The Washington bee., 1893-02-18
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS.

Mexico has Withdrawn her coppe,
coins.
DR.. McGlynn preached in St. Angus
tine, Fla, Sunday.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, of crusade fame,
is ill at Lakewood, N. J.
The Captain Prat, Chili's fine warslip,
is ready to sail from Toulon.
There has been serious outbreak Of
choleriac disease at Marsailles.
Great success attended the cruiser
| Detroit's first trial trip near Baltimore.
Three pairs of twins in 81 years is the
record of Mrs. G. Carlson, of Renville
Minn.
More Cherokees are gong to Washing.
ton to help defeat legsla ton they deem
hostile.
An epidemic Of cerebro spinal men,
nights has caused 90 deaths at Lonacon-
ing, Md.
Germany's trade with the United
States fell off So, $780, 900 last year from
1915 figures.
The frozen body of costly-clad infant
in a box foated down to Washington,
Ind, on an ice-cake.
New York bankers have increased
their offer of gold to Secretary Foster tc
the amount of 0,O0O,0 900.
Jim Corbett declares his willingness to
fight either Mitchell or Jackson if they
will put up $4,000 forfeit.
Nine. Dis De Bar has been indicted al
Geneva, ILL.,, for stealing s735 from Irene
Mitchell. through spirituaIism.
The Big Four" strike at Springfield,
O., is still on. Conferences have been
held, but no agreement reached.
Secretary Foster has arranged to issue
5O,0OO,O 900 of bonds, which will be of.
fered for sale in exchange for gold.
Cardinal Gibbons confirmed class of
lOo boys at Washington, and extracted
from each pledge of total abstinence.
Americas breadstuff exports last
month fell off $16,6sO,OOO from tile
European famine" exports of last year.
Nine New Bedford (Nfass) cotton
| mills last year paid $4,000 in divi-
dends, averaging 7.45 per cent on the
capital.
News has been received from Honolulu
| announcing the drowning of Miss Ste.
vens, the American minister's eldest
daughter.
The Commandant of New York's Old
Guard, Major George w. MCLEAN,
caught cold at the Guard ball and has
pneumonia.
The New York baseball club has been
reorganized with Postmaster Van Cott as
President, and general reorganization
will follow.
Fred. Gebhard and his sister have
begun suits in New York to recover their
respective interests in the estate of their
maternal grandfather.
Owing to the heavy ice gorge in the
Raritan above New Brunswick, N. j., it
is feared there will be a great loss of
property in the city when the ice breaks.
George Apo, New York crook, was
shot at Pou- hkeepsie by Ira Hogshead,
who, with Ephraim Cassie, had come
from Greenville, S. c., to purchase green
goods.
In glove fight at Coney Island,
OOHuuy UfiI1u, OF ba1ntfee, MASS, beat
Billy Murphy, of Australia, in seven
rounds, for the 122- pound championship
of the world.
Frank Hirth, a Detroit anarchist,
whose body was cremated last week, he
having committed suicide, left funeral
sermon defending suicide, which he
wished read just before his body was in
cinerated.
Charles Francis Adams has offered to
erect a memorial to Miles Standish if the
Weymouth Historical Society will secure
site in Wessagusset settlement, where
Standish fought his decisive battle with
the Indians.
The President has accepted the resig-
ition of Gen. T. j. Morgan, Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs, to take effect on
March 4, and has granted him leave of
absence from February Is until the end
of his term.
Charles Yang, Chinese farmer near
Long Island City, was strung up by three
masked burglars while he was in his hut
over night and robbed of all he had. H.
was nearly strangled to death before he
released himself