The Washington critic., 1888-06-20
NEWS or THE DAY.
Important Events Of the Past Forty.
eight Hours.

! assigned to the sewing.rOOm, and during
| the six months that she is to remain on
| the island she will help make garments
| for her fellow criminals. General Diss
| Debar will go to the penitentiary to-day.
| His advanced age eXempts him from ac-
| tive labor, and he threatens to write
/ book about the madam and her pictures.
\ Ann o. Della says that when she gets out
4 of prison she will lecture and produce
/ spirit portraits for anybody that cares to
| pay for them.
Walter A. Heard, one of the wealthest
men i'm the region near Canandaigua, n.
| v, was found in his room last Saturday
apparently dead. Physicians said that
| he had died of paralysis Of the heart.
| The funeral was arranged for yesterday
! morning at 10 clock, and at that hour
! large number of friends gathered and
services were performed AS the coffin
was about to be carried to the hearse,
| Mrs Rutledge, a sister of Mr. Heard, de-
/ carcd that she believed that he was
! merely in q trance, and insisted that the
| body should not be removed. The un-
! dertaker, hearsc and carriages were then
dismissed, and the body remains in the
| house. II looks very life-like.
| John II. Dunn, who was found guilty
of tempting Richard s. Scott, the paying
| teller Of the Manhattan Bank in New
| York city. to steal $3.50, 600 of the banks
| funds, and who took $4,000 for safe
! keeping and retained the greater part of
| it in spite Of SCOTS protests, was yester-
day sentenced to nine years and eight
months imprisonment in State prison
| Judge Barrett imposed the maximum
| sentence because, as he said, there was
nothing IN the prisoners defense that en-
| titled him to mercy. He had not only
| tempted wcakcr.minded man To steal,
! but he had deliberately cheated his dupe
| out of the fruits OF his dishonest act
The U. S. steamer Yantc arrived at
Fort Monroe yesterday from Santiago
! De Cuba. On May 2S the Nantic was
dispatched to Port Au Prince, as our
Minister there had reported a revolution
imminent She arrived at Port Au
Prince on the 4th inst, found that the
| revolution was over and quiet restored,
and that there had been little danger of
outbreak President Solomon of Hayti,
a colored man, upon learning Of a rising,
had banished the rng leaders and re-
stored quietness.
On the second ballot at Brussels for
members ofthe Senate and Chamber Of
Deputies of Belgium the Clericals gained
all the eight seats allotted to that city
and retained the fourteen seats previously
held by them IN the Chamber of Depu-
ties, besides gaining one from the Lib.
| erals; the ClCricals have a majority Of
sixty in the Chamber Of Deputies and
majority of thirty-seven in the Senate.
In hearing yesterday before the In
| terstate Commerce Commission in the
case of the Worcester Excursion Car Com
pany against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company the Pennsylvania Company adj
mitted that they had refused to haul
complainant's cars, and in defense of
their action submitted testimony tending
to show that the peculiar construction
of the Worcester cars rendered them in
| convenient for transportation. ..
II is semi.oilicially stated that the Car
has declined to sanction the proposal OF
General Van Novski, Russian Minister of
War, that the number of reserve bat
talions be doubled, on the ground that
the proposed increase would be too severe
burden on the financial resources of
the Empire, and because the present
political situation in nowise justifies such
n measure.
Harry Deutrich, prosperous business
man of Salt Lake City, and Anna Whit
tick, a pretty Louisville girl were mar
ried in Louisville last Thursday and have
gone West on wedding tour. Their
wedding is the result of matrimonial ad-
vertisement inserted in Salt Lake City
paper three years ago by Deutrich, which
was replied to by the lady he just married.
AT the Pennsylvania Railroad locomo-
tive shops, at Altoona, Pa, yesterday, q
locomotive Weighing 10000 pounds was
built in 16 hours and IS minutes and
turned out ready for use, thus lowering
the record, which had previously boen u
hours, the time taken by the Baldwin
Locomotive Works to build an engine.
Yesterday was the twenty-frst anniver.
sary of the execution of MaximiIian and
his two principal officers, Miramon and
Mia. Solemn requiem mass was cele
brated to their memory at the old church
Sanfernando, Mexico, and was attended
by nearly all the ryiving partisan'
OF the dead Emperor.
The National Camp, Patriot Sons o
America, is now in session at Reading
Pa, and the city Is trimmed from end Il
end with national colors in their honor
Yesterday President Smith made strong
! address eulogizing Mayor Hewitt of New
York for refusing to hoist any but tn,
, American flag over the City Hall.
The Upper House of the Hungarla,
: Diet, yesterday on motion of the Presi
dent, adopted resolution expressing IL
coincidence with tile German Imperia
family over the death of Emperor Fred
erick.
Z The Presse of Vienna says that Prime
Bismarck and Count skalnoky have eX
changed dispatches affirming their desr,
to maintain the peaceful alliance nov
existing between the two countries.
An explosion OF dynamite yesterday al
: ternoon at the Riverside blast furnace q
3 Benwood, w, Va, caused the death o
Samuel Lanthern and fatally injure,
Thomas Blade. Six others were more o
n less seriously injured. rt..
J. Rev. DIR. Coleman, tile newly-electe
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopa
d Diocese of Delaware, has forwarded to
w Gibson Of Dover letter accepting tn
Office. -
II. Ashby Ridenour, under sentence q
/. death at Winchester for the murder G
,. Andrew Bray, has been granted me-
d trial by Judge Turner Of the Circuit Cour
In the Chesapeake and OHIO Railroa
foreclosure proceedings at Richmons
Va, Judge Wexford rendered q decisio
favorable to the Huntington party.
Il M. Charlemagne Emile de Maupas,
~ years of age, and formerly a French Mil
lister and member of the Senate, is deaC
~ Advices from Zanzibar 10 the JOmnt
" des Debates of Paris, state there is lit
doubt that Stanley, the explorer, is dea6
~ ~ Rev. DR., Coleman has accepted til
II bishopric of the Episcopal Diocese
- Delaware. q"
It Mrs. Emory A. Storrs, widow of the di
tinguished lawyer, died in Chical
m yesterday.
IL DR., A. NJ, Raub has been elected pre-
n, dent of Delaware College.
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