The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1893-01-14
TELEGRAPHic BRIEFS.

Natural gas has been struck at Sandy
Creek. Y. i.
Cable cars will he running on Bread.
way. New York. in two eeks.
The Canadian government has re.
moved the duty on sugar.
Tier. was IA $1,000 fire on the Brook.
Ign end of the Brooklyn bridge on Mon
day.
Sol White, who ran for Mayor of To.
ronto. on the Annexation ticket, has beer
defeated.
The Hayti building ut the Worlds
Fair. the first completed, has just been
dedicated.
Presidential postoffices have increased
i'll number % per cent during the pres
ent administration.
Millionaire James w. Beardley, of
Bridgeport, Ct, died from a recent as.
sault by burglars.
The cruiser Vesuvus has gone to Port
Royal Sound to give her great dynamite
guns final test.
The real estate brokers in New York
city sold property worth in the aggre-
gate $40, 100000 last year.
Mgr. Satolli may go to Canada to ar
bitrate in the split j., the Catholic Mu-
tuaI Benefit Association.
E. S. Stokes, of the Hoffman House,
New York, will sue his cousin, w. E D.
Stokes, for $500, 900 for libel
While hunting near Dallas, Texas,
frozen to death in each others arms.
For alleged smuggling on the Canada
border. DR.. j. Alexander Borst, Of Phila-
delphia, was taken co Albany, n Y, for
trial.
Anarchistic riots near Amsterdam and
in other places in Holland resulted in a
number OF persons being killed by the
police and military.
The story is confirmed of battle over
mining claims at the San Juan gold fields
in Utah in which two men were killed
and over 100 injured.
Millionaire Vanderbult has finally
lost his suit for indemnity for his yacht
Alva, run down in fog while at anchor
in Long Island Sound.
Mrs. B. Nutting, of ParEman, Me-,
who is n years old, made 1900 pounds
of butter in 1892. and did all the house
work for family of five.
A serious state of affairs is reported in
Africa, near Wadelai and on the Upper
Nile. The dervisIes in Southern Egypt
have also renewed hostilities.
President E. B. Andrews, of Brown
University, who has just returned from
the Monetary Conference, thinks some
practical results will be reached.
Allan McDermott, chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of New
Jersey, says that Gov. Albeit is sure of
election as United States Senator.
A West Liberty, Ohio, mob tried to
lynch Grant Jackson, mulatto, who mar
!! ried Bessie Hinkley, white, and White
Caps have ordered negroes TO leave
j town.
! Mrs. Jane McDrury, of Brooklyn,
whose son Patrick was buried in grain
in the hold of the Bolivia has written to
Secretary Foster for aid in recovering
his body.
/ Thirteen new cases of typhus fever
were reported in New York, but the
! Board Of Health believe they have the
! disease well in hand and that there is nc
| danger of an epidemic.
Mount Vernon and George Washing.
toms grave and its surroundings will be
reproduced as Virginia's exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. The State will expend
| $25, 900 on this exhibit.
1t is believed that the only names de-
cided upon by Mr.. Cleveland for Iii:
| Cabinet are those of Lamont, Carlisle
and Gray. Members of his former cabi-
net decline to enter the new.
1t is claimed that the colored boy, al
the Jamesburg, N. j., reform school
who has excited scientific inquiry by his
long fasting. has maintained life by
stealing oil and rubbing it over hi:
stomach.
At st. Peters Catholic Church il
Poughkeepsie. N. Y, the Rev. Father
Milan on Sunday warned his congrega
ton not to attend Monday evenings per
l lOIIlidlCe ny 1ho mdu lAoih Dooooi
John L. Sullivan).
| The last immigrant of the old year wh'
was landed at New York's Ellis Island
station was John Murphy, IA years o
age, from County Cork, Ireland. He hat
been preceded by 479, 476 immigrants a
that port during the year.
Mrs Martha j. Lamb, editor of TIN
Magazine of american History, died ii
her apartments at the Coleman House,
New York, on Monday. Her death was
due to pneumonia. She was one of tn
most eminent of American women 0
letters.
The Mexican Government has secured
it is reported, an elaborate pronunci,
:nento of the revolutionists, in which
, they declare for return to govern
ment under the constitution Of 1859
Two hundred prominent Mexicans ar
: Implicated.
II A party engaged in watching cock
fight in the third-story room of build
/ ing near Norwich, Conn, were surround
ed by the police, whereupo they leaped
pell-mell from the windows, one bein.
| killed and all of the others more or les
Injured. A number of arrests wer