The Washington critic., 1888-06-01
WASHINGTON CRITIC
NEWS OF TILE nay
Important Events of the Past Forty
eight Hours.

III upper flitn avenue by the Police COm- |
missioners, and President Stephen y.
French made short address, In which
he complimented the men and awarded
several badges for mentorious service.
Superintendent Murray was presented
with a medal for the capture of the
Astoria masked burglars. Inspector
Byrnes was similarly honored for having
captured the Manhattan Bank robbers,
and Inspector Steers was given the third
testimonial for having saved three per-
sons from drowning.
Women lawyers are becoming q power
in the land. Michigan University has al
ready sent out twenty.four young women
holding the degree of Ii. y. This year
young woman from the Sandwich
Islands, Miss Alma Hitchcock, will make
the twentyiifth. In England there is a
club of women lawyers. 1t is mainly q
correspondence club, yearly letters from
the members being printed and circu-
lated. Mrs. Belva Lockwood and Miss
Waugh from the Law School in Chicago,
are among the members. The motto of
the club is. "All the Allies of EACH"
In behalf of Parker Wilder IL Co., G,0OO
packages Of flannels were sold at auction
in New York, netting Sl,250,O00. The
prices realized were about per cent. be-
low the market quotations and ~ per
cent. below the figures realized at the big
sale by the same firm last year. Nearly
all the large dry goods merchants in She
country were represented ut the sale.
The following prices were received: Flan-
nels-plain scarlet, 12@25 cents a yard
plain white, l36125 cents; blue twills, 15s
to Al cents; scarlet, 1Gl to Al cents.
While the Mississippi River steamer
Iverness, owned by Mcdonald Brothers
Of La Crosse, Wis, wastowing n raft to
Hannibal, Mo, the two lower hues col
lapsed, and ten men were blown over.
board or jumped into the water ~ escape
the deluge ofsteam. The following were
drowned: John Green, Charles Conroy,
William Kernay, deck hands Joseph
Haltin, fireman. George Craft, runner of
the capstan.
This promises TO be red.letter year in
the immigration business of New York.
There were landed at Castle Garden yes
terday 3,605 persons, mostly Germans and
Italians. The total immigration at New
York during the month of May was
1910, which is l2,050 more than in May
of last year. The total number of immi-
grant arrivals for this year up to date is
lS1, l3S, an increase of 2l ,045 over the total
immigration for the corresponding period
last year.
Flora o. Spear was yesterday given n
verdict in Philadelphia for $4,000 dam
ages against the p, w. and B. Il. II. Co.
for the loss of her husband, who was killed
by dynamite explosion on the steamer
Samuel NJ. FELTON, two years ago. The
origin of the explosion was never ascer-
tanned, but at the time Spear was supposed
TO have been in the possession Of the
dynamite.
The report that Jay Gould will apply
for n receiver of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad does not seem to disturb
the newly elected directors of that com
pany. w. i. Bull, one of the new board,
said yesterday that the company would
undoubtedly default on its interest to-
day, and receiver would have to be APP
pointed.
Q. p. Huntington failed to appear in
the Law and Equity Court at Louisville
yesterday to answer for contempt, and
an alias attachment was issued for him.
At the same time ID. Z. Sanders, for the
local stockholders, asked that the prop.
erty of the Short Route Transfer Com
pany be taken from Huntington's hands
and placed in control of q receiver.
The hearing upon the charges made by
Superintendent of Police Small against
Chief Inspector of Police Hanscom of
Boston was begun Yesterday by the police
commissioners. He is charged with mis-
appropriation OF 500, disrespect to his
superior officer and giving too much time
TO lady callers at his office.
The Appellate Court of Chicago has re-
yersed the order of Judge Shepard in the
Rawson divorce case, in which he allowed
Mrs. Meckie l.. Rawson large sum Of
money for temporary alimony and So
licitors' fees. Mrs, Rawson thereby loses
a large amount and Banker Rawson gains
decided financial victory.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
at Lincoln, Neb., of the Nebraska and
Western Railroad, the corporation having
a capital stock of 50 100000. 1t is thought
it is backed by people seeking Nebraska
business by an extension from the West
ern terminus of the Illinois Central at
Sioux City.
Michael Whalen, convicted of burning
the barn of Edward Humphreys, was
about TO be sentenced, an affidavit was
read, made by Jacob Heller, the chief
witness against the prisoner, confessing
that his testimony was false. new trial
was ordered
The annual meeting of the Pacific Mail
Steamship ,Company's stockholders in
New York elected the following directors:
Jay Gould, Sidney Dillon, Russell Sage, G..
7. Huntingdon, II. Hart Wm. Remsen,
Edward Lauterbach, Harvey Kennedy,
and George j, Gould.
Congressman Bourke Cochran summed
up for the defense, in New York yester-
day, in the trial of Thomas b. Kerr for
bribing the aldermen of 1884 to procure a
franchise for the Broadway Railroad.
The case was given TO the jury, which
was locked up for the night.
Mason Morris, the Chicago livestock
magnate has bought back from the cat
Tie trust the Fairbanks Canning Com
pany, and has satisfactorily dissolved all
relations with the trust. The consider.
alton paid in the repurchase was two
million dollars.
The boiler of the steamboat Fulton ex.
ploded yesterday at Pass Loutre, La,
Edward Perkins, the pilot being in
stantly killed. the captain, W. II. Bid
die, fatally hurt, and Landry and Wat
son, colored deck hands, badly scalded.
In Chicago yesterday David III. Colvert
was handling his revolver, and 1t went
Off, it is said accidentally, the ball stril1-
ing his 17.year.old wife in the left breast,
causing her instant death. Colvert is
under arrest
Three tramps broke into the residence
of Dr. NJ. l.. Yost, near Mountanville,
Pa, Wednesday night, and one of them,
who gave the name of George Coffin, was
shot by the Doctor and fatally wounded.
"A valuable coolie dog, owned by Mr..
Walker Browne of Flushing, l.. L., was
siezed with a fit of rabbies yesterday and
succeeded in biting three of the farm
hands and n valuable COW before il could
be shot.
Mayor Hewitt said yesterday that hls
absence from the reviewing stand at the
Memorial Day procession has been mis-.
represented. He did not desire TO avoid
President Cleveland, as had been stated
lie did not review the procession because
he had not been invited TO do so.
The General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church adjourned yester.
day to meet in May, 1892, In Omaha.
Fire Wednesday night at Selma Cal,
in Fresno County, burned one half ofa
block opposite the Southern Pacific Rail
way depot Loss, 100000.
The Second Excursion Down the
Bay,