The Washington bee., 1893-02-04
1ELEeRApHlc BRIEFS.

New Orleans merchant, has been kid
mapped by Sicilians.
Typhus fever has appeared in Bellevue
Hospital, New York, and the building
has been quarantined.
The Blaine Club of Chicago have start
ed movement to erect monument to-
James G. Blaine in that city.
A bridge half mile long will be built
across the Mississippi, near New Orleans,
with s., 900. 900 of Chicago capital.
Louisiana will be opposed to the an
nexation Of Hawaii, because of the pos
sible effect it will have upon sugar.
As temporary successor to the late
Bishop Phillips Brooks, Bishop Coul they
of Nova Scotia has been designated.
Masked moonshiners near Admission,
Ala, whipped c. w. Cotton and son,
supposed informers, and shot Mrs. Cotton
in the knee.
Fined for refusing to have his daugh
ter vaccinated, Joseph n. Belden, of
Bridgeport, Conn, will test the law in
high court.
By an explosion in a coal mine at
Tokod. Hungary, over 100 men were inn
prisoned in the burning mine and are
believed to have persisted.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
ordered that the Postoffice Building be
draped because of the death of ex-Post-
master General Campbell.
The western wind ow glass manufac
turers have formed a trust under the
name of the National Glass Company,
with headquarters at Milwaukee.
Phillips Brooks successor as Bishop
of Massachusetts, is likely to be either
Rev. DR.. w. r. Huntington or Rev. DIR.
Henry Y. Satterlee, of New York.
Baggage and transfer companies along
the New York Central Railroad have
combined as the Consolidated Transfer
Company, with 81 100000 capital.
President-elect Cleveland was initiated
as an honorary member of the Sigma Chi
fraternity at his Office in New York. The
ceremonies were simple and private.
The damage to the annex roof of the
Manufactures Building of the Worlds
Fair, which was broken in by the weight
of the snow and ice is estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
Governor Werts vetoed the bill passed
by the New Jersey Legislature to deprive
the Republican Mayor of Jersey City of
the power to appoint a City Attorney
and Corporation Counsel.
There is quite movement on foot in
Georgia to press the name of District
Judge Emory Speer. of the Southern
District, for the Supreme Bench vacancy
made by the death of Justice Lamar.
James Woodward, who tried to obtain
money on forged check for $4,000 in
Albany. gave himself upin New York
and was held for hearing with George
NJ. Nesbit who is charged for the forgery.
Italy now has a scandal, the name of
ex-Minister Crispi being mixed up in the
bank scandals that are agitating Rome
and Naples. 1t is believed large sums of
money were paid to political intriguers.
The German Comm issioners to the
Worlds Fair at Chicago have refused to
join the international club, which is COM
posed of foreign commissioners, as they
believe it to be Franco Russian scheme.
Over fifty members of the State Board
of Agriculture of Pennsylvania signed a
petition to President elect Cleveland,
asking him to appoint Congressman
Hatch, of Missouri, Secretary of Agri
culture.
Governor Werts surprised the New
Jersey Democrats by sending in to the
Senate the name of William Walter
Phelps, present Minister to Germany, to
be Lay Judge of the Court of Errors and
Appeals.
Frank Duffy, an old-time New York
politician, and keeper of saloon at
Fourth avenue and Ninety second street.
shot George Cunningham, boy of Is
years, through the heart The murderer
when arrested, expressed satisfaction at
the deed.
The murdered body of colored
woman, Ella Floyd, 20 years old, house
keeper for George Morris, colored, 6;
years old, was found buried beneath a
foot and half of dirt in the cellar of 8Os
Locust street, Camden. Detectives are
hunting for Morris.
In February the Inman steamship Line
will cease to exist and the City of Paris
City of New York and two new ships te
be built for the international Navigation
Company will be known as the Paris
New York, Berlin and Chester. They
will fly the American flag.
Miss Ella Sherwood was married K
Mr.. j. F. Langdon at Baltimore, inter
ference on the part of the young woman'
father having been prevented by having
the old gentleman locked up on a charge
of disorderly conduct while the cere
mony was being performed.
Paymaster Theodore Hill, of the
New York and New Jersey Railroad, ha
| mysteriously disappeared. He lived a
Hackensack, N. j., and had been ;
valued employee of the company fol
twelve years. His accounts being straigh
it is believed that he has met with fou
play.
The suits of the State of Pennsylvania
to recover from the city of PHILADELPHIA;
over million dollars of State funds EN-
bezzled by Bardsley in the shape OF take