The Washington bee., 1893-12-23
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary of Current Events-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

Queen Victoria has taken an italian
villa.
At Barcelona, Spain, 143 Anarchists
have been thrown into prison.
Adele Grant, Of New York, was we'd
ded in London to the Earl of Essex.
Supt. Byrnes, Of New York, wants
the owners of disorderly houses in
dicted.
The Thurber Company wholesale
grocery business is to be reorganlzed
In New York.
James Gordon Bennett has returned
to Paris from a yachting trip with re-
stored health.
Mrs. Zella Nicolaus, who brought suit
against George Gould for $4,000, has
gone to Europe.
French protectionists want French
farmers protected against imported
American grain.
The mayoralty election in Boston re-
suited in the reelection of Mayor Mat
thews, Democrat.
Ten thousand dollars in gold was
stolen from the cellar of David Stout,
near Houghville, Ind.
The Federal Grand Jury in New
York failed to bring an Indictment
against John G. Emo.
The Brazilian dynamite cruiser Mich
teroy has arrived in Brazil, but the
port is not divulged.
The Lucy furnaces at Pittsburg,
owned by the Carnegie Steel Company,
have been put in blast
1t is denied from London and Otta-
wa that Great Britain and Canada are
seeking to control Hawaii.
The Carnegie Steel Company has cut
wages, beginning January 1, in some
cases as much as 40 per cent.
Juror Low, in the Meyer murder trial
in New York, went insane, and the
case was adjourned for ten days.
q. Frey, formerly Swiss Minister to
Washington, has been elected Presi-
dent Of the Swiss Confederation.
William Sexton, the billiard player,
had his leg broken in two places by
stepping off a cable car when in mo-
ton.
The celebrated Davis will case at
Chicago, involving the disposal OF S1l,-
~,
heirs.
Police Captain Schmittberger now
claims there is not disorderly house
open in the Tenderloin Precinct, New
York
The Pope has expressed his abhor
renee Of bomb-throwing and his SYM
pathy with members of the French
Chamber of Deputies.
'"Tom King" the female desperate,
who escaped from prison in North Da-
kota, shot the pursuing bloodhounds
and eluded recapture.
Joanna, a female chimpanZee, has
been placed in the park museum, New
York, as a companion to Chico. She
was imported from Portugal.
Valiant, who threw the explosive
bomb in the French Chamber of Depu-
ties, glorieS in his crime, and says he
was aided by a rich Anarchist.
The steel-clad cruiser New York had
a successful deep-sea trial. She was
very steady in seaway, and her guns
and turrets worked satisfactorily.
Joe Donahue, the skater, who was
beaten by Johnson last winter, is out
Will IL w w luCCS
him at Manhattan Field, New York.
The evidence of nearly all the ex-
perts in the Prendergast case at Chi
cago goes to show that Mayor Harri-
sons slayer is an irresponsible lunatic.
The Meyer murder case is making
progress in New York. The testimony
for the prosecution makes Meyer a
monster of cruelty and avariciousness.
Buffalo BILL known to civilized life
be a candidate for the Republican
The Board of Health of New York
has ordered the Steam Heating Com
pany to discontinue the use of soft
coal, on the ground that the black
smoke is unhealthful.
The Cars troops are to be put
through their PAGES in the deep snow
about Moscow this winter, evolutions
to be suspended only when the mer-
curry falls to s degrees below zero.
Active bombarding of Rio de Janeiro
seems to have been resumed. Business
has stopped, communication with the
shipping is cut off, and Mello is said
W OIoShuuluS thS w GlG
bay.
1t is not believed in New York that
the suit of Mrs. Nicalous for $4,000
against George Gould will ever be
brought to trial. The woman has gone
to Europe, and rumor has it that a
settlement was made.
The Deutsche Zeitung reaffirms in a
dispatch from Vienna the truth of the
report that the Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand, heir to the Austrian throne, is
to marry the Archduchess Stefanie, /!
widow Of Grown Prince Rudolph
At meeting of the Musical Protec-
tive Union, in New York, Walter DAM |
rosch rendered his resignation. He
claims the union is run for money in |
stead Of art, because it refused to al |
low him to employ the German cello |
player, Anton Heynn.
The heirs of Stephen Mast, who |
owned $50 acres of land within the |
present limits Of Baltimore a century |
ago, now claim ownership of land |
worth $1OO,00O,0OO. Mast did not sell, |
but made leases running ninety-nine |
years, many of which expire next year.
John Y. McKane, the "boss' of
l.. l., was sentenced to one
month in prison and fine of $3.50 by |
Judge Barnard for contempt of court. |
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