The Washington bee., 1892-04-23

George of Wales and Princess Mary oi
Teck.
William Radloff, a German, who car
ried $55 600 life insurance, perished in 6
ire near Seattle. His hired man was il
love with his wife, and murder is sus.
pected.
Lizzie Kerwin, of New York, who has
gained great notoriety as a somnambu.
list, walked out of a second-story win.
dow, fracturing leg, besides receiving
internal injuries.
A steamer is being fitted out in San
Francisco for the purpose, it is thought
OF engaging in the slave trade, arrange.
ments having been made to take cargo
OF Gilbert Islanders to Guatemala.
The chicken-raising industry is likely
to have boom in Montana. A citizen
OF Butte. in that State, who killed a
rooster for dinner the other day found
several nuggets of gold in its crop and
| gizzard.
Ex-Secretary Whitney, in an inter
view in New York, stated that he re-
garded Mr.. Cleveland as the national
leader of his party, and said that if he
were nominated it would have nothing
| to defend
The Interstate National Bank of New
York has gone into voluntary liquida-
tion. The depositors were paid 80 per
cent. of their claims and within a week
a dividend of 80 per cent will be paid to
the stockholders.
DIR. Parkhurst has issued an address to
the people of New York in which he jus
titles his course in exposing vice and de.
clares that his conscience approves the
methods he adopted and the results he
accomplished thereby.
Suit to recover 100000 damages has
been begun against the Worlds Colum-
bian Exposition by the Lindgren-Mahon
Chemical Fire Engine Company on ac-
count of awarding the contract to another
company at higher price.
The Gray and Cleveland factions in In.
diana have come to an agreement
whereby the delegation will support the
former at the Chicago convention in the
event of Mr.. Cleveland not being consid.
cred the best available candidate.
The overflow of the Tombigbee River
is gradually receding and the sufferers
are in better condition. 1t is thought to
be of doubtful policy for Congress to
grant relief for the negroes and it is prob.
able that the resolution will not be passed.
A violent explosion took place in
Hardy's machine shop at Lima, Ohio, by
which three men were instantly killed.
A piston head brought to the shop for re.
pairs was put in the furnace, when the
heat converted the water in it into steam.
The furnace was blown to atoms.
BY the premature explosion of blast
in the quarry of the New York Cement
Co., at Rock Lake, near Kingston, N. Y.
Charles Keator was killed and John
Maier and Jacob Lewis were seriously in.
jured. They were charging hole with
powder when the explosion occurred.
Counsel for DR.. Graves, convicted OF
the murder of Mrs. Barnaby, have filed
brief in the Colorado Supreme Court.
giving reasons why he should be granted
a new trial. The brief asserts that the
conviction was based on hearsay evi-
dence, and that the jury was misdi.
rected.
Fifty-eight Indian girls have just left
the Carlisle Indian schools, and been
placed by Assistant Superintendent Fish
Goodyear as domestics with selected
and refined private families in Eastern
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Mary.
land, to remain until September. Mr..
Goodyear said the object in so distribut.
ing the girls was to aid their civilization.
Ephraim Keyser, Baltimore sculp-
tor, who spent some years in Italy and
now has a studio in New York, has
nearly completed the model for bronze
statue of heroic size of Chester A. Ar
thur, which is to be erected in New York
city. 1t represents the former President
of the United States as speaking at
Cabinet meeting. The pose is said to be
easy and dignifed, and the likeness ex-
cellent.
The coroner's jury which has been in
vestigating the death of the eight victims
of the Pearce street disaster, in Chicago,
all of whom were crushed to death by the
collapse of a seven-story brick building
during wind storm, has returned yer.
dict holding the City Building Commits.
sioners responsible. The jury says the
building was constructed ain an unbusi.
ness-like manner and in disregard of the
city building ordinances.
, Henry A. Monroe, of Pontiac, ILL., has
sued the Leslie E. Keeley Company for
10000 damages. According to the doc
ument Monroe employed the company to
cure him of the liquor habit. The charge
Is made that the defendant pretended to
he able with the so-called bi-chlorids of
gold treatment to effect cure in six
weeks. Plaintiff was deceived by the
Kelley Company's advertisements and
false representations, says the bill, and
placed himself under the care of the de,
fendant, with no good results whatever,
but rather to the great injury of his
health.
GENERAL MARKET REPORT.