Evening journal., 1889-08-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fresh Tips from the Wires Carefully
CuIled.


President Legitmes downfall has occurred,
and victory perches upon Hyppolite's ban
ners
The president has refused to further inter
fere in the case Of murderer Jack Spaniard,
who is TO be hanged at Fort Smith, Ark,
Aug. 30.
While painting the steeple Of the Clarendon
Street Baptist church at Boston Joel w
Pickett fell seventy-ive feet and was impaled
upon an iron fence. He died almost instantly.
Authoritative announcement has been made
that A. J. Drexel would build his industrial
institute in Philadelphia, and that its scope
would be enlarged 80 as to teach at least /, 900
persons, male as well as female, and that II
would be patterned after Cooper institute, in
New York.
Sam Crane, the we'll known second base
man, and Mrs. Fraunfelter, the woman with
whom he eloped almost a year ago, have been
placed In the Scranton jail charged with
adultery and grand larceny Of $500.
Hartford has re-engaged Pitcher John
Smith.
The Union Stone company. Of Boston has
made an assignment to Charles II, Tyler, who
says he sees no reason why the company can
not pay in full The Liabilities, exclusive OF
the $1,000 capital stock, are about S37 ,O00
nominal assets, $4,000 The assignment
was necessitated by the refusal Of certain
parties who have been putting money int
the company 70 make further advances.
Mr. Balfour has announced that il will be
impossible 60 pass the Irish Sunday closing
bill the present session Of the commons.
AT Covingion, ky, the grand jury heard
the testimony against Jacob Won Gundy
| Thomas Flanagan and Mrs. Julia de Pugh
for the killing Of Harry Terlau, the jeweler,
and returned indictments against the tire,
of willfui murder
The following fourth class postmaster.
nave been appointed ia New York: w. O.
Haines, Accord; r. W. Swift, Charlotte; A
J. Connolly, Edgewood; p, H. Mantertock
Hanbletville; p S. Wyckham, Maiden; G..
n. Slawson, North Franklin; A. G. Hull
/ Olive
There are nine cases Of smallpox at Me
nominee, Wis
Burt Miller and John Olcott, 10-year-olC
SONS Of prominent men at Pomeroy, Ia, wer,
smothered TO death in bin Of aax in th,
elevator at that place
Thomns A. Edison, the American electri
CHM, will visit the krupp gun works at Essei
during his European tour and return 4
America by way of England.
Fire in the Fan River lNiassl laundry al
] ~. m. gltted the building in less than
ilfteen minutes. The employees narrowly es
capped with their lives This laundry die
10000 pieces for the Old Colony line weekly
worked for twenty-seven towns and was tn
largest general laundry in New England /
was valued at 5000 Loss, total, insur
ance, sl350O
Dr. Stanford. or Harper. who WINS arreste
at Cambridge, charged with having cause
+ the death of Nellie Martin by a criminal Oh
eration, has been held in $4,000 for tr'ia
a Lemuel Mcloud, arrested as an accomphci
i was held ia $1,000 bonds.
y Rev Henry Wan, 5. T. D., aged y, die
: at Chestertown, Md
] The lumber yard Of b. q j. Godkn, mes
e Tonawanda, N. VI, was burned and 3.O00,Ol
d feet Of lumber destroyed The loss will I
g SiO,O00
; The postoflice department. at Washingto
; has ordered the free delivery service 70 1
established at Mount Vernon, Niagara Fad
and Johnst0wn, n. "
Alfred Porter, aged ~ Of Dover, a siuder
at Dartmouth college, was instantly kille
near Hanover, n H., by Herbert T. Tow
Towle was cleaning a revolver, which
thought was not loaded.
The assignment of the Phoenix Woolf
!. company, OF East Greenwich. r. l. mas be-
recorded. The embarrassment Is brougl
/, about through the failure of Brown, Stee
a. Clark
= The South Fork Fishing club viii rebui
I. the fatal dam near Johnstown, Pa, on
!, lower level
: Henry Willard has begun suit against e
b Judge Noah Davis for sl25. 900, cummissio
# on a stock transaction which took place 81
N eral years ago The defense is that the stoe
! which Judge Davis bought is an investme
I for an estate of which he was trustee, W
not rs valuable as represented, and that q
commissions were not earned.
Mr. Parnell viii not 60 abroad after q
II adjournment of parliament as was his orr
is inal intention, but viii spend the recess
n Avondale in Scotland
"A An influential German company has be-
IA organized with a capital Of 30,Ou0,O0O mar
70 to complete the Simpson tunnel betwe'
k Italy and Switzerland
D. Bids for the construction Of a postofi
'e building at Bridgeport, Conn, has be-
d opened d. J. Curtis, Of Springfield, Mas
Df was the lowest bidder at SlOl 200