The Washington bee., 1893-09-09

Extensive improvements are to be
made in the New York Post-Offic
Mr.. Blount will probably be the Dem.
! ocratic nominee for Governor of Geor-
gia.
All of the Denver banks will proba.
| bly, reopen without loss to the deposit
tors
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher celebrated
her eighty-secOnd birthday on Saturday
last.
Forty-nine japanese Illegally landed
at San Francisco have been sent back
to British Columbia.
The Cherokee Strip will be opened
for settlers at II o'clock noon on Sat
urday, September 16.
The Maharajah of Kapurthala sailed
for Europe from New York delighted
with his American trip.
Spencer, Trask & Co., New York
bankers, have gone into liquidation and
will pay all obligations in full.
Ex-Congressman John E. Russell, of
Massachusetts, is likely to be the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor.
New York saloon-keepers wish the
State Liquor Dealers Association to
take action abolishing the free lunch.
The coal mines at Buttonwood. Pa,
abandoned twenty-five years ago, will
be opened giving 1000 employees
work
The Democratic State Committee Of
New York has decided to hold the
State Convention at Saratoga OctO-
ber 5.
The New York State Fair will be held
at Syracuse September IA and Is.
There will be $4,000 offered in pre-
miums.
Governor Horace Boies by acclama-
ton. Lieut.-Gov. Boston was likewise
renominated.
By the death of the Prince of Sake
Coburg, the Duke Of Edinburgh sue
ceeds to the throne Of that German
principality.
Mrs. Ann Hyde, the noted centenar-
ian and oldest person in the Hudson
River Valley, died at Fishkill, aged 1O4
years, 3 months and &c days.
Eleven girls were injured by the ex-
plOSiOn of a steam mangle in the He'll
Gate laundry, No. 24S East One Hun
dred and Fourth street, New York.
The Republicans of the Senate say
they propose to push the investigation
into the right of Mr.. Martin to hold his
seat as a Senator from the State of
Kansas.
Gen. John Palmer will ask the G. A
r. Grand Encampment at indianapolis
in September to provide for the perma-
nent care of Gen. Grants Mt. Nc
Gregor cottage.
Prince Komatso Yoratio, of Japan,
second in the line Of imperial success
sion, arrived in Chicago Saturday to
see the Fair. He is accompanied by
considerable suit.
Deputy Sheriff T. A. Cunningh n,
of Welch, w. Va, an officer well
known in five Southern States, has
been shot dead by Eugene Robinson,
a fugitive murderer.
Mrs. J. D. Blood, of Amsterdam N.
Y, was ascending Pixies Peak last
week apparently in the best of health
At the Halfway House the altitude
became too great for her, and she was
taken back to the city, where she died.
Superintendent Preston, in his report
on the condition of the Madison Square
Bank, New York, shows that the capi-
tai is impaired to the extent of $371,-
312.03. Nc, ,drregularity was found in
the management Of the bank
Billy Plimmer, the little English BAN
tam champion pugilist, defeated George
Dixon, the colored feather-weight
champion, in a four-round match for
points at Madison Square Garden, New
York
After sleeping through two years
Bridget Prendergast woke at last at
the Central Hospital for the Insane at
Indianapolis She was twenty-six
years old when she fell into her
strange cataleptic slumber. Now she
is twenty-eight and is dying.
Boston friends of the Paine cup de-
fender Jubilee have by no means given
up the hope that she will be the boat
selected to meet the Valkyrie, in spite
of her repeated defeats by the Vigilant.
The Jubilee is to be put in the best
racing trim.
The relations between France and
Italy are growing worse. In France
there are frequent riots between Ital-
ian and French WOrkmen, and in Italy
anti-French manifestations continue in
spite of the earnest desire of both
Governments to restore order.
A special from Kingwood, w. Va,
says that Sam Yeager, one Of the IA
nous Cooley gang, which operated on
the Pennsylvania border, has escaped
from Jail at that place. He was to
have been tried next week for COM
plicity in the murder Of old man Xope.
The jury at San Francisco in the case
of NJ. B. Curtis, "Sam1 Of Posen," for
the murder of Policeman Grant re-
turned verdict of acquittal The jury
on the first ballot stood 9 to for ac-
quittal. This was the third trial of Cur
tis. The jury in the first two trials
disagreed.
The thirty-day time limit in the case
of New York and Brooklyn savings
banks expired this week, and the
banks were ready to meet their custo-
mers. The general report is that the
depositors are increasing daily and
that within week or two everything
will be in good shape again.
Death and disaster rode on the crest
of the storm that swept along the At.
lantic coast last week. Full particu.
lars show that it was one Of the most
violent gales known in years. The
rainfall at New York city was unpre-
cedented-3.S2 inches in twelve hours.