The Washington bee., 1892-02-20
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

In a leap from a bridge in Cincinnati,
Meredith Stanley, the bridge jumper, was
fatally hurt {:
Over 1000 Kansas farmers near Girard
organized wolf drive and after elabo-
rate preparations killed two of the ami
mails
Sarah Althea Terry is crazy in San
! Francisco. She believes she is constantly
directed by the spirit of the late Judge
Terry.
Edward NJ. Kelsoe, dangerous crank,
who attempted to murder City Editor
Dennison, of the Era, Bradford, Pa,
last Christmas, hanged himself in the
Smithport Jail Saturday.
The sultan's firman of investiture for
the new khedive of Egypt places no re.
strictiOns upon him with regard to Eng.
lands occupancy of the country. This
is regarded as victory for British di.
plomacy.
The miners at Coal Creek, Tenn, are
considering proposition for the settle.
ment of their difficulties. State troops
are still on guard, and the miners
threaten to kill every one of them if any
of their number are injured.
A wealthy farmer of Atchison county,
Kan, Bernard T'<Schmitz, went to Ger.
many, last November to visit his old
home. He was arrested TIA and father
ing the German army 2se -signa- Of, life
all efforts to have him, 2sCeailF At's ''
fry,,itlase Then -Schnaia.Eoadtiss:. OF
nus ~ sS;Oe-ssrO.ser to Emperor William and
he released her father on his birthday, az
the little girl requested.
The pope's strength is gradually fail
ing, and fears of his early death are
again entertained.
Benjamin Koenig, German, died at
the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews
in New York, aged 10S years.
The result of the election in Gaute-
mala is probably in favor or Barrios, but
the figures are not as yet known.
A Paris jeweller has disappeared with
675, 900 francs taken from the safe of the
firm by which he was employed.
jeremiah Golto, who killed Lingi
Frankeloso at New Utretcht, July "a
last, has been sentenced to die of electric
shock at Sing Sing on March %.
The report of Fire Marshall Mitchell, OF
New York city, on the Hotel Royal fire,
is of very sensational character, holding
the Department of Public Buildings re.
sponsible for the calamity.
Representative Bushnell, of Wiscon. /
sin, has introduced resolution provid- /
ing for the adjournment of Congress Oh
May 81.
The jury in the st. Clair pa locomo
tive explosion case, by which five men
were killed, rendered verdict attaching
responsibility to the Reading Railroad
Company.
Founder Bradley, of Asbury Park, N.
j., made a proposition to sell his prop.
erty at that place to the town for $780,.
600. At citizens meeting the PROPOSE.
ton was accepted.
James G. Fair, eldest son of ex Senator
Ford, of California, is dead, and doctors
say his death was the effect of his treat.
ment recently by DIR. Keely's bichloride
Of gold remedy for drunkenness.
John j. Knox, ex-Comptroller of the
Currency, died in New York, Tuesday. OF
pneumonia. He was born in New York
in 1928, and in 1872 General Grant ap-
pointed him Comptroller of the Currency.
jeremiah Cotto, the murderer of Luigi
of Brooklyn, N. Y, mus
die. The court of appeals Tuesday af.
firmed the verdict He will therefore la
to end his life in the electric
chair.
A strange marriage has Just been an.
The bride was Eliza A. Clark,
Of Danbury, Conn.,, aged 81 years, and
the possessor of fortune of about $780,.
300. Marvin 2. Hubbell, the groom i,
only 90.
Charles H. Gould, the assignee of the
firm of Field, Lindley, Weichers & Co.,
Of New York, filed schedules in the court
Of common pleas. The liabilities are, Sc.
cured, 81 ,07S, 1895, and unsecured 81 Off,.
BAG; nominal assets, $1,917, 1886, and act.
lal assets, $50, 1926.
The Atlantic Transport Line steamer
Missouri will sail from New York Oh
March IL, on mission of mercy to Ii,
pau, on the Baltic Sea, in Northern Rus
'ia, to carry the 1000 tons of food which
have been collected for the famins
.t-inLor v1ooeoate af P,lra;~