The Washington critic., 1888-03-24
TcIeoraphic Notes

James Nanman, aged 81 who had been
n Mason sixty-two years, having been
initiated into the order in Scotland died
yesterday at his residence at Archibald,
Pa.
d. d. Acker, a senior member of the
firm of Acker, Merrill d. Condit New
York, died last night Of pneumonia.
The Washington Baseball Club de-
feated the local club ut Jacksonville,
Fla, by score of Is to-
Chicago anarchists are said to be de-
serting their cause and joining the So
cialistio labor party,
Heavy floods are reported 9p the line
of the West Shore Rairoad@n upper
New York.
!. The business failures throughout the
country during the last seven days nun.
Der 212
Flint glass workers will start a CO.
operative factory ut East Liverpool, w.
Va.
An ice gorge at Delaware Water Gap
broke Thursday night, and, in its pas
sage, carried away thirty feet of the
Delaware Canal wall, which will delay
the opening of navigation several weeks.
A fire yesterday afternoon in the
warehouse Of Pope & Fleming, Augusta,
Ga, burned eight hundred bales of
cotton.
The schooner Ella, Captain Hart, from
Rockland for New York with lime,
abandoned and the cargo on fire. went
ashore Thursday night on bar Off Chat
ham, Mass.
The West Virginia Prohibition Conven-
ton TO nominate State ticket is to be
held III Parkersburg the third week in
July, the exact date to be hereafter an
nounced.
At Hornellsville, ~ Y, the switchmen
in the Erie Railroad yard went on strike
yesterday morning because of low wages
and an Objectionable yprdmaster.
Patrick McHale, a respected citizen of
Kingston, Pa, died yesterday from II
beating said to be inflicted by Anthony
O'Boyle, jr., and Bryan McIIugh.
A financial climax was reached yester-
dayin the affairs of heWillimantiC, Conn,
Savings Institute by the discovery of u
shortage of $l50,000 in the accounts OF
Treasurer ii, f. Royce.
The Alabama State Convention of or
| ganized labor yesterday adopted resolu-
lions favoring national aid to common
schools and demanding the repeal of the
| internal revenue law.
! Leopold Bizzini of Colisto, Cal, shot his
wife dead Tuesday night because she
bought a new dress without his permis
sion, and killed himself in similar man.
| ner.
William I.edyard Ellsworth, once con.
| sui to Egypt, who was an officer in the
| army, is under arrest in New York tC
answer charge OF selling coupons of 9
| transportation company said to have nC
| existence.
The Willimantic Conn. Savings Insti
tute has taken advantage of the law re
| quiring four months notice of Withdrawal
| &c ~.
ment and closed ITS doors to business.
A drifting wreck IN front of Cape May
N. j., has been identified as that of the
British bark Brimiga, from which Pilot
Eldredge and the crew were lost during
the storm on the 18th instant.
Giuseppe Longobardi, convicted las;
| Wednesday in New York of manslaughteI
| in the first degree for the killing of young
| John Barrett on October 10 last, was
| yesterday sentenced in the Court of Gen.
eral Sessions to 20 yearsin State prison.
Governor Ross of Texas has announced
his intention to call an extra session OF
the Legislature in a few days for the pur-
| pose of determining what disposition
shall be made Of the treasury surplus,
which will be soon more than $4,000, 900
Assistant Secretary Maynard has in
| structed the collector of customs at New
| York, in cases of expectation of EN-
! bossed tin plates manufactured wholly
| from imported plain TIN plates, TO allow d
drawback equal in amount to the duty
! paid on the imported material, less the
legal retention of ten per cent,
Mrs. Martha j. Lamb, the editress o
the Magazine OF American History" and
| the author of the well-lInown "IIistory o.
| New York. was run down by a horse
and wagon yesterday at Astor Place ant
Broadway New York, while crossing tho
street and seriously injured.
John Bagley, agent of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul Railroad at the sub
urban station of Portervillc, Wis, wa.
| gagged and tied with cords to IA cot in hi,
station early yesterday morning by three
masked men, who robbed him of $50,
| gold watch and two revOlyers.
John Rollin Tilton, the landscap,
painter, died suddenly Thursday in Rome
Italy. He was born in New Hampshr
IN 1883 Among his more noted picture
were THE Palace of 1hebes, in Egypt,
Venetian Fishing Boats," "rhe Lagoon
of Venice and Como
Collector Magone of New York has re
Ceiyed $4,000 from BaueZ Il Co., due oI
impotations invoiced at erroneous quun
titles
The bark Weser, from Caleta Buena
! ll3 days, which arrived in New York ye,
terday, reports; March 10, latitude %. p
longitude 73. 10, fell in with the German
bark Johanna, Captain Meyer, from Stet
tin for Philadelphia, in a sinking con
dition; took off the captain and crew of /
men, and brought them 20 New York,
Blast furnaces in operation in thi
country on March had weekly outpu
of1lI570 tons and those not in blast
capacity Of s4,sS2 tons,
In the Canadian House of Commons
, yesterday afternoon, Minister of JustiC
| Thompson introduced bin to ratify III
Z Fisheries treaty, which he said ought nc
TO have been published in the Unite
States when II was.