The Critic and record., 1891-05-11
TEIEGRApHrc NEWS BRIEFS.

The Juniata Press Association of Penn
sylyania will visit Virginia August 4.
Fire in the lumber-yard and box factory
of Jacob Savage, in Philadelphia, caused
q loss of Sl50,000.
The new freight yards of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad at Brunswick were
opened yesterday.
Fire in the big establishment of Francis
ii. Leggett e Co., wholesale erocers in New
York, caused loss of $4,000
1t is believed in Moscow that the Rus
sian government will rescind its decree
expelling Hebrews from that city.
Poverty may cause the thousands of
Belgium miners who are on strike to go
back to work on the terms of the mine
owners.
Nick Flood, arraigned at Roanoke on
the charge of numbering Charles Ross,
was discharged on the ground that Ross
fred the first shot.
Chilian insurgents are sanguine of vic
tory and believe that President Balmaceda
must surrender within three months, be-
cause of the collapse of his resources.
Five hundred employees of the United
States Rolling Stock Company of Chicago
returned to work Saturday, the company
having paid six weeks back salary, which
the men struck for.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has sus-
tanned the new law limiting days work
to eight hours in that State. The court
holds that unless there is an express
agreement to the contrary employees who
are required to work more than eight
hours day must be paid extra.
The International Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association at
Kansas City, Saturday, decided to have
an exhibit at the Chicago Worlds Fair,
and to make vigorous effort to have the
fair closed on Sunday. Physical training
and foreign missions were discussed.
II. i. Buchanan, saloon keeper of
Chester, S. c., shot and fatally wounded
w. A. Il. Wilson, police officer of that
town, at II o'clock Friday night. The
trouble grew out of Wilson arresting. a
woman with whom Buchanan was init
mate. Wilson died Saturday. Buchanan
escaped
AT Abingdon, Va, DR.. ]. A. p. Baker
pleaded not guilty to an Indictment charg-
ing him with the murder of his wife and
also to the charge of administering poison
to Wyndham Il. Gilmer. Mrs. Gilmer,
who was arraigned on the charge of con
spiracy with attempt to poison and kill
her husband, also pleaded not guilty and
was released on $4,000 bail.
The announcement that the Allan and
Dominion lines had refused to carry the
mails to Great Britain by their fast
steamers, Partisan and Vancouvre at fifty
cents per pound, is quickly followed by
the intimation that the two companies
have reconsidered their decision. This
means that for the present Canada will
have fortnightly direct service.
DR.. T. Thatcher Graves of Providence,
r. L., is tacitly under arrest for the MUIR
der of Mrs Josephine A. Barnaby and is
travelling west TO be within the jurisdiction
of Colorado, where he will be formally in
dicted on Tuesday next, according to the
Boston Globe, if the evidence obtained and
now in the hands of States Attorney
Stevens of Denver, is to be believed. DIR.
Graves has confessed sending the myster.
ious bottle to Denver, writing the inscrip-
contained pure whisky when it was mailed
in Boston, and that any poison therein
contained must have been added after the
| package left his possession.