The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-02-18
TELEGRAPhlC BRIEFS.

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The women of Norristown, Pa, have
begun an agitation against local sparring
matches.
New York will spend half a million
this year to protect its water supply from
disease germs.
The old New York Hotel on Broadway.
New York, has been sold for 81, 500, 900,
and will be torn down.
Mr.. Gladstone announced in parlia-
ment that he would not ask the Queen to
appoint new poet laureate.
The French government announces
that it will not permit England to enjoy
an exclusive occupation of Egypt.
DIR. j. Thatcher Graves, the alleged
murderer of Mrs. Barnaby, has been re-
leased from Jail at Denver on bail.
Governors of Southern States are asked
to meet at Richmond, Va. April 2, to
consider plans to develop the South.
Christie Warden's mother claims the
reward of s.. 500 offered by the State of
New Hampshire for the capture of Almy.
New York railroad men threaten that
State with a coal famine if the Mcmahon
bill to regulate prices passes the Legisla-
ture.
The Cincinnati Post is taking vote of
the Presbyterian ministers on Brig
gism," and SO far the vote is largely
against.
Gladstone has surprised both friends
and foes by the confidence and self con-
troll he has shown since the opening of
Parliament.
Terrible riots have occurred at Bogota,
on the Isthmus of Panama. Troops re-
stored order after 100 had been killed
and some 700 injured.
President Harrison has pardoned ex-
President Edgar Swan, of the City
National Bank, of Lynn, Mass, in prison
for violating the banking laws.
Ex-Governor Thayer, of Nebraska, who
disappeared some time ago, has been
discovered, poor and friendIess, in the
house of an old soldier near Lincoln,
Neb.
The nieces of the late millionaire, ..
b. Fayerweather, of New York, will en-
deavor to have his will bequeathing cer-
tain sums to educational institutions set
aside.
Senator Carlisle's resignation has been
sent in to the United States Senate, and
he will devote his entire time to work in
connection with the incoming admins
tration.
Mr.. Isador Straus, q wealthy and sue
csssful business man Of New York, lie
said to have been selected by President
elect Cleveland for the position of Post.
master General in iis Cabinet.
The three seamen of the Norwegian
ship Thekla, from Philadelphia, now at
Hamburg, who confessed to having eatei.
a companion to save themselves from
starvation, will be taken to Norway and
tried for murder.
Anna E. Dickinson has brought suit
for SO, 600 damages against three Of the
persons she accuses of having her shut
up in an insane asylum at Danville, Pa.
in 1891, from which she obtained he; -
lease, by process Of law.
hObeIG Il DcdblS was COIlS lCltH y!
poisoning non union men at Homestead.
The jury was out only fifteen minutes.
Jack Clifford was then put on trial fol
killing Pinkerton detective T. c. Corners
in the famous battle at HOMESTEAD in
July last.
Detectives and lawyers have been busy
in Asbury Park searching for some evil
dence which can be offered in the at
tempt to secure a new trial for Carlyle
w. Harris, who was convicted of muir.
dering his young wife. 1t is stated they
had little success.
The defense in the case of Jack Clifford,
one of the Homestead rioters on trial for
riot and murder, in their evidence Ell.
deaFored TO prove an alibi for Clifford,
and also a justification for the rioting
and killing of the Pinkertons, but Judge
Stowe refused to allow evidence tending
toward the latter position to be given.
The further trials Of the pneumatic
guns of the cruiser Vesuvius, at Por,
Royal, S. c., have been very satisfactory
Two successive shots fired at 200 yard!
range struck exactly in the same spot
Great enthusiasm is shown by the off
GERS and men in the belief that the vessc
is designed to reyolutionize naval war
fare.
Much interest is excited in New Yorl
city in the divorce suit brought by Col.
w. B. Sim, the theatrical manager
against his wife, Cora Tanner, the &C
tress. The suit is brought on the ground
that when he married Miss Tanner she
had another husband living from whom
she had not obtained divorce. Afte
some preliminaries the case was al
journed without date.
There is being quietly organized il
Pittsburg great coal trust or combine
which, according to one of the interested
operators, will be able to give the giaa
Hooking Valley Combine "cards ali,
spades and beat it out" A combination
of all the railroad mines in Western
Pennsylvania, to be known as the West
ern Coal Company, is the project of th
local operators.
Frederick W. FL. Otte, an Adams Elk
fpress Company employe at Baltimore
Md, whose ribs were driven through hi
lungs in a crush between a Car and sta
ton doorway at Calvert recently, an,
twho blew up like balloon. has been re