The Washington critic., 1888-08-08
WASHINGTON CRITIC.
NEWS or TIE Day.
Matters of Interest Boiled Down for
Uasty Reading.


morning. in the ODD year of his age. lie was
son Of Chief Justice Gibson OF Pennsylvania
and gradson Of Colonel George Gibson of
Revolutionary fame, who was killed at st.
Clars defeat He was born I'm Carlisle, April
4, 1926, aud received his education at Dickin-
son College. In 1852 Inc was appointed
military storckecpcr In the Quartcrmaster's
department Of the army, which he held until
May, 1861, when he was appointed captain In
the Eleventh Regular Infantry. He also
served as acting assistant nspcctor-general OF
the provisional brigade OF General Meado's
headquarters. In January, 1858, hc was pro-
NOTED to major Of the Fifth infantry. lie
was promoted as licutenant-colonel Of the
Third Infantry, March 20, 1870, when he was
assigned the command Of Fort Missonta,
NJ r. There he remained until his final pro-
motion to the colonecy of his old regiment
the Fifth Infantry, at Fort Keough, 1856. His
remains will be brought to Carlisle for inter
ment
The Grny National Telaufograph Company
has been chartered by the Circuit Court, with
n capital stock not to exceed fifteen million
dollars. The principal Office will be located
In Richmond. The officers arc: President,
Thomas NJ. Logan; vice-prosldont, Charles E
Coon Of New York; secretary, David l. Car
son Of New York. Among the incorporators
are United States Senators Plumb and Hale,
John IL. lnman, George :. Scott, &. s.
Brice ]. b. Pace and James II. Dooley. The
company will engage In the general telegraph
and telephone business under the system in
vented by Professor Elisha Gray.
Judge Allen G.. Thurman announces that he
has accepted the invitation extended to him
some weeks ago by some Michigan gentlemen
TO attend meeting Of Democrats of that
State at Port Huron. Mr.. Thurman has Sc
lected August ~ lie will be accompanied
by Congressman Outhwait and Hon. s. s.
Cox, besides Mrs. Thurman and other mem
bers of the family. Judge Thurman has been
busy during the last two weeks with his cor
rpgpOndpupp. which ig LARGO. mud IN
which, during the absence of his son in Ari-
Eona, he gives personal attention. He eN-
presses confidence that the Democrats will
carry New York.
Shortly after one o'clock Saturday morning
woman jumped out of parlor window at
Ada Huntey's house OF il-repute, in st.
Louis, and was impaled on an iron picket
fence, one of the palings piercing her breast
and lung and entering the abdominal cavity.
She was the wife of W. j. Scott, Missouri
Pacific Railway clerk. She had left her hus-
band at home in bed and gone to the Huntley
house She thought she heard her husbands
voice when she jumped out of the window.
There is no hope of her recovery
1t was believed that the conference between
the Indian commissioners and the Sioux In
dans would be closed Monday, but the COM
mssoners averted defeat by refusing to con-
fer before Wednesday. The Indians of the
lower agencies have decided to sign neither
the Affirmative nor the negative paper. The
lower braves say they will not sign whether
their Standing Rock brethren do or not.
The Common Pleas Court at Hamilton, o.,
dissolved the temporary injunction to restrain
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
Company from selling the stock of Its Cincin-
natl, Richmond and Chicago branch, extend
ing from Hamilton to Chicago. 1t is under
stood here that this sale will be made to the
Pennsylvania Road.
The summer shutdown OF the flint glass fac
tories of the country will end next Saturday,
md on Monday there will be a general re-
sumption Trade is reported better The win
dow-glass factories, which have been closed
down since June 1, will start up about the LIST
Of September, giving employment to about
10000 men.
Mr.. E. Cromwell, the owner of the we'll
known "Marl-Bank Farm" Prince Georges
County, two miles from Petersburg, was killed
by vicious bull Monday. He was leading
1he animal at the time, when the bull suddenly
attacked and threw him to the ground and
crushed the unfortunate man beneath his feet.
He lived but short while. .+ ''iH
Arle Latham of the st. Louis Club signed
yesterday in Philadelphia a contract with
MesAs Lew Simmons and Grattan Donnelly
to appear In the comedy, "Fashions," after
the close Of the present baseball season. The
consideration is said to be 1900 for a period
Of five months.
A misplaced switch caused several cars to
leave the track at Huntington, Pa, and fall
over an embankment. Over fifty men, car
penters and masons, were at work on the new
bridge structure, and six Of them were seri-
ously injured by the falling cars, two of them
fatally.
daughter was born Monday at Youngs-
town. Ohio, to Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Logan,
jr. Mother and child are both doing well.
The child will be christened Mary Louise,
after its two grandmothers, Mrs. General Lo'
gan and Mrs. G. H. Andrews, respectively.
New testimony in the shape of aflidavits Of
three st. Louis citizens will be presentad tc
Governor Moorehouse to-day to prove that
Juror G.acAahan, one of the twelve men who
convicted Maxwell, publicly stated that he
was "going on the jury to hang Maxwell"
The North German Gazette denies that in
the communications between Prince Bismarcb
and the late Emperor Frederick concerning
the proposed marriage Of Prince Alexander OF
Battenberg and Princess Victoria any referenc,
was made to the Queens letter.
Over one hundred survivors of the Fifth
New York Regiment are in Gettysburg and
will dedicate their five-thousand-dollar statue
pf Major-General G. X. Warren on Little
Round Top to-day.
A large flour mill in Williams township
Pa, owned by A. s. Konch of Easton, Pa,
occupied by Jacob Hartsell, was destroyed
Monday night by an incendiary fire. The los
Is about $4,000.
The billiard contest at Saratoga, N Y, il
the tournament between Slosson and Sexton
was won by the former in SO innings. DAILY
and Slosson will play the final game to-mor
row evening.
Emperor William will sojourn in Alsace
Lorraine for ten days, making the palace a
Etrasburg his headquarters. He will Visi
Metz and other large towns.
A destructive fire occurred at Macon, Mo.
yesterday morning, destroying four OF tn
finest buildings In the city and entailing los
of over 100000; insurance, $4,000.
DIR. Louis Warrington Carter of Banbury
Charles City County, Va, died in Mancheste
Monday. He was the eldest son of the lat
Colonel Hill Carter Of Shirley, and during tn
war was a member of the Richmond llowitzers
Lieutenant Wiseman, the German explorer
had long interview with Emperor Williar
yesterday, in which he explained proposals fo
colonial development in Africa, and stated hi
idea of Emin Bey's position.
A company Of the Fifth United States Cay
airy is now engaged in eiecting the non-ct
zens Of the Chickasaw Nation who have n
sisted the payment of the cattle tax
The schooner Fannie W. Freeman boardo
the Leary raft on Sunday evening and SUI
piled the steamers with fresh mackerel Th
raft was going "a miles an hour.
At the city election at Portsmouth, N. ii
the entire Democratic ticket was elected I'll
Democratic candidate for Mayor had 552 mi
jority.
Congressman Randall steadily improves /
health, but receives no visitors except net
personal friends. He sits up daily, and spenC
the greater part of his time in reading.
Mrs. Joseph b. Swift, the renowned no
pital nurse and soldiers friend, is dead
Chelsea, Mass, aged about 30 years.
oufs MIND nDpd Ia Vpnrs residing