The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1889-1889, 1889-04-08
EARLY MORNING NEWS.
Destruction at Norfolk.


A cyclone visited Norfolk on Saturday
night High tide yesterday was IL inches
higher than was ever before recorded The
lower port Of the city was flooded, and fire
broke out on Water street, caused from
Stacking lime on the wharf OF John o. Gam
age & Son. The entire block, with theex
ception of the premises OF Savage, Son q
Co., commission merchants. was in flames.
The old Cotton Exchange building and the
warehouse OF ]. W. Perry q Co. were
totally destroyed. Santos & Bro, coal
dealers, lost eve ythiDg except their Office
building. Bachelor x ColliDe, coal, lum-
Der and lime, are damaged TO the amount
Of 81 COO. John A. Gamage's loss, inciud-
ing building, is $4,000.
During the storm the roofs Of the Opera
House, Masonic Temple and many dwell
ings were torn of, and the Virginia Beach
Railroad depot is badly injured
In Portsmouth fire destroyed the lime
aud lumber yard OF Trugie q Hill, The
United States ship Pensacola sank IN dry
dock on Saturday night, where she was
being repaired for sea Her sea valves had
been opened for inspection and another one
was being cut The tide flooded the docE
and she filled with water, and getting OF
her keel sank before she could be gotten
in position again. A diver will have 10 be
sent down and her valves stopped up, and
the ship pumped out. The Simpson dry
dock was flooded, and the damage may
reach $4,000. The wires along the coast
are all down.
The Ladies' Talk Politics.
The 81 Louis Sunday Post Dispatch yes
torday printed interviews on politics with
500 women IN different parts OF Missouri.
These interviews show that while Missouri
is Democratic at every election the ma
lority Of women interviewed are Republi-
cans. Only few ara prohibitionists, anil
not twenty IN the 500 favor full woman SUI
frage, but quite a number OF them would
be glad to vote on license and school ques-
lions. One woman, who, with her mother
and sister, pay the taxes OF an entire ward,
cannot understand the Justice OF taxation
without representation. Their ideal states
men are Ingalls,, Conkling, Bayard, Vest
and Window. One lady says: Frances
Folsom Cleveland is the greatest statesman
Of the day.
Fifteen We're Hurt.
Several hundred men, bound for City
Island on fishing trip, got off Harlem
| River Branch Railroad train at Barstow,
N. Y, yesterday. They then got on six
ordinary horse cars and two fat cars on
the Pelham Park Railroad. One Of tho
fiat cars on which sixty men were stand
Ing while being driven rapidly along q
sharp curve near City Island, was over
turned The passengers were thrown In
every direction, and several were caught
under the car. Fifteen men were hurt,
several severely. Jacob Hafelfinger's con-
| dition IA critical.
She Might Marry Yet.
In the Chicago courts some time since
Sorosia s. Alexander was awarded $4,000
and 1000 per year. for taking care of her
parents, the award being against the estate
of her brother, who, during bis life, had
| promised her this money, II she would give
| up her work and her prospect of marriage
| and care for their parents. The $4,000
was specially promised as compensation
| for shaking her lover Now the courts
have decided that, as she may marry yet,
she is not entitled TO the $4,000 while her
| parents live, but have ordered the $1,000
| per year paid out of the estate
One More for Ida Lewis.
Mrs. Wilson, widely known by her
maiden name OF Ida Lewis, added another
on Friday to long list Of lives saved by
herin Newport harbor.. Her uncle, Henry
Lewis, 20 years Of age, while returning
from fishing in skiff, fell overheard In the
harbor near Lime Rock Lighthouse, Of
which she is keeper. She saw the accident
aud put out in her boat and rescued her
uncle in an exhausted condition.
savannah's Heavy Loss.
Savannah, Ga, lost 81, 300, 900 by fire on
Saturday. Among the losers are NJ. Stern
berg, jewelcr, loss, $4,000; insurance, $l5,-
COO. Savannah Guards arsenal, loss, $685.
600. Andrew lIapley's paint store, ETC.,
$4,000. Independent Presbyterian Church
and Sunday school building, loss, S200, 600.
Odd-Fellows Hall, loss, $i25, 900, and the
stores OF D. ii. Hogan, james H.. Douglass
& Co. and others, besides many residences.
Downs a. Finch's Failure.
1t is said that last Friday G. NJ. Finch of
the shirt manufacturing firm Of Downs 4
Finch of New York, whose failure was an
nounced Friday night, conveyed sl0o,0oc
worth of real estate to Downs wife, the
consideration being $4,000. The creditors
are anxious TO find out what became of the
capital Of 100000, which the bankrupt
firm claimed TO have all safe at the begin
ming Of the year. -
Death of a Divine.
Rev. Gilbert Raymond, at one time Vicai
General OF the diocese OF New Orleans, and
for nearly thirty-fonr years parish priest at
| 0pelousas, La, died at the latter place Sat
nrdsy, ageds0 He was native OF France
and for many years was president OF 81
Mary's College In Baltimore.
Dynamite Conspirators.
Inspector Byrnes has arrested In New
York and the grand jury has found indict-
ments against II. A. Fitzgerald, formerly
walking delegate of the Ale and Porte
Brewery Employees Protective Association
who compose Local Assembly $50 Of Gen,
eral Assembly 40, X. Of L.; John O'Con-
NELL president OF the Local Assembly; Pat
rick +. Chase and Thomas Reardon, mem
bers of It's executive committee, FOR at
tempting 10 blow up Stevenson's brewery,
on Thirty-ninth street. In New York, last
February. Fitzgerald has made comics.
sion, duplicating the three other men. The
brewer discharged all his union employees
and replaced them with ''scabs," refusing
to employ any union men unless they re-
nounced their allegiance to the union. The
brewery was boycotted and the brewer re.
NAMED Arm, aud finally IL was decided Ia
blow up the place. Ftzgerald's confession
duplicates all the quartet, and New York
labor organizations are much interested in
the case.