The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-22

Resolutions of COngratulation were adop
ted on the continued good results OF
! women's suffrage in Kansas and in Wyo-
ming Territory and in commendation of
| the pluck of 26, 900 Boston women who
had Just assumed voluntary tax to be
enabled to vote for school committeeman.
| Short addresses were made by Fred.
Douglass, Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone
Blackwell and others
Thomas L. Huggard, who was the
cashier of the now defunct ShackamaXon
| Bank of Philadelphia, and who was sem
fenced on March "a last to fifteen
months impris nment after having been
convicted of conspiracy to- wreck that in
stituton, was liberated last night on
pardon, granted by the Board of Pardons,
| after having served about eight months
of his sentence. The failure of the
| Shackamaxon Bank was the ruling sem
sation at the time of its collapse, and
IIuggard and the paying-teller were soon
after arrested and convicted of con
spiracy. President George Bumm, who
! had also been indicted and whose trial
was set at the same time as that of his
associates died before that event oc-
Cured. All of those connected with the
! Shakamaxon Bank were prominent both
in social and business circles, and the
reckless methods adopted in the manage.
ment of the institution caused n decided
! sensation when the crisis was reached.
The position of Coopcrs Pennsylva-
| mia battery on the Gettysburg battlefield
was fixed yesterday on East Cemetery
| Hill by James A. Gardner of New Cas-
tie. The monument will be erected on
the ground now occupied by the Four
teenth Indiana Infantry.
Thieves chained Boston pawn
brokers' door shut from the outside last
night and then broke front window
and stole two diamond rings. The pawn.
broker was unable to pursue them, as he
could not open his front door.
Henry II. Reynolds, the young man
from Charleston, S. c., who pleaded
guilty to forging an order for 81 900 on
the firm of G. |. Prince IL Company of
Boston, was yesterday sentenced to five
years in the state prison.
Major A. II. Thompson, cotton factor
of shreveport, La, was shot and slightly
wounded yesterday while on train going
TO Texarkana by st. Louis salesman
named Youngmoores, who afterward shot
and killed himself.
The organization of "rhe w. ]. Will
cox Lard and Refining Company" has
just been completed in New York. I'm
der its new management ii starts out with
a capital of $250,000. j. II, Flagler was
elected president.
John Strather, living near Arcadia,
La, was waylaid and shot dead yester-
day by unknown persons while on the
highway going home to his farm. He
leaves two children, who reside in
Georgia.
VIM. Devlin, who jumped from the
fourth story of the Steam Guage and
Lantern Co.'s building on the night of
the fire, died of his injuries last night.
He is the thirty eighth known victim
NJ. Numa Gilly has issued pamphlet
in which he repeats his accusations of cor.
ruption against number of Moderate
Republicans. Deputies Reache and
Salio will sue Gilly for libel.
Warrants have been sworn out against
nearly fifty persons, principally colored
men, for illegal voting in the recent
election in Jefferson County, Ark. Demo
Gratis are the complainants.
Count Edward De Benyons, proprie-
tor of a Spanish hotel in New York, is
charged by his wife with attempting to
poison her and her child. He was
locked up.
Although no extra military credit has
as yet been presented in the Bundesrath,
military circles consider it certain that a
loan of 360, 100000 marks will be de-
manded
"A prolonged contest is threatened over
the will of Christopher Meyer, the mil
lionaire, who died recently in New York.
The estate is valued at ten millions.
EX-Congressman Phil Thompson of
Kentucky, has recovered verdict for
S10,070 from the Knickerbocker Ice
Company for legal services.
The official canvass of the vote Of Con-
necticut shows: Cleveland, "a, 4,92O; Har-
rison, 1854; Fisk, 4,234; Labor, 24O
Cleveland's plurality, 1856.
The Car has placed the Chateau
Yalta at the disposal of ex-Queen Nata-
lie of Bulgaria, during her stay in the
Crimea.
The forty.second convention of the
: Theta Delta Chi fraternity began in New
, York yesterday. 1t will last three days.
Henry l., Accove,Ea colored newsboy
in Philadelphia, was killed by kick in
,, the groin by an unknown boy yesterday
William Curlin, friend of Flagman
: Masterson, has been arrested in connec
ton with the Eva Mitchell murder
Gilbert johnson of Patterson, n. j.,
was run over by a train on Tuesday and
killed on the eve of his marriage.
Rev. Boyd Vincent of Pittsburg, has
accepted the office of assistant bishop of
the diocese of Southern Ohio.
Chief Bell of the Government Secret
Service. has arrested gang of counter.
| feiters in Buffalo.
/ Jake and Joe Tober, two colored mur.
l derers, were hung in Wichita, Kansas,
i yesterday.
| h. 5. Lucas, Grand Army veteran
has committed suicide in Chicago.
The Home Savings Bank of Norfolk
r has suspended.