The Washington bee., 1893-10-07
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS

O'hEEO.
The strike of lOngShOrempn bo.
lapsed after fitful fight of ton ,'s y cot
The Republican State conyentior U'S ~
been called to meet at Syracus. on l,,S G'E
tober 10. VI oe,
Since the first of August forty oil.
suspended national banks have r,,,,-- s,-h'
ed business. 'Suili-
The total net receipts of gold in y.
York from Europe in the ms, -'e@ s;
weeks have been $34 .5..S 354 SiA
The great Brooklyn Futuritv raco ..
Sheepshead Bay was Won bv D1Ir'i,aI' al
who captured $49.715 in stakes '''''O'
A Chinese mob near Arien Yaps, r,s.
ed a Catholic chapel and destroyr,l ,r,-
houses of several native converts VIC
X. ID. Wrenn won the tennis ,n.,.-
pionship of the United States gt Nh ,',.'
port. The winner is a Harvard man
The English Admiralty has dec,Io,
to continue building battlesbinS "
spite of the disaster to the Vicrori,
Mrs. Lucy Hooper, the wellknow,
writer and art critic, died in Par;a
after lingering illness, aged fftr
eight.
Stories of President CarnOfs sorioro
illness are pronounced untrue by tho
Paris correspondent of the London
Times
Mystery surrounds the case of T 7.
Shortell, a st. Louis passenger aoanr
found dying of morphine poisoning in
park.
There were 100000 paid admissions
to the Chicago Fair last week. Tho
end of summer is bringing great crowds
to the Fair.
Democrats and Republicans in Sew.
ard County, Kansas, will unite in
joint county convention to nominate a
ticket against the Populists.
Jack o. Myers, the burglar who
made sensational escape from the
TOmbs prison, New York city, last
July, has been recaptured.
Two Choctaw ringleaders. Sillan
Lewis and Simon Wade, will be exc.
cuted at Macallister, l. T., September
8, while others will get a new trial
Women suffragists in Kansas will
open a campaign in favor of equal Suf.
frage in Kansas City September / and
2. Many women will take the stump
During the past six weeks over 90.
100000 bushels of wheat have been OK.
ported to Europe. In the corresponding
period of last year less than 200O0.0OO
bushels were exported
Between March A, 1893, and August
80, 1893, the total number of pensions
of all classes granted under the Gen.
eral law was 26,42G, and under the act
of June q, 1890, the total was 24.S5l.
Governor Flower has recommended
the suspension of Supt. Brockwav Of
the Elmira, n. Y, RefOrmatOry pend
Ing investigation of the charges of
brutality made against him by the
New York World and other papers
Abe Buzzard, ex-highwayman. is the
chief figure in q camp meeting now
being held in Il grove in East Noting.
ham township, about a mile from Lin.
coin Station, Pa. Big Frank" Carr.
who is now at RawlinSville, is expect.
ed later.
Since the filing of the settlement of
the Ann ArbOr Railroads suit against
Chief Locomotive Engineer Arthur the
terms of settlement have been disclOS-
ed. Arthur pays $500 and the costs
specified to- settle the case
The London Standards Paris CORE
spondent says that NJ. FlOquet. on leav-
ing stormy political meeting in the
Rue AngOuleme Friday, was stoned by
a mob of 5000 persons. Two reYOl-
yer shots were fired into his carriage
but he escaped without injury Many
persons were hurt in the scuffie.
The Abe Lincoln command Of the
Union Veterans Union has withdrawn
from that organization and SURRENDERED
its charter. The cause is said to be
due to an order issued prior to the last
national election by Gen. W. H. Mich
ael, Commander of the Department OF
the Potomac
Governor Flower has commuted to
Imprisonment for life the sentence Of
Edward GeOghan, who was to have
been executed at Sing Sing Prison dur
ing the week beginning September 4
for the murder of his wife. The
ground upon which the Governor based
his action is that of the insanity of the
convict.
Through the inability of the Near
ague Canal and Construction Company
to sell it's securities, the famous cor
pOration has failed With President
Warner Miller's consent and approy&'
Thomas b. Atkins, of New York. Wp
appointed by Judge Benedict as receiT'
er of the company, with $4,000 bonds.
upon the application Of DJuiS ChODle,