The Washington bee., 1893-09-02
This WEEKS news.
A Summary of Current Events-The Worlds
DOings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers

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provisions to the poor Of New York
city.
Colorado smelters are calling for ore,
| and demand that the silver miners
I open up their mines.
Louisiana has established a twenty
days quarantine against cholera-infect-
ed ports of Europe.
The BoStonS are now certain to win
the baseball championship by larger
percentage than last year.
Only three Western Governors, cam
vassed on commercial secession from
| the East, favor the wild scheme.
The wheat cleararces of last week
from Atlantic ports are reported the
largest in the history Of the trade.
DIR. Max Shumann, geologist and
naturalist from Paris, is lost or has
periShed in the mountains west Of
Juarez, in Mexico.
The British yacht Valkyrie is now on
her way across the broad Atlantic, and
is expected to arrive in New York
about September 10.
Cornelius Vanderbilt will build
100000 addition to the Railroad Mems
Y. M. G. A. in New York, and present
it to the association.
Nj. HOffeld, a shirt manufacturer,
employing number of pretty girls at
Buffalo, kissed Laura Getlinker against
her will. He was fined $50.
The name of the auditor appointed
by Siam to attend to the settlement of
her bill with France is Prince Krom
Luang de Vanwongse Varoprakar.
Chairman Charles S. Fairchild, Of
the New York Anti-Snapper Commit
tee, says that their organization will
not enter the State campaign this year.
John Fisher, a farmer near Fowler,
Ind, drew $500 out of bank, placed it
In an old rubber boot and buried it
under a wagon bed. A thief stole the
money.
A London dispatch states that Eng
lish spectators are holding back until
after the passage Of the silver repeal
bill to invest heavily in American Sc
curities.
A sensation was caused in Chicago
by a sudden wholesale Indictment Of
gamblers. At the instance of States
Attorney Kern eighty-seven indict-
ments were found.
Dakota and Minnesota farmers get
back 100000 bushels of wheat by court
decision on the Northern Pacific Ele-
vator Company frauds, which cost
New England banks dear.
A meeting of the commercial organi-
cations of the country will be held in
Washington on September II to dis
cuss the financial situation and memo
rialize Congress thereupon.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at
BeSSemer, Pa, have closed down The
works will be idle about six weeks,
during which time extensive repairs
and Improvements will be made.
Last weeks New York bank state
ment was favorable, and this fact,
with the continued arrival Of gold, has
led to an easy money market and
tendency towards higher prices in
stocks.
Zimmerman won the international
mile race at Indianapolis in I'm.
II 4-5S., the fastest time on record
The previous best time in mile
scratch race was 2m. 1Ss., by Sanger,
at Milwaukee.
Mayor Carter Harrison's paper, the
Times, confirms the report that he will
in September wed Miss Annie Howard,
y.
years old and possesses $3,000,000 in
her own right
The French Government will make
proper reparation for the late outrageS
on Italians at AigneS- MOrteS. Then
France will probably ask Italy to make
amends for the work of Italian mobs
in Rome and elsewhere.
A parade of unemployed workmen in
Chicago raised the black flag, and in
battle with the police a number Of
the paraderS. as well as several off,
GERS, were injured The police claim
the parade was composed Of Anar-
chiSts.
The succession of the Duke Of Edin-
burgh to the duchies of SaXeCoburS
and Gotha has dissatisfied the German
people. The extremist newspapers are
harping upon the danger of admitting
en- EngliShman into the secrets of the
federation.
Two hundred and fifty families, COM
prising more than 1000 souls, are
homeless, many of them destitute and
some without even sufficient clothing
to meet the requirements of decency,
to say nothing of comfort, as a result
of the fire at South Chicago.
The 100000 francs demanded by
France as a guaranty of the payment
of war indemnities by Siam has been
delivered or deposited to the credit Of
France in the Bank Of Indo-China, at
Saigon, all in bright new silver dollars,
by the French warship Alouette.
The worlds record in pole vaulting
for distance was broken at San Fran
cisco by Clinton r. Morse the noted
all-round athlete Of the University of
California. He cleared % feet 5$S
inches. The best previous record was
26 feet 4S4 inches. made by A. III.
Green of Harvard University.
Sir Samuel Lewis, who has just been
raised by Queen Victoria to the dignity
of the order of st. Michael and st.
George, is a full-blooded negro. as
black as any of the amaZonS in the
Dahomean village. He is member
of the legislative council of Slerre
Leone, and has taken degree at Lon
don University.
A DOOR woman was diSpoSsessed
from her home in a New York tene-
ment for being three months in arrears
for rent. After her furniture had been
piled on the sidewalk a well-dressed
man made his appearance, and upon
being told the story Of distress offered
to paw four months rent for the poor
woman. The landlord ioyfully made
Nh. +l,a yareinfS and willing hands