The Washington bee., 1892-09-03
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS.


harvest fields.
Prof. Koch states that the cholera is
increasing in Europe.
President Harrison visited Whiteiaw
Reid at Ophir Farm on Wednesday.
The Colorado coal producers have
made a combine with Sl2, 900, 900 capital.
The number of dead from the ParksIig
mine disaster at Bridgend, is now placed
at 10.
The Homestead strikers are being ar
rested in patches on warrants sworn out
by Pinkerton men.
Being sick and out of work, shoemaker
Otto Beiller drank cupful OF carbolc
acid and died in New York.
Hop picking has begun in Central New
York. The crop is small but Of superior
quality and hands are scarce.
Captain Anderson, with 1SO men, Is ID
charge of the convicts' camp at Coal
Creek and is being besieged by 1900
armed miners.
The boiler of the electric light works
of Brandon, VT, exploded on Saturday
night, killing Adolph GoermOnd and in
iuring his son.
A Brooklyn street car passenger picked
ND the drunken conductors cap and sue
cessfully collected and pocketed all the
passengers fares inside.
Contracts for $3.50, 900 worth Of build
ings for Chicago's university have been
awarded, requiring that the buildings b.
completed by May next.
Piano Manufacturer John G. Bent, oi
New York, has a judgment Of s9,775.6O
to pay Mrs. John G. Reid, of that city,
| for his board since 1851.
Policemen and reporters have been sit,
ting up nights in vain looking for spookE
in the old Oceanic Hotel, Coney Island,
where murder was once committed.
Colonel Elliot p. Shepherd, of New
York, made a contract at Chicago fOI
the first 10000 Columbian half dollars
received, agreeing to pay $4,000 fOS
them.
One hundred and fifty laborers EN-.
ployed on the city paving at Springfield,
Ohio, have struck for higher pay, and
threaten violence if other labor is EN-.
plOyed.
Thomas Donnell, Of the Locustvills
Base Ball Club, was struck in the ear
Saturday by pitched ball in game at
Lansford, Pa, and died within few
minutes.
Three women at Windfall, Ind, are
under arrest for smashing the windows.
sideboards and bars Of the two saloons,
destroying the liquors and driving Out
the barkeepers with axes.
At the camp meeting at Old Orchard
Beach, Sunday. Rev. DIR. Parkhurst, Of
Boston, declared that he came of a long
line of drunken ancestors, and had spent
his early life in debauchery.
Mrs. Lizzie G. McAndrews, %, of Box.
ford, Ireland, has been refused permis-
sion to land by the Boston emigration
inspectors because she deserted her hus-
band and six children to come to Amer
ica.
rL,.oo C1-;-s--------o - g., IA =
near Detroit, Mich, while trying to cross
into the United States from Canada. Il
is believed a we'll organized under.
ground railway" exists among the far.
mers for smuggling through Chinese.
The wealth of Baron Houghton. the
new FicerOy OF Ireland, is partly derived
from American land investments of his
father, who held 60, 900 acres in the Uni
ted States. The wealthy and fatherly
Lord Crewe donates Baron HoughtOB
100000 yearly during his tenure ofofice
The cholera scourge still continues ia
deadly march through Europe. In Ham.
burg there are 169 unburied victims and
business Is Frustrated. The disease has
also appeared at Antwerp and there are
two suspected cases in Berlin. In Russia
the number of cholera patients and
deaths again increased.
Over 1,50O miners are massed az Coal
Greek, heavily armed. They captured
TWO companies of militia sent out % dis
perse them. Governor Buchanan has or
uered out the whole military power o.!
the State. and it is expected that 80G
men will be under arms by the close Of
the week. There are supposed to be 30N
armed miners.