The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
A Summary of Current Events-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

MS the result or the football game III New
York Oh Thanksgiving day.
Heavy snow storms are reported
throughout England. The mails are de-
Iay+d. and many sheep have died.
Pennsylvania manufactured 1882
390. .8S9 cigars last fiscal year, nearly
100, ,000, 900 in excess of New York.
Residents near the Honeybrook mine
near HazIeton, Pa, were excited by q
cave-ln of five acres Of ground over the
mine.
The London Chronicle announces that
formal reconciliation has been effected
bet ~ cen Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. La
Louchere.
Buddensick, the New York builder Of
unsafe houses, finished his ten year term
in Sing Slug and was given his freedom
Saturday.
Murderess Irene Newman has been
pardoned by Governor Brown, of Mary
land, for informing the officials of a plot
to escape.
An earthquake shock was felt at Nash
vile. Tenn, which lasted about three
seconds. Southern Tennessee was vio.
lently shaken.
| Congressman Springer and Durburow
have framed resolution asking for the
repeal of the clause closing the Worlds
Fair on Sunday.
The Taunton, Mass, grand jury has
returned indictments against Lizzie Bor-
den, charging her with the murder of
her father and stepmother.
The American Express Company has
taken charge of the express business over
TIE New York aud New England Rail-
road from New York TO Boston.
Lacking funds to complete his col.
legiate course. j. Ross Faulkner, of
Danville, N. Y, committed suicide at
the Bellevue Hospital, New York.
The Union Glass Company. represent
ing capital Of s.. 900, 900, will establish
the largest plant in the United States
for the manufacture of window glass at
Alexandria, Ind.
A shifting engine ON the Reading Rail-
road ran into a crowded street car at
Philadelphia Sunday evening, and eleven
people were badly injured, two of whom
will probably die.
that the sugar growers will resist
the repeal of duty on sugar. and the
Sugar Trust has sent lobby to Washing.
ton for the same purpose.
Josephine Madison, who shot John
Hobbs at the Powelton Avenue Station,
Philadelphia, last summer, was convicted
of murder in the second degree. Sen.
tence was deferred for week.
In his speech at the Democratic Society
banquet in Jersey City on Thursday
night Governor r-elect Werts said that
Governor Albeit will be the next United
States Senator from New Jersey.
The funeral of General Hoyt, ex-Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, who died at lis
home in Wilkesbarre, Pa, on Thursday
last, was held on Saturday. Governor
Pattison was one of the pall-bearers.
DIR. Henry G. McGonigal, of New York
City, the slayer of Annie Goodwin, the
pretty cigarette girl, by malpractice,
has been taken to Sing Sing to serve q
fourteen years sentence in the State
prison,
1t is said that the Carnegie steel works
at Homestead, Pa, will be shut down
on December 81, for two weeks for re-
pairs, and all the employees will be dis.
charged. A scale will then be arranged
which every man will be obliged to sign
to obtain employment.
Richard Grant, secretary of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, Cowes, Isle of Wight,
has sent formal challenge for the
America cup on behalf of that squadron
and in the name of Lord Dunraven to ].
V. s. Oddie, secretary of the New York
Yacht Club.
George Bowles, jr., colored man OF
Piue Brook, N. j., has been arrested for
Q footing Mrs. Albert Van Brunt, white
woman who lived with his family. A
quarrel took place and Bowles shot one
side of the woman's face entirely cff
with shot gun.
Thousands Of the citizens of Madrid,
Spain, assembled in the streets and cried
"down with the government" The mob
was dispersed by the police number OF
times, but always reassembled. 1t is be-
lieved the entire Ministry will be forced
to resign because of public sentiment.
Archdeacon Alexander Mackay Smith,
of the Episcopal Diocese of New York,
has rendered his resignation on account
of having accepted call from st. Johns
Episcopal church at Washington, d. C.
Rev. Thomas NJ. Peters, of st. Michaers
church, New York, has been elected to
succeed him.
Lawyer Charles E. Dawson claims to
have discovered new evidence in the case
of Carlyle w. Harris, the New York
medical student, which il it can be sub.
stantiated on a new trial would acouit
the man now under the sentence OF
death. It is that Helen Potts used NOR.
phine occasionally to induce sleep when
suffering from nervousness.
The United Railway Men of America.
which may prove one of the most power.
full labor organizations of the time, has
just been born. Its headquarters are in
Chicago. and it will include members il. 4
the United States, Canada and Mexico.
1t will discard insurance and all side
features and have for its object the
maintenance Of wages and the redress
ef grievances,