Evening journal., 1890-06-11
ONE CENT.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fresh Tips from the Wires Carefully
Culled.

Fresh Tips from the Wires Carefully
Culled.
The secretary Of the treasury has in
structed the collector Of the port at San
Francisco to send back TO China fifteen
Cinnamon who unlawfully entered tho
United States.
Thomas Thomas, the colored convict who
escaped from the New Jersey state prison
on May with another thirty-year convict
named jackson, and who was captured in
Philadelphia after a hard battle in which
Policeman Barber, of that city was des-
perately wounded and jackson was shot
dead, pleaded non vult and was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment.
Henry Smiler has been found guilty Of
murder in the first degree for the killing of
his wife at New York Smiler il printer
by trade He had several wives and started
out one day to kin two them but could
not get into the house Of one OF his in
tended victims.
The French chamber Of deputies passed
a resolution by vote Of 3s1 to AZ to pre-
serve as permanent structure the machin-
cry hall Of the late Paris exhibition.
Bishop Wigger has celebrated his twenty
fifth anniversary at Newark, n j., June 10.
The suit of II. @. Miner against Mrs.
James Brown Potter to recover S243S 40,
ended in a verdict for the plaintiff for the
full amount claimed. The claim was for
balance Of moneys advanced for Mrs. Pot
ter's handsome stage robes.
If allowed by the legislature Chicago
will lend g 1000 900 TO the Worlds fair.
The City Button works, ct Canal and
Center streets, New York, were burned.
Loss, $40 600
The postmaster general has appointed
Edward J. Ryan, superintendent of the
first division OF the railway mail service,
vice w. H. Bogelow, deceased, and Spencer
w. Shepardson assistant superintendent
railway mail service, vice Edward j. Ryan,
promoted
Sixty-one firms, dealers in and manufac-
turers and users OF tin plate in Rhode
Island, have petitioned congress against
any increase of duty on tin plate. They
urge some reduction of the present duty.
The Louisiana lottery bill has practically
been killed at Baton Rouge
Richard T. Wallace, aged Il, son Of
James Wallace, general agent Of the Ma
tional line steamers was drowned In the
Delaware river at Philadelphia
Two prisoners escaped from the Norris
town On. J. jail by saving the steel bars
Of the cells.
The Oriental Mills company, Of Provi-
dence, X. l., has assigned
A. J. Elwood, a prominent citizen Of
Geneva, n. ", died Of an overdose of
choral, but whether it was suicide or acci-
dent is unknown.
The synod of the Reformed Presbyterian
church has denounced the restriction laws
against Chinese and asked President Har-
rison to veto any further anti-Chinese leg
islation.
The coiored people Of New Haven, Conn,
are raising funds TO help Rev. A. = Miller,
pastor, to defend the appeal ia his suit, in
! which he sued the Peoples line of steam
ers, IN New York, for damages in refusing
to provide him a stateroom because Of his
color
The Rev. G. Al Young, Mount Wash
ington (pa.) clergyman, left his home last
Saturday night 10 conduct services at Dt
Haven, Pa, and has not been seen since.
Thomas c, Platt was blackballed by the
Harlem Republican club
The Baltimore Sun prints a communica
tion from an ex-Confederate proposing the
erection in Baltimore Of a statue to Gen.
Grant, TO be built exclusively by the sub
scriptions Of southern soldiers.
Ex-Congressman Frank Il. Beltzhoover
Of Carlisle, has been unanimously nomi
mated by the Democrats Of the Nineteenth
Pennsylvania district to succeed Congress
man Maish, Of York
Little Willie Dodd, of Peoria, Ills, wal
bitten by a dog about six weeks ago ant
on Sunday died in horrible agony During
his dying struggles he bit both his fathei
and his mother
Christian Meirs, an aged Philadelphian
while on a visit in Lycoming county Pa.
drank lye in mistake for buttermilk ans
died ia great agony