The Washington bee., 1893-03-04
TELEGRAPHiC BRIEFS.

be admitted at this session of Congress
Worlds Fair electrical lin emen struck
for more pay weekday and double time
Sundays.
The heating and ventilating concerns
of the country can not agree on terms
for combination.
Professor Barnard. of Lick Ohserva-
tory, will go to Chicago University
through. disgust of Director Hoiden's ar
bitrary ways.
President Harrison issued proclama-
ton revoking the tolls levied on Cana
dian canals and cargoes in Sault Ste.
Marie Canal.
The Orange societies of the North of
Ireland will oppose home rule by force if
needs be, and are said to be arining for
a possible conflict.
For numbering A. B. Smith and James
and Stephen Cravey, whose guide he
was, Frank Holland was hanged at
Brazori;,, Texas.
Three bills, permitting the licensing of
racing tracks, have been passed by the
! New Jersey Legislature. Governor
Weris vetoed the measures.
Dr. Joseph Gardner, of Indiana, has
donated to the American National Red
Cross valuable tract of land at Bedford,
Ind, as home for the society.
Governor Pattison has appointed Judge
Heydrick, of Franklin County, to sue
coed Chief Justice Paxson on the Su-
! preme Bench of Pennsylvania.
The Governor of Wyoming has ap-
pointed A. G. Beckwith, Democrat.
United States Senator, the legislature
| having failed to make a choice.
A robber who attempted to hold up the
railroad operator at lola, Kan, was shot
| down by the operator before he could U.s.
| his pistol and was fatally wounded
| The bay and rivers of New York have
been badly blocked with ice ana the fer
ryboats and all shipping have foun
| difficult navigation i'll the heavy pack
Paying Teller Peter I. E. Smith, of
has confessed to having embezzlad $50
| COG, and surrendered himself to custody.
The Populist majority in the Kansas
Senate forced suspension of rules and
passed resolution declaring the Supreme
| Court had no jurisdiction over the Legis
lature
Inspector Mclaughlin, Of New York,
arrested Stephen G. Broadwell, the
famous counterfeiter and swinlier, who
is wanted for defrauding the banks OF
Detroit and Cincinnati.
| Hilton Barker, one of the firm of Lon
don bankers, who failed recently for
$3,O00.000, killed himself owing to de.
spondency over his arrest for frauds in
| connection with the failure
President-elect Cleveland completed
his cabinet by the appointment of Rich
ard Olney, of Boston, as his Attorney
General, and Hilary A. Herbert, of Ala
bama, as Secretary of the Navy.
The railroads in New York State have
been seriously blocked by the heavy
storms. Trains on the trunk lines for the
west have been delayed for hours and
immigrant trains blocked for days.
The Navy Department has been in
formed of the arrival of the gunboat
Bennington and the cruiser Newark al
the Canary Islands with the Columbu:
caravels, Nina and Pinta, in convoy.
Memphis is threatened with duel
The son of Judge Duboise. of the Grim
inal Court, has posted Editor E. W. Cur.
mack as liar, scou ,drel and coward on
account of the latter's newspaper attac K
on his father.
| Surgeons in the Sou h Side Hospital
Pittsburg, cut off both feet and boil
hands Of Samuel Price, railroader
whose extremities were frozen durins
exposure in the early part of the winter
Such all amputation is exceedingly rare
The French colony in New York is w
ill arms against the use of the name
French ball" for the disgraceful mas
Querade held yearly under that name
They declare that there are 80, 900 Frenci
residents of New York, and that the bal
is simply a money making scheme of {
few people.
The Princess Kaiulani. heiress to tn.
throne of Hawaii, who has been STAYING
with her guardian, Mr.. T. Davies, a
Southport, England, sailed on the leu
tonic for New York. She will presen
her case to the United States Government
and ask for a regency and the throne O
Hawaii on her coming of age.
The Inman Line steamer City of New
York, which with its sister sip, the CIT,
of Paris, has been given an American
register, was formerly taken under TIN,
protection of the Stars and Stripes in
New York harbor, President Harrison
raising the national flag over the vessel.
In the future it will be called the New
York.
| A special from Washington to New
York dashed into way train from Yves
Chester just above the South Stree
|, (Philadelphia1 Station on the Phla
delphia, Wilmington G Baltimore Rail
way and four people were killed ant
eighteen others were injured. ALI tn
killed and injured were in the next tc
the last car of the West Chester accom-
mediation.
Local and municipal elections through
out Pennsylvania showed some peculia
off-year results Philadelphia, as usual
went heavily Republican,, but Pittsbure
elected a Democratic Mayor and cit,
officers, and Reading, the greatest Demo
OF, rl,pl1