The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1891-12-12
This WEEKS NEWS.
4 Summary of Current Events,-The Worlds
Dongs for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers,

OemerHks
Millers of the Northwestern States pro.
pose to give 800, 900 worth of grain and
-four to he starving Russians.
Four negroes, employed on the Govern.
ment work on the Mississippi River near
Memphis, Tenn, were drowned.
For making and circulating counterfeit
money in Port Huron, Mich, Harry Tay-
Tor and Chris Hager were arrested, and
the former confessed.
The Wisconsin Farmers Alliance pro-
poses to save middlemen's profit wherever
possible.
A Galveston, Tex, grand jury has in
dicted j. B. Duke, president of the
American Tobacco Company, charging
him with violating the antitrust law.
Nearly q dozen deer were shot near
Carlyle, Pa, last week.
Emperor William has remarked that he
supposes that he must submit himself to
q medical examination to prove to news
paper serGationalists that he is not in
sane.
The French governments overtures tS
the powers for joint diplomatic action az
Pekin, accompanied by naval demon
stration at the treaty ports, have met
with distinct rebuff from the English
and German governments.
The wooden Office building of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, adjoining the new
brick structure, was burned to the
ground. The new depot was slightly
damaged.
The parties in New York have agreed
to submit the disputed election cases to
the court of appeals for decision.
Yale University has received $343, 1884,.
81 in gifts during the past year.
Burdened with 81 years. Levi Darling,
of Douglass, Mass, hanged himself.
General Brooke telegraphs that there
have been no Indian troubles recently in
Arizona.
On petition of Theodore Roosevelt and
| others commission has been appointed
to inquire into the alleged mental in
capacity of Elliott Roosevelt, Theodore'a
brother.
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, is again
| ILL., with severe cold.
Ex-senator William A. Wallace, OF
Pennsylvania, will ask for the discharge
of his assignee within a month. The
ex-senator has paid his creditors every
cent, and he has still a snug sum re-
naming.
President Hyde, of Bowdoin College.
has started crusade against the OBJ
noxious cigarette, giving daily lectures
! Oh the subject.
A Chicago company, which makes a
speciality of manufacturing sermons.
claims to have on its rolls the names of
1000 clergymen whom it regularly sup.
plies.
Chicago is waging a war of extermi-
nation against the sparrow.
Austria is the latest European country
10 remove the prohibition on American
pork.
There is not dollar in the treasury OF
Arkansas, and no money will come in for
ct least a month.
Many of the ablest Canadian journal
lists express themselves in favor of com.
plete separation from Great Britain.
The naval forces of the car now con.
sist of SO vessels of the first rate, 48 of
the second rate, SO of the third rate, and
30 of the fourth rate, total of 1872,
manned by 80, 500 seamen and marines.
Advices from Chill bring the intelli-
gence of the discovery, at Shaquot Bay,
Straits of Magellan, of very important
coal deposits, the development of which
will in all probability revolutionize the
whole fuel trade of South America.
Jealousy prompted Mrs. Magdelena
Heir to shoot her husband, John B. Heir,
a wealthy florist, of Buffalo, N. Y. He
is likely to die.
Premier Merciers bluff Of suing Cana
dian papers for libel promises trouble for
him. On the stand he refused to answer
questions as to receiving brihc~