The Washington critic., 1888-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Matters of Interest Boiled Down fOI
Hasty Reading.


Julius Willis, an insane patient at Wards
Island Asylum, opposite New York city, died
there on last Friday. His body was brought
home to his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Willis, on
Saturday. IL was bruised, the flesh torn in
places, and across the face was an unhealed
cash. His wife visited him about ten days
ago at the asylum, and though then he ap-
peared In good health, he complained bitterly
OF the brutality of the attendants. Mrs, Will
lis and her physicians believe his death was
the result of brutal treatment received at the
asylum. Coroner Levy said: 81 am OF the
opinion that there is something in this case,
and shall investigate the charges thoroughly.
This is not the first time that complaints of
this nature have been made, though the keep
ers seem to have strong political pull and
usually escape punishment. shall endeayor
to bring the guilty parties, If there be guilty
parties to justice"
Two singular accidents, one narrowly miss
ing being fatal, occurred in Chicago yester-
day. John Burgess, while on his way to
work, was passing along Clark street. when
stone weighing fifty pounds fell from the
fifth story Of building, grazed his forehead
and mashed his foot. Later In the day. a
stone weighing 900 pounds fell from the
third story of the courthouse, in the north
end Of the rotunda, where repairs were being
made. No one was hurt.
Attorney il. P. Mcknight of Toledo was de-
Tending prisoner in police court yesterday
morning, charged with forgery when Detec-
tive Richter called him from the court room
and arrested him on the charge of forging a
promissory note and mortgage for $3.50, pur-
ported to be given by Ferdinand and Theresa
Wise to Rosna Mcknight, the attorneys wife.
The attorney is well-known here and the affair
has created sensation. The State claims to
haye sure case against Mcknight, who is
I NOW III jafTfn default Of $500 bail.
Dndnriol we'll ll-knOwn nrripulturol
| implement manufacturer, secured package
\ Of bonds worth $4,000 from the Mechanics
and Farmers Bank Of Albany yesterday and
placed them on the seat of his buggy prepara-
| tory to getting in man passing called to
Mr. Dederick that there was something wrong
tn ned round to see, and as he did so another
man grabbed the package Of bonds and disap-
peared.
| The Rock nitro-glycerine factory, two miles
south OF Lima, Ohio, was blown up Sunday by
being set on fire by tramps. Eight hundred
pounds of glycerine exploded, completely
wreclling the building and tearing up the earth
to depth OF twenty feet. 1t is believed that
at least one of the tramps was killed, as q
piece of flesh was found some distance away.
John NJ. Murray, longtime convict in the
| New Jersey State prison, was late on Saturday
night found hanging and quite dead from the
| grating of his cell door in the State prison
here. He had six and a-half years of his sen
tence for perjury to serve. His age was 55.
Dependency is supposed to have been the
| cause,
The death of Congressman Ford's sister was
! accidental poisoning. She was on her way
from Lansing to Duluth to meet an elder sis
| ter who was attending convention of charity
organizations at Mackinac. She was beauti
full young lady, 10 years old. Her parents are
dead.
At Scandinavian gathering at Lake Vad
nais, Minn., Sunday, man named Ole Olesor
was struck on the back Of the neck with 6
club by one of gang of ''fallirs" and instantly
killed. Another of the gang disemboweled {
carpenter named johnson with a dirk, ant
stabbed, 1t is thought fatally two other Scan
dnavians.
The will of the late Father Conway, Vicar
General Of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese o.
Chicago, was probated yesterday. Fathe
Conway's estate, largely life insurance, aggre
gated $15, 900. Half of it is divided among
charitable institutions, the remainder going t.
his niece.
Frank Chleboun, whose testimony wa
chiefly the cause Of securing the indictment o
his comrades In the Chicago Anarchist "re
vengen cases, was released on bail yesterday
Though indicted with the others, the charge
against him will not be pressed in considera
tion of his turning States evidence.
In consequence of the protest of the American
authorities against the existing regulation
with respect to tolls on the Weland and st
Lawrence Canals the Canadian Government
will remove the present discrimination II
favor of grain bounty for Montreal.
Charles Cummings, second steward Of tn
Brighton Hotel, Atlantic City, and Henr
Boyd, also an employe of the hotel, got be
yond their depth while bathing there yesteI
day, and both were drowned, although heroi
efforts were made TO save them.
Fifty female employees of the shoe factor
In Carlisle, Pa, who have been on a strike 70
two weeks on account of an obnoxious fore
man, Abram Keiter of Philadelphia returue
TO work yesterday. Keiter was discharged.
Mrs. McCully, wife Of Edmund McCully,
prominent farmer, living just on the outskirt
of Berlin, seventeen miles from Camden,
j., committed suicide yesterday by hangin
herself to a beam In the meat-house
The steamboat Edward j. Gay, belonging {
the Planters and Merchants Packet Compan
Of New Orleans was burned TO the water
edge yesterday. She was valued at 100000.
Jefferson Davis and Governor Fitzhugh LC
have been invited by the Confederate veteran
to attend their reunion at the Piedmont Chal
taqua on August H.
A dispatch says 'It has been determined
the b. and o. authorities 10 complete immed
ately the connection between their Philade
phia extension aud Staten Island"
: Daniel G. Thompson, the New York lawy,
and metaphyslcian, has been chosen presidel
OF the Nineteenth Century Club Of New YorI
to fill out the late Courtlandt Palmer's ter
f.. till next May.