The Washington bee., 1893-04-29
TElEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

clothing cutters have returned to work.
The anniversary of Shakespeare 9
birthday was celebrated on the 23d inst.
at Stratford- Avon.
Mrs. Almira Hancock, widow of Major
General Winfield s. Hancock, died in
New York on the Goth inst.
William Muldoon, the wrestler and
trainer, is in danger Of losing an eye
from an accident in wrestling bout.
Edwin Booth, the great actor, has
again had slight attack of paralysis,
but no immediate danger is appre-
| hended
The granting of what is practically
universal suffrage in Belgium quieted
the strikers and most of them returned
| to work.
| The ninth annual report of the Civil
Service Commission urges that fourth
class postmasters be placed in the class
! flied service.
| Mr.. Gladstone in reply to deputation
| said he did not believe that legislation
| by Parliament would settle the eight
! hours workday question.
The Earl of Derby, one Of the most
| eminent of English noblemen, is dead,
aged 81 years. He was the fifteenth in
| the line of Earls of Derby.
The President expects to be absent
from Washington about week in at
| tendance upon the naval review and the
opening of the Worlds Fair.
Sensational charges have been made
| at Tacoma, Wasl., involving number
of custom officials, in daring plot to
smuggle opium and Cinnamon.
A number of Explorer Peary's hackers
| in Philadelphia have withdrawn their
subscriptions because he insists on taking
his wife along on his North Pole trip.
Amalla fugitive from justice in New
Mexico, is reported to have stirred up q
band of rebels, who, with him at their
head, killed 130 Mexican troops in bat
| tie.
David NJ. Stone and William G.
| Prime, of the New York Journal Of
Commerce, have sold their controlling
| interest, but Mr. Stone will stay with
the paper
o. M. Barnes, of Lansing Mich, has
| paid out $685., 900 to help his son out Of
his difficulties incurred in the failure of
| the Lansing Iron and Engine Works and
the Lansing Engine Company.
Mr.. J. G. Carter, counsel for the United
States before the Bering Sea Tribunal, de-
clared in his argument that seals were
not wild beasts but were under the care
and nurture of the United States.
1t appears that the two refugees re-
Gently received by Minister Egan. and
| who were ordered to be given up by Sec.
retary Gresham, attempted to escape,
and one Fluentis) was captured by the
| Chilian authorities.
New York has cabled an order to Sax
ony for portable steam disinfecting ap-
paratus which will not only thoroughly
disinfect all articles by streams Of steam,
but thoroughly dry and ventilate the
goods and turn them out odorless.
1t is stated that Herr Krupp will pre-.
| sent his mammoth gun to Chicago, af.
| ter the Worlds Fair and that city will
construct fortifcation for it's recep-
ton on the lake front as an object-lessoD
| for the naval school to be established
| there.
| Not content with the splendid mechan
ical triumph presented in the quadruple
perfecting press, the Messrs. Hoe & Co.
have designed and completed perfect
| ing color press which will print four
colors on single page, and will turn out
issues of either eight, twelve, sixteen or
twenty-four pages, folded and ready for
delivery.
The lower House Of the New York
Legislature, at the last moment, passed
the Anti Monopoly bill upon which the
Senate had already taken favorable ac-
ton. 1t is not believed that Governor
Flower will interpose any objections.
The bill practically renders all trusts il.
legal and imposes penalty of 5000
and one years imprisonment.
Four boys, with an aggregate cash
capital Of 56 cents, left New York on
Monday last for Chicago to see the
Worlds Fair. Now one Of them lies al.
most mortally wounded in a hospital,
having been struck by railroad train |,
one is prisoner in charge of the Gerry
Society, and the other two are safely
home, having backed out before crossing
the North River.
| A sensational prank of college students
was played last week by tho sophomore
fraternity, the Delta Onlricron Alphas.
upon the Sigma Zsta Mus, Greek let.
ter fraternity of the junior class. Five
students Of. the latter society were
branded in the face with lunar caustic so
as to disfgure them for life The vic.
Tins swore out warrants for the offend.
ers The penalty is from one to twenty
years in prison.
The President is expected to appoint
by the first day of May three Commits.
sioners at s. 900 year apiece and ex.
penses with clerical assistance), author.
lied by the last Congress, to negotiate
| with the five civilized tribes for the abo-
lition of the tribal conditions and gov.
ernment and the conversion of what is
now called Indian Territory into a reg.
ular territory of the United States. with
view to its ultimate admission as
State. The President will appoint ex-
Senator Dawes as the Republican MEM
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