The Washington bee., 1893-10-14
fhere is a grca scarcity of silver In

There is grca scarcity OF silver in
italy.
More than co 100 miners have re.
sumed work in ,uth Wales.
Several war vessels will be concen.
trated by our Government in Chinese
waters.
ExPresident Harrison has returned
to his home in Indianapolis. He is in
good health.
Zimmerman. t'1e bicycle champion,
has heart trouble. He has been warned
to take rest.
Several cases Of cholera have oc-
eurred at Grimsby, a seaport in Lin
colnshire, England.
A young Scotch woman, Miss Leal
broke the bank at Monte Carlo, win.
ming 100000 in one hour, after week
\ Of remarkable luck.
Six young men were lost by the cap.
sizing of the yacht Alpha in Lake
Champlain, near Port Henry.
A trolley car in Cincinnati ran away,
jumped the track and crashed into a
saloon. Eight persons were killed and
neal-y forty injured.
Labor day was generally observed.
In New York city 10000 men marched,
and $1,000 in Brooklyn. Anarchists at
I ftempted no demonstration.
e The mills of the Falcon Iron Com
kpany at Niles, O., which have been
shut down for months, have resumed,
tgiving employment to 1000 men.
The old Van Rensselaer, manor house
| at Albany, erected in 1865, is to be de-
.;nI- oT - 4,
CONSTRUCTED were brought from Hol-
land.
The Carnegie steel mills in all de-
Epartments started in full Monday
morning. The resumption gives en-
/ ployment to 1000 men, who have been
| idle for several weeks.
Pierre Lorillard, the owner of the
Rancocas stables, will sell all his rae
ing horses, including Lamplighter, for
whom he paid $4,000 year ago. LII
health is given as the cause.
France has given Siam three months
In which to accept the new conditions
presented by the special French envoy.
1t is probable that England and China
will both support Siam in resisting the
new articles.
Among the passengers on La Cham
payne, which arrived Saturday night,
was NJ Bartholdi, the famous French
sculptor and creator of the Statue of
Liberty He comes over to visit the
Worlds Fair.
A big cloudburst is reported at Guy
ton, on the Central Railroad, thirty
miles from Savannah, Ga. The people
were caught on the street and country
nd ho6 70 fa,. 11air
Bridges were washed away.
France was excited over the second
ballots for members Of the Chamber
Of Deputies on Sunday last There
were 164 second ballots to be taken.
Immense excitement was caused by
the news of the defeat of M. Clemen-
ceau, chief Of the Radicals. by M.
Jourdan. The result was to strength
en- the Government
Investigation shows that the accident
on the Boston and Albany Railroad, in
Massachusetts, was caused by the Grim
inal carelessneSs Of the bridge repair
ers, who removed the rivets from 4
section of the bridge truss and then
went to their dinner, regardless of the
fact that the express would pass over
the bridge before their return.
The famous murder case Of DR.. T.
Thatcher Graves, formerly of Provi
dence r. l., has at last been settled
The doctor was found dead in his cell
at the county jail in Denver, where he
was awaiting a rehearing on the charge
of having poisoned Mrs. Josephine Bar
naby, wealthy widow, also of Provi.
dence. In a brief note he stated the
reason for his suicide: Died from per
secution-worn out-eXhauSted.'