Evening journal., 1892-11-29
General.

General.
The trial of Rev. DR.. Charles A. Briggs.
professor of theology in Union seminary,
for teaching doctrines contrary to the
Presbyterian faith, was begun in New
York. The professor read his answer to
the charges and the Presbytery ad-
journed in order to let the prosecuting
committee examine his reply and make
any amendments that might be neces-
sary.
The trial Of Rev. Henry Preserved
Smith by the Cincinnati Presbytery on
the charge of heresy was continued
In Hancock county, o., a phenomenal
well has been opened. 1t is flowing
as, 600 barrels a day and flooding the
country owing to the company's inability
to provide tanks.
Twenty inmates Of the st. Louis blind
asylum have been stricken with typhoid
fever and the disease is spreading.
At Liberty, Mo-, burglars blew open
the First National bank safe with dyna-
mite and secured from S12, 900 to $15, 900
in cash.
Ten patients from Danville, Va, were
inoculated for hydrophobia at the New
York Pasteur Institute.
The Savannah Cotton Exchange re-
quested Senators Gordon and Colquitt to
oppose the Hatch anti-option bill
President-elect Cleveland while out
shooting snipe on Broadwater Island, Va,
injured his thumb The wound while
painful was not serious.
James Graham, of Elizabeth, Pa, who
has charge of Mr.. Blaine's Pennsylvania
interests, had a long business talk with
the ex-secretary and denied the reports
oh tha Iof
Blaine is by no means as sick man as
has been said
By a decision of the United States Su-
preme Court, Edward w. Hallinger
under sentence Of death in the Jail Of
Hudson county, New Jersey will be
hanged unless executive clemency is
granted.
The Court of Pardons at Trenton will
be asked to pardonitor parole the
sixty-six ballot box suffers now in jail
and penitentiary.
The body of August johnson, a Swede,
who disappeared from Atlantic City on
. Saturday night, was found drowned in
Gardner's canal
John Koccis was placed on trial at
. Trenton for the murder of Mary
Magolis.
At Plainfeld 400 colored people went
up into the mountains, and while sing.
ing and praying awaited the comet to
strike the earth
at Pittsburg Joseph and Angelo
Kappa, who killed Frank Helmstetter,
and George Strasser, who killed Joseph
Bandl, were sentenced to be hanged.
Hugh Ross and ex-Burgess John Nc
4 Luckie, the Homestead strike leaders who
have been missing since the charges of
murder and treason were preferred
against them, returned to Pittsburg and
surrendered
One hundred non-union workmen left
the Carnegie mills at Homestead in a
body. 1t is presumed that they were
discharged. The mill officials refused to
make any statement concerning them.
NM Ferronays and Mi1iovoye submit
ted their interpolation regarding the
doatn al Res ne Reinach to the French
Chamber of Deputies. Instead of re.
spending, NJ. Loubet, the Prime Minister,
asked the Chamber to pass the order OF
the day but the Chamber rejected the re.
quest by vote of 304 to 219 and the
ministers then resigned
At the session of the French Assembly
Commission of Inquiry into the Panama
Canal.Company's scandal in Paris, Deputy
De Lamarzelle testified that Charles De
Lesseps had told him in 1890 that bank.
ers, editors and others, had been sub.
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