The Washington bee., 1892-07-02
TELFGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The Sultan of LAHORE may visit the
Chicag" Exposition.
Minister to Rome Porter declines to
again run for the GovernOrsIIip of Indi-
| ANA.
Daring a cyclone at WestbrOOkyille,
Me-. 15O, 900 feet of lumber were blown
away.
1t is stated that Mrs. J. Coleman-Dray-
| ton will contest the will of her father,
the late William AstOr.
Pablo Pera. noted Mexican exile and
| a staff officer of Maximilian, died at
| Phe tx, Arizona, aged 81 years.
Many persons were injured at a Par
nellite meeting at Tralee, Ireland, Sun
day. owing to an attack of anti-Par-
ntllites.
Wednesday of this week was the hot
test June day in ten years. The ther-
r''"nr"'er registered SO degrees in New
York city.
A decree was made in the United
States Court at Charleston, S. c., on
Thursday, ordering the sale. Il the South
Carolina Railway COmpany,sS25sperty.
John Anderson. of Ly.4n, Mass, died
in terrible agony from the effects of dog
bite theiip He snarled and barked
like dog and sho ed great antipathy to
water.
The New Oriental Bank of London,
with large number of branches in the
East and elsewhere, suspended payment.
with immense liabilities. Depreciation
III the price Of silver is said to be the
cause.
A New York commercial paper pub
fishes estimates of the cotton acreage
sho ing decrease of 1888 per cent as
compared with last year. The acreage
III 1892 is given as 1870, Ala, it being
2O,779, ,2O5 in 1891.
Near Forsythe, Ga. negroes maItreatad
and left in cabin to die Anderson More
land the leader of disreputable gang of
blacks who had assaulted a colored girl |
in field. He was treated worse than if |
he had been lynched.
Mr. Blaine, in a letter given to the |
press at Boston, emphatically denies that
he has offered or agreed to pay any sum
OF money for certain letters in the DOS.
session of Marie Nevens Blaine. the di-
Vorced wife of James G. Blaine, ir.
The Berlin Tdgeblatt, in a Zanzibar
dispatch, says that English reports, via
NlombaSsa, confirm the news of Emin
f"ShaS death. The cause is supposed to
nave been small pOx, from which he is
Known to have been suffering.
The Austrian Social Democratic Cor
5ress has made report on the Birken.
berg mine disaster which alleges that
.he great loss of life was due to officials
IRVING the miners back from the shaft
liter the fire had broken out. INSISTING
hat there was no danger.
A meeting of wholesale grocers. renra-
entIng most of the States in the ITninn
vas held in New York, to make arrange.
hents with the Sugar Trust whereby rea.
enable and uniform prices of sugar NAV
'e established. A committee vas m
EH"ted to formulate a nian.
messages From the Sum.
Inoil'aS A Edison has completed hi,
[eat telephone experiment. at Oodam
'. y. de claims to have succaadod
Staohshlng actual telephone communal
a''on with the sun. He uses q bio d.
10 e., OF magnetic iron ore as a mas
e'' e Ihls is wound about with miles e,
wire and connected vi,b
ol.ei' - % IL Is regular telephonic mac. I
on gigantic scale. Mr.. Edison dc
!" aeI tf, 'iia' ne can hear plainly tbropob c
. 'eieP''one all sorts of explosions 90. u
"a 8 a! :. III the sun, and others who have t
~ ,'I F1;y - say they hear the same thing '
=. Eaison is-contident of his abiIitv :" "
'aoliSh telephone connection witS Il
eicury and Mars, and says that ba c.n
III OUT whether the inhabitants of tboa. IA
"netS are civilized or savage. '' ii
Lhe biggest Immigrant ON Record. -
Harrnor, OIL "