The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-10-30
NEWS or THE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Hnsty Reading.

Tor HustY heHu'hBs
In the United States Circuit Court in New |
York, yesterday. Judge Benedict sentenced |
SIX counterfeiters OF United states currency TO |
various terms of imprisonment FIVE Uf the !
men were Sicillaus, members OF the band OF |
which countegfciter Russo-already SEN
tenced-was the head, and one OF them, Con- |
detero Beltini, was tho associate ~ tho men |
now In prison for numbering Flaccomlo.
An unknown man claiming to be from |
Chicago was among the strikers at the spike |
mill of Dilworth. Porter q Co., at Pittsburg, !
yesterday, endeavoring TO influence them TO
use dynamite to gain their aims Ihe
strikers, however, would give HIM no Gu
enlargement but told HIM they would win the
strike by peaccable incsns or not ut all
Mrs. Carrie Turner a teacher in the Little
Rock (Ark,) University, is supposed to have
committed suicide. The lady disappeared
and her body was found In tue Arkansas
river. Mrs. Turner Is q daughter OF Judge
Chamberlain. prominent citizen, and ranks
high as an artist An unfortunate marriage
aud separation is given as the cause.
The second session Of the Mexican Congress
| committee, before whom the accusation
against ex-President Gonzales has be pend
lug since 1884, reported yesterday That there
| was no foundation for the charge. inc
| Chamber Of Deputies approved the report,
thus ending the case, Great excitement iol-
| lowed the action Of the Deputies.
Charles Diete, a German carpenter, % years
| old, committed suicide ny hanging himself
| during Sunday night in his room, at AUS sew
enth avenue, New York Diete was non
union man, and had work only In spells when
| labor was scarce. Lately he had run behind
IN his rent, aud his landlord had notified him
Saturday to move.
Gen. Henry b. Clitz OF the army, retired,
who has been missing from his home In De-
! trot since Thursday last, his mind being dis
| ordered by i'll health, was seen at London,
Ont, on Saturday, and took An East-bound
! train in the afternoon. Nothing further Is
known of his movements.
The steamer Saginaw, OF the Clyde Line,
was at her dock in New York yesterday load
| ing for trip to the West Indies, when she
suddenly listed to the right side toward the
dock; the water poured into her open port
holes, and before the portfolios could be
closed the steamer sank. No one was hurt.
She will be raised.
A herd Of sixty cows was struck by Hart
ford and Putnam train OH Saturday night at
grade crossing and curve near Bolton Notch,
Conn, and fourteen were killed. The high
rate of speed alone saved the train from being
hurled down a forty-hve-foot embankment
The train ran a mile before it could be stopped,
the air-pipe having been broken by the
shock.
A decision has been given at Winnepeg,
Man, continuing the Injunction against the
crossing of the Canadian Pacific tracks by
the local government until such time as the
decision OF the Supreme Court at Ottawa has
been given upon the constitutional point OF
the right OF Manitoba to charter the road In
question.
Judge Blodgett of the Federal Court, yes
terday morning, on the petition OF the Bell
Telephone Company, granted an injunction
restraining the Cushman Telephone Company
from infringing upon the patents OF the
former company In Indiana.
Captain Merriman, of the American ship
Syren, arrived in New York yesterday on the
| Ablianco. The Syren, which was bound from
Baltimore for San Francisco put into Rio ia
metro on June 2S and was condemned and sold
Her cargo of coal was sold for S12 600.
The stone of the big Spreckels sugar
refinery at the foot of Reed street, Philadel-
! phia, was laid with appropriate ceremonies
Yesterday afternoon Adolph Spreckles, the
I son of Claus spreckels, placed the cornerstone
, in position amid the cheers of the invited
: guests.
Adrian q. Lave, who holds $500 in bonds
Of the Virginia Midland and Richmond Ter
minal Railroad Company, has obtained an in
: junction preventing the payment Of interest
on the bonds Of the company until his own
claim for interest from January, 1885, is forth
coming.
| Twenty.one women In convention yesterday
nominated Miss Alice ID. Stockton Of Wheaton
as candidate Of ,the Equal Rights party for
Governor of Massachusetts, The candidate is
"a | OC3iio VA "A. ..
i The report that Eli Perkins. the lecturer,
Q got into difficulty with a railroad restaurant
| Keeper ut Wiieistster/ KY. last Saturday,
!, proves to have been unfounded. The gen al
4 lecturer was in New York city ut the time.
o Captain Steent and seven sailors of the
n German bark Apotheker blessing arrived In
New York yesterday from Rio Janelro on the
steamer Ablianca. Their vessel was lost or
October Z, fifty miles east Of Point Adelaide
;. Brazil.
:, Tom Standifer, a noted dcperado and horst
. thief of the Pan Handle, has been ca tured by
II Deputy United states Marshal Bowling and
" will be taken to Wichita, Kan, on q charge
d of stealing a herd Of ponies from Commanche
IS Indians.
IL p. S. Matthews, the wealthest saw mil
IS owner and lunberman of TeAarkana, was ia
tally stabbed by negro employed at. the mil
yesterday morning.
Early yesterday morning fire destroyed til,
lie Fariday Carbon Works and Ackermans aXl,
,s factory on Thirty-third street, Pittsburg
( Loss about 100000; fully insured.
~ John Carlo, jr., head of the cid Wholesale
- drug house of John earle & Sons, New York
~ died Sunday in the eighty-fourth year Of hi
!. age.
$; Fire in West Covlngton, KY, yesterday de
!, stroyed the tannery Of j. il, Deglow anC
20 damaged the brewery OF Meyer Il Reidlin
o Loss, $4,000
%. The statement Is made that Mike Comfy
II who was last week defeated by Joe McAuliff
~ In a glove contest, will permanently rctir
from the prize ring
Emperor William, In speech on Saturday
sharply rebuked the Berlin press for quotn
the Emperor Frederick In unfavorable com
= parison with himself.
~ The schooner Pensaukee, with 1000 bushcl
OF sold Hutch'sn wheat on board, sank in tn
st, Clair River yesterday.
A colored man nulnch Smith murdered hi
es wife and child in Todd County KY. on Satur
st day. Lynchers are after him.
he From Southwest IIarbor, Muss., Is reported
by the loss Of an unknown schooner with all OIL
board on JciTrcys bank last Wednesday.
- John Iillfoyle a letter.carrier, was klllu
by Patrick Pedar. bartender, In a sIoOp II
llalstead street. Chicago, yesterday afternoon
The president Of the Geographical Society d
Lille France, has received news that llenr
NJ. Stanley has been mastered.
The town Of Hale, Mo, on the Chicago
Burlington and Kansas City Railway, wa
nearly wiped out by tire Sunday hight.
The Car and Czarira reviewed the mnneu
vrcs of the Black Sea feet at Sebasopc
yesterday
Tho Emperor visited Hamburg and laid
cornerstone.
The English papers continue to comment o.
the Suckyille-N est letter.
Lord Claude Hamilton Is coming to Amer ca