The Washington critic., 1888-08-20
WASHINGTON CRITIC.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Recent Happenings of Interest Boiled
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Down for uaSty Reading.
An attemptto collect debt Of thirty cents
resulted In the death OF Bernard Ecillcy IN
Chicago Saturday night. He owned o small
grocery store, aud William Burns claimed
Reilley owed him that amount lie appeared
with constable to enforce his demand, when
Kelley advanced on him with a cooked re-
volvcr. Reilley's brothcr-in-law, Peter G..
salmon, attempted to wrest the weapon from
the excited man's grasp when it exploded, the
bullet passing through Rcley's brain.
The sheriff and posse had fight with
band OF desperadoes no Marion in the interior
OF Scranton County Ohio, Friday and one Of
the sheriii's party was wounded. Five Of the
outlaws were lodged in Jail and six others, com
prising tie worst element, are at largo in the
mis-, heavily armed and dufying the sheriff to
take them. The men are wanted for break
ing up the soldiers reunion at Marion ON
Thursday.
William Nagor aud Louis Nagcr, rauchcrs
and stock mon. have been lynchod by outlaws
IN Pleasant Valley Arizona, and w. Nc
Raigy, employed on the ranch Of the Aztec
Land and Cattle Company, has been
driven from the ranch by them. This is the
continuation of fight between sheep and
cattle men on the Tonto basin.
The Central Labor Union, at its meeting in
New York yesterday, decided In tho case OF
the two girls who were discharged by their
employers because Of testimony they gave
before the Ford Investigating COMMITTEES, to
ask Mayor Hewitt TO take up subscription
for them as he did for Foreman llartt, the
within Of the labor organizations.
w. f. Duncan and Mrs Fleming were nc
quilted at lIopknsvllle, KY, Saturday, OF the
chafge of conspiracy and killing Charles
Fleming at Herndon lustSundny. Mrs Flem-
ing who is well TO do, was divorced but her
husband frequently visited at her home lie
met Duncan there and u fight followed.
The jury sustained Duncan's plea of self-dc-
fense.
While the Prohibitionlsts were holding one
OF series OF tcnt-meetings at Mannheim, Pa,
i on Thursday evening" some one placed n gas
y Pipe bomb with fuse attached I'm the tent and
lighted IT, The bomb failed to explode and
was found the next morning. Over 500 peo-
pic mostly women aud children, were pres
ent when the attempt was made.
At party ia Bloomfield, Pa. Saturday
night, August Blettner and Frank Wazer two
Germans, quarrcled about II young lady
named Thuna, and Walzer assaulted Blettner
with knife, inilicting fatal wound During
the afray Miss Thuma was badly cut in the
wrist Walzer has been arrested.
Noah Griffin, 'colored, wrote an insulting
note to young white lady, Miss Simmio
&irllln of Apalachicola, Fla, who showed the
note to white men, who caught Griffin, gave
him one hundred lashcs and ordered him to
leave the country. He did not CO. and n gang
OF 40 masked men shot him.
Twenty-four wholesale liquor dealers of st.
Louis have formed corporation to build a
gigantic dstilcry in that city The purpose
of the organization is to directly oppose the
whisky trust Tho corporation is capitalized
Rt 100000.
Secretary Dillon of the American Flint
Glass Workers Association and three of the
Rochester (Pa,) Tumber Works strikers
were arrested Saturday for conspiracy in try
ing to prevent non-unon men from going to
work.
Mr. Jonn Morley addressing meeting at
Lincoln on Saturday, said he regarded the ac-
zion of tEn Government I'm rI1ghfuU thn Durunll
Commission bill through Parliament without
debate as the most revolutionary thing that
had been done in England in the present day.
Signor Crispi, the Italian Prime Minister
will visit Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe
this week, ana 1t is believed their meeting will
serve to strengthen the alliance between Ger
many aud Italy,
The forage stores of the French Government
at Toulon have been set on fire and partially
burned, it is suspected, by Italian ncendiares,
whose aim was to destroy the powder maya
zines
A skiff capsized in the Allegheny river at
Pittsburg Saturday evening, and Edward Call
and Sadie Fahri were drowned Call, who
was under the influence of liquor, jumped
into the skff and upset it.
Highwaymen made an attempt Saturday
morning to rob the Union Pacific eastcbound
passenger train near Cheyenne, Wy They
were driven off by the trainmen, who were
severely injured. .,.t.a-
l.. Il. Foreman has been arrested at Hanni-
bal Mo-, for stealing n horse quarter of a
century ago. lie was arrested at the time and
sentenced 10 six years in prison, but escaped.
As the result of fight with Thomas Breezy
and John O'Brien, in Brooklyn, last Wednes-
day, Stephen Ham died at the Cumberland
Hospital yesterday. O'Brieu has been ar
rested.
burg shot his second wife and himself through
the head. Both will die. Linneburg wanted
his wife to deed back property given her at
the time of marriage, which she refused to do.
terrific thunder storm passed over Cape
May Saturday. The residence OF Mrs. Oil, at
Cape May Point was struck by lightning, and
the eastern end shattered. Twochildren were
partially stunned by the shock.
The burning of Van Reeds paper MILL five
miles from Reading, Pa, Friday night, has
blotted out one of therevolutionary landmarks
in that section of the State. Flour was made
there for Washington's army.
During the absence of David Davis, clerk of
storekeeper aud postmaster at O'Apelle,
Canada, in England, his books were exam
jned, and it was found that ne had embezzled
100000. He has been arrested.
The visit of the Duke of Nassau to the King
of the Netherlands resulted in the betrothal of
Princess Wilhelmine and the hereditary Prince
of Nassau. The marriage will take place
when the Princess reaches a mature age.
Dr. f. w. Ganzaulus of Chicago and for
merly of Baltimore lectured TO a large audi
ence at Chatauqua, N. Y, Saturday, on
"John Hampton"
The tribal stock tax difficulty, which has
caused so much trouble between the non
citizens and Chickasaw Nation authorities,
has been settled
Two boys named Hoehl and Carey, aged
about 10 years, were drowned in the Ohio
River, near Rochester, Pa, Saturday while
bathing
The Norwegian steamer Liberia ran on
White Island, of Ecum Secum, Friday night,
and is Il total wreck. The crew were saved.
The Liberia was from New York, bound to
Stettin.
Among the passengers by the steamship
Alliance which arrived in New York yester-
day from Rio Janeiro, was Senor Don Varas,
Minister from Chilli to the United States
The Hiscock File Company of West Chelms-
ford, Mass, has shut down for an indefinite
period owing to the persistent and aggressive
war of large Incorporated concerns.
An accident occurred in the third heat in the
e;2S class at Capitol Park, Augusta Me-, Sat
urday, in which several persons were injured
by u falling horse.
George B. Markle, one of the earliest op-
orators of the Pennsylvania mining region
died Saturday evening at the residence of his
son, at Ilazeton Pa.
A monument dedicated to Victory was un-
yelled at Leipsc on Saturday by the King and
Queen of SaXony. Among those present was
Count Won Moltte.
August johnson, Dane, aged 2l years, was
found to be suffering with leprosy, while being
examined in Chicago Hospital.
The eXnrpssiOng Of EmnerOr William of