The bee., 1883-11-24
LATEST NEWS.

LONDON, Nov. 20.---Prime Minister Ferry
has laid copies of all diplomatic papers rela-
ting to the negotiations between France and
China before the Chamber of Deputies.
France has sent reinforcements to join NJ.
de Brazza in Africa.
The London Standard publishes letter
from professed member of an American
Irish secret society,""
Poole, on his second trial. has been found
guilty Of the murder of Kenny in Dublin,
and sentenced to death.
Roman mob broke into the room where
2 communal conference was discussing the
ntrusting of priests with religious instruc-
ton in the city schools yesterday.
A fire at Dixon, Cal, recently destroyed
the business part of the town. Loss $25O,OO0
The Fourteenth Pennsylvania Regiment
of Veterans have voted 10 visit Winchester
on the 30th of May next.
The machine, blacksmith, carpenter and
amt shops of the Kansas Southern Railway
at Ottawa, Kansas, have been burned Loss
from $4,000 to 100000.
The Detroit Evening Journal has fallen
into the new of things regarding time. and
dates its various editorials fourteen, fifteen
and seventeen o'clock.
Z. Dawson, one of the largest stockrnen in
Clay county, Texas, has assigned all his prop
crty to w. r. Curtiss. The assets are 1926.
600 and the liabilities $2S7,
AtDanville, Ind, unknown parties inserted
dynamite cartridges under the Dew Drop
Inn. The explosion shook the whole town
and blew the building nearly to pieces.
rirulent and very fatal form of dipbtbe-
ria has made its appearance in and around
New Baltimore, Faquier Co. ", ,aand the peo-
pie OF the neighborhood are greatly alarmed
VIM. G. Coxey, of Lancaster, Pa, has been
convicted in the United States Court of
Philadelphia of charging illegal fees for his
services in procuring pensions. He was fined
So and sentenced to pay the costs of prose-
Cution.
ID Victor Newcomb has sold his interest
In the United States National Bank of New
York to syndicate that will assume control
about the 1st of January. About SEQ 600
stock were sold at, $50. Logan C. Murray
will be elected president.
A Detroit man travelling in Texas recently
lost an envelope containing two thousand
dollars. An old colored man found it, and
spent several hours in finding the owner.
His honesty and loss of time were rewarded
with half dollar having hole in it.
An election for a member of Congress
from the first North Carolina district to fill
the vanancy caused by the death of Walter
L. Pool was held, and the returns from Pas
quotank, Pitt, Beaufort and Martin counties
Indicate the election of Thomas G. Skinner,
democrat.
Il. H. Shapely, Fred. Erby, James HI.
Cook and b. Frank Moore, who represented
Little Havana Henry College, Kentucky and
Louisiana State lotteries as agents, were
convicted in Chicago yesterday under the
law forbidding the sending of circulars or
lottery tickets through the mails.
James ]. Brooks, chief Of the secret ser
vice division of the treasury, reports that the
only dangerous counterfeit coin put in cir
culation during the last fiscal year was that
Of the standard silver dollar. He states that
| for two years past there has not been put in
circulation new counterfeit note.
The new gas well of Haymaker Bros. in
| Westmoreland county, which was recently
! opened, has been lighted The flame shoots
upward 150 feet, and illumines the country
! for miles. By its intense action houses are
shaken within the radius of a mile. The well
| is pronounced by experts to be the largest
ever developed.
] A correspondent of the London Lancet
! describes the following as the method EN-
/ ployed in China for determining paternity ::
! A basin or cup Of clean water is obtained:
the supposed fathers finger is cut, and then
| put into the water until some blood trickles:
then the child's finger is cut and placed in
| the water, and if the two bloods Immediately
unite the proof is complete.
The quickest divorce time on record has
been made in Chicago. Lulu Scannell. by
| Storrs d Elliott her attorneys, filed petition
| for divorce from Burt r. Scannell at 9.45 A.
! NJ. At the same time the defendant put IN
an appearance, waiying all service, summons
notice and other formule. at 10 o'clock the
! case was taken before Judge Smith, and the
evidence heard, and at 1925 the decree of
] divorce was ordered. The entire transaction
/ occupied forty minutes.