The Washington critic., 1888-05-19
NEWS or TIE DAY.
Important Events of the Past Twenty
four Hours.


four Hours.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has
unanimously declared the local option
law of that State unconstitutional on the
ground that the law is a direct violation
of article 4, section 20, Ofthe Constitution,
which provides that no law shall embrace
more than one object which shall be
embodied in its title. The local option
law IS entitled "An act to regulate the
manufacture and sale of liquor which
is not at all what the law is for.
The Commissioners of Accounts fin
ished their examination of the books of
Vim. NJ. Iyins, the City Chamberlain of
New York, yesterday. Mr.. Ivins' ao-
counts were found absolutely clear and
correct, and supported none of Maurice
b: Flynn's charges against that officer.
The Chamberlain's private bank account
was separately kept, and his official ao-
counts were in perfectly satisfactory
condition.
The manifesto of the forty Parnellites,
who met in Dublin yesterday in regard to
the Pope's decree forbidding boycotting
and the plan of campaign, takes the
ground that the Pope acted without cor
rect information about the matters he was
dealing with, and announces the purpose
of going on with the forbidden practices in
spite of the decree
Mrs. Ida NJ. Wright, the six.months
bride ofSilas NJ. Wright, was found hang
ing in the smokehouse at Fountain Green
ILL.,, Thursday evening by her husband.
a letter, written by her, was found, in
which she said she would hang herself be-
cause she believed she would be happier
dead than to live with a drunkard.
Wright had come home intoxicated ON one
or two occasions.
The 1roquois Club of Chicago, of which
Melville w. Fuller, the newly-designated
Chief Justice, IS an honored member, has
made arrangements to tender hlm pub
lie reception in honor of his elevation to
the Supreme Bench. The reception, fol-
lowed by an informal luncheon, will take
place at the clubhouse as soon as the
news of his confirmation is received from
Washington. Mr.. Fuller's wealth is es
timated at 100000.
The New York papers state that Colonel
| F.. ID. Grant has offered to pay General
Adam Badeau's claim for $4,000 i'm full
| provided he would drop all litigation In
the matter, but that the offer has beer
| declined. General Badeau claims tha
his character has been assailed, and h(
desires VI dication in court.
JOSEF r. Anderson, who was las
| Wednesday nominated for Governor o
Tennessee by the State Prohibition Con
vention, died yesterday at his home a
Bristol, after a few days illness, of ty
| phoid fever. He was 6S years of age, th,
| president of the Bristol Bank, and fol
many years prominent business man o
East Tennessee.
BY an explosion of dynamite at tn,
Palmer Nine, near Detroit, yesterday
Fred. Hamburg and Charles Sunberg wer
instantly killed. Sunbergs back wa
terribly torn and staple from the doc
found in it. Every bone in Hamburg
body was broken.
A young man calling himselfC. w. De
ford. but whose true name is believed to b.
Charles Henderson, was arrested near Ha
gerstown, Nd, yesterday, charged will
having stolen horse from d. II. Affen
cellar of Chambersburg Pa. He wa
taken back to that place.
Colonel A. Wilson Norris, Auditor
| General of the State of Pennsylvania, i
soseriously i'll that his friends despair o
his recovery He was stricken two week
ago by nervous prostitution.
The general term of the New Yorl
Supreme Court has rendered decision
sustaining the conviction of Arthur
McQuade, the Doodle alderman, now il
Sing Sing.
Miss Louise M'liss Corbin, daughter o
ID. @. Corbin of New York, was married
in Paris, Thursday, to Captain Rober
Horace Walpole, nephew and heir of Lore
| Oxford.
Work will be commenced to-day on tn
monument to Guiseppi Garibaldi, tn
Italian liberator, which is to be erected il
Washington Square, New York.
Battery G, First Artillery, Captain ]
NJ. ingalls,, stationed at Fort Monroe 70
the past twenty years, left for San Fran
cisco last night.
A Brazilian Government decree ha
been issued appointing three days for fes
tivities in celebration of the abolition o
slavery.
The business failures throughout the
country during the past seven days nun
ber for the United States 1853, and for Can
ada 90.
DR.. Fritz of Manson, with four Nor
wegians and two Laplanders, has starte,
for Greenland to explore the east coast.
The Virginia Episcopal Convention ha
voted against dropping the title "Protest
ant Episcopal"
Mrs. Schofeld has been released iron
the House of Detention on writ q
habeas corpus.
Augustus Tufts, formerly a well-knowl
owner of trotting horses, died in Bostol
yesterday.
The English Government has decides
to add two ironclads to the Mediterranean
squadron.