The Washington bee., 1892-11-05
1ElEGRAPHIc BRIEFS.

sen as tending to promote drunkenness,
The Pennsylvania Railroad proposes T.,
dght its entire roadbed with electricity.
Arumor that Mr.. Cleveland desired ia
sell Gray Gables is denied by his secre.
tary.
Manager Robert Fox of the Front Street
Iheater, Baltimore, has disappeared With
- 40.
Rev. DR.. Donald, Of Brooklyn, is said
to have accepted the rectorship of Trinity
church, Boston.
Cinnamon are being smuggled into the
United States at Windsor, being landed
at Toledo, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Blaine are now
occupying their residence in Washington
for the winter.
Pugilist Mitchell having got out of Jail
in London on bail is again announcing
his wish to fight Corbett.
Alfred Swift. aged II, left church al
Bordentown, N. j., and shot himself
through the head with revolver
DR.. jerks, Health Officer of New
York, states his belief that there will be
no cholera in this country next year.
The French forces operating against
the King of Dahomey are again reported
to have met with unexpected resistance
near Cana
Senator Jones and Mr.. Cannon, two Of
the United States delegates to the mone-
tary conference, will sail for Europe on
November 2.
Suit was begun for $25, 900 damages at
Chicago, ILL.,, by DIR. Claflin against
John Martin, the husband of Victoria
Woodruff, for slander.
The Pennsylvania Eastern Synod of
the Reformed Church which was in
session at Lancaster, adjourned to meet
next year at Lebanon.
Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes
In the Indian Territory have accepted
$4,000, 900 for 5000, 200 acres Of land to
be added to Oklahoma.
Mayor Grant, of New York, and Mayor
Washburne, of Chicago, talked together
this week over the longest line of tele.
phone wire in the world.
Fifty-seven Eskimo have arrived in
Chicago to exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
They have with them number Of dogs
and variety of native curiosities.
Mrs. Deacon has made overtures for
compromise with her husband regarding
their children. 1t is stated, howeve, r that
MIR. Deacon ill proceed with the case.
The Governor of Kansas has applied tc
q -
United States cavalry to protect the citi.
zens of Coffeyville from the remnant OF
the Dalton gang.
A search is being made in the McAlpine
addition to Kansas City, Kansas, fol-
$4,000, 900 in gold and jewels believed tc
have been hidden by gang of despera.
does many years ago.
A disastrous conflagration, owing tc
the scarcity of water in Altoona, Pa.
was only averted by the Pennsylvania
Railroad turning over the use Of its stor.
age batteries to the city.
The ceremony of christening the in.
FAINT princesse born to the German EN-
peror and Empress on September 13 TOOK
place in the Potsdam Palace. Tie child
was given the names of Victoria Louise.
Almost app ,lling calamity has befallen
the village of San Sperate, Italy. 1t il
estimated that not fewer than 200 of the
villagers have been drowned, owing to o
sudden food Which swept half of the
houses away.
Otis Greye, who disappeared from Q
Fall River schooner and was saiG to have
been drowned, is believed to be living in |
hiding with another man, the pair be. |
ing accused of frauds amounting to $780,. |
900 in New York.
1t is said that the railway switchmen |
throughout the country are preparing
for strike on an enormous scale when |
the Worlds Fair opens, as they think
their employers would then be compelled |
to grant their demands.
Whitelaw Reid has issued a letter &C.
cepting the Republican Vice Presidential
nomination of the Republican ticket. II
is addressed to Hon. w. T. Durbin, of
Indiana, chairman Of the Notification
Committee appointed at the Minneapolis
A man named Beauvais, his wife and
son, were sentenced in Paris to one year.
imprisonment each for having defrauded
a vast number Of prisons through mat
rimonial bureau. The amount obtained
by the family fraudulently is in the hun.
dreds Of thousands of franks.
Public interest in the German military
bill has been increased by the secrecy
maintained in regard to the provision,
,f the measure, though few detail,
have been allowed to leak out. There
9 much opposition to the proposed
of raising the money needed un
Ter the bill.
For some time past an o1Yanized gane
If kidnappers have been engaged in ab-
iucting pretty girls in Austrian Galicia
md sending them to the harems OF
wealthy Turks in Constantinople. Fore.
vas used when deception failed to induce
he victims to go. Twenty seven arrests
rave already been made.
The recent manifestations of mutiny ir
he British army are creating a feeling
bordering on CONSERVATION throughout
he country and causing general outcry
or a thorough inquiry into the cause OF,
What appears to be widespread discon
ent 1t is widely believed that many
fticers are totally inefficient +
Tammany Hall has nominated Thomas
}. Gilroy for Mayor of New York and
Seorpe n kfcCloIlan for Dras;J,~. .e A.,