The Washington critic., 1888-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Important Events of the past Twenty
four Hours.

action on the resolutions adopted by the
Irish Catholic members of Parliament
with reference to the recent papal re-
script. There were no priests present.
Lord Mayor Sexton presided and Messrs.
John Dillon, William O'Buen and other
Parnellites made speeches. Tho mani
festo of the Irish members was indorsed
by acclamation. Mr.. Dillon denied that
the rescript was only moral doctrine.
He said that the Vatican would treat no
other country in Europe in the same way,
The Irish would neither submit nor
bow to Rome; they would show
the world that they were able to discern
between its spiritual and political do
mains. Mr.. O'Brien said that the present
ordeal was worse than twenty years of
Balfou1an coercion. The Irish had enc
mics enough without taking blows from
hands from which they least deserved
them. 1t was beart-brealdng to think
should be thrown into the teeth of the
Irish people, A courageous, respectful,
firm protest was necessary.
A horrible incident occurred in New
York yesterday morning in o fiyestory
brick tenement within stones throw of
the Tombs. AT about 11:30 o'clock Mrs.
Alice McCarty, widow who occupied q
neat room on the third flooy.. seEaail sbasail 20
kindie the fire in order to prepare the
MONDAY meal Tor her two sons. She had
in her hand quart can full of coal oil,
II ignited and exploded, and the burning
fluid was thrown over her clothing, which
ignited. With her dress all aflame she
rushed to the window of her rooms,
wrenchcd the green blind of the window
from its hinges, held IL in front of her,
and, with q scream of agony, leaped TO
the stone-paved sidewalk, fifty feet below.
John X. Miles, recently manager of the
Shoe and Leather Reporter Of Philadelphia,
who celebrated his twenty-first birthday
on Saturday, IS charged with robbng his
widowed mother of 81 900 by means of q
forged check, and eloping with Virginia
Corson, dgirl of eighteen, daughter of q
prominent broker. The pair have been
traced to q train bound for Montreal
Miles, it is said, has been living q fast life,
and was forbidden to visit Miss Corson's
house but met her clandestinely. The
money he is charged with obtaining by
forgery was part ofthe insurance ON his
fathers life.
The celebration of the anniversary of
the battle of Gettysburg Will be opened
by the First Corps on the 1st of July at /
p. M, at the spot where General John Il.
Reynolds fell. The programme will be as
follows: Address of welcome Governor
James a. Beaver; response, General Abb
ner Doubleday speeches by the war Gov
ernors, A. G.. Curtin, Austin Blair, J.
Gregory Smith, S. j. Kirkwood, Freder-
ick Holbrook, Vim. Sprague and Freder-
ick Smyth, and Generals John @. Robin
son, James Longstreet, Lucius Fairchild,
j. II. Slime, historian First Corps; GEN
eral James A. Hall, Joseph Dickinson
and j. p. Req, Commander-in-Chief q.
A. X.
Hon. VIM. f. Cody, Indians, cowboys,
animals, tents and paraphernalia arrived
yesterday on the Persian Monarch, which
anchored off Stapleton. The deck was
crowded with the company. Buffalo Bill
was, of course, the centre of attraction.
The shore was lined with spectators. many
of whom had field glasses. All are to
proceed to Erastina, Staten Island, where
the Wild West Show opens on May 30
Invitations for the event have been sent
to President Cleveland, General Sherman
and a large number of other prominent
people,
The drill and State Capitol celebration
at Austin, Tex, closed Saturday with
sham battle in which $500 troops partici-
Charles Walters and l.. Reynolds of Com
pany b, Third Cavalry, were thrown from
their horses and badly injured, Walters
probably fatally. In the interstate drill
contests the Houston Light Guards won
the first prize, $1,000; the BellSnap Rifles
of San Antonio the second prize, s., 500;
the Sealy Rifles of Galveston, the third,
81, 900.
DR.. Edmund l. Koch died in Hhelunatic
asylum at Snake Hill, n. j., yesterday.
lie was at one time wealthy and was the
publisher of German weekly newspaper.
About three years ago type-setter on his
paper eloped with his wife, and they both
a few days afterward committed suicide
in the Central Park, New York. His
wife's conduct and business reverses
made him insane.
DIR. Hugh Kennedy, for many years
editor of the New Orleans True Delta,
died in Louisville Saturday, aged IS years.
For the past twenty years he had lived in
Kentucky, and at the time of his death
was owner of the famous camel coal
mine in Breckenridge County, KY, esti-
mated to be worth several millions. DIR.
Kennedy died Of apoplexy.
The rulings of Judge Cunningham in
the Johnson County Circuit Court, at
Clarksville, Ark, Friday, were unsatifac-
tory to Attorney A. p. McKinnon. He
refused to sit down, and when the Judge
fined him $50 dispute followed, during
the face and neck several times with a
knife, inflicting dangerous wounds.
The relations between the Empress and
Prince Bismarck are again stralned,- Be-
fore the Chancellor went to VaTzin the
Empress submitted to the Emperor the
names of several court officials on whom
she desired to have conferred distin-
glished orders. Prince Bismarck pro-
tested, and the whole ministry signed a
paper stating that if the orders were con-
ferred they would resign. The Empress
then withdrew the names.
Mrs. Della Parnell, the mother of the
Irish leader, has arrived in New York
from England. She claims there is no
ground for the suits brought against her
by her halfbrother Edward II. Stewart,
who is executor of the wills of his wife,
Mary, and Of Charlotte Smith, deceased,
also a relative of Mrs. Parnell.
Dr. William j. Moore, one of the Oldest
physicians of Norfolk, died yesterday
| afternoon. He graduated at the Uni.
| versity of Pennsylvania in 1871. During
| the war he was surgeon in charge of
army hospitals in Richmond and Liberty,
| Va.
The Pope's encyclical, in which he de-
clares that none of the jubilee gifts gave
him more pleasure than the news of the
abolition of slavery in the empire of
Brazil, has been sent to the Brazilian
| episcopacy.
Hon. John S. Wise and Mr. Richard Il.
| Walker OF Richmond had street fight In
| Petersburg Friday. They were separated
| by an officer before any damage was
| done. Walker is a staunch friend OF
| Malone.
The Old Dominion Steamship Company
is building an iron freight and passenger
! propeller steamer to run on the Nanse-
| mond River.
| The Standard Mineral Company's build
ing, New York, was gutted by fire yester-
day. Loss, $4,000.
! During fight over a glrl at Curtis Bay
pleasure resort near Baltimore, George