The Washington critic., 1888-06-06
wAsHING GTON CRITIC
NEWS OLE THE DAY.
Important Events OF the Past Twenty
four Hours.

tion. A few days ago an attempt was made |
to murder Allen Rigsby, who had been |
witness IN several cases against the moons |
sinners at the present session of the Fed |
eral court. He was fired on by unknown
parties in ambush. His arm was broken
and he received other injuries which may
result fatally. The officers report that
the fruit crop in the upper counties is
abundant this year and that the moon.
sinners are killing or intimldatiDg wit
nesses so that they can have a big run on
the Illicit distilleries. Rgsby's house
was burned last winter and his life has
been frequently threatened by the out
laws.
Since the prosecutions under the Ed
munds law, begun several years ago, the
Utah penitentiary has gradually been fill
ing up with Mormons. Recently the old
structure BECAME very crowded and the
Judges of the United States courts had to
postpone the trials OF many cases against
polygamists and in some cases even their
Sentences because of the overcrowded
condition of the penitentiary. Congress
at its last session appropriated $4,000 for
a new prison and the building has just
been completed and handed over to the
United States Government by the con
tractors This building has 100 cells but
is too small TO accommodate the growing
trade. A bill is now before Congress ask
ing an appropriation of $4,000 for again
enlarging the institution.
Mrs. s. j. 0verton, o prisoner in the
Nebraska penitentary, committed suicide
Sunday night by cutting her throat
from ear to ear with case-knife. The
woman lived on the frontier IN Custer
County last fall, where she was the terror
of her neighborhood. Finally after re-
peated threats of killing her husband,
she blew out his brains with q shotgun
while he was sleeping. Her children
were the only witnesses Of the deed, and
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sent TO the penitentary for twenty-five
years.
At the annual meeting of the Bank of
Montreal on Monday the directors re.
port showed that the balance of profit and
loss account April 80, 1887, was $605, 740,
and that the profits for the year ending
April 80, 1888, after deducting charges OF
management and making full provision
for all bed and doubtful debts, was ST.
2s4, SOL making n total of 81 S90,241. After
deducting a dividend of 10 per cent,
amounting to 81, 100000, $500, 24l were left.
No bonus as has usually been paid was
paid. The old board of directors was re-
elected.
Elections were held throughout Illinois
Monday for Judges of the Supreme Court.
The returns show that the Republican
candidates, David j. Baker, Jacob w.
Wilkin, Joseph NJ. Bailey, and Benjamin
d. Magruder were elected in the First,
DlAlIt anu CtNtIln blSlTlCbS, anu
John II. Scolheld, Democrat, the pres
ent incumbent, in the Second district.
This makes the Supreme Bench of llli-
nois Republican for the first time in its
history.
Forest fires are doing terrible havoc
down the Omaha Railroad hne, about Ia
miles from Ashland, Wis A heavy wind,
blowing 20 miles an hour, is tanning the
flames. At the 30 mile siding the post
Office was destroyed. together with three
houses, and the families are homeless.
Thirty cars, $4,000 ties and 5000 posts
were also consumed. The evening pas.
senger train from st. Paul was delayed
two hours, and passer ge s and crew aided
in saving property anu did effective work.
Fears are entertained for other towns. 1t
is thought that two or three workmen
have lost their lives.
The Presbyterian General Assembly of
Ireland assembled yesterday in Belfast.
The retiring moderator declared in his
opening tspfech that the Presbyterian
Church is soundly unionist in its views,
Gladstoneism he said, implied the Grip
pling ofth church resources, the trans
fer of education into the hands of the
Remanists, and perhaps the expulsion of
Presbyterianism from the greater part of
Ireland.
gress of Anthropology, under the aus
pices of the New York Academy of
Anthropology, opened yesterday with the
delivery of an address by Prince Roland
Bonaparte. The afternoon session was
mainly consumed by the reading of a
paper on "The Problem of the Ohio
Mounds" by Professor Q. Thomas of the
Smithsonian Institution.
A cotton warehouse belonging to the
South Carolina Railway Company at
Columbia, S. c., was burned last night.
The warehouse was occupied by Jones'
Robertson & Co., cotton dealers and fer
tilizer manufacturers, to whom msot of
the cotton belonged. Fourteen hundred
bales of cotton were in the warehouse.
Loss, $4,000; insurance about $4,000.
A railway accident occurred Monday
evening, Just outside of Tampico, in
which many lives were lost. A construc-
tion train was derailed near bridge by
COW and donkey, which were on the
track The train crashed through the
bridge and went down an embankment.
So far as known, eighteen were killed
and forty-one injured.
At the annual meeting OF the Pennsyl-
vania Company in Pittsburg yesterday,
George p. Roberts, Henry H. Houston,
Weston Morris, Edmund Smith, Henry
ID. Welsh, J. N. DubarTy, John p. Weth-
erell, John p. Green, and William II.
Barnes of Philadelphia, ]. n. McCul-
Tough, William Shaw, Thomas ID. Meisler,
and James McCrea of Pittsburg, were
elected directors.
The majority of the morning papers Of
Paris regard General Boulanger's state
mtnt of the policy which he outlined N
his speech before the Chamber of Depu
ties yesterday us confused, contradictory
and absurd.
Mr.. Henry Willard confirms the state
ment that he is about to undertake an
expedition to the South Pole. Dr. Neu
mayer, director Of the Deutsche Seewartt
of Hamburg, will cooperate with him.
A construction engine on the Cleveland
and Mahoning Valley Railroad was de
Harry Schofield and John Rosenburg OF
Warren Ohio, were killed.
The examinations at West Point arc
still IN progress. Forty-four cadets viii
be graduated Jervey Henry of South
Carolina will probably take the highes
honors.
William J. Winges, chairman of thu
Hoboken IN, J.) Common Council, IS re
ported TO have sailed for Europe with {
widow of that town.
The British steamship Benson, which
sunk the steamship Eureka off the Vir
ginia capes, has been attached in Phila
delphia.
Prince Bismarck, after an audience o
an hour with Emperor Frederick
lunched alone with the Empress yester
day.
Hon. c. l.. Stuart has been appointed
Judge of the Corporation Court OF Alex
andria, Va.
A heavy shock of earthquake was lel
at Buenos Ayres at l2:l4 yesterday morn
ing
The Hanover cotton mills, contanin
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