The Washington bee., 1893-09-30
TElEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

The strike of 'lOngshorempn hos
1apsed after fitful fight of ten.5oO en- Sot'
The Republican State conypntior
been called to meet at Syracuse ON iias GaN
tober 10. W
Since the first of August fortvo
suspended national banks have ras,,tl s,Sn'
ed business.
The total net receipts Of gold in W
York from Europe in the paSf ''sH e;
weeks have been $345-S. .3.4. IN
The great Brooklyn Futuritv raoo
Sheepshead Bay was Won by Dnrniraa' ~
who captured S49,715 in stakes ''''0'
A Chinese mob near Men Yann 1o,.
ed a Catholic chapel and destrovpd ~.
houses of several native converts e
R. ID. Wrenn won the tennis cb,a,
piOnship of the United States n NJ
port The winner is a Harvard man VI"
The English Admiralty has dec,jos
to continue building battleSbinS ~
spite of the disaster to the Victoria "
Mrs. Lucy Hooper, the We'll kDou,u
writer and art critic, died in por;l
after a lingering illness, aged fiftr
eight.
Stories of President CarnOt's sario,.
illness are pronounced untrue bv tbo
Paris correspondent of the London
Times.
Mystery surrounds the case Of r r
Shortell, st. Louis passenger arant
found dying of morphine poisoning in
q park.
There were 100000 paid admissions
to the Chicago Fair last week Tho
end of summer is bringing great crowds
to the Fair.
Democrats and Republicans in Sew.
ard County, Kansas, will unite in =
joint county convention to nominate
ticket against the POpulists
Jack o. Myers, the burglar wbo
made a sensational escape from the
Ton1bs prison, New York city, LAST
July, has been recaptured
Two ChOctaw ringleaders, Sillan
Lewis and Simon Wade, will be eye
cuted at Maca1lister, l. T., September
8, while others will get new trial
Women suffragists in Kansas will
open campaign in favor of equal suf
frage in Kansas City September and
2. Many women will take the stump.
During the past six weeks over 90.
100000 bushels of wheat have been ex.
ported to Europe. In the corresponding
period of last year less than 20.OO0OOO
bushels were exported.
Between March 4, 1893, and August
30, 1898, the total number of pensions
of all classes granted under the Gen.
eral law was 26,42C, and under the act
of June %, 1890, the total was 24S5l
Governor Flower has recommended
the suspension of Supt. BrOckway of
the Elmira, n. Y, RefOrmatory pend
ing investigation of the charges Of
brutality made against him by the
New York World and other papers.
Abe Buzzard, ex-highwayman. is the
chief figure in a camp meeting now
being held in a grove in East Nothing
ham township, about a mile from Lin.
coin Station, Pa. Big Frank Carr,
who is now at RawlinSville, is expect.
ed later
Since the filing of the settlement of
the Ann ArbOr Railroads suit against
Chief Locomotive Engineer Arthur the
terms of settlement have been diSclOS
ed. Arthur pays $500 and the costs
specified to settle the case.
The London Standards Paris CORE
spOndent says that NJ. FlOquet. on leav
ing a stormy political meeting in the
Rue Ang0uleme Friday, was stoned by
a mob of 5000 persons. Two reyOE
yer shots were fired into his carriage
but he escaped without injury. Many
persons were hurt in the scuffie.
The Abe Lincoln command of the
Union Veterans Union has withdrawn
from that organization and SURRENDERED
it's charter. The cause is said to be
due to an order issued prior to the last
national election by Gen. W. H. Mich
ael, Commander of the Department Of
the Potomac.
Governor Flower has commuted to
Imprisonment for life the sentence OF
Edward Geoghan, who was TO have
been executed at Sing Sing Prison dur
ing the week beginning September
for the murder of his wife. The
ground upon which the Governor based
his action is that of the insanity of the
convict
Through the inability of the NicaF
ague Canal and Construction Company
to sell it's securities, the famous cor
pOration has failed. With Presldenf
Warner Miller's consent and appr0F&i
Thomas B. Atkins, of New York, WI"
appointed by Judge Benedict as recelF
er of the company, with $4,000 bond"
upon the application Of louis ChoDic