The Washington critic., 1888-07-12
WASHINGTON CRITIC
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Dow
for Hasty Reading.

One Of the strollers on Broadway now
adays is the once.famous clown, Dan
Rice, who is spending the summer Mt
Long Branch. His marriage to wealthy
Texas widow some time ago is said to
have thoroughly changed him. He says
himself: "She is the first person who
could control me. Moody and 'Sankey and
many other leading evangelists tried TO
reform me. but my wife had no trouble
doing so. When ! married her she told
me / must not drink or play cards and /
have not done so.' Mrs. Rice, whois a
est cattle ranch In Texas, situated in
Colonel Tom Ochiltree's old district.
ColonelOchiltree says she is worth 81 ,000,-
600 and one ofthe finest women IN Texas.
Old Dan never looked better.
The latest Combine" against the pock.
cts of the mercantile public is that OF the
manufacturers and dealers in cotton
market and putting up prices. There are
IN the United States about thirteen large
establishments where the bagging is
made for supplying the planters and
packers with covering for the baled Gov
ton. At the offices Of the New England
and the Brooklyn manufacturers IL was
stated that the manufacturers and dealers
were refusing TO sell any large amounts
Of bagging until they can regulate the
prices TO suit themselves.
The convention of Republican clubs of
New York State met at Saratoga yester-
day. II. II. Hofiord of Buffalo presided
and, in the course of his remarks, SAID it
would be wise ITO prepare TO assimilate
the vast hordes which are flocking to our
shores from the lower classes of Europe
and who are in no way fitted or pre-
pared 70 exercise the privilege of citizen
ship, and are not in sympathy with our
methods and habits of life or thought,
and who, in many cases, are socialist
cally inclined"
Judge Gary's rulings of law which sent
the Anarchists to the gallows was turned
by Judge Hawes yesterday in Chicago
against the agents, attorneys and chief
officials of the Chicago City Railway for
the offense of attempted jury bribing.
The main offender, Sumner Z. Welch,
claim agent of the railway, was sent TO
Jail for six months, and @. b. Holmes,
president, and @. NJ. Hardy, attorney of
the company, were recommended to be
dealt with by the grand jury.
The defeat of the Readings terminal
project is the chief topic OF discussion in
Philadelphia, and it is evident that the
railroad committee of councils is not sus-
tained in its course by the newspapers or
by representative business men. II is
strongly suspected that Traction Com
pany influences defeated the ordinance.
Reading Company gave some excuse for
the action of the committee by insisting
upon building the road on its own terms.
concessions will now have to be made.
In coffee circles in New York great
deal OF amusement has been caused by
Mr.. Powderly's advice to the people to
boycott coffee because there is "corner"
in IL. The dealers in the Exchange say
that there is no corner at present in
OF oh
that he did not know what he was talking
about. There was "corner" in coffee,
however, some time ago, and the advice
will hold good for the next one.
Sixty Canadian laborers on the Grand
Trunk Railroad at Port Huron, Fort
Gratiot and other points on the st. Clair
River who crossed TO and from their
compelled by Customs Collector Ward to
cross TO Canada and return no more.
This was done under the provisions of
the alien labor law, providing that no
foreign laborers can be brought to this
country under contract for service TO any
company or individual.
John P. Egan, collector for the st.
Louis Post Dispatch, went to Kansas City
week ago, being short in his accounts.
His doings were exposed, but he was not
prosecuted. HIS wife, to whom he was
only married last March, discovered let
ters in his trunk on Tuesday showing that
he had a wife living IN San Francisco.
She swore out warrant for him, but he
escaped.
Dennis Mccarthy, variety actor, aged
~, attempted to murder his wife Anna in
Buffalo, n. Y, yesterday, by firing two
shots at her from a revolver. One shot
took effect in the back, near the spinal
bone, and the second entered her left hip
and passed through the thigh. She is in
critical condition. Jealousy is supposed
to have been the cause.
At Newark, Ohio, yesterday, the cele-
brated Hooking Valley Railroad lawsuit,
involving the ownership Of about $S ,OOO,-
600 worth of propertyin Ohio, which was
taken from the courts here on change
of venue was yesterday passed by the
court on announcement that terms of set
Element were being arranged by the con-
testants.
Mrs. Kate Young a scrub-woman, was
about to enter house in New York, on
the stoop of which Timothy Sullivan, a
longshoreman, with whom she had
quarreled, was seated. They quarreled
again and came to blows. Mrs. Young
showed Sullivan headlong down the steps,
and truck drove over his chest, killing
him.
The Austrian and Greek Consuls at
Sofia have complained to the government
at BeIIova on saturday and seized two
-Austrians and two Creeks and now hold
them for ransom. The Austrian Consul
demands that Bnlearia nav tbe ransom
demanded NV the Rr;oands for the two
Austrians.
In consequence of Queen Natalie's
UoIv Synnd of Servia AVER tba nnest;on
Of se1aration between herself and Kinp
MiIan tho matter hes heen raferrad re
the Belgrade Consistory. The Queen is
about to 20 to Russia.
some friends of Ysenlt Dndlov the
English woman who shot o. Donovan