The Washington critic., 1888-06-11
WASHINGTON CRITIC
NEWS or THE DAY.
Important Events of the Past Forty
eight Ifoura.

tween the Emperor of Germany and
Prince Bismarck is thought by those who
profess to know more about the present
unsettled state of the contest for
supremacy between the German EN-
press and the Chancellor than has yet
been made public TO indicate speedy
termination of the semi-crisis in q COM
promise which shall spare the feelings of
both parties.
Herr Won puttlSamer has already been
sacrificed upon the altar of the Empress
resentment, and the probabilities are that
Her Majesty will consider herself for the
present appeased, while the Chancellor
will content himself with having forced
cessation of hostiites even though 1t be
temporary.
There were the usual crowds and the
usual excitement at the steamship
wharves IN New York ON Saturday over
the departure of five well l.filled European
steamers. Professor and Mrs. w. II.
Howell sailed on the Edam bound for
Amsterdam. Professor and Mrs. Moses
Colt Tyler were passengers on the Werra.
On the AnohoTia were the Rev. T. s.
Wyncoop of Washington and the Right
Rev. Robert Poso,s Bishop of Guayaquil.
Miss Caldwell, who gave $780, 900 for the
great Catholic University, sailed on the
Ia Gascogne.
a company of wholesale coal dealers
from Baltimore visited the coal station of
the Reading. Railroad in Philadelphia
Saturday They were taken to and from
the yard by the companys steamer, and
Superintendent Keim showed them how
the improved coal.carrying machinery is
used to load ships. The party made a
trip over the plane to the junction, and
returned TO Baltimore last evening.
During heavy fog Saturday night the
steam barge Cambria loaded with 2,100
tons Of IRON ore Tor Ashtabua, ran
aground on Eleven Foot Shoal, near
Escanabn, Mich. A large force of men
immediately went to her assistance but
they have been unable TO release her.
The cargo was iettisoned She is in an
exposed condition.
The bodies of Miss Sue Wilson, aged
Is years. and her three months old babe
were found drowned in the schuyllsill
River Mt Reading, Pa. Miss Wilson dis
appeared from her home two weeks ago
She had tied her child about her body
with a rope before plunging into the
river.
The revision committee of the French
Chamber of Deputies has adopted a mo-
ton submitted by NJ. Revillon, in which
the conviction is expressed that the Gov
eminent will produce before the close of
tke session scheme for the revision of
the constitution. The committee ad-
journed until October 25.
The dead body of Edward Mccullough,
superintendent of the gas furnaces of the
POttsville (Pa.) Iron and Steel Company,
was found last evening in one of the gas
flues with a lamp still burning beside it.
1t is supposed he was overcome by the
gas.
Charles II. Winfield dropped dead
while addressing a Sunday-school at
Walden, N. Y, yesterday afternoon. He
was a lawyer of considerable prominence
and served two terms in Congress. He
was chairman of the New York State
Democratic Convention in 1865.
Beginning with the month of July, the
circulation of foreign coin will be pro-
hibited throughout the German Empire
except in districts near the Austrian and
Swiss frontier. This measure is mainly
directed against the French coin in circu-
lation in Alsace and Lorraine.
Germnny's foreign trade during April
last does not compare favorably with that
of April ASS7. The exports of iron and
steel show large decrease; pig iron
from 253, ,331 tons to 81 ,03i tons. The i'm
ports of coal and wood show an increase,
and those of sugar, rye, oats, copper,
zinc and cotton decrease.
The heavy rains of the last few days
have swelled the rivers in Michigan so
much that several culyerts of the South
Shore Railroad, east of Baraga, were car
ried away. The water is still high and
the movement ofall trains will be i'm
peded until the water subsidies.
The Earl of Aberdeen presided at the
opening of the conference in London on
the occasion Of the centenary of Protest
American delegates, representing fifty
one societies, and twenty'seven Canadian
delegates were present.
Fire in Cincinnati Saturday burned the
Tennessee Lumber Company's property
in the west end of the city, causing loss
of$75,000 or S80,000 and the Mill Creek
Distilling Company's property, causing q
loss of nearly 100000.
The faculty of Jefferson Medical Col
lege of Philadelphia, which is largely at
tended by Southern students, has de-
from two years TO three. The university.
which has three-year course, talks of
increasing it to four.
One of the most disastrous fires that
ever visited Trinidad, Col, started late
last night. After hard fight the fire de-
partment succeeded ID getting control of
it, but not until the Commercial Hotel,
with seven or eight t'business houses, had
been consumed,
A grand funeral ceremony is announced
TO take place in Vienna on the 2lst instant,
on the occasion of the transfer of Beeth-
ovens ashes to the new Central Cemetery,
where they VIII be laid between those Of
Schubert and Mozart.
Lord Napier of Magdala, speaking at
the Press Fund dinner Saturday night in
London, advocated an addition to the
English army of 10000 regulars and an
increase of the militia to 10000 men.
Early yesterday morning fire destroyed
most of the buildings of the capsule fac
nj AaNn Arbn ha
stock loss $4,000. The fire is believed
10 be the work Of an incendiary.
4 semi-of1icial denial is given to the
statement that the English Government
had decided to withdraw the license clause
of the County Government bill.
Samuel B. Oldham, deputy grand Sec
retary and treasurer of the Society of
Free and Accepted Masons of Ireland, is
dead.
The Young Mems Democratic Club Of
New York will elect delegates to-day to
the National League Convention in Bal
timore.
Many Austrian landowners have Joined
the Hungarian maize ring which now
commands capital of 100000 fiorins.
The Emperor of Brazil is making excel
lent progress. Unfavorable weather pre-
vents his going out of doSrs.
The truckers around Norfolk, Va, re-
port that they will not realize more than
a third of an average crop,
Confederate memorial exercises were
held Saturday at Charlestown and Charles
ton, w. Va.
Mr. John Bright Is making slow but
satisfactory progress. He istroubled with
insomnia.
Colonel King Harman, Parliamentary
nnder'secretary for Ireland, died yes.er-
day
Damaging revelations have been made
in the New York aqueduct Investigation,
The closing exercises of the West Point