The Washington bee., 1893-12-09
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary of Current Eyents-The Worlds
0oings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

raised at Brunswick, Ga
Murderer DelfinO was electrocuted
at Sing Sing on Monday.
Five persons were poisoned by eat
ing oysters at Fort Wayne, Ind.
King Humbert and Queen Marghe-
rita were publicly hissed at Rome.
Andrianoff, who murdered the Mayor
of Moscow last March, has been de-
clared insane.
Rev. and Mrs. John Alden celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary at
Providence, r. /.
Brazilian insurgents in Rio Grande
do Sui defeated Government forces
and took 1000 prisoners.
Secretary Lamont denies the story
that he and President Cleveland are
interested in wood pulp.
Michael Hennessy, of Gaylordsyille,
Conn, is charged with fatally burning
his wife by holding her in a fireplace.
Sir John Thompson, Premier of Can
ada, does not see any advantage to
Canada in the new Wilson tariff bill.
The brig John ID. Spreckels, at San
Francisco, eleven days from Hawaii,
Mello is said to have left Rio with
some of his best warships to intercept
the vessels PeiXot0 bought in America
The Pennsylvania Company has Sc
cured the Toledo. Peoria and Western
Railroad, which gives it new outlet
to the lakes.
John Fehn. of Reading, Pa, issued
cards for his daughters wedding Mon
day, but she eloped and is married to
another fellow.
1t is said that the revenue cutter Cor
win will leave San Francisco soon for
Honolulu with a special messenger Of
the State Department
A tall, dark man, wearing an ulster
with a turned-up high collar, is busy
clipping the hair off girls and young
women uptown, New York.
Ex-Minister John L. Stevens has pub
liShed a reply to Commissioner Blount
on the Hawaiian question, charging the
latter with misrepresentation.
President Patton, of Princeton Col
lege, expresses his approval of foot
ball, and denies that the game is bru-
tai as represented by the press.
The trial of PrendergaSt, the aSSaS-
sin Of Mayor Harrison, began Monday
In Chicago 1t is expected that it will
require two weeks TO secure a jury.
The wife of Chief Burgess Body, Of
Orwigsburg, Pa, made a desperate at
tempt to commit suicide by throwing
herself in the rapids at Niagara Falls.
The Secretaries Of War and Navy
have been appealed to prevent the foot
ball game between the West Point and
Annapolis Cadets, but they will not in
terfere.
Capt Deyery, of the Eleventh Police
Precinct, New York, has been indicted
by the Grand Jury, on complaint OF
DIR. Parkhurst, for not Suppressing dis
orderly houses.
italy has had another financial shock.
The Credito Mobiliare, one of the
strongest banks in that country, has
asked for an extension of time to meet
Cts obligations.
Fifty college students arrested by
ghe New York police for disorder on
Thanksgiving Day were in most cases
discharged with a reprimand. A few
Were fined So each.
Governor Altgeld, of Illionis, says he
On opposed to capital punishment. but
refuses to commute sentences, on the
ground that the law of the State pro-
yides that punishment.
Gov. Lewelling Of Kansas. instructs
the police boards of that State that
the law under which vagrantS are COM
PEELED to work on the highways and
rock piles is unconstitutional.
The State Boards Of Arbitration of
New York and New Jersey, the leaders
of the Lehigh strike and President Will
bur are at Bethlehem, Pa, the arbitra-
tors trying to settle the trouble.
Mrs. James Roosevelt Roosevelt's will
leaves the bulk of her S1.000000 estate
TO her children. share and share alike,
and the residue to her husband. She
was daughter of William AStor.
The Wells Fargo Express Company
pays the Southern Pacific Railway
Company a bonus of 81. 700. 900 and 40
per cent. of its California receipts for
twenty-oneyear contract for Califor-
MIA traffic
A fine statue Of Roscoe Conkling. by
Sculptor j. .. A. Ward, has been
placed in Madison Square. New York.
Levi L. Morton. c. A Seward. c. p.
Huntington, Henry Willard. August
raised the fund.
4 Thousands struggled to gain admit
Etance TO the exhibition of the prize
kwinning objects of the Worlds Fair
fon the opening day at the Central Pal
face, New York. 1t is estimated that
1.-THE total value of the exhibits in all
Ethe departments is $36.00o000
\ Gen. Martinez Campos telegraphs
Efrom Melilla that his forces have be-
Egun rebuilding Fort Guariach. work on
(which led to the first attack of the
EMoOrs. The General says if the Moors
Iinterfere he Will attack them from the
Efront and upon the left flank.
| A cholera expert who was sent to
EConstanunople 10y the French Govern
fment at the request Of the Sultan. to
tcombat the plague was attacked with
the disease Tuesday and died within a
few hours. There are still from forty
ITO fifty cases day in that city.
The two last important football
kgameS of the season were between Yale
Eand Princeton and Harvard and the
university Of Pennsylvania Princeton
Edefeated Yale by score of 6 to 0.
Egiving Princeton the college football
championship. Harvard defeated the
university of PENNSYLVANIA by a score
Iof 26 to +