The Washington bee., 1892-04-30
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
a summary of Current Events. The Worlds
UoIngs tor the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers,
General,

General.
Mr.. Gladstone, in a pamphlet. onnoses
woman suffrage.
Roswell Smith, founder of the Century
Magazine, is dead.
Professor Garner says that monkeys
talk about the weather.
Spring planting has been DELAYED in
minnesota by heavy SHOWS.
A national loan of 200, 600, 900 of lire
has been authorized in Italy,
The New York State canals will be
opened for navigation on May l.
There is an unprecedented exodus of
distressed peasants from Russia.
Dynamite cartridges have been found
on tramways in Vienna suburb.
The sum of 2,OOO,0 900 is available for
the Tilden library in New York CITY.
Timothy Hopkins has finally secured
s., 200, 900 from the Searles estate.
A Massachusetts company has been
formed to dredge for sunken treasure at
He'll Gate, n. Y.
Half the vineyards in the southwest of
France have been destroyed by the re-
cent cold weather.
Frosts and icy storms have ruined
seventy-five per cent of the grapes in the
Fouraine districts, France.
Partisan magistrates are afraid that
whichever of them may try Ravachol,
the Anarchist, will be blown up.
Delivery wagons, the motive power of
which is electricity, are the newest vehi-
cles in London. A green grocer had the
first.
Johann Most, the Anarchist, has been
discharged from Blackwell's Island, New
York, after serving ten months impris-
onment.
William Caldwell, an Edinburgh Uni
versity man, has been selected to fill the
chair of political economy in the Chicago
University.
The trial of Matthew Trumpbour, one
of the wreckers of the Ulster County
Savings Institution, is now in progress at
Kingston, N. Y.
A cyclone passed over Gladwater,
Texas, blowing down number of houses
and thousands of trees. Several people
were badly injured.
James A. Palmer, was arrested for
defrauding Tiffany & Co. of New York
city out of $4,000, and held in SO 900
bail for examination.
Governor Flower called an extra ses-
sion of the New York Legislature for re-
apportionmento of the State. The session
began Monday evening.
Duluth elevators have in store 10, $685..
900 bushels of wheat-enough, with the
2O0, 900 barrels of -four also stored there,
to feed 100000 people three years.
1t is reported that the Pope will create
five Italian cardinals. An effort is being
made by American Catholics to have an
other American cardinal appointed.
RowelIs American Newspaper Direc-
tory for 1892. just issued, shows that
there are 1874 newspapers in the Uni
ted States, of which 1859 are dailies.
The 1000 committeeman appointed by
General Porter to raise the $3.50, 900 nec-
essary to complete the Grant Monument
fund, are working with great success.
Charlie Miller, the 17-year-old boy who
killed two men in a box car, was hung
at Cheyenne. Wyoming. He did not
show the slightest regret for his crime.
The Anarchist newspaper, the Com
mon Veal, has been seized by the Lon
don police. the publisher and editor be-
ing held for trial for melting breach of
the peace.
The colored people of Tennessee have
appointed May 80 as a day of fasting and
prayer, when a meeting will be held to
devise means to prevent the frequent
lynchings.
Waugh, of Norwalk, Conn, who pre-
dicted the great blizzard, schedules a
terrible storm, to start eastward from the
Pacific on May 5, and reach the Jersey
coast on or before May 10.
Miss Georgine Wolters, cigar store
girl, was awarded $4,000 damages and
81, 900 costs in an action brought by her
in New York against Louis Schultz for
breach of promise of marriage.
Nine. Barrios, the rich widow of Pres.
,dent Barrios, of Guatemala, was mar.
ried i'm New York to Senior Jose Martinez
de Roda, a Spanish nobleman. Her
wealth is estimated at IS, 100000.
The total population of New York
State, as shown by the recent State
enumeration, is 6.4s9, ,6S2, of which 720."
900 are aliens, and of the latter about
875. 900 are credited to New York City.
Judge Bartlett sentenced Fred. Nc
Guire, the murderer of Mrs. Amelia
Gregory at Middletown, N. Y, in Octo,
ber last, to be electrocuted at Sing Sing
during the week commencing June 9th.
The French government will prosecute
a number of bishops of that country be-
cause of pastoral letter issued by them
In which they outlined the duties OF
Catholic electors in the coming elec'
tiOns.
Police Captain John 7 Brogan, of the
New York city police, rendered his resig'
nation to Superintendent Byrnes. De-
tective Sergeant Martin Handy has also
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