The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for HastY RendInE.


for Hasty Reading.
NJ. Lcgrand, French Minister Of Commerce,
has Informed the Cabinet that the expenses OIL
exhibitors in the exposition OF 1889 VIII DC less
than they were IN the exposition OF 1915, Inc
Eife tower, built In connection with the ex-
position, will be finished IN January
A man named Schroeder, formerly an as
slstant In the Berlin postoilice, was arrested IN
Hamburg Yesterday, charged with the recent
robbery OF % mailbag from the Berlin post.
Office. An accomplish was afterward arrested
In hotel.
Drs. Bergman and Gerhardt have assented
to the proposal Of members OF the university
studenls' committee to hold demonstration
In their honor to-day. Only q small minority
OF the committee is concerned.
A powder explosion in the, Pennsylvania
College, at Gettysburg, startled the faculty.
who, when they tried TO leave their rooms,
found that the locks Of their doors had been
filled with melted lead
The Gar has received kilograms from the
Emperors of Germany and Austria and PIesi-
dent Carnot, of France, congratulatng MN
upon his escape from the accident when MS
train met with on Monday.
1t is stated in Cologne that the mobiles In the
Caucasus contemplate an emeute at the iirst
opportunity, and that the official accounts OF
the Cars reception on his tour were not
true.
While Mrs. sallie sedle was burning brush
near her home at Wichita, Kan, the other
day, she and her little daughter were burned
to death by their clothing catching the flame.
T. s. Hayes, said to be from Baltimore, was
arrested in Philadelphia on the charge OF OBJ
tanning $4,000 worth OF cigars from New York
dealers by false pretences yesterday
Letters found by the authorities, in their re-
cent search Of Baron Won Roggenbach's resi-
dence, give new complexion TO the Gefcken
affair.
Mr. Blaine spoke in Connecticut last night,
commenting on Mr.. Bayard's Baltimore
speech, and Senator Sherman spoke In lndi-
ana.
There was another collision between the old
and new railroad employees in Chicago yester-
| day, in which several men were injured.
| Fire did $1,000 damages to the George l..
| Reed Furniture Manufacturing Company's es-
Establishment in Boston yesterday.
The Halloween pranks of Dickinson Col
| lege students caused lively row between the
| boys and the Carlisle fremen.
Amanda Montgomery and August Wine
| man, lovers, were killed yesterday ON q rail-
road near Greensburg, Pa.
Joseph Kavanaugh shot at blanche Cox in
London yesterday, Both men are witnesses In
the Parnell investigation.
| Fire at Lynchburg Va. yesterday destroyed
| Moorman's tobacco works and other properly
causing n loss Of $4,000.
1t has been decided that the ordinary color
| ing of butter comes within the provisions OF
the Oleomargarno law
T. t. Marcy & Co., jewellers, Of Providence,
| r. l., have made an assignment, Liabilities,
| $4,000; assets, $35, 900.
The works of the Columbus Bridge Com
| pany, at Columbus, o., have been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Captain Kennedy, Of the ship Creedmoor,
| at New York, reports the rescue OF crews OF
four disabled vessels.
Louis Brubaker, aged twenty-four, while in
the delirium Of typhoid fever, cut his mothers
throat yesterday.
The seventh annual convention of the
| Woman's Home Missionary Society yesterday
began in Boston.
The first section Of the trans-African railway
from st. Paul de Loanda to Ambaca has been
inaugurated
The sales of leaf tobacco In the Danville
market during october amounted to 1.123, S43
pounds.
Greece has been celebrating the twenty-fftfl
anniversary of King Georges accession to the
throne.
The village of Durhamsville, Oneida County,
N. Y, was nearly destroyed by fire yesterday.
William Cooke, wealthy broker, has com
mitted suicide at his home In Providence, H. |.
A dispatch from Heidelberg says that Mr.
James G. Floods condition is unchanged.
Highland Hall, military academy in Chi
cago, was burned. Loss, $4,000.
Yesterday the Gar was received with i'm
posing ceremonies In Moscow.
The King of the Netherlands is critically i'll