The Washington critic., 1888-07-02
WASHINGTON CRITIC
NEWS OF THE nav.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Hasty Reading.

the hHrDOr IN schooner rugged boat, with
two small sails. At 8 o'clock they were
seen outside the island by boatmen
coming from Long Island. AT that time
the sound was calm, and the party was
having good time. A sudden gale be-
gan TO blow at o'clock, and its force in
creased SO that no ordinary craft could
weather it. Those who knew that the
men were out ielt grave apprehensions,
and when they learned yesterday morn
ing that no tidings had been received from
them they were convinced that the party
had been drowned. Their suspicious
were well founded. The boat was found
on the Long Island shore, near Oyster
Bay, having drifted there, bottom side
upward. The searching party sent out
from here accept this as conclusive evil
dence that the men have been drowned.
The budget committee of the Chamber
of Deputies OF France has been selected.
1t consists Of twenty opportunists, seven
radicals and four extremists A majority
OF the committee are in favor of retrench-
ing the budget and are opposed to the
suspension of the sinking fund for treas
ury bills. All of the Paris journals are of
the opinion that the personnel of the
new budget committee of the Chamber of
Deputies means grave check to the gov
ernment. Some of the pal IS predict
that If the opponents, with the pport of
the right, resume their hostile ,actics q
crisis will ensue.
The venerable Simon Cameron enter
tanned distinguished company at dinner
at his Donegal farms in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, Saturday. A special train
from Washington carried many of the
guests, among them Secretary of State
Bayard and Senators Don Cameron, But
Ter of South Carolina, Edmunds of Yer
mont, Charles, A. Dana, President Rob
erts and Vice-Presldents Thomson and
Dubarry of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and William M. Singerly.
Seven hundred thousand dollars was
placed in bank in Birmingham, Ala,
Saturday, to be used in the erection of
three new blast furnaces in that vicinity
The furnaces are to be IL feet each. The
projectors of the enterprise are II. b. De
Berdeleben of Birminbh ham, and parties
from Charleston and Savannah. Work
= is to be begun Immediately. When these
furnaces are completed there will be "a
blast furnaces in operation in Alabama.
Oscar Langlett, q bartender of E Paso,
is under arrest for killing James Elliott, q
railroad employe, at 2 o'clock yesterday
" morning. The men met on the dark
g., street, and Langlett says Elliott was going
oE TO rob him. AT the same hour Samuel
fr Stanford, colored, killed Henry Owens,
q also colored. They had quarreled over a
gun. Owens killed Bird Penn, colored,
here recently and was acquitted.
Mr.. Gladstone addressed O meeting at
Hampstead Saturday. He was given a
big ovation. In his speech he said that
coercion in Ireland was formerly pain
n,ss7l necessity and momentary expe-
M Mwient, but now it was erected into prin-
waSIpl system and an institution, which
I would have received deadly blow Fri
day had there been few more liberals in
the Isle of Thanet.
/. Jamestown, summer resort on Conan
/. icut Island, opposite Newport, is excited
over the prospect of having President and
Mrs. Cleveland as guests part of the
season. Colonel Daniel Lamont, the
Presidents private secretary, has just
\ rented the Weeden cottage there for the
summer, and 1t is said that the President
and Mrs. Cleveland will visit him.
AT Keokuk, Iowa., Saturday, Judge
Bank held that the statutes of Iowa, in so
far as they prohibit the sale by the inn
porter of liquors from any other State,
while the same are under control of the
importer and while the same remain in
the original packages, are in conflict with
the laws of the General Government and
and are thus far invalid.
The Nationalists of South Sligo are
much irritated at the selection by Nhe
leaders of the party of Barrister Edward
Leamy to succeed Il. ]. Kennedy, re-
signed, in Parliament from that district
They favored the mayor of Sligo as their
representative in the House of Commons,
and threaten to oppose Mr.. Leamy.
A dinner was given at the Peterhoi
Palace, in st. Petersburg last Thursday,
in honor of General Won Pape, the Ger.
sat at the right of the Czarina. All the
members of the imperial family, M. dc
Giers General Vannovski, Minister Of
War, and the grand dukes were present.
Emperor Francis Joseph has granted
- the request OF Count Karolyi, the Austro
Hungarian ambassador at London to re.
tire from active service. His Majesty has
conferred the grand cross of st. Stephen
upon the Count, and has sent him an au-
tograph letter in which he refers to the
Counts services in terms of warm praise
The statement that NJ. Ferrouillat, the
French Minister of Justice, will resign in
consequence of the action of tho Senate
in censuring him for dismissing a substi
tute procureur at Carcassone, is untrue
He has no intention of resigning,
"a Earl Spencer, IN q speech Saturday al
ia Thornbury, said that the government has
NJ failed in one of its principal objects,
AZ namely, to crush the League the sub
Z, scribers to which, and the influence OF
In which were as large as ever.
I The abolition of the third class $3C
m immigrant ticket from the Missouri
IL River to the Pacific went into effect yes
terday. The lowest immigrant ticket or
the Western roads is now the second
class, or $35 ticket.
At the English athletic championship
meeting at Crewe Saturday, Westing, OF
4 the Manhattan Athletic Club of New
/ York won theF 100 yards dash by two
q feet after asplendid race. Time, 10 la
y
The property destroyed by the recent
fires at Sundsvall and Umea Sweden
was valued at 100000 kroners gwelve
v thousand persons were rendered home
less by the flames.
The daughter of the Confederate cav.
alryman, General John " Morgan, died
at Lebanon, Tenn, Friday. She was
the wife of Rev. James w. Caldwell OF
Alabama.
The report that the Thibetans have
: made overtures for peace is declared to be
J untrue. Eight thousand Thibetans are
I advancing toward Jelapla. The Liamas
desire war.
In indianapolis, Saturday night, man
named Johnson shot and fatally wounded
his wife, who had eloped with DR.. A. NJ
!. Alexander and then fatally shot himself
Rev. Charles fl. Wheeler and wife OF
Winchendon, Mass, were killed at rail
road crossing ut tAat place Saturday
Their carriage was struck by locomotive
Jacob BTetz, a son of the millionaire
= brewer Of Philadelphia, was drowned
early yesterday morning while boating
w on the Schuylkill River with two friends
At Aspen Junction, Cola Charles White
. head shot and instantly killed Mimi,
own brains out.
Mr. Fitzgerald (Parnellitel was elected
=, Saturday without opposition to fill thu
vacant seat in the House of Commons fo
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