The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-16
NEWS OF TIE DAY.


Dcen lyDCneu by X-DNluknODDerS. IL Is
said the friends of Walker waited until
the Supreme Court had passed upon his
case and when it was announced that the
eX-chief of the baldknobber regulators
must hang they wrcaked vengeance on
the five leading witnesses who brought
him within the shadow of the gallows.
Tho Chicago Notos denies the truth of
the story.
The suit of David II. Gould, owner of
100 shares of the Ohio Central Railroad
Company, against George /. Seney,
Samuel Shethar, the Metropolitan Ma
tional Bank and the Ohio Central Rail.
road, was placed on trial in New York
yesterday. The plaintiff seeks an ac-
counting as to S2000,000 subscribed to
build road from Toledo to Richmond,
o., which, it is alleged, was misappro.
priated.
Miss Frances Il. Willard, president of
the National Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union, writes to the Associated
Press that she desires il to be known
that the statement so generally made in
the religious and secular press to the eff
feet that the w. G. 7. U. requires its
members to lend their influence to the
Prohibition party, or if they do not de-
clares them disloyal, is totally incorrect.
The London Times correspondent at
Zanzibar says the southern mail brings
the news that all the abandoned ports are
filled with insurgents and that the feeling
against the Germans has not abated. The
report of the burning of Minengani and
Tunghi is confirmed. The governor of
Mozambique is prevented from returning
by hostile chief at Tete on the Fam
best. The whole country is disturbed.
William j. Burns, aged twenty-three
years, was arrested at Elizabeth, N. j.,
yes erday, on suspicion of attempting to
set fire to the Union depot of the Penn
sylvania IL Central New Jersey Railroad
and Mulfords lumber yards. Bunches
of oil-soaked waste were placed under
the platform and between the lumber and
ignited. The prisoners hands were wet
with oil.
NJ. Goblet, Minister Of Foreign Affairs
of France, has informed the Cabinet that
England and Germany alone have agreed
to the blockade of the East African coast,
and that he is awaiting the customary
notification. France has taken meas
ures to keep strict watch to prevent
slave trading She will, however, admit
the right of search only for arms and war
material.
The Berlin Post says: "The increase of
frances military forces brings us nearer
to war. THIS increase is being made at
rate with which the peace powers are
scarcely able to keep pace. The same re-
mark may be applied to Russia, the in
crease of whose military strength cannot
be explained as a defensive measure"
A liberal use of the Cloture rule is ex-
pected, in order to force through the
English Parliament the bill for the eX-
tension of the Ashbourne act, but neither
side is hopeful that the measure will be
disposed of within a week. The opposi-
ton estimates that it will take at least q
fortnight to discuss the bill.
The committee of the lower house of
the Hungarian Diet yesterday debated
the Army bill. Baron Fejervary, Min
lister of National Defense for Hungary,
said it would make it possible to place in
the field in a shorter time than formerly
the 100000 men comprising the war
strength of the army. 49,
Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, will
represent his parents at the funeral Of
Duke Macmillan of Bavaria. The
Emperor has advised the Empress not to
attend the funeral of her father, as an
interruption of the Massage treatment she
is undergoing might have bad effect on
her health.
The indirect overtures of King Milan,
of Servia, for Russian support, have been
summarily rejected. The South Russian
press freely describes him as q renegade
sclav and an Austrian puppet. The
press censor has not interfered with the
newspapers for their attacks upon King
Milan.
Stephen Franks asked his sweethea
Miss Carrie Love, of Hawleyville, MINI. !,
to name an early day for their marriage
She was in no hurry and declined. This
enraged him so that he shot her, and,
believing that she was dead, shot him
self. Neither was fatally wounded.
A deputation of Cork leaseholders had
private interviews yesterday with Mr..
Balfour and Lord harrington. They
complained of their exclusion from the
benefits of the land act. Both Mr.. Bal
| four and Lord Harrington promised to
consider the matter
Prof. Gleason, the horse-tamer, well
known in Washington, was arrested in
Philadelphia yesterday for cruelty to
animals, and was bound over for fur
ther hearing. The cruelty consisted in
| throwing down vicious horse in order
to tame him.
1t is stated that ex- United States Min
lister John W. Foster, who left Mexico
Wednesday, presented claims of the
estate of Charles Butterfeld against
Mexico The claims are for war mater
ial and ships of war, and amount to $50, =
100000.
The offer Of a reward of $4,000 for
the arrest of Tascott, the murderer of
millionaire Smell, of Chicago, will expire
by limitation on the 18th inst, but the
family announce an extension of the
offer for sixty days, or until January II
next.
Queen Victoria, Princess Beatrice,
Prince and Princess Christian, and Count
Won Hatsfeldt, the German ambassador,
will receive the ex-Empress Victoria of
Germany on her arrival at Port Victoria
on Monday.
1t is expected that the tedium of the
proceedings of the Parnell Commission
will be relieved only when the Times
produces evidence aiming TO connect the
accused directly with specific offenses.
The Pope yesterday gave audience to the
Archbishops of San Francisco, Montrea
and Ottawa, the Bishops of Covington
Fort Wayne and st. Hyacinth, and the
Apostolic Vicar of Pontiac.
The French Government works for the
manufacture of small arms at Chatel
leraut. in the department of Vienne
have been DESTROYED by fire Loss 1 600