The Washington bee., 1892-04-23
TELEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.
The Ohio Legislature has adjourned.


The cold snap has damaged the South
Jersey apple and peach crop.
Masons have begun work on the foun-
dation of large colliery which is to be
erected by the Reading Coal and Iron
Company near Ashland, Pa.
The American Forcite Powder Works,
near Lake Hopatcong, N. j., were
wrecked by an explosion. Seven men
were killed and three others injured.
Fort Dodge Qowa) public school teach
ers have refused to work unless their
salaries are raised, and many have left
town to seek employment elsewhere.
Judge Ewing, of the Fayette-Greene
counties Pa.) judicial district, will re-
tire to become attorney for the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad at a salary of $4,000
year.
There promises to be lively contest in
Governor McKinley's old Congressional
district for the Republican nomination.
Six candidates have already announced
themselves.
The Army of the Cumberland has
changed the date of its reunion at Chic
amauga to September 27-28, and elected
General H. V. Boynton, of Washington,
corresponding secretary.
Great damage has been caused to crops
and fruit trees by storms in England. In
addition some districts are flooded, tele-
graph wires are down and many towns
are cut off from the outside world. The
Channel Islands and the north of France
are all badly affected.
Ethel Foster, the 10-year-old daughter
of William Foster, wealthy farmer liv-
ing near New Castle, Pa. was abducted
by strange men who, it is believed, will
hold her for ransom. The child lived
with relative and during the latter's
absence she was captured.
The Spreckles sugar factory in Phila'
delphia has been shut down by the trust.
1t is announced that General Alger
will retire as presidential candidate.
A Congressional committee is investi-
eating the sweating system in Boston.
The English Home Secretary has de-
cided to release Mrs. Osborne from prison.
President Baker has been reelected
president of the Worlds Fair directory.
Postmaster General Wanamaker an
nounces his desire to retire from public
life.
Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, ex-Premier
of Canada, died in Toronto, aged seventy
years.
The eyesight of ex-senator Evarts, of
New York, is failing, and he is nearly
blind.
Ten hours has been fixed by the Bos-
ton legislature as the railroad employees
days work.
Mr.. Cleveland has removed his resi-.
dence in New York to 10 West Fifty
First street.
Mrs. Harrison, wife of the President,
has suffered severely from an attack of
bronchitis, but is better.
A hundred and twenty-five convicts
have refused absolutely to work again in
the mines of East Tennessee.
Colonel James B. Mix, for many years
noted figure in the war department at
Washington, is insane in New York.
Belgian exports to America and France
have largely increased since the adoption
of the new American and French tariffs
Baron Fava has received orders from
the Italian government to return to his
post at the Italian Legation at Washing
ton.
The House committee on pensions will
report resolution recommending Gen
eral Raum's removal as pension commits
siOner.
Deeming, the atrocious murderer in
confinement at Melbourne, Australia, is
shamming insanity, says medical COM
mission.
In avoiding one train Mrs. Kirk and
her daughter, of Huntington, w. Va,
stepped in front of another and were in
stantly killed.
The first plate of American manufac-
tured nickel-steel armor has been fitted
to the coast defense ship Monterey at
San Francisco.
A corner in broom corn ana a conse-
quent advance in prices has caused
smaller manufactures around Lockport,
N. Y, to shut down.
An investigation has been ordered into
the charges of ineficiency and malad-
ministratiOn preferred against Superin.
tendent of immigration Owen.
Five hundred determined cowboys are
on the trail of the rustlers in Montana
and Wyoming, and news of a desperate
conflict is expected at any moment.
Jim Hall and Bob Fitzsimmons, the
Australian pugilists, have agreed to fight
before December next for a purse of
$4,000 and bets of $4,000.
There will be unique gathering of
ladies on the afternoon of April 90. On
that date the Association of Colonial
Danes will hold reception on the site
of the duel between Aaron Burr and
Alexander Hamilton on Weehawken
Heights,