Evening journal., 1892-12-23

Molol.
& University professors deny the state.
4 ment that dogs are indiscriminately
4 bought at that institution.
A lively row occurred IN the Assessors
Office of the Fifteenth Division of the
ETwenty- fourth Ward, in which George
8 Rodney and H. r. McNeill were knocked
"a down and kicked.
q The Germantown Cricket Club voted
q to raise family membership dues from S25
#to $35 per year, and those of seniors
from $50 to $SO
National.
n Friends of Speaker Crisp are announc.
hing that 140 members have signifed
tltheir intention of voting for him in the
n Democratic Speakership caucus. This
q is more than sufficient to insure his re-
q election. In an interview Mr.. Crisp
q intimated that an extra session was
Improbable and appeared 10 be in favor Of
the project.
In the Senate the McGarrahan bill
occupied the early hours of the session.
81 The anti option bill was taken up and
81 Senator PETER continued his speech in
& favor of it, He spoke of the gambling
mania as one of the great curses of the
4 country.
The Joint Committee on immigration
81 was unable to agree upon measure and
81 decided to report two bills, one to the
N House the other to the Senate. Mr..
N Stump's bill provides for quarantine
i and for suspension of immigration when
n ever the president deems it necessary.
n Senator Chandler's bill suspends all im-
& migration for one year.
Senator Perkins, of Kansas, introduced
bill in the Senate providing for the ad
mission of Oklahoma as a state
Il President Harrison sent number of
nominations to the Senate which con-
4 firmed some of them in executive ses-
Il sion.
United States Minister Durham was at
the State Department receiving his final
instructions before sailing for his post in
4 Hayti.
NJ It is said that Commissioner Taylor's
\ plan for funding the debts Of the Pacific
B railroads to the United States viii be-
& come law.
Political.
Why Police Superintendent Byrnes
8 took his now famous walk with Presi
dent-elect Cleveland is a question still
4 puzzling New Workers. One rumor has
it that Mr.. Byrnes insisted upon guard
ing the coming executive: another that
Byrnes will be the next chief of the
Secret Service.
Governor Flower, of New York. is be-
ing much criticised for deciding. in the
face of the disapproval Of the New York
bar to appoint Judge Maynard an asso-
cate justice of the Court of Appeals.
a Judge Maynard assisted Senator Hill in
the steal of the New Y orlS Senate.
According to a newspaper report, a
movement is on foot to carve a new
state out of the northern portions of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Criminal.
It is believed to have been Charles A.
4 Hardin, a messenger for Adams Express
Company running between Cincinnati
Il and Nashville, who substituted brown
4 paper for S3j, 600 bound from New York
to the West. He is at large.
Indians and half-breeds from the Fond
du Lac reservation became intoxicated
and fought with Winchesters at Barker
Mimi Three were killed and several
seriously injured
NJ J. Foerstel, the deposed city treas
urer of st. Louis, has assigned with
assets largely in excess Of liabilities.
General.
1t is said to be the Eikin-Widener-
Whitney syndicate that has secured con-
troll Of Broollyn's surface roads.
College boys rotten-egged the regent
and the president Of the Washington
State Agricultural College because Of the
removal of a favorite official
Judge Coke of the United States Court
at New York, decides that the Lalance
and Grojean Company has a patent on
Al H. r1aal d.
wavy effect in agate ironware.
Ella Newton, the jury at Mt. Vernon,
n. Y, fDds was drowned by person or
persons unknown.
The schooner Robert Fl. Parker Of
Somers' Point, foundered in the Chesa-
peake.
J. Samuel Piza, who astonished all
England by hiring a special train and
special boat in order to catch up with
the reutonic, has arrived in New Y orS.
lie blames his delay on the negligence of
British baggage handlers.
Paderewski the piano virtuoso, has
arrived in New York. His hair is
nearly as long as it was a last year.
1t has come TO light that lrags brought
to this country from Germany by the
steamer State of Alabama and admitted
\ at New York contained blood stained
Danoages from German hospitals.
DR.. Albert Skunk of New York, has
astonished the surgical fraternity by
operating successfully on a supposed
fatal case Of Inflammation of the blind
intestine.
Chief Thomas b. Carter, of the Secret
Service Bureau, thinks the souvenir Fair
coins will be very extensively counter
feited next year.
The argument in the Briggs heresy
trial at New York was finished and il
remains to the court to judge by the
evidence and vote. 1t win meet for this
purpose next Wednesday and may b5
busted for several days.
Foreign.
Spain will send three warships anC
three caravels to take part in the nava
demonstration in honor of Columbu,
next spring.
II is generally conceded that the Ger
man army bill in it's present shape can
not pass the Reichstag