The Washington bee., 1893-06-24
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS.

EX-Labor Commissioner Peck, of New
York. has gone to Europe.
Sixty-seven clerks have been dropped
from the rolls of the General Land Of
| flee.
The village of Alba, Mich, containing
800 inhabitants, was entirely destroyed
by fire.
The effort to y I'VE the capital Of
Kentucky from Frankfort to Louisville
has failed.
"The Life and Death of Carlyle Harris !"
is play running at the Windsor Theater,
Bowery, New York.
A run on the Irving Savings Bank,
New York, has been easily met, as the
bank has a surplus of $675, 900.
The German elections were indecisive,
but do not favor the Government. Some
800 Supplementary elections must bel held.
Thn yacht Navahoe collided in fog
with the pilot boat D. 7. Leahy, and
put back to Boston in crippled condi-
tion.
Miss Lenora Ketchum, girl of 16.
was drowned near Shelter Island. off
Greenport, L. l., as result of being
ducked for fun.
A thousand pupils of the State Nor
NAL School, at Terre Haute. Ind,
threaten to leave if they can't recite to
Professor Tompkins. their favorite.
New York banks have agreed upon a
plan of issuing clearinghouse certificates
which will relieve the financial strain due
to heavy Withdrawals of money to the
West.
A New York car driver took Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh to police station be-
cause he refused to pay 81, 30 for his ride,
and the police captain cut the price to
s.. 80
Discovered in guilt by {. 10-year-old-
boy, Mrs. Louis Cummings, his step
mother, of Knoxville, Tenn, and her
paramour, Sam A. Walker, put him to
death.
Eliphat Stratton, wealthy miser of
Brooklyn, has been held on charge of
trying to starve his wife to death. He
owns a number of houses, and is proba-
bly, insane.
Count de Lesseps has been described
by writer who recently visited him as
a complete mental and physical wreck.
He is feeble and spends his day in all
invalid chair.
Evidence at the coroner's inquest in
Washington showed that the fall of old
Ford's Theater was due to the failure of
the contractors putting in the electric
light plant to shore the building.
District Attorney Nichols of New York
thinks that E. NJ. Field is now in mental
condition to stand trial Oh the indictment
for forgery against him in connection
with the sensational failure in Novem-
Der, 1891.
Albert Won Gelber, the young son of
Count Willen Won Gelder, a nobleman of
high rank in Amsterdam, Holland, was
arrested in Chicago charged with stealing
81, 500 worth of diamonds, and confessed
the theft.
DIR. Sarah B. Chase, the noted woman
practitioner of New York, was sentenced
to the State Prison for women at Auburn,
N. Y. for nine years and eight months,
for causing the death of Margaret Man
zoni, by malpractice
Miss Louise Aldrich Blake, daughter
of an English clergyman, has achieved
the highest distinction as a student in
medicine ever won by woman. At th
examinations at the London University
she took a double first F"
w. w. Spence. a wealthy Baltimore
merchant, has presented to that city a
bronze statue of Sir William Wallace,
which is to be placed in Druid Hill Park.
The pedestal will be modelled after til
rugged cliffs of Scotland.
On the afternoon of her release from
Jail, the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
was waited on by a deputation of friends,
who presented through her secretary,
$3.50, the amount of her fine, together
with piece of silver plate.
Acting Secretary McAdoo completed
arrangements for the extension of the
new drydock now being constructed at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard to length of
900 feet, which will thus insure the gov
ernment the possession of drydock long
enough to take in the large naval vessels
now being constructed.
The report of the State Comptroller of
New Jersey shows that for the year 1892
the number of railroad accidents which
occurred in that State was l, ,719, in which
82S persons were killed and ,621 injured
The aggregate shows that some one was
killed every day in the year save 3S, and
nearly five people hurt every day.
The famous Blarney stone which for
centuries occupied place in the walls of
historic old Blarney castle. Ireland. has
arrived at the Worlds Fair. 1t was
shipped there by Lady Aberdeen and will
form one of the attractions of her Irish
village. 1t has been placed in the walls
of the reproduction of Blarney castle.
Colonel Batchelder, of the Commission
appointed by the War Department to in
vestigate the charges brought regarding
the desecration by trolley railroad of
the battlefield of Gettysburg, has made a
report in which he describes the inestim-
able damage done and appeals to the
powers that be to stop the desecrating
work. The Grand Army will also take
up the matter.
Sunspots are very numerous this year
and in view of the belief that thew hava