The Washington critic., 1888-09-17
WASHINGTON CRITIC.
NEWS OF TIE DAY.
Recent Happenings of Interest Condensed
for the Hasty Reader.

of the murder of Mai. Barttclot. Tip
poo lib, he says, is engaged entirely in
commerce, and had an interest
tSlo,t in the xsUSit;s suSfess of N MAJ bart Bart
who accompanied the expedition were
furnished by Tippoo 1fb. They agreed
that they should bc paid on reaching Hnn-
zibar, and to this fact Capt Vangclc
partly attributes the murder, because
the payment of tho portcrs depended upon
the success Of the journey. lie thinks
the strict discipline preserved by Bart
tclot may also have aroused hostility.
lie believes that Jameson will fri 1t
difficult to organize o new expedition.
Capt. Vangclc Is convinced that Stanley
is safe.
Charles A. Percy, who went through
tho whirlpool rapids on August 30, 1887,
in his life boat, and some days aftcrwatd
proceeded from the whirlpool to Lewis
ton, attempted the same feat yesterday
afternoon. lie left the Old Maid of the
Mist landing, above the suspension
bridge, in one of the incloscd apartments
of the boat. The boat passed the whirl-
pool rapids and out of the whirlpool
safely When about half mile below
the whirlpool the waves dashed in the
manhole door, forcing him out into the
boat. Being thrown overheard, he
swan through the dangerous rapids to
Lewiston, u distance of three miles,
where fisherman picked him up In an
exhausted condition. The boat was lost
Walter II. Shupe, who has been idcn-
titled with the various Butler booms,
and who calls himself Father Column
bia," will to-day start boat to Albany
from New York, and carry passengers
at ten cents head. The boat is the
City of Albany, which can carry 1000
passengers. The ten-ccnt fare gives a
deck trip, but the payment Of u dollar
10
of the boat and unlimited meals at D
table that will be set on the upper deck
all during the trip. Shupc says he will
soon have other boats at equally low
rates Of fare running to Yonlers, Pough-
keepsic, Newport News, Bridgeport,
Providence and other points.
Horace G.. Spencer, OF No. 1S1 9 North
Eleventh street, Philadelphia, who was
buried yesterday, was married to MISS
Carrie b. Knight only ten hours before
his death. Mr.. Spencer was only twen-
ty-nine years OF age, and up to o lew
months ago was in vigorous health. In
July he went to the Pacific coast on ac-
count of u ctld threatening to develop
into pheumcpia. lie returned two weeks
ago in the last stages of consumption
and expressed u desire to be married to
Miss Knight, to whom he had been en-
gagged for some time. He was married
while on his death bed.
Advices from Samoa say that the ma
tiyes have rebellcd on account of an
attem pit made by Herr Branders. Ger
man official, to induce them to confer
the name of Malicto on Tamasese. and
also because the taxation imposed upon
them was excessive. Herr Brandcrs. al
the head of fcrcc of 1.400 Samoans
who favor the pretcnsions of Tamasese,
has had an encounter in the bush with
the rebels, who arc 5000, and seven of
his force were killed, the rebels losing
but three men.
The KalnolSy- Bismarck conference
opens on Monday, Count Kalnoly will
be the guest O. Prince Bismarck for
several days. The Federal Council of
Bavaria has ordered the expulsion from
Zurich of q tailor named Tropman. An
inquiry proved that he had corresponded
with one of the anarchists hanged at
Chicago, and that he had been freI
quent speaker at anarchist meetings.
William L. Harding received dis
patch from Boston that Sullivan. McEl-
roy, Mahopcy and Murphy would reach
New York on Monday. On their ar
rival it is said 81 900 will be posted at
the Clipper officc ms a forfeit for match
between Sullivan and Jake Kilr8in.
A dispatch from Bismarck, Dakota,
saws: a man named Wise WIS Nnched
for stealing horses in the Turtle Noun
tains. Wise was at one time proml-
ncnt citizen of Wyoming, and while re,
siSihg there was prominently lncntloned
for the Legislature lie was from Penn
sylvanio.
President Cleveland has written a
letter to james Whitley. of Philadel-
phis, rcfuting the statement made IN the
North American Review that he de-
clared; / believe in free trade as be-
licve In the Protestant religion"
Charles J. BudcneiclS has been nr-
,,, nd
have been preparing to nvenge the deaths
of the hanged Anarchists. lie had in
his possession n quantity OF explosives.
Joseph Cannon was imprisoned for
fifteen hours i'll on diminished vauib IN
the keystone National Bank at Phila-
dclphia, in ct consequence of friend play
fully shutting the door, which had a
spring latch hut no knob.
The official report of the grain har-
vest in France places it at about CO.,
900, 600 hectolitres. The French Cham-
bcrs will reopen on October provided
the budget committee is ready to report.
The French Government has ordered
that gunboats proceed to the west coast
of Africa for the purpose OF pursuing
vessels engaged in the slave trade. es-
pccially those which ily the French tag
The widow OF q Brahmn yillager near
Cawnpore, in India, recently burned her
self to death upon the funeral pyrc of her
husband. She mounted the pyre un-
noticed after the departure OF the fu'
neral party.
The London Times has entered an ap-
pearance in the Edinburgh Court OF Ses-
sions, the leading counsel for the defense
being the dean of the faculty and the
solicitor-general
The strike at Brown K Co.'s Pittsburg
rolling mill against paying for burnt
iron has ended in victory for the iirm.
Five hundred men viii resume work
Sixty-nine men narrowly escaped suf-
location in the Hoosac tunnel at North
Adams, Mass, on Saturday. The cause
was the escape Of coal gas from passing
engines.
An East Saginaw, Mich, train was de-
rallied in burning forest near that city.
The engineer and fireman were badly cut
and bEtiised, but no lives were lest
The Gaelic Athletic Team, numbering
80 persons, are passengers on the steamer
Wisconsin, which sailed from Queens
town yesterday for New York.
The food in the Savannah has covered
the rice plantations near Savannah, and
the rice crop is nearly if not quite a
total loss.
dispatch from Asheville, N. c., an
nounces the sudden death of Il. III. Rich
ards one of the leading bankers of At
lanta, Ga.
An international literary, artistic and
meteorological congress opened Satur.
day in the Ducal Palace in Venice
Prince Johann Adclph of Schwarzen.
berg is dead. lie was 80 years of age.
His death occurred in Bohemia.
Calvert Bros, Of Halifax, woolcn fac