The Washington critic., 1888-07-11
wAsHING GTON CRITIC
NEWS OLE THE DAY.
Recent Events of Interest Boiled Down
for Uaety Reading.


for Uaety Reading.
The Grand Lodge of the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks was in session
at the Madison Square Theatre, New
York, yesterday. No election was held,
MS the present officers hold over until
next June. DIR. Hamilton ~. Leach of
Washington presided. The session was
devoted to routine business. The report
Of the grand secretary showed the pros
porous state of the organization. Twenty
six lodges have been added, making 90 in
all and adding nearly 1000 members.
Subordinate lodges have expended Sl0,-
Louis lodge has the largest membership,
455Iand Lexington, KY, the smallest, 20.
Boston has the wealthiest lodge, holding
$4,000 worth of property.
Buck Ridge Collery, owned by the
Reading Company, at Shamokin, which
has been idle since the disaster of 1888, at
which time seven men were smothered
by fire damp, has again resumed opera
tions. Employment will be given to 400
men.
In New York, Yesterday, Judge Wal.
lace of the United States District Court
dismissed, on the ground that the statute
of limitation barred further action, the
suit of Thomas j. Phelps, assignee of
James Mcdonald, against John Elliott &
Co. Mcdonald failed in 1868.
The fire in the repair shop of the New
London Northern Railroad Company, at
East New London, Conn, Monday night.
caused damage of $4,000. The repair
and machine shops were entirely de-
and was slightly damaged.
Elwood X. Norny, Fish Commissioner
for Delaware, died at his farm, near
Odessa, Monday, of paralysis. He was
born near Norristown, Pa, in 1924. was
engaged in mercantile business in Phila-
delphia from 1852 to 1859, and then went
TO Delaware.
Laborers employed on a break in the
canal near Rochester, N. Y. struck yes
terday for an increase from 25 to 35 cents
per hour. Police aid was summoned to
prevent trouble. In the afternoon most
of the men returned to work at the old
rate.
Fred. A. Forsaith, manager of the Web
ster House, Portsmouth, N. H., went to
his room Monday night, undressed, tied
one end of strip of cloth to hls feet, the
other to the trigger of gun, placed the
muzzle in his mouth and blew his brains
out.
The funeral of Mr.. Vaudeville, whose
death is said to have resulted from the
baTdships of an Irish prison. has been
postponed to allow q number of Nation
alist leaders to attend the obsequies.
By the spreading of rails on a 50-foot
trestle, ten miles west of Cameron, Mo-,
Monday night a Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific construction train, with IL
men on board, was precipitated to the
ground, distance of 80 feet.
Mrs. Frederick Spittlehouse, aged 10
years, of Elizabeth, N. j., while in an
epllephc fit. Monday night, overturned a
lighted kerosene lamp and. her clothing
catching fire, she was burned to death.
w. o. Parsons, prominent contractor,
has been arrested at Thedford, Ont, on q
charge Of counterfeiting. A large guam
tity of bogus bills and American silver
were found on his person.
The embankment of the marble quarry
of Schwayer Il Leach, near Norristown,
Pa, fell yesterday, burying eight men.
Two of them, Joseph Eagin and an un-
known man, were Killed.
The Baltimore and Harrisburg Rail way
Company has placed a mortgage with the
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company
of Baltimore city for $4,000 to cover
cost of improvements.
A battle between two rival crowds Of
Tennessee cutthroats interrupted q
church service in Whiteley County,
Tenn, on Sunday, and several men were
killed in the fight.
The English Government has instruct
ed Sir Charles Warren, chief commls,
sioner of police, henceforth to suppress
Saturday meetings in Trafalgar Square,
London.
There have been no further signatures
to the scale of the Amalgamated Associ
alton, and the situation of the iron man.
ufacturers and their workers remains un.
changed.
The brewery of Moritz Ladderer, at 27l
Eighth avenue, Newark, N. j., has been
seized by the internal revenue collector,
Klotz, for violation of the stamp act.
The British, Austrian and German am.
bassadors to Turkey have asked the Porte
to expedite the opening of the Interna'
.tional Railway to Constantinople.
The Chicago syndicate that purchased
Libby Prison will not likely carry out the
bargain, and the old war relic will prob
ably remain in Richmond.
General Boulanger in an grafton at O
banquet last night, said he hoped his
sword would return to him before an
other year had passed.
The National Conference of Charities
has decided to meet next year in SaT
Diego, Cal, by a vote of: Baltimore, SO
San Diego, 81.
An English Blue Book, giving the
number OF vessels contained in the navie:
of the maritime powers of Europe, has
been issued.
NJ, Goblet Minister of Foreign Affairs
presided at banquet given last night il
Paris to celebrate the abolition of slavery
in Brazil.
The Master House Painters and Deco
rators ASSOCIATION of the United State
has begun its annual meeting at Cincin
natl.
Count Schouvaloff, the Russian ambas
sador, goes to st. Petersburg, where h,
will remain during Emperor William
visit.
President Diaz of Mexico has been re
elected without opposition. The admin
istration party control Congress.
Fire, yesterday, destroyed a-number o
buildings at Paterson, N. j., causing
losses aggregating $4,000.
Special railroad rates are offered to al
clubs attending the Blaine reception il
New York city July 27
DR.. T. Bartle was fatally shot by
Charles Q. Krauer at Chanute, Kas.
Fire has destroyed eight blocks of build
ings in the town of Suisin, Cal.
Texas fever is alarmingly prevalen
among the cattle in Indiana.
Chicago newspapers are engaged in
war of rates.
At Virginia Beach.
VIRGINIA BEACH, July 10.-The Pnn