The Washington critic., 1888-06-13
WASHINGTON CRITIC
NEWS or THE nav
Important Events of the Past twenty
four Houre.


speech with, "Ilere is the city-take it
II is yours" Afterward the lodge went
into secret session, ut which the cases of
the rebellious Pennsylvania lodges were
considered. IL Is probable that the Su-
preme ChancellOr's action will be sus-
otherwise punished. report was sub
mitted by the Supreme Chancellor in
which he states that the men in the Penn
sylvania lodges have been breeders OF Sc
dition for many years Fifty thousand
visitors and 10000 knights are in the city.
Cincinnati is i'm gala attire and 10000 peo.
pie will witness the parade from an im-
mense grand stand.
The Diss Debar trial was continued in
New York yesterday. General Diss
Debar testified and gayo his name as
Joseph II. Disbar. He said he first met
Ann O'Delia in 1871 at Union Square,
where she then lived with her husband,
Mr.. Messant. { or reasons concerning
her children, he did not wish to state
what his relations to the madame were.
lie denied absolutely the statement of
Artist Bierstadt that he had aided his
wife in substituting picture for blank
card in giving an alleged spook manifesta-
ton. He denied that he had painted any
of the spook pictures; also his ability to
paint pictures Of that high order. The
intimations that he painted. the pictures
alleged to have been produced by REM
brandt and Raphael were absolutely false.
In answer to inquiries DIR. Norvin
Green, president of the recently organized
New York, Mahoning and Western Rail-
road, says that theroad, which is to run
across the State of Ohio eastward to the
Pennsylvania line, near Youngstown
and westward through Indiana as far as
Fort Wayne, will form part of the long
projected American Midland Railway,
from New. York to Chicago on or near
the forty-first parallel. He thinks the
company will have no trouble in rails
ing funds for the early completion of the
road.
Andrew Howard, a 1I-yearold en-
ploye of the dry goods house of Barnes,
Hengerer & Co., at Buffalo, n. Y, when
arrested by detectives for stealing watch
from his employers, confessed that he
started the fire that destroyed the store
on February /. He set fire to the place
because a floor-walker refused to allow
him to attend a funeral. The damage
amounted to S1,000,000. The boy adj
mitted that he had made two subsequent
attempts " fire the present store.
Miss May Louise Terry, the spinster
who sued Mrs. DR.. Perine of New York
for $4,000 damages for defamation of
character, was yesterday awarded twelve
cents damages by the jury. Miss Terry
based her suit on a letter written by old
Mrs. DR.. Perine, alleging undue intimacy
between DR.. Perine and Miss Terry. On
the trial the plaintiff admitted that she
kissed the doctor and sat in his lap but
denied that there was sany improper rela-
tions between them.
The colored Y. NJ. c. A. completed its
organization last evening ut Louisville,
Ky. Charles s. Morris, who has Just
finished course at Howard University,
was elected president. NJ. Ii. Goodafl,
Albert Mack, S. w. Cross and w. @. Du.
sen were elected vice.presidents Albert
White, secretary, and g. w. Talbot,
treasurer.
Mrs. Koenig, a widow, was killed in
New York at an early hour this morning
by jumping from q burning tenement,
No. AZ Second street. Three children
named Wissnick and two women were
badly burned. Firemen are searching
for the bodies supposed TO be under the
ruins. The loss is about $500.
In CINCINNATI yesterday a young man
named Henry Frazer went into store
and bought revolver. While the clerk
was getting change Frazer shot himself
through the head, dying instantly. John
Zinke also shot and killed himself about
the same time. His brother committed
suicide few months ago. "''
Anna Hover, female convict, made
her escape from the penitentiary at Ana.
mosa, Iowa, Sunday night, by saving off
an iron bar over her window in the top
tier of cells, and letting herself down by.
means of bedclothes, then climbing up
rope and scaling the wall.
Frank Ellsworth, for many years
prominent merchant of Madison, Wis,
who has been i'll for the past few days,
jumped from second-story. window yes
terday morning and made his way to the
banks of Lake Mendoza, where it is be-
lieyed he committed suicide.
The national convention of the Yard
masters Mutual benevolent Association
met at Ford's Opera House in Richmond
at II o'clock to-day. Delegates are pres
ent from various sections of the country,
The convention will be in session until
Friday.
Mrs. Clara P. Pope, wife of Maior.G Gen.
eral John Pope, died in st. Louis Mon
day. Mrs. Pope was daughter of Hon.
v. b. Horton, who represented the Pome-
roy (Ohio) district in Congress from 1861
to1sG5,
AT Newport r. l., yesterday, Comman-
derSehley presented the Bailey medal,
which was given to the apprentice boy
most proficient in his studies, to r. y.
Morrison of the u S. ship Portsmouth.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons
has decided to ask Governor Beaver to re-
spite Samuel Johnson, under sentence of
death for the murder of Farmer Sharp
less in Delaware County, until October II.
Mrs. Forsythe wife of Colonel James
w. Forsythe u. S. A., died at Fort Riley
Kas., of heart disease. She was Miss
Lizzie Dennison, daughter of ex-Goy-
ernor Dennison of Ohio.
Judge Joseph Bigger, member of the
Paducah (Ky.) City Council fell back
dead in ms chair at the meeting of that
body Monday night of apoplexy.
Walt Whitman is much improved, and
his physician says the poet will be able
10 come down stairs and resume his lit
erary work in a day or two.
Frank ii. Wheless, the Junior member
ofth wholesale firm of Wheless S Co..
Augusta, Ca. committed suicide yester-
day by shooting himself
The Austrian Emperor's speech to the
members of the delegations on Sunday
last has made q favorable impression in
court circles in Russia.
The puddlers of the Safe Harbor Iron
Works, Lancaster County, Pa, have been
notified ofa reduction in wages of thirty
five cents ton.
Samples of Friedrichskron drinking
water have been sent to Berlin for analy-
sis, 1t being suspected that the water con-
tains impurities
Miss Amelie Rives, the authoress, and
John A. Chanler of New York, were yes
teIdaH licensed to marry, AT Charottes-
vile, Va.
Miss Rose Il. Cleveland has arrived at
her home in Holland Patent, N. y,
where she will spend the summer yaoa-
tion.
The delegates to the Protestant Mission
Conference in session at London were
entertained by the Lord Mayor yester-
day.
Senior Behrend, the late Brazilian
Consul at Berlin left legacy of Sl70, 900
for the benefit of the poor girls of that
city.
NJ Clemenceau has accepted an invi-
tatiOn TO address n meeting of miners in
South Wales on the labor nnestion.