The Washington critic., 1889-03-20
EARLY MORNING NEWS.


Inc California Athletic Club rooms were
crowded last evening by members VINO
came to see Sam Blakelock and Jimmy
Carroll fight TO finish for purse OF 81 800.
Carroll scaled at 1919; Blakelock at 1921.
Blakelock was the favorte at $50 to $40,
but was badly whipped in sixteen rounds.
Repeal of Local option In Jersey.
The Werts Local Option Repeal bill,
which had already passed the New Jersey
Senate, was passed by the lower house yes
terday, and now only needs the Governors
signature to become a law. The passage
Of the bill is considered complete triumph
for the liquor men. The effect OF the law
Is to wipe out county local option and TO
establish township local option in It's
place. The bill also takes from the courts
the power Of summary revocation OF
licenses for Sunday liquor selling and
makes the prosecution of the offenders
possible only ON indictments by the grand
juries.
valuable Certificates stolen.
City Clerk McDermitt OF Hoboken, N.
j., discovered last night that thirteen i'm
provement certificates had been stolen
from his certificate book An hour later
two duplicate Improvement certificates
NNit Dltbthbtu III Dulih iut uhtitN
Of the mayor, city clerk and q contractor
to whom they had been made payable were
forged. An Investigation led TO the suspi-
cion that Assistant Clerk Mansell Is the
guilty party, and he is now virtually under
arrest at the city treasurer's Office.
The Delaware Constitution.
The Constitutional Convention bill was
passed by the Delaware Heuse of Repre-
a,,t. txta. n a.. ...t !.
likely that the Senate will concur 10 the
action.
Governor Lee to go to Florida
Governor Fitzhugh Lee leaves Richmond
to-day for Key West, Fla, and may possi-
bly, join ex-President Cleveland on his con
templated trip to Cuba.
Cheers for Cleveland.
ExPresident Cleveland aud party are be-
ing received with great enthusiasm at the
directly from Jacksonville to st. Augustine
today.
The Smith Mitchell Fight.
A cablegram to the Police Ga=ctte Office
says the glove fight between Jem Smith
and Charley Mitchell for sl,400 has been
postponed until April 1. Both men are in
active training. There is considerable
difficulty in selecting place for the battle
and 1t is possible that II may be decided to
bring the affair off privately.
Swallowed Up.
The statement was printed this morning
in New York that the United States Illu-
ninating Company, one of the important
suppliers of electric light to New York, has
passed into the control Of the Westinghouse
Electric Light Company.
Riots Over Collecting Tithes.
Riots have occurred in Wales over the
were serving notices Of distraint at Cardi-
gan and Penbryn to-day on those who re-
fused to pay tithes, mobs attacked the po-
lice protecting the officers, aud many per-
sons on both sides were injured. The mill
tary will probably be called out to quiet
the district. ~
Eloped With Baby.
Joseph s. Stulz, young man of bad
reputation, last week eloped from Louis.
Vile, KY, with the 13-year-old daughter
Of w. d. Ashby, well-known merchant
tailor, and they were married in jefferson.
vile, Ind. Ashby's present wife is Stulz's
sister. She is not blamed, but is prostrated
by her brothers. action. The little girl re-
turned home and informed her parents.
| Ashby started in search Of Stulz, but could
not find him. Stulz is believed to have
fed. Ashby will have the marriage an
nulled
No Cider For Iowa.
In his charge to the grand jury at Du.
buque, Iowa, on Monday, Judge Ney OF
the District Court said II was the duty OF
the jury to indict any and all persons
found making ciden or otherwise violating
the Iowa prohibitory law, and to present
any county officer or Justice of the Peace
who may have violated the law.
Two Were Killed..
In drilling out an unexploded blast Of
dynamite In No. 2 tunnel OF the Cumber
land Hydraulic Cement Company at Cum
berland, Md, yesterday, an explosion took
place, whereby Joe Hammersmith and Jot
Wegman were fatally and Noah Long and
Sol Moore seriously injured.
A Statue to Logan.
The Illinois Senate yesterday passed 9
to the late John A. Logan.
The Cobbler Is Now Mayor.
Mayor Hoot OF Waterloo, Iowa, the shoe
maker who was elected at the late election
| by the Labor vote and feeling Of dissatis
faction with the regular nominee, assumed
his Office Monday night. There was larg,
crowd at the Council meeting when the new
Mayor read his address. He said he had
not noticed that anything had gone wrong
or that ANYBODY had been injured by tn,
result of the election. He had not cravet
the position, but as he had been chosen h,
should do the best in his power, and with
| time and patience and the help Of the Coun
| ell, he believed all would result salts
factorily In spite Of the anxiety some ha
| felt.
A DEVILS Deed.
| Monday evening, while Cora, the l4-year
old daughter of Frank Palmer of Stock
| bridge, Mass, was returning home from
singing school with her younger brother II
a carriage, an unknown man sprang int
| the wagon, dragged Cora to the ground
and feloniously assaulted her. The brothe
| defended his sister as well as he could
breaking a lantern over the Villains head
then he drove rapidly home and gave tn,
alarm. Officers and citizens are searching
eagerly for the assailant. Mr.. Palmer /
one of the wealthiest and most prominen
citizens of the place, and the affair ha
caused intense excitement. A few minute
before the assault on Cora, Mrs. William
Hamilton was attacked in nearly the SAM
locality by presumably the same scoundrel
but her screams frightened him away.
skeletons In Chains.
Private James X. Bolton, an inmate o
the Confederate Soldiers Home, near Rich
mond, tells a startling story of the findin
in the hold OF the old Confederate ran
| Merrimac the skeletons OF two men. BOl
ton was a member of johnson Battery dur
ing the war, and was wounded at Brand
4. IL. a a. I.st..s