The Washington bee., 1893-04-22
This WEEKS news.
A Summary Of Current Events-Ths World,
0oings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.


ton after years of litigation.
President Cleveland will be saluted bv
1900 gums at New York's naval review
Grief over the death of his horse Iad
Christian Seeker, of Brooklyn, to drown
himself.
Ex-Minister Robert T. Lincoln's wife
and daughter have reached New York
from Europe.
The general impression in Washington
is that there will be an early session of
the new Congress.
Pittsburg capital, controlling 10000
acres Of gas territory, will build great
iron mills at Muncie, Ind.
The Texas House has passed bill re-
quiring the railroads to provide separats
coaches for whites and negroes.
The Government awarded a contract
of over 81, 600, 900 worth of heavy armor
plate to the Bethlehem Iron Works.
Reports from Honduras are 70 rns
effect that the whole country is in rebel.
lion. President Levia has fed and. il is
suspected. is in New Orleans.
Secretary Carlisle directed all proceed
ings in regard to the Philadelphia Mint
site Cancelled.
j. R. Wisenbecker, Georgia planter.
was killed by tramp whom he surprised
in burglary.
Just to hear the fire bells, a 10-year
old Denver boy set six fires in two days
and now confesses.
President Cleveland has practically de-
cided to send delegates to the Brussels
monetary conference.
New York and Boston capitalists want
to buy all of Canada's iron rolling mills
anG Eeeka a combine.
Ine Columbus carayels Santa Maria,
Nina and Pinta have sailed from Havana
for New York. where they will take part
in the great naval parade.
The will of the late Colonel Elliott F.
Shepard bequeaths $3.50, 900 to the Pres
byterian Church. the bulk of the re-
mainder going to his family.
The Goodlands rain making companies,
of Kansas, are preparing for busy sea
sou. One of the former wizards de-
nounces their operations as fraud
Messrs. Morrison. Voorhees,, Vest,
Vance, Jones and Harris expressed
themselves in favor of an income tax in
the event of reduction of the tariff
The New York Hotel Keepers Asso-
citation has decided to accede to the de
mands of the walters, and the men will
be allowed to wear mustaches and side
whiskers.
A land parade is proposed as part Of
the naval celebration at New York. 1t
will occur on the 2Sth inst, if arrange
ments are completed and the military
will take part.
In nominating Joseph s. Miller, Of
! West Virginia, to be Commissioner OF
Internal Revenue, the President made
Ihe nrsG reappoInLment of one of his
former heads of departments.
The naval squadron in Hampton Roads
has been augmented by the arrival of the
English, French, Russian and Italian
war vessels, and all is ready for the
grand naval parade to New York harbor.
By a gas explosion in a coal pit at
Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, great number of
miners lost their lives. The flames pre-
vented any rescuing parties from going
down the shaft and it is said between
fifty and two hundred workmen are en.
tombed
Edward Partridge, the Chicago wheat
plunger, is said to have been squeezed"
to the extent of $750,0OO by the bull
clique in the May delivery and is be-
lieved to be still short enough to lose
81 1,OO0, 900 more unless the market turns
in his favor.
Among important nominations sent to
the Senate by the President are Daniel
N. Morgan, Connecticut, United States
Treasurer; Conrad N. Jordan, Assistant
Treasurer at New York; Edward H.
StrObel, New York, Third Assistant Sec
retary of State; Daniel NJ. Browning, OF
Illinois, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
A young man named Johnson, Kan
sas farmer, married young girl and
took her to the home he had prepared.
Some drunken hoodlums serenaded the
couple and cowboy fired into the house,
just missing Anderson and his wife.
Anderson took his gun and fired, killing
two young men and fatally woundiDg
the cowboy.
The special session of the United States
Senate adjourned sine die on Saturday
last. Every nomination sent in by Prssi-
dent Cleveland was confirmed with the
exception of Hswson E. Lannan, to be
United States Marshal of Delaware.
which was sent in on the last day, and
went over owing to an objection from
Senator Higgins.
The original John Bull locomotive and
two 57-ysar-old passenger coaches of the
Camden and Amboy Railroad left New
York on Monday for Chicago, where the
train will form a conspicuous part OF the
Pennsylvania Railroads great exhibit.
Large crowds greeted the train at variou:
stopping points in New Jersey and Penn
'ylvania. Invent at speed of about Is
miles per hour.
Harris, the condemned medical stu
ient, who is waiting for Governor Flow
IL to say whether he shall live or die,
ioes not have the same confident air
which characterized his dsmeanor while
ne was in the Tombs. He realizes now