The Washington bee., 1892-08-20
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary of Current Events-The Worlds
DOings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.


| Springfield, ILL.,, on August 1S.
Pension Commissioner Raum will take
the stump for Harrison and Reid.
Diphtheria RACES in the Park Hotel at
Madison, Wis, owned by Senator Villas.
Friends of the late Senator Plumb seek
to erect monument to him in Washing
ton.
Mrs. Alden and Ellen Egan were killed
by lightning strokes at Buzzard's Bay,
Mass.
An effort will be made to place Gen.
eral Malone at the head of the Richmond
and Danville.
1t is estimated that the strike of the
New England granite cutters has cost
them So, 800, 900.
A drought of three years duration in
| Northern Texas was terminated by heavy
and general rains.
The Peoples party leaders claim that
Judge Gresham will give his support to
their national ticket
The Italian Minister of War has COM
pleted plans for increasing the army by
ten cavalry regiments.
California fruit growers claim that the
prune crop of the State will not be 65
per cent of last years.
The health authorities in New York are
taking every precaution to prevent the
spread of smallpox.
Heavy rains have greatly damaged the
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SEGA thirty houses were washed away.
Mrs. Hawley, of Norwalk, Conn, had
her arm and jaw broken and was nearly
suffJ by being trapped in folding
bed.
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran, Of
New York, has rendered his services as
campaign orator to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
President Harrison and ex-President
Cleveland are likely to meet at Glouces.
ter, Mass, at the city's 250th anniversary
celebration.
In consequence of the anti-lOttery law
the business of the New Orleans Post
Office has fallen so much that clerical
salaries have been reduced.
The loss of the Mexican market for
Texas corn has reduced the price on the
American side of the Rio Grande to 25
and 40 cents bushel.
"Sam1 of Posen" Curtis, who is under
bail for murder at San Francisco has also
become involved in civil suit with the
Forbes Lithograph Company.
Consul McCreery, of Valparaiso, Chill,
has arrived in Washington, and was fur
nished with copy of the charges against
aim by the State Department.
Two Lansing, Mich, boys while play.
ing crawled into an ice chest. Their
movements caused the lid to fall and
clasp and both were suffocated.
Marvin E. Hall, of Michigan, has been
elected Commander-in-C Chief of the Sons
Of Veterans, and George w. Pollitt, Of
New Jersey, Senior Vice Commander.
The great search light on Mount Wash
ington will be in operation next week.
It will be seen over 100 miles away and
at that distance will look like comet.
Various committees of the Richmond
Terminal met in New York and decided
to work together to secure a thorough
and effective reorganization of the sys.
tenn.
The twentieth annual convention Of
the National Association Of Union ex.
Prisoners of War will be held at Washing.
ton during Grand Army week, next
month.
Lloyd Lewis, who has been president
of the WELSH Fargo Express Company,
has resignd and ]. j. Valentine, form.
erly mana ;er, has been elected to sue.
ceed him.
Congressman w. G. P. Breckenridge,
who opposed the Fair Appropriation Bill
in Congress, has indorsed a newspaper
article suggesting his resignation as ora.
tor of the day, October FL.
Mrs. Preston Twitchell, of Cincinnati,
through the State Department and the
payment of 800, has recovered from
Mexico the body Of her husband, who
was murdered there six months ago.
Rev. DR.. Thomaa D. Bsavan, pastor OF
the Church of the Holy Rosary, at Hol
yoke, Mass, has been appointed Bishor
of the Roman Catholic diocese Of Spring.
field, to succeed the late Bishop O'Reilly.
The Executive Committee of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor will shortly
hold meeting in New York to devise,
it is said, retaliatory measures in regard
to the New York and Homestead strikes
Mrs. Rushlain, her daughter, her
brother, and several farm laborers, liv.
ing near Laurel, Sussex County, Del. =,
were poisoned by drinking water from a
we'll. Arsenic had been placed in the
water.
| A cousin of old-time President Millard
Fillmore, Mrs. Layina Fillmore, Clar.
ence, IN. W widow, who was living
when George Washington was inaugu.
rated, celebrated her 105th anniversary
! on Saturday.
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