The Washington critic., 1888-08-28
WASHINGTON CRITIC.
NEWS OF THE nav.
heoent Happenings of Interest Condensed
Tor umstY Knnhinp.

vhusetts was the novel sport in which. "A
t"hse party engaged. The hunters were
s@@o5essiul 700, killing more than forty
OF the amplhbians. The Legislature last
winter placed u bounty of 81 Ter tail on
scais, winch are supposed to destroy large
.puhhutleS OF young fish Forty or fiffv
young mtn determined to try their skill
ut thc sport. Wire fencing was
s.rTlglieu across the mouth OF Mud Creek
hJ hlgh tide, Just before the seals were
ready to leave. The plan was successful
a seal could easily carry away such n
snShJ obstacle, but Inc is very suspicious
Az no tlmc while the hunt was i'm prog
rcss ana ono of the seals approach near
Snough To thc wire TO touch it. The
huuJng party set out In small boats,
armed with rifles and guns Half a hun
lDred seals were found pcnned in the
sreclS.'
strange man entered the Sherman
liousc In Chicago Sunday and i'm an eX-
cited manner called for several persons,
none Of whom were known to the clerk
lie said the men named had been follow
ing him. Suddenly he stepped back
from the desk, drew n knife from his
pocket, and, brandishing it above his
head, declared that they were upon him.
lie ran wildly from one end to the other
of the east corridor, apparently chasing
some vision of one of his enemies. The
man was taken to the Detention Hos
pital of the county Jail. lie said his
name was DR.. Charles Sutleff, and that
he lived at the Gault House. He is
graduate of n Philadelphia college,
where his parents, who are wealthy still
reside.
Deputy United States Marshal Myers,
of PHILADELPHIA, arrested John H.. Derr
ami Geo. Ioucum, both brokers of
Heading, Pa, yesterday, on the charge
of conspiracy with Henry Marshall, the
dcfaulting postmaster of St Clair, who
is now fugitive from Justice, to dc
fraud the United States Government.
1t is allc ged that Marshall spoculated
with them i'll stocks and paid them in
forged money orders, on which they drew
the money at Reading postoflicc.
While u party of young people were
returning home Sunday evening from
picnlc near JanesNille Wis, walking ON
railroad track, they were caught on a
high trestle by freight train Miss
Maggie Punzle, 20 years of age, was
knocked from the trcstlc and instantly
killed. The other members of the party
escaped by crawling out on the end of
the ties Miss PunZlc struck on the
rocks 80 feet below, and was terribly
manged.
Quite q romantic wedding is reported
to have taken place five miles west of
Denison, Texas the happy couple, min
lister and all standing knee deep in the
Red River while the wedding ceremony
cross the stream and have the knot tied
on the opposite bank, but when the
party had waded out a short distance it
was learned that the old folks" were
in pursuit, so the lovers were made one
forthwith.
Fanny Boyington, daughter of w. w.
Boyington, one of the wealthest resi-
dents of Highland Park, n suburb of
Chicago, eloped last week with young
Englishman named Carter, who was for
merly coachman for MIR. Boyington.
There was n great upheaval in the Boy
ington family when the facts came out,
but Mr.. and Mrs. Carter are keeping
house, and the old folks are now in
fair way to be reconcilcd
Three well-<nown citizens died in
Cincinnati Sunday-Mr, Freeman Y.
Cary, founder of Farmers College,
where General Benjamin Harrison began
his literary course; Alexander NJ. Hol-
ton, a well-lnown merchant, and Benia-
min Robinson, a man prominent in poll
tics, though not an of1iceholder for
many years.
During storm in New Brunswick,
N. j., yesterday afternoon, the flagstaff
and cupola of the New Jersey Rubber
Works building were struck by light
hing. There were 800 persons, ma
jority of them women, in the rooms,
many of whom were stunned and more
of whom were panic-stricl<en.
The pipe mill of The Reading Iron
Works resumed yesterday after q
lengthy idleness, with two hundred men,
the employees having restored TO them
five per cent OF the ten FER cent. re-
duction in their wages made some months
ago, with prom isc that the other five
per cent. well be restored soon
A colored boy, 16 years old named
Graves, assaulted the five-year-old
daughter of Jos. A. Tally, white, farm
or living near Brownstown, Sewer Coun-
W, on Thursday. Late Friday night
mob forcibly took Graves from the
officers and hanged him to limb of
tion is critical.
John Il. Fitzgerald, collector and GUS
todian of the postollice building in Bos-
ton, has sent all the poStofiice employees
letter stating that the circular mailed
them asking for contributions to the
Democratic campaign fund was sent
without his authority.
Mr. joseph Chamberlain, on being
questioned by press correspondent III
relation to the rejection of the fisheries
treaty by the United States Senate, said
that he did not propose to comment upon
the Senate's action, which had long
been foreseen.
Mrs. Burlingame, widow of Anson
Burlingame, who negotiated n treaty be-
Saturday at her home, on Long Island
Her son is the editor Of Scribner's Maga
zine.
Earl Spencer, who is at Homburg, in
reply to correspondent, emphntlcallS
contradicts the rumor that his views .ol
Irish home rule are changing. Iil'
views he saws, were never more strongly
in favor of home rule than at present,
On account of his public duties, Presi
dent Cleveland will not attend the inter
Vo-day. The exhibition opened yester
dav under favorable auspices.
Mrs. Frazer picked up revolver II
ST. Johns, N. b., Sunday, pointed it Il
I3-year-old Leona Sleek, and said jocu
larly, will shoot you" The weapon
went off and the girl fell, perhaps fatal
ly wounded.
At the Hungarian Democratic banne
raising Mt the corner of First and Hous
ton street, New York last evening, th
platform Rell and crushed boys heat
into pulp. Alderman Benjamin hat
his angle dislocated.
Ii is stated that Hon. j. S, ID. Thomp
son, Minister Of Justice for the province
of Ontario, Canada, has been llnigltc'
for his services in connection with tn
negotiations for the recent iishere
treaty
John and William Redmond, brother
and members of Parliament, and Edwar'
Walsh, editor of the Wexford People
have been arrested, charged with OF
fcnses under the Crimes act
Forest fires are still raging along TN
railways in the peninsula at Marquette
Mich. At Monford 25 buildings burned