The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Hasty Reading.

Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Hasty Reading.
A train OF seventeen heavily-ladou cars on
the Swedcsboro' Branch Of the West Jersey
Railroad, carving the Young Republican
Club of Camden home from demonstration
at Salem, was wrecked yesterday morning et
9 o'clock about a mile below ClarksbOro', N.
j. Five OF the rear cars jumped the track
and three Of them toppled over on their sides,
but fortunately the train was running at a
slow rate Of speed and beyond few bruises
no one was injured.
A hotel and soda water factory, owned by Pat
rick Dunn and occupied by William Dunn, at
MILESTONE Long Island, were destroyed by
fire yesterday. The loss is $4,000; no insur-
ance. The hotel was the oldest building In
the village, being over 100 years old.
The five cents per ton advance in the wages
of the railroad miners takes effect tomorrow
throughout the btuminous coal mines OF the
United States. In Western Pennsylvania all
the operators, with the exception of w. l..
Scott, have given notice that the advance VIII
be granted
The American Oriental Society began its
autumn meeting at the University of Pennsyl-
vania at Philadelphia yesterday. paper
was read by Cyrus Adler of Johns Hopkins
University, on the exhibit of Oriental an
Equities at the Cincinnati Exposition.
The fifth mysterious murder in as many
months is reported from Carbon County,
Wyoming. The body of John Groshart,
wel-known ranchman, has been found In an
isolated spot with bullet hole in the BRAIN
The famous house of w. j. Wilcox & Co.,
lard refners, New York, has been bought out
by the American Cottonseed OIL Company
and will be known as the W. j. Wilcox Lard
and Refining Company.
meeting OF the Gaelic Association was
held In Limerick yesterday. Part OF the bust
ness transacted was the election OF officers.
There were no Nationalist candidates for the
offices, and all the officers chosen were Fe-
mans.
Advices from Suaklm say that the rebels
attacked the town, burning the zareba around
the water fort ON the left and shelling the fort.
They were repulsed by heavy fire from the
ships and forts.
Captain Shea testified before the Parnell
Commission yesterday. He identified the sig
natures to the alleged forged letters as Par
nell's, and implicated Gladstone aud Sir VIII
lium .Harcourt In the Kilmainham treaty af-
fair.
Three boys, while testing a fire-escape, fell
from the Monongahela House, In Plttsburg,
yesterday. Two were killed instantly, and the
other will probably die.
Senator Evarts In speech In New York
denied that the Republican Senate had, at
Lord Sackville's request, disparaged the pro-
tecCon Tor polltlcal prisoners.
The five cents per ton advance In the wages
of the railroad miners takes effect to-day. All
operators, excepting w. l.. Scott, have con-
sented.
An engine on the Rio Grande Road, in Colo
RADIO, yesterday tumbled over an embank-
ment, killing the fireman and conductor and
seriously injuring the engineer and brake
man.
The Black Mountain Expedition has at
tanned Its objects, and will return to India.
The International Peace Arbitration Society
has resolved to organize an international con-
| gress to meet in 1889.
The Haytien man-of-war Touissaint LOWER
ture has captured British schooner loaded
with ammunition.
The French Parliamentary Committee has
| decided In faver of a revision of the constitu-
ton.
The fire at Huenfeld, near Cassel, has been
subdued. The damage will be abot $780,
| 900.
yesterday, Dollie Phillips, aged ~, was MUIR
dered.
Andrew Franks, of New York, committed
suicide yesterday.
Sir John Mcdonald, in speech at banquet
in Quebec last night, spoke against the idea OF
annexation with the United States.
Receivers Cross and Eddy will take charge
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad.
In fit of jealousy, William Harrison, OF
Hinesville, Liberty County, Ca, recently shot
and killed his niece.
John B. House was yesterday convicted In
a New York court of forgery and sent to
prison for five years.
The Cotton Seed Oil Company has bought
out the house of w. j. Wilcox 81 Co., lard
refiners.
Frank Bricster, a Bohemian was robbed and
killed in Chicago'by unknown thugs
George II. Vandergrift, Philadelphia con
veyancer, has disappeared with $4,000 given
him by friends to invest.
Prof. Barnard, of the Lick Observatory, has
discovered another comet.
Two sailors, Of the ship Constellation, were
recently drowned in Hampton Roads.
The new Staten island ferryboat ErastuS
Wiman has arrived in New York.
Prince Wilkes yesterday defeated Patron, in
Nashville, In three straight heats.
Fire broke out in the Qurinal yesterday,
but little damage was done.
Appeals are being issued for subscriptions tc
the Parnell fund.
Mr.. Flood is improving.