The Washington bee., 1892-12-03
TELEeRAPHlc BRIEFS.

Chill.
Gold is declining in price in the Argsn-
tine Republic.
London police are breaking up social
istic meetings.
Deer shot by the German Emperor are
sold in Berlin butcher shops.
The Kansas legislature is tie. and Id
control will be decided by lot
OF the 107, ,475 Chinese in the land only
five have applied for registration.
Gold has been discovered in the Com.
manche country Of the Indian Territory.
A prohibitory liquor bill has been In.
troduced in the South Carolina legislar
ture.
Canadian papers and politicians are
again agitating political union with the
| United States.
General Rosecrans has returned to
Washington, D. c., only slightly I'M
proved in health.
| The Confederate Veterans Association,
Of Atlanta. will hereafter carry the stars
and stripes in all professions.
The Philadelphia Knights Of Labor
have decided to sell their headquarters,
valued at from $50, 900 to $50, 900.
The political crisis in France over the
Panama Canal scandal has resulted in
the resignation of Minister Loubert.
Henry Baker, one of the smallest men
in the world, died at Schuylerville, N.
Y, aged 81. His height was 40 inches.
If the votes of Indians are counted in
South Dakota the electoral vote will 60
to Harrison; otherwise Weaver will get
the vote.
Miss Sophonisby, a relative of Con-
gresham Breckinridge, of Kentucky,
has been admitted to practice law at
Louisville, KY.
The Pottstown, Pa, Iron Company
will reduce the wages of its employees
from $500 to $2.75 per day as Christ
mas present.
Chinese merchants in San Francisco
say the exclusion law will soon clean
out all their countrymen, and that finan-
cial panic will follow.
The DETACHMENT of Storm King, the
beautiful mountain on the Hudson River,
by advertisements, has aroused much in
dignation in the vicinity.
G. w. Post was sentenced to 10 years
in the Clinton prison at Albany, N. Y,
for having buncoed J. N. Peck out of
$4,000 two years ago.
Estimates of the expenses of the gov
ernment departments for the next fiscal
year place them at $53, 800, 900 in advance
of the estimates for this year.
Crazed by the death of her baby, who
was strangled in its coach, New York
mother threw herself from third floor
window and was badly hurt
South Norwalk, an important political
constituency in Ontario, Canada, has
voted in favor of the political union of
Canada with the United States.
Actor NJ. B. Curtis ("Samuel of
Posen, v will have to stand trial for the
murder of Policeman Grant, as new
evidence has been found against him
Jay Gould will spend the winter in
El Paso, Texas, supervising the con-
struction Of line to connect the Union
Pacific and the Texas and Pacific sys.
TENS.
The Duke of Veragua has granted the
request of President Harrison for the loan
of the relics of Columbus, owned by his
descendants, for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair.
Astronomer Swift, of Rochester, who
was the chief authority for the theory
that Biela's comet would collide with the
earth, admits now that he was way of
in his calculations.
The Mexican Government announces
that the import duty on American corn
will be restored December 1. If this in
tention is adhered to shippers and rail-
ways will be heavy losers.
The growing business in Great Britain
in American canned goods is likely to be
seriously checked by the alarming num-
Der Of deaths from poisoning alleged to
have resulted from eating canned goods.
The official vote from the various
counties in Ohio shows that one Demo
cratic elector has been elected, making
the Buckeye State representation consist
Of twenty-five Republicans and one
Democrat.
The Gibier hydrophobia hospital in
New York has receiv ed 83 patients from
Danville, Va, all victims of skye ter.
rier. A seven-year old boy died from
the bite of the dog, which caused the ex
ojus of patients to New York.
The Court of Appeals at Paris has
given a decision substantially in favor
of Mrs. Deacon, and has ordered that
the child Gladys, abducted by Mrs. Dea.
con, shall be returned to the convent un-
til decision of the divorce suit now
pending at Grasse and AK.
The proceedings of the Brussels Silver
Conference have shown that a majority
of the delegates favor the greater use of
silver. Baron Rothschild, an English
delegate, proposes an international
agreement for Europe to buy annually
$50, ,0O0, 900 of silver until the price is
brought up to limit of 43 pence per
ounce, the United States to continue it.
present purchases under the Sherman
law. 1t is believed England will sup
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