The Washington bee., 1893-06-10
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS.


New Orleans druggist, to hang himself.
Rear Admiral Gheradi has assumed
command of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Crown Prince of Italy arrived in
Berlin and was welcomed by the Kaiser.
A black spiders bite caused the death
of 4-year-old child at Hammondsport,
N. Y.
The coast defense monitor Monterey
proved satisfactory in an extended sea
trial trip.
Jack" McAuliffe, the champion light
weight pugilist, has gone to England to
try to get on match.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
passed resolutions calling for the repeal
of the Sherman silver purchase law.
Miss Marion Phelps, daughter of ex-
Minister William Walter Phelps, was
married at Berlin to DR.. Won Rottenburg.
The German Government has made it
known that it will not insist upon the
adoption of the army bill in its entirety.
The Coney Island suicide is identified
as Edwin G.. Harris, 80 years old, and a
drummer for Murrell & Keiser, of Balti-
more.
Brooklyn has been flooded with coun-
terfeit $5 bills of the series of 1885, and
two Italians have been arrested for pass
ing one of them.
The net May income of the Chicago
fair was $250,0O0. The entire income
was about $750,000, and the expenses
about $l25, 900 per week.
Townsend, the man arrested on the
charge of intending to kill Mr.. Gladstone,
was sentenced to be imprisoned in an
asylum on the ground of insanity.
1t is said Duke Ernest of Schleswig-
Holstein, the brother of the Empress of
Germany, will visit the Worlds Fair as
the representative of the German En-
pire.
The agitation carried on by the young
Czecks in Bohemia has reached such
seditious pitch that Austria may be
forced to proclaim the country in a state
of siege.
A new trust, to be known as the Amer
lean Flint Bottle Company, is about to
be launched. 1t proposes to take in all
flint bottle factories west of the Allie
ghanies
Edwin Partridge, the Chicago specu-
lator, was held in 81, 900 bail upon the
charge of abducting 16-year-old girl.
His bondsman declared it was case of
blackmail.
The knighthood honors dispensed by
Queen Victoria Oh the occasion of her
recent birthday have fallen upon large
number of newspaper men of Liberal
tendencies.
President Cleveland will have more
appointments of major generals and
brigadier generals during his administra-
tion than have fallen to any President
since the war.
Michigan, following the example Of
Kansas, has passed law allowing wom-
en- to vote at municipal elections, with
the qualification that they must be able
to read and write.
Another great hotel, the New Neither
lands, built by William Waldorf Astor,
has been opened in New York. 1t is
seventeen stories high, and is gorgeous
in its architecture and fittings. 1t cost
$3,0OO.0O0.
From what one of the War Depart
ment's commissioners now looking over
the battlefield of Gettysburg said it is
believed the commission will decide
against the electric railway and order it
off the battlefield.
According to reports from all parts OF
the country, no serious split in the Pres
byterian Church will result from the
sentence of Rev. DR.. Briggs and the
formal separation of the Church from
Union and Lane Seminaries.
A statement prepared by Comptroller
Eckels shows that since Jan. up to
June 1, twenty national banks with a
capital of SO, 150, 900 have failed, against
seven national banks with a capital of
$625, 900 for the corresponding period of
1892.
Robert T. Lincoln, ex-Minister to
England, has returned to his home in
Chicago, and will resume his law prac-
tice. Mr.. Lincoln said that he was en-.
tirely out of politics and had no longing
except to pass the remainder of his life
as a private citizen.
In the international billiard match ip
London, between the English champion
Roberts and the American champion
Ives, the latter made run of 2, $50 points,
placing him over 1000 points ahead.
The game was English. at which Roberts
was supposed to have no rival
The failure of natural gas at F'indlay,
o. has killed the business boom there.
There are already 600 empty dwellings
in the town. The statement is confirmed
that all the glass manufacturers have
signed an agreement to move their plants
from the town not later than July 1. 1t
is estimated that this exodus will take
4, 900 people from the place. Most of
the manufacturers will locate in Indi-
ana gas fields.
Speaking of the question of reducing