The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1892-01-02
This WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary of Current Events. Worlds
OOings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

Edward NJ. Field is still in Ludlow
street Jail, New York, with four indict-
ments hanging over him. He refuses to
take food, but drinks plenty of water.
The warden is alarmed at the prisoners
acti, Is. Acting under advice of a ply
stefan, he has dosed him with whisky,
which had the effect to revive him some.
The country generally had green
Christmas, although there was snow
enough in the Northwest.
Fire insurance rates all over the coun-
try are to be increased. Boston has
started.
Iowas farm products for 1891 are
worth $449, 1897 $50. Corn leads with
$1OO,OO0,OOO
Arsenic in the cheese made by the wife
poisoned whole family Richland Cen
ire, Wis.
A split in the Ames family of Massa-
chusetts has been caused by letting fam
lily skeletons out of the closet.
Seventy Russian Hebrews skipped over
shs...Ss tcsASaw Work and will now skip
back again, because they are without
funds.
Stockholders of the Baltimore Sugar
Refinery met in Baltimore, increased the
capital stock to 81 300, 900, and decided to
resume in three months.
The Hoey litigation has caused the in
ventory of the estate of the late Treas
urer Babcock, of the Adams Express
Company, to be questioned in court.
John Owens, heir to an immense estate
at Cortland, N Y, who was mourned as
having been murdered, has turned up
alive at Wheeling, w. Va, to the dis
gust of the other heirs.
William H. King, patent lawyer of
Columbia county, n. Y, was found dead
in the Grand Central Hotel, New York
city. He was prepared for death and
carried Identification papers labeled
who l am.
A Chicago and Alton train broke the
record from Chicago to Kansas City by
running the 4S9 miles in III hours-a
little better than As miles an hour.
DIR. McGlynn's old parishioners pre-
sented him with a purse on Christmas
day containing 81 1880.
Dog meat, dressed and fried to burn,
was the tidI It upon which David Brink,
of Beaver Falls, Pa, Toasted on Christ
mas He said it tasted like hare meat
He has been suffering for years with
consumption, and will dine upon dog
meat until cured or killed.
The altar of Holy Trinity church, in
Philadelphia. was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000 on Christmas day.
General A. Brady Sharpe, distinguished
as a soldier of the civil war and a lead
ing member of the Cumberland, Pa, bar,
is dead at 65 years of age.
The police force of Chicago are very
angry because there is no money in the
city treasury with which to pay their
salaries. They may, as consequence
of this. all strike.
As the conversion of trade dollar bull
ion into standard silver dollars has been
completed by the Treasury, the coinage
of standard dollars will cease. 1t will
require a Congressional enactment to
start the minis to coming these dollars
again.
Robert Lewis, controlling the largest
insurance interests in England, has ar
rived in New York, and the gossips are
busy
n. P. Foss, owner of the Clinton dyna-
mite works, which exploded at Haver-
straw, N. Y, few weeks ago, gave a
Christmas present of $1,000 each to the
four widows who lost their husbands in
the disaster.
Dudley Evans has been appointed gen.
eral Superintendent of the Atlantic de-
partment of the Adams Express Com
pany, vice w. J. Hancock, recently de-
ceased.
Alliance leaders in Kansas are express
ing themselves in favor of the appoint
ment of John j. Ingalls, as the successor
of Senator Plumb in the United States
Senate.