The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-22
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lumbus, Georgia, closed yesterday. Prizes
we're awarded as follows: Southern Ca
diets, Macon, first prize, one thousand
dollars; second prize, Witt Rifles, CO.
lumbia, Tennessee, five hundred dollars;
Columbus Guards, Columbia, Georgia,
third prize, two hundred and fifty dol
lars. Seven companies composed the
battalion which was commanded by Ad.
| iutant G. NJ. Willy Of Macon. Governor
Gordon and staff reviewed the troops at
! the Exposition grounds. Twelve thou
sand people witnessed the military con-
! test. Lieutenants Satterlee and Barrett
! Of the United States Army were the
| judges. Saturday will be drummers day
at the Exposition, and two thousand
| drummers are expected to be present.
| The Columbus drummers, one hundred
and forty strong, held meeting last
| night and arranged to entertain the visit.
ing knights OF the Grip.
On Friday last Joseph Aiken, the SUI.
| perintendent Of a New York detective
| agency, arrived in Ottawa for the purpose
of securing, If possible, the arrest of
! two boodler fugitives named John Jo-
seph Mulligan and Thomas f. Baeder,
who recently fled from New York after
| robbing their employers. Mulligan was
! employed by Post, Martin & Co., bank.
ers and brokers, and Bacder, his chum,
| was employed rs n clerk in n large gun
| manufacturing house. The detective
located the pair at Metcalfe, twenty miles
out from here, and n constable named
Mackenzie was sent to arrest them, but
they frightened him off with revolvers,
and are still at large, having fed while
| Mackenzie was away securing assistance.
The meeting of the Nineteenth Cen
tury Club last night in New York was
devoted to sorrowful and eulogistic re-
membrance of the late president of the
organization, Cortland Palmer, to whom
loving tributes were paid by Mayor Hew.
lit, Dwight Olmstead, Mrs. John Sher-
wood, the Marquese LAMA, daughter of
DR.. Hammond) T. B. Wakeman, Mon
cure d. Conway, Rev. c. II. Eaton and
Rev. w. NJ. Boyd, beside whom there
were present, Park Goodwin, Rabbi Got
theil Brauder Matthews, F. A. Barney
and many others.
The brig Tahiti from Tahiti and the
Marqueses group arrived at San Frau
cisco yesterday. Her captain reports
that fighting on Ruiata Huahuano and
Bora has ceased, and the Bora natives
have retreated into the mountains. The
French have placed governor on each
island of the group and a man-ofwar re-
mains with each to enforce his order.
The natives, however, still maintain con-
troll of the interior. The English have
established protectorate over the Har-
vey group, and q governor is now on the
way from England.
At the meeting of the National Grange
yesterday Colonel Joseph II, Brigham of
Ohio was elected Grand Master and
Leonard Rhone of Pennsylvania was Sc
lected to fill the vacancy on the execu-
tive committee A resolution was passed
recommending Congress to appropriate
money for deep water harbor on the
Northwest coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
A resolution urging that United States
Senators be elected directly by the people
was passed, as was also resolution ad-
vocating pure food.
1t is reported in Berlin that 200 Alsa-
tian recruits from Colmar, Thanh and
Mulhouse attacked their military escort
and wounded Prussian soldier. The
mutineers are said to have taken refuge
in Switzerland. Wholesale arrests OF
other recruits are reported to have been
made. 1t is also stated that four Prus
sian officers were assaulted and seriously
injured by French sympathizers a
Strasburg to-day.
The election for members of thu
Skuptschina, which occurred at Belgrade
yesterday, and throughout Servia, were
productive of great excitement and the
occasion of much rioting, particularly In
that city. where the people came into
collision with the soldiery several times
Many persons were injured, some Of
them seriously.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Advance, from Santos, which ar
! rived at New York yesterday morning
| were Rear Admiral d. L. Braine, Lieu
= tenant "A. B. Wycoff, Lieutenant ii. II
s Barrull and Ensign L, w. Sutghen, in
, charge of forty-seyen sailors from thu
, United States steamships Alliance ant
! Tallapoosa.
A mysterious case Of poisoning is re
4 ported from Plymouth, Ohio. Recently
William Allen, farmer, and his thre,
sons, were taken sick from an unknown
s cause. Next the wife and daughte
o were prostrated. Allen and his sons ar
out OF danger but the daughter has dice
and Mrs. Allen is in critical condition
Assistant Secretary Maynard has de
cided in the case of the Chinese laborer!
: on the American steamship Queen of tn
s Pacific, that they can land if they EN-
: barked on board the steamship at som,
American port, although the vessel ma,
have subsequently, touched at some inter
vening foreign port.
t tbs semi-officially denied that the ex
< Empress will return to Berlin at Christ
G mas. On leaving, it is stated she vii
90 directly to Italy for the winter, anC
y afterward return to Germany. residing il
d the Villa Reiss, which will hencefortl
= be called Fredrichshof. The villa vii
!. not be enlarged.
II Three men, Ed. ]. Cohen, T. II
l. Thomas and - Echols. played poke
:, at the Pitts House at Covington, Ga, las
y night, At daylight Thomas was foun
u murdered and Cohen fatally wounded
lIchols is in Jail, charged with the crime
Great excitement prevails over the my:
u terious murder.
d 4 wreck occurred on the Bloomsbur
ol and Sullivan Railroad near Bloomsburl
d Pa, late Tuesday night. A passenge
, car jumped the track and rolled over, g
- ing down an cmbankment of sewers
Z feet. There were twenty-five persons i
the car, but fortunately none were fatal
injured.
The stormy weather at sea continue
~ The Egyptian Monarch from Londol
je which arrived in New York yesterday
it encountered a succession OF gales, VAR
o. ing from west to southwest, with ver
high seas. Three valuable horses wei
killed by the rolling and tossing of. Ii
ne ship.