The Washington bee., 1892-05-28
A Summary of Current Eyents.-Ihe Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.


DR.. j. G Schurman has been appointe
President of Cornell University.
A Buckeye tornado ploughed up nearl.
three miles of Hamilton county.
June to IA will be commencement
week at Johns Hopkins University.
Presbyterians of the South are in Gen
eral Assembly at Hot Springs, Ark.
The aurora borealis has been viewed
through the Lick Observatory telescope
General Butler can now practice il
the new United States Circuit Court oi
Appeals.
Henry Willard has contributed $40, ,O0C
TO the German journalists pension fund
ut New York.
Over one hundred families have been
made homeless by fire in the city of
Tehauntepec.
| A committee of the United States Sen
ate has reported the North River bridge
Dill adversely.
Three small New York city boys were
captured in Albany on their way West
20 fight Indians.
Governor Flower has signed the bill
providing for the establishment of the
Adirondack Park.
The Salvador government is making
efforts to pay its employees. The tinan-
cial condition is bad.
A heavy rainfall of live frogs delugei
Mexico, Mo-, 10000 falling on Philip
Shearer's farm alone.
Theodore Diffendorf, ringleader of the
wire tappers who won $4,000 ON the
Saratoga races, is jailed.
Spain has Cancelled the prohibition OF
the import of American pork, which has
been in force for many years.
A cabinet council was held in London
at which it was decided, it is said, tc
dissolve Parliament on June 20.
Governor Flower has signed New York's
new factory law, limiting the work of
factory girls to ten hours a day.
At the annual meeting of the Civil
Service Reform Association George Will
liam Curtis was reelected President.
The color question has led to the dis
ruption of the Grand Army of the Re-
public Department in Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi
-Four women, five children and col
ored pilot were drowned in the waters of |
Dowdle Place, Ark, through the capsiz- |
ing of boat
A daring attempt was made to blow |
up the levee above Beulah, in Bolivar
County, Miss, with dynamite. 1t is an
ISOLATED spot
Guatemala kilograms announce a ter
'ible drought, scarcity of provisions, a
smallpox epidemic, and a bad outlook
or the crops.
John Boyer, Danville QIl.) millhand.
las fallen heir to his uncle's 800, 900 per.
onal estate and a lot of silk mills at
lyons, France.
A box of silver carried by Mr.. Little.
Who was about to deposit it, was stolen
rom him in one of the public squares of
Alliance, Ohio.
John Weems, a mean looking negro
rrested for assault, has been moved |
rom the Chattanooga Jail to Nashville to
scape lynchers
The Tammany leaders ordered an as
of 500 levied upon each as
smbly district to raise $4,000 for the
rant monument fund.
Cara, the Mexican revolutionist. is at
.ey West, Fla. The Mexican govern.
ent has offered reward of $50, 900 for
IS arrest and extradition.
The squadron of evolution under COM
and of Admiral Walker is at ST. (
homas, West Indies, en- route from
to New York. &c
Sunlight Flats, the home of DIR. Cyrus
7. Teed, the Chicago Messiah &
ould have been mobbed by 500 indie-
mt citizens, but for the police. T
Three villages were destroyed and +
'enty-Seven persons killed by an earth 7
AXE in the Russian province of Grevan.
the border of Asiatic Turkey.
Mrs. General Tom Thumb, the LITTLE 1
untess Margery, is in trouble and Salt
Ike City museum managers have at.
'hed her wardrobe and jewelry. r
Two thousand panels of wire fenca
ve been cut in Tennessee by an organ
q gang opposed to the three-wire fence
v, made legal by the recent legislature.
The only man who ever contracted
rosy in this country, John Moe. n hC
edlsh cabinet maker, has been exam m
d by the Springfield Qll.) Electrica; o-
dical Society. o.
Brin, Secretary of State for p'
reign Affairs, has informed United .
tes Minister Porter that Italy will co
q two delegates to the International an
yer Conference. n,
he coroner's jury which has been in
tlgatlng the Roslyn coal mine explo-
!, IN which forty-fve men were killed
that the explosion was the result of =
clent ventilation.
ord Salisbury's protectionist sneecb 4
hastings, has created storm of nro. O
from the unionist and liberal paners
e. business centers being specially
osed to his project.
he French forces in Tonquin attacked u1O
captured pirate stronghold. One cn;
dred and twenty-five pirates were me
I'd. The French loss was fifty-tbrea
iers and five officers.