Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-31
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN.

Senator D. B. Hill addressed a large gath
ering at Amsterdam, N. Y, last night.
e, p TaIley, publisher of the Peoples Ad-
vocate. a populist paper, at Ripley, Tenn,
was arrested yesterday, charged with sedf-
ton in printing an article threatening blood
shed If a fair election was not held.
Ex-Speaker Reed leaves st. Louis today
for Memphis, beginning tour through the
central southern states.
MIR. Bayard, ambassador to England.
spoke at Georgetown, Del, last night AS
sistant Controller Mansur addressed meet
ing in the afternoon
Bishop Marty of South Dakota has been
urging the priests in his diocese to use their
influence for Senator Pettigrew 1t has
caused a sensation IN political circles.
Gov Flower addressed democratic meet
ings yesterday at AubYEn. N. Y: Union
nandaigua, Pittsford anIsRochester.
audience at Mansfield, Ohio. yesterday.
despite the rain. He ilafterward spoke at
Mount Vernon and Newark
Speaker Crisp has decided to speak in
New York on Saturday night.
The democrats of Eimipa, n. Y. are build
ing a wigwam for Senator Hill to speak in
Saturday night. The building will hold 1000
persons, and $50 workpIen are employed in
it's construction, working night and day.
The anti-Tammany, women of New York
held three large meetings yesterday, and
there was a meeting of eolored women be-
sides. AT the meeting OF, the anti-Tammany
Society last night about a dozen women re-
ported that nearly 1,V0DGyotes were pledged
to them. ,-g,d. ..,
Antonio Ezeta, late of Salvador, claims
he telegraphed to President Cleveland that
he alone was guilty of the murder of which
Col. Cienfuegos was accused, and for which
he was held in San Francisco, and offered
to go there and take Ciehfuegos place, and
therefore Secretary Gresham ordered Jud sc
Morrow to dismiss Cienfuegos.
The board of arbitration to which will be
submitted the differences between the
miners ana the operators of the Massillon
coal district held its first meeting at Cleve-
land yesterday.
Alfred Merritt has brought suit at Du-
luth against John ID. Rockefeller and F. t.
Gates, his private secretary, for N,22t, 400,
| in which amount he claims he was dam
aged by what he alleges to be their fraud
| ulent representations in the forming of the
Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines.
~Highwaymen beat and stabbed Charles
| Hoffman, aged forty-three years, so badly
on the streets at Reading Pa, last night
that his life Is despaired of.
All the union bricklayers at Jacksonville,
| Fla, have struck for So per day for nine
hours work. They have been working ten
| hours at private terms. Contractors on a
! number of prominent buildings are not dis
turbed in the least, being sanguine that
| they can fill the mems places without diff
| Guilty.
Francis Howe Mcclure, one of the best
| known members of the Richmond, Va, bar.
| and who was practically the founder of the
| Virginia Bar Association, died yesterday,
aged forty-fouI years.
The New York World today says: John
| Morris, the lottery king; Chas. III. Murray
| of New York and Zach. Simmons of Ken
| lucky, who formed the firm of Murray &
Co., tc whom the Louisiana Lottery Com
pany was farmed cut for twenty-eight
years has just been sued by Harry F.
| Watson for a share of the profits. thought
| to amount to SJOO,O0O. The PLAINTIFF is ad-
ministrator of the estate of James s. Wat
| son. The latter claimed to be a member OF
| this firm. He died in 1872. His son Harry
has just come of age.
| Xenophon Baltazzi, consul general of Tur-
| key, is lying seriously i'll at his home. on
| 10th street. New York, from a paralytic
| stroke which seized him while on his way
uptown from his office. Mr.. Baltazzi was
slightly stricken with, paralysis last sum-
| mer. and was taken to his country house, al
| Roslyn.
Gen. o. o. Howard, commanding the De-
partment of the East, and Col. Loomis L.
| Langdon, recently in command of the first
| artillery, at Fort Hamilton, N. Y, were
| rendered complimentary dinner last even
| ing by the members of the Oxford Club, at
| the club mouse, on South Oxford street,
| Brooklyn, in honor of their past services.
Superintendent Byrnes has been directed
| by the New York police commissioners to
| make charges against all those policemen
connected with the assault on the striking
clOakmakerS at Rutgers square on Octo-
| Der IS. The commissioners issued this or
| der In face of Inspector Williams report to
| the effect that he had Investigated the af-
fair and found thaGbNtff police had com
mitted no assaults. 'at
Senator Lodge addHesaed an enthusiastic
| republican meeting sf CGharlestown, Mass,
last night.
Ex-secretary FairSAId addressed a largely
| attended meeting Of the reform democracy
| at Troy, N. Y. last night He was greatly
| applauded when he scoped Senator Hill.
Mr.. w. L. Wilson addressed a large meet
| ing at Martinsburg. W. Va. yesterday, and
| was greeted with enthusiasm.
Ex-Gov Campbell &,Qhio addressed 1900
persons at indianapolis hast night. in reply
| to Gov. Mckinley. He speaks at Peoria,
| ILL.,, today. fc 80