Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-01-25
BRIEF SuENTroN.


France is asking for explanations as to En-
glish annexations in the Pacific.
Joseph Chamberlain has not lost all hope
of seeing the fisheries treaty ratified.
BY an explosion at McCapin's quarry. near
Lafayette Station, on the Schuylkill Valley
branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, near
Philadelphia.-Mi OMara was killed and
Taylor Wanamaler and two Italians were
badly hurt.
MI Roswell F. Flower and his brother
win build church at Watertown n. Y, as
a gift to Trinity Episcopal parish of that
city.
Miss Emma Rauenzahn, the eighteenth
victim of the Reading tPa-l silk mill disaster,
died Of her injuries.
v &c President-elect Morton has ltased the
Washington mansion of Professor A. Ora
ham Bel, facing Scott circle.
The eighteenth annual convention of the
United States Potters' association at Wash
ington decided to offer prizes TO art students
for the best designs in pottery art.
A large fire recently occurred at Apia,
Samoa, and the German consulate was among
the buildings destroyed.
j. d. Critchiield, lawyer of Mt Vernon,
O., has begun suit against his mother-in-law.
Mrs Caroline II. Henderson, Of Erie, Pa,
for 100000 for alternating his wife's affec-
tons
Thomas Conway, of New Suffolk, N. ",
who disappeared Jan. II, when he was to
have been married, has been found insane
and nearly dead in a barn, where he has been
living on cows milk.
Cashier John IL McGay, of the Park Ma
iio0al hank, Chicago, has been arrested for
the elnhezzlement of $500 while assisting
the receiving teller some weeks ago.
Louis c. Schllling, who was cast IN Mexi-
can jail, has presented a complaint to the
senate against the department of state for
not afforaing him III protection due an
American citizsn
The British steamship Erip. which was re-
Gently chartered in Philadelphia for fruit
carrying between Jamaica an Baltimore,
was lost Sunday oT Cape Hatteras
Two men have hes thrashcd and a num-
Der warned by WHIT Caps at Kingston,
Ny.
The Hudson river ice crop so far has been
dead failure.
The national houss ia COMMITTEES Of the
whole adopted an amendment to ths Sundry
civil bin appropriating $1,000 Tor a refuge
station At Point Barrow, Alaska
A moonlixhter named Tooin test fed be-
fore the Parueil commission to having par
tciratea IN cutrages in Kerry for which he
and his fellow CRIMINALS were paid.
Paul Coka, German cigailnaksr II New
York, conf ssas that he lad acc .dentalls shot
Theodore Wal. who died at the Lodge and
Association hospital in that city. Later on
CoSa attempted to commit su:ci le out of re-
morse for sne shooting OF his friend.
It is stated on good authority that Great
Britain has askel Venezuela TO accept Bel
gum is an arbitrator ii tire matter of the
ownershi2of the uruari district and that
Fenez0sia has declined TO 90 so
The house committee ON appro priatlons has
agreed to Incorporate in the snndry civil bill
an item to pay the Esds heirs $4,000 for
keeping the south Pass Of the Mississippi
river open
When the case OF Bessie Howell against DR.
Charles Bliss was called il New York city
both sides announced themselves ready. but
DR. Bliss was lying dead at home. having
fallen down stairs
The annual meeting OF the Pennsylvania
State Board oF Agriculture was held st Har-
risburg The farmers were addressed by the
governor and DR. Peter Collier on the sub
"a % making sugar from sorghum