The Washington critic., 1888-05-29
WAsHINGrON CRTrIC
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Important Events of the Past Forty
eight Hours.

One of the most interesting features of |
the trial of Thomas b. Kerr an officer of |
the Broadway Railroad for bribery, in
New York, yesterday, was the testimony
of Colonel George Bliss, the well-known |
lawyer. Mr.. Bliss did not undertake to |
connect Kerr in any way with the Broad
way franchise, but simply showed that
Mr.. James Richmond had retained Mr..
Bliss to aid i'm obtaining the franchise
for the Broadway road. Mr.. Bliss said
that Secretary of the Navy Whitney had
asked him TO accept retainer from the
cable road, which Jaehne aud Bulgraif
said offered the Aldermen $I5O,O0Oi half
in cash and half in bonds. Mr.. Bliss told
Secretary Whitney he was sorry he could
not accept q retainer from both sides.
Richmond gave him checks for 81, 800 and
$4,000.
The opening session of the annual meet
ing of Friends was held yesterday in New
York in their Westinghouse on Ruther-
ford Place. II was mainly occupied in
the reading of encouraging letters from
Friends in other States. Among those
present were John j. Cornell of Genesee,
N. Y. Daniel Griffith of Anawalk, N.
Y. Aaron Sutton and Avis Porter. The
female members of the society held their
meeting in an adjoining building with
closed doors.
The Birmingham (Ala) Hardware
Manufacturing Company has been organ
ized in that city with paid-up capital of
100000, of which considerable portion
was subscribed by New York and Con-
necticut capitalists. The incorporators
have secured the entire line of machinery
of the Binghampton Hoe and Tool Com
pany, Binghampton, N. Y. All this ma
chinery will be removed to Birmingham
ut an early date. The buildings for this
important enterprise are already in
course of erection.
The Augusta Post g. A. r., at Au-
gusta, Ga, celebrated Decoration Day last
night with memorial services and me-
mortal address, which was delivered by
the Rev. General Clement A. Evans, of
the late Confederate army, who had been
invited to deliver the address by the post.
The officers of the United States Army in
charge of the arsenal and many Confed-
crate survivors were present.
Fire broke. out yesterday in .Hume's
block, Bellefonte, Pa, destroying that
property and the First National Bank
building, including the postoifice, Hume's
Opera-H House. the grocery stores of A. @.
Motier & Bros and Jared Harper, W. w.
Meyers dry goods store, Montgomery's
clothing store, the Co operative Store and
Woodring's stationery store. Total loss
about $4,000 Lightning caused the
fire.
The Commissioners of Accounts of New
York sent formal report to the Mayor
yesterday exonerating William NJ. Ivins,
City Chamberlain, from all charges made
against him by Maurice j. Flynn. They
also certify that the accusations that the
accounts of the city have been mixed up
with the accounts of William r. Grace Il
Co. are entirely unfounded.
The annual meeting of the Pilgrim So
Ciety was held in Plymouth, Mass, yes
terday. The following officers were
chosen: President, John d. Long of
Hingham; vice presidents, j. Henry
Stickney of Baltimore, VIM. NJ. Evarts of
New York, Frederick l.. Ames and Henry
NJ. Dexter of Boston, secretary, William
s. Danfortb; treasurer, Isaac N. stoddard.
Henry E. Whitehouse, an employe at the
electric light works at Portsmouth, N.
H., was found yesterday morning on
Mobiles Island shore, in Portsmouth, with
his throat cut and his head mashed.
James Palmer, former employe OF the
company, was arrested. Whitehouse had
searched his house for some missing tools.
L. A. Wheeler of the wholesale boot
and shoe firm of Curtis IL Wheeler of
Rochester, N. Y, was found dead in his
berth in sleeping car on the Cincinnati,
Washington and Baltimore Raiload on
its arrival in Cincinnati yesterday morn
ing. A small bottle containing choral
was found besides, the body.
L. b. Rock, the well-known railway
intendency of the Northern Division of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad, fell down a stairway at his
home in Milwaukee yesterday and was
instantly killed.
Or. William G.. Goddard, who died
Sunday in Boston, was the Oldest living
graduate of Harvard College, the only
survivor of his class, and the Oldest
graduate of the medical school: DIR.
Goddard was born in Portsmouth, N. H.,
on April 26, 1885,
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
decided that the jury in the case of Will
liam Showers, the Lebanon murderer,
was properly drawn. This settled the
fate of the aged prisoner. He will be
hanged.
The delegates to the third annual con-
vention of the German journalists of the
United States assembled in Philadelphia
yesterday. A. Wollenberger of Reading,
Pa, who has passed 50 summers, was in
troduced as the Oldest German-American
journalist.
News has just been received of the
total loss of the American bark Julia
Foard in Karluk Bay Alaska. The
vessel was wrecked April %. All hands
were rescued, numbering about forty
people, incluoing the crew.
Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde, who
leaves New York for Ireland to-day will
take with him cash and drafts represent
ing $4,000, which the New York Parlia-
mentary Fund Association raised for the
use of the Irish Parliamentary party.
A dispatch from Zanzibar states that
messengers from Tippoo Tib have arrived
there with letters from Major Bartlelot,
dated Singatini, on the Congo, October
25, which say that Henry NJ. Stanley and
all his party were well, and had plenti-
full supply OF food.
All French subjects, even those not
crossing the frontier, coming to sojourn
in Alsace-Lorraine, must produce pass
port issued by the Germany embassy at
Paris. The passport will be valid for
eight weeks.
Schooner Jessie Murdock, from Ware
ham for Norfolk, which went ashore De-
cember 25 last, near Green Run, Md, was
assisted off and arrived at Delaware
Breakwater.
At Cler bourne, Texas Saturday, A. w
Sheeler, an engineer on the Gulf Colo.
RADIO and Santa Fe Railroad, shot and
killed Bette Davis, a woman with whom
he had been living for the past year, and
then killed himself.
The united Irish societies of Troy, N.
Y, have transmitted to the Irish National
League at Dublin 81, 800, the result of con-
tributions made at mass meeting on st.
Patrick's day.
At Detroit, Sunday, Thomas Crobert,
his son John, aged u, and Henry @. New
erman, were out sailing on the river. The
boat capsized and Crobert and his son
were drowned.
An order in council has been passed at
Ottawa, Ont, bringing the modus viyendi
under the recent fisheries treaty into
force
E. V. Rhoads, cashier of the First Ma.
tional Bank of Saint Paris, Ohio was ar.
racto1 uautarfou on a nhoroa nf haVz III,