The Washington critic., 1888-05-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Important Events of the Past Forty
eight Hours.


eight Hours.
The Methodist General Con ference yes
terday selected Omaha as the place for the
meeting of the next General Conference.
The winning horses at Jerome Park
were Patrocles, Prodlgal, lie Logos, Car
not, Letretia and Jim McGowan. The
winners at Gravesend were Harrisburg,
The Bourbon, Oregon, Tea Tray, The
Bard, Dry Monopole, Refund and Calera.
There were about 10000 people at Graves
end. The winners at Latonia were Mis-.
hap, Kermesse, G. w. Borden. Minnie
Palmer, Valuable, Birthday and Glen
hall. Fifteen thousand persons were
present. The winners at st. Louis were
g. w. Cook, Egmont, Terra Gotta, Fan
King and Huntress.
Nelson Leater, farmer, residing about
three miles from Lancaster, KY, was
found dead in pond of water. Whether
he committed suicide or met with foul
play cannot be ascertained. Leater was
to have been married next week to q
young widow at Nicholasvile. He was
thought to be worth 100000 and was in
the habit of carrying large sums of money
upon his person. No money was found
upon him.
The celebration on July 10, at Marietta
Ohio, of the beginning of civil govern
ment under General St. Clair, promises to
exceed the most sanguine expectations of
its promoters. Senators Evarts and Dan
iel are the orators for the occasion, though
the States of the old Northwest will be
represented by the speakers of their own
selection.
AT the annual meeting of the National
Civil-Service Reform League in New York
yesterday, George William Curtis, who
presided was reelected president for the
coming year. In Mr.. Curtis speech of
acceptance he called attention to the fact
that on the night before he had spoken
against second Presidential term. Yet
he now unblushingly accepted that
honor from the league, for the seventh
time. Ills excuse was that there was no
patronage connected with the Office.
1t IL announced that Mrs. Edwards
Pierrepont of New York, wife of ex-
Minister PieTepont, is the giver of the
Sl25,O00 to be used in erecting the new
recitation hall that is to occupy the site
on which for so many years has stood the
famous Yale fence. Several Yale men
contemplate making personal appeal to
Mrs. Pierrepont to allow the building to
be erected on another site.
The annual session of the Synod of the
Reformed Presbyterian Church of the
United States began at the Sandusky
Street Church, Allegheny City, Tuesday
orator, Rev. Il. B. Wilson of the Re.
formed Presbyterian Theological Semi
nary. The sessions will last for week
or more and there will be delegates pres
ent from all parts of the country, to the
number Of 800 400.
At Escanaba, Mich, Wednesday night,
the ore trimmers demanded higher wages
and struck. New men were put on, but
when they appeared for work the strikers
assaulted them with picks, shoyels, stones
and clubs, seriously iniurng several. The
riot was finally qlielled, and ten of the
leaders are in JAIL
William Landreth, who murdered his
step.daughter, young girl aged about l6,
in q most horrible manner at lndepen-
dence, Ore, was tried at The Dallas
Tuesday, Landreth confessed the crime.
The Jury returned verdict of murder in
the first degree. Landreth is about sixty
years old.
The alleged three-mile race between
Teemer and Gaudaur yesterday ut the
Point of Pines, near Boston, was wit.
messed by about 1000 people. No real
| work was done by either men. Teemer
| finished at 800, and Gaudaur two and a.
| half leghts behind; hme 10 minutes.
The Florida Democratic Convention
| Yesterday selected delegates TO the ST.
| Louis Convention. Balloting for nomi-
nee for Governor was begun, but no
choice reached. The platform will in
dorse the Administration and urge tariif
| reform.
a railroad wreck occurred three miles
| from Louisville, KY, Tuesday, on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, in
which Engineer w. NJ. Quinn was killed
and Fireman Richardson and Brakeman
George Farley fatally injured.
Major Samuel Moore Reynolds, clerk
in the Philadelphia Custom House, and
the eldest brother of General John f.
Reynolds, who lost his life during the bat.
tie of Gettysburg, died Tuesday.
The remains of Editor Edwin s. Spark
were incinerated at the Germantown
Crematory, in accordance with the request
of the deceased. His ashes were inferred
at Woodlands Cemetery.
The single shell race between q. ii
Hosmer of Boston and Wallace Ross o.
ST. John, N. b., over the course on the
Merrimac River, above Lowell, yesterday
was won by Hosmer.
The large threestOry frame factory D
the Wailingiord Wheel Company at Wall
ingfUfd, Conn, was struck by Lightning
yesterday morning and destroyed by lire
Loss, 100000.
Five men were badly crushed at La
Crosse, Wis, three fatally, 10y n heavy
CRU hl lullHtI NllNlhB ph Antlh' JdNpl
Schultz, Ole Oloson and Mat. Seman WI
die.
Thomas p, Dagby, rs attorney for thu
owners, sold the Grove Hotel property
at West Point, Va, for 81 800, Morgan
Treat was the purchaser,
The Louisiana Legislature yesterday
formally elected Judge White uniteC
States Senator for term beginning Marcel
4, 1891.
Sir Henry Parks will open the Austria
liam conference ON Chinese labor July II
NJ. Henri Rochefort, editor of the III
trdasigCdRt, was threatened with violence
by anarchists who entered his Office II
Paris Tuesday night.
The Second Excursion Down tht
bay,
via Bay Ridge ana the mammoth steamer
Columbia, viii leave b. and o. depot Sun
day, June 3, at 40 a. m. Music on th'
boat. R0nnd trip, 81 children, ~ cents