The Washington critic., 1888-07-19
NEWS OF THE Day.
Recent Events Of Interest Boiled Dow
for Unsty Reading,

Germany. Inc Hcet consists oil tOfty
war ships. A number of coryettes and
gunboats complete the fleet. After an
exchange of salutes between the fleets
and the forts Emperor William will go
aboard the Cars yacht Derjava. The
yacht will then be escorted to Peterhof by
several vessels of each fleet, where the
Emperors will disembark and reception
will be held The ceremony will be un-
attended by any pomp. Only a small
body Of Cossacks will keen the quay but
all around the castle for distance of 1000
metres troops will be concealed behind
trees and hedges to guard it securely. The
Emperor will leave on Sunday. There
are now no foreign vessels in the roads at
Cronstadt, but a place has been assigned
TO an American man-ofswar which Is ex-
pected to arrive there from Stockholm.
The Madison Square Theatre of New
York is doomed to destruction rs soon as
the present lease expires. The owner of
the ground, Amos X. Emo of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, says he intends to have
the building torn down and occupy the
ground by an extension the Fifth Ave
nue. Hotel, which will make of that build
ing solid rectangular structure, thus inn
proving it in an architectural point of
view, while adding accomm odations
which are sadly needed in the hotel.
The treasure of SlO,000,0OO or more in
gold and silver bars and precious stones,
supposed to be in the lockers of the Eng.
lish sloop-of-war De Braak, sunk IN the
Delaware Bay, has tempted another ex-
pedition to.try and locate her. The e2-
pediuon, which will start from Camden
on Monday or Tuesday, will be in com
mand of Charles A. Adams Of the United
States Navy and Lieutenant George p.
Blow, who has been given leave of alb
sence from Fortress Monroe for the pur-
pose.
On the farm of Jackson Popejoy, on the
Waterloo road, four miles from WASH
ington G. H., Ohio, men were engaged
threshing wheat, when q terrific wind
struck the separator tearing it to pieces.
The water wagon, which was filled with
water and very heavy, was wheeled In q
bee-llne n quarter of mile across the
field, where IL struck the creek bank and
stopped. A regular water spout accom-
panied the storm.
The inquest in the case of Mr.. Mande-
vile was conducted at Mitchelstown yes
terday. Visiting Justice Moorehead de-
posed that Mr.. Vaudeville, while suffer
ing from sore throat and diarrhea, was
put on punishment diet, although his
health was gradually declining. Justice
Moorehead found Mr.. Vaudeville naked
in his cell, he having been deprived of his
clothing for six hours.
The French Chamber of Deputies yes
ItTuhV NObtu 10 postpone uHJll ltS nCAJ
session Che consideration of M. Goirauds
Interpolation of the Government as to the
measures taken by II for assuring the de-
| posit of rentes as. guarantee for the re-
demption for the bonds of the Panama
Canal Company and the payment of the
| prizes in the canal lottery.
Alta meetingof the strikers in Kansas
| City IL was decided to continue the strike
| on the Burlington road, but that the
The men are Somewhat sore over Grand
master Monoghan's decision, that they
must handle their fight themselves, as
| it virtually reads them out of the order.
Daniel Lee, one Of the hermit Lee
brothers, who for thirty years have lived
in tumble. down shanty O few miles east
of Plainfield, n. j., died on "Wednesday
last. Although living in, abject poverty,
| the brothers were worth over $500, 600.
Frazer Lee, the remaining brother, is in
feeble health and Will not long survive.
1t is stated that King Milan is prepar-
ing an. answer to Queen. Natalie's state.
ments for submittal to the powers and
that in it he will deny that he has any in.
tenhon of remarrying, and will say that
his main object in seeking divorce is tC
remove his son from the influence oI
Queen Natalie. az
A special dispatch says that the notori
Gus desperate, Wash. Middleton, has
been killed at Jasper, Ark, by an officer
while resisting arrest. Middleton was 9
border scout during the war, and is said
to have killed forty men during his ca
reer,
At Carlisle Pa, the strike at the shoe
factory continues. The company yes
terday decided to discharge Keiter's wife
if the employees would work under
Keiter. This the employees rejected. The
manager will endeavor at once to secure
| hands.
The steamship Fulda, which arrived il
New York on Tuesday, while off tht
| Newfoundland banks on Saturday during
n heavy fog, ran down fishing schoonrl
on which were20 or 80 men. The Fuldi
stopped, but could find none of4them
| and did not know their fate.
| Deputy SheriHs Campbell and Holen
back of Olathe, Kan, are under arres
for the murder of John p. Reardon o
Round Prairie School house. They sho
and killed Reardon on April 30, mistakinJ
him for n desperate named Rogers, fo
| whom they had q warrant.
The Journal deS DeJats stated yesterda!
| that the French Government has no in
formation that the Emperor William
| will request the Cars adhesion, Will
| at ST. Petersburg, to an agreement to i'm
| pose disarmament upon France.
General Kerwin, editor of the New Yorl
Tablet denies that he confirmed the state
ment that the Nun of Kenmare," Siste
Mary Frances Clare, had renounced TIL
Catholic faith. He places no credence II
1he story.
At Cambridge, yesterday, the exercise
, of the university were distinguished b!
the oonfeTal of honorary degrees upoi
Bishop Potter of New York and TIN
: Bishops ofMinnesota and of Fredericton
NIB.
! The Nordhausen Gazette has been con
: fiscated, and its editor will be.prosecutet
because of the publication IN that iourna
of replies to French articles with refer
ence to the Dowager Empress Victoria.
DR.. Malcolm Mcneil, assistant profes
4 sor of astronomy at Princeton, has nc
) | cepted q call to the professorship 0
, ! astronomy and mathematics in LAX
= Forest University, Illinois.
Judge J. w. II. Underwood, eS-Mem
\ Der of Congress and member of tn
: ! tariff commission appointed by Presiden
: | Arthur, dropped dead at Rome, Ga, yes
terday, of heart disease.
Captain John Keely, prominent DIR
goods merchant and well-known citize
; | Of Atlanta, Ca, died yesterday mornin
9 from carbuncle caused by wound II
/. Ceived III the war.
The wage conference of prescripuo
, | glass manufacturers and wOrkmen G
Pittsburg has resulted in an amicable Sc
, tlement, and the factories will resume o
August IL.
The Hayuan Legation have announce
that an uprising of the natives occurre
4 recently at Port-au-Prince, but it h,
q been suppressed and tranquility restored
+ The details of the scheme for the cor
q solidation of the Chesapeake and OH
. and the Richmond and Allegheny raj
y roads have been completed,
e Mr. Crawford, the British Commi
S sioner in Konkan, has been arrested o
e charges of bribery and corruption, mao
by Brahmin,