Alleghanies, neo
WillSesbarre, Pa.
Waits furniture factory at Sturg
Mich, was destroyed by fire. Los
$4,000.
Eighteen Baltimore q Ohio Raj
road conductors have been discharged
The Richmond X Danville Compnn
has leased the East Tennessee Railroa'