The Monmouth inquirer., 1890-05-08
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The New York Times says that Richard
Croker ex-chief of Tammany hall, will
never resume the leadership. There is no
hope even that he will ever again return to
New York. His condition is critical, cable
grams received within few days being
such as to cause the most serious alarm to
his friends and to preclude the hope OF a
! possible recovery.
The senate passed the race track bill as
amended. The bill as amended permits
winter horse racing 1t also provides that
racing may be carried ON during fifty-five
days in each year and legalizes pool selling.
All race track associations are required to
pay to the state an annual tax of per cent
of their gross receipts. The bill now goes
back to the house, where it originated, for
q concurrence in the amendments. 1t pass
ed the senate by vote of IL to 2, Messrs.
Rue and Martin voting in the negative.
The Curtis bill for the abolition of the
death penalty was considered in the senate
! Judiciary committee at Albany and mo-
tion to table it indefinitely was passed by
a vote of z to g.
Senator Quay is quoted as having said
that he thought that Ex-Governor Robert
E. Pattison will receive the Democratic
nomination for governor of Pennsylvania.
1t is said that Robert Adams, Jr., will be
nominated by the Republicans to succeed
the late Samuel J. Randall.
From papers on file in the Office of Gov
ernor Richardson it would appear that the
lynching of Willie Leaphart in Lexington,
S. c., on Sunday night was the outcome
Of conspiracy to hide the guilt of white
man.
Referee Meeks, of Flack case notoriety,
has been released from the Tombs.
Justice Ingraham, in the supreme court
at New York, decided adversely to the
claim of ex-Alderman John keenan,, the
| Canadian exile, that he was a partner of
O'Brien & Clark, the aqueduct contractors,
| finding that Mr.. Keenan, never assented to
Or executed the agreement upon which he
claimed a share of the profits. Keenan,
claimed that he entered into an agreement
to form co-partnership with O'Brien &
Clark
The house of Secretary Tracy, at Wash
ngton, in which his wife and daughter
met their deaths in the fire which almost
destroyed it, has been sold for ZOO. It
cost him, with improvements, S75,000.
Shellenberger, the absconding lawyer
and trustee who gave himself up at Phila-
ielphia, has been lodged in Jail at Doyles-
town, Pa. He says he took only 1926 with
him when he fed He will be tried at the
present term of court
At Foxboro, Mass, a man named Gro
mack, while insane, murdered his 13-year-
Did daughter and then killed himself.
Nearly twenty persons were killed by a
tornado which swept over Texas May s.
The remains of Junius s. Morgan were
buried May 6 in Cedar Hill cemetery, Hart
ford. Many places of business were closed
1uring the hours of the funeral Vice Presi-
dent Morton, Chauncey M. Depew, Bishop
Potter, Cornelius Vanderbilt and George
w. Childs were among the well known
people present.
The women of Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston will raise $50, 600 to
help out the Johns Hopkins Medical school
if allowed to enter on the same conditions
as men.
Emperor William in his speech at the
opening of the reichstag said that he de-
sired above all things to bring about legis-
Iation for the workingman's protection.
William Waldorf Astor has given 81, 900
10 the charitable fund of the New York
Press club.
Col. John A. Cockerill, of The New York
World, has furnished bail in the matter of
Judge Hilton's Indictment against that
paper for libel.
Mrs. Betsy Averill, the Oldest inhabitant
If the state of Connecticut and the oldest
Ipensioner of the United States, celebrated
her 103d birthday at Washington May 5.
She is in good health.
Signor Crispi has announced in the Ro-
man senate his intention to resign.
The biggest Chinese funeral that New
York ever saw took place in Mott street
May s. Yung Chic Yang was the name of
;he deceased, and he was high, grand, noble
secretary of the Sung Gee Tong, the popu-
lar Chinese Masonic lodge of the city of
New York.
In New York and Brooklyn nearly all the
carpenters have gone to work under the
eight hour day system.
Frederick c. Crawford, the reporter whose
version of an interview with ex-President
Cleveland was published in The World and
created great Juror is out with letter in
which he reiterates that Mr.. Cleveland made
every statement reported in the interview
and referred to Editor Dana in even more
violent language than that given in the
printed interview.
The supreme court of the United States
mas denied the application of Kemmler's
attorney for a writ of habeas corpus but al
lowed him to apply for writ of error on
May 10. If this is granted it would have
the effect of opening the testimony of the
electrical commission, and upon this the
court would prescribe the manner of Kemm-
ler's execution.
James Dunn, supposed to be compositor
from New Haven, committed suicide in the
Hotel Bristol at Newark, N. j. On retiring
he pasted paper over the key holes and
crevices of doors and windows and then
turned on the gas He left a letter saying
he was tired of life.
Marriott Brosius has been renominated
for congress by the Republicans of the
Tenth district of Pennsylvania.
The assets and liabilities of the Mer-
chants bank of Atlantic City, N. j., are
stated as follows: Due depositors, s47 ,630. So,
due other banks, 81 1865. %; bills receivable,
81, ,46s.22; due from other banks, SIS, 1871.
Over 1900 employees of the National Tube
works at McKeesport, Pa, have asked an
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