The Washington bee., 1892-08-27
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A. Summary of Current Eyents-The World.
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.

Sneak thieves robbed the Sheritf's Of
flee in Brooklyn of $4,000.
Emperor William denies the posi-.
bility of European war.
1t is officially announced that cholera
prevails in st. Petersburg.
The PAGER, Hal Pointer broke the pac.
ing record at Chicago in 2.054.
Pierre Lorillard has bought the crack
racer Lanplghter, for $50, 900.
Wreckers raised the iron steamboat
Cepleus after several attempts.
Jay Gould has returned to New York
after an absence of six months.
Mr.. Bonner will try to beat Nancy
Hanks new record of 207t with Sunol.
Reports are again revived in Germany
of tile early resignation of General Cap
rivi.
Premier Abbot's health is so bad that
he may have to retire from Canadian
public life.
Closer diplomatic relations between
Russia and China are exciting attention
in Europe.
Myrtle Beckett, the daughter of prom
inent people, was arrested at Cincinnati
for horse stealing.
The locked-out strikers in Homestead,
Pa, are leaving in large numbers to seek
employment elsewhere.
The Sultan of Morocco refused a de.
mand to punish his chief eunuch forboil-
ing a little negro slave to death.
State Treasurer Morrison, of Pennsyl.
vania, has paid out 1852, 900 on account
of tie service of troops at Homestead.
Fifty thousand members, it is said,
stand ready to make up the Iron Hall
shortage, should receiver be appointed.
President Mcleod declined a propo.
sition of the New York Board of Arbitra
ton to arbitrate the labor troubles at
Buffalo, N. Y.
Captain Anderson, with $50 men, is in
charge of the convicts' camp at Coal
Creek and is being beSieged by 1,50C
armed miners.
Texas Democrats renominated Gov
ernor Hogg, and a bolting convention
nominated Clarke for governor with a
full State ticket.
The astronomers at Lick Observatory
have made important new observations
confirming Schiaparelli's discovery OF
double canals on Mars.
Louis Heckert, aged 80, laid his head
on the track of the Long Island Railroad
in Williamsburg, N. Y, and was killed
because mosquitoes made his life misera.
able.
There is money panic in India, and
public sentiment is aroused over the re.
fusal of the government to take action to
relieve the situation on account of the
low value of silver.
General E. Burd Grubb has announced
that he has not withdra n his candidacy
FOR the Republican Gubernatorial nomi.
nation in New Jersey, though he would
not seek the nomination.
Charles H. Peckham, of Westport,
Mass, delivered himself up to the Sheriff
at Fall River, claiming to be the muir.
ierer OF the Bordens. A medical exam.
lnation showed that he was acting under
an insane delusion.
1t is expected in London that Mrs
May brick will soon be released from
prison. 1t is understood that both SiI
Charles Russell, the new attorney gen.
aral, and Mr.. Asquith, the home secre.
retary, are in favor of her release.
The Pail Mall Gazette says to-day that
4 has been officially settled that the In.
man Steamship Company will transfer
ghe business Of its line from Liverpool to
Southampton. The Gazette predicts that
other companies will follow the example
yet by the Inman Company.
Mike MonsaIlo, little more that two
feet high, five years old, and weighing
thirty eight pounds, was given hearing
in New York on number of charges OF
theft. He had caused by his robberies
general alarm among the residents of the
the Nineteenth Precinct, Williamsburg
Over 800 miners are massed at Goa
Creek, heavily armed. They captured
:wo companies of militia sent out to dis
oerse them. Governor Buchanan has or.
Iered out the whole military power OF
the State. and it is expected that 5000
men will be under arms by the close OF
the week. There are supposed to be 5000
armed miners.
Mr. Gladstone is hard at work prepar.
ing the way for coming political reforms.
Three committees, in addition to the
Home Rule committee, have been
formed. One committee is charged with
labor questions; another is to draft bills
for rural reform and local option, and
the third is charged with a measure OF
first Importance, reforming electoral reg.
lstration.
Fire nearly wiped out the town of Del.
mar, Del, on Tuesday, entailing a loss
of SO, 900. The burned area comprises
about three acres, and includes all the
leading stores, two churches, railroad
station and repair shops of the Delav are
! Railroad Company, the post office, Del
mar Hotel, and from thirty to forty
dwellings. Three hundred people are
homeless and lost all their earthly be-
longings. One person is known to have
perished in the flames.
There is little doubt now that the close
of this week will witness the close of the
Order of Iron Hall. The assignment of
the Mutual Banking Surety, Safe Deposit
and Trust Company, with a claim Of
s7l0.0 against it by the Iron Hall, in
duced Judge Taylor to make en- order OF
court in indianapolis To protest the
drafts on the order. This is undoubtedly
the result of an application to the cour'
10 hold what funds of the order are left