The Washington bee., 1893-01-07
rELEeRAPHlc BRIEFS.


heavy snow storm.
By a fire in Liverpool 5000 bales of
cotton were destroyed.
The steel works of Carnegie's Home.
stead plant have closed down for re-
pairs.
Senator Sherman says the anti-option
bill will pass the Senate unless talked to
death.
Cholera at Hamburg is increasing and
five suspected cases were found among
the troops.
Statesmen at Washington are discus
sing basis Of compromise on the silver
question.
The real estate brokers in New York
city sold property worth in the aggre-
gate $40, 100000 last year.
Dartmouth College has received be-
quest of $ls0,00O from the late Ralph
Butterfield, of Kansas City.
The Paris savant, NJ. Pasteur, was
given medal and a reception by his
admirers on his 10th birthday.
A Brooklyn man in a duel at the
gambling resort at Monte Carlo, shot the
Russian Count Romanoff dead.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming has
rendered a decision adverse to the Re-
publicans in the Sena torial contest.
The general anthracite sales agents
fixed the output for January at 2, 75O, 900
tons aud male no change in prices.
SPEAKER Crisp W i'll visit President-elect
Cleveland and it is believed that Crisp's
reelection to the speakership is assured.
For alleged smuggling ON the Canada
border, DR.. j. Alexander Borst, of Phila-
delphia, was taken 60 Albany, N. Y, for
trial.
The story is confirmed of battle over
mining claims at the San Ju IN gold fields
| in Utah in which two mn were killed
and over 100 injured.
Anarchistic riots near Amsterdam and
in other places in Holland resulted in
number OF persons being killed by the
police and military.
A serious state of affiirs is reported in
| Africa, near Wadelai and on the Upper
Nile. The dervishes in Southern Egypt
| have also renewed hostilities.
The Supreme Court of Wyoming an
nounced a decision in favor of the Demo.
Gratis in the contested legislative cases,
| giving the organization to that party.
A West Liberty, Ohio. mob tried to
lynch Grant Jackson, mulatto, who mar
ried Bessie Hinlsley, white, and White
Caps have ordered negroes TO leave
town.
Paris is excited over the theory that
Baron de Reinach, who was supp ,sed to
have committed suicide, was murdered
to suppress his knowledge of the canal
| scandals.
William P. st. John gave a theatre
party in New York exclusively com
posed of Northern people in honor OF
Miss Winnie Davis. the daughter of the
Confederacy.
Mount Vernon and George Washing.
toms grave and its surroundings will be
reproduced as Virginia's exhibit at th.
Worlds Fair. The State will expend
S25, 900 on this exhibit.
Thirteen new cases of typhus fever
were repnrted in New York, but the
Board fargAa1tJk. 'o,5rIeve Jnet nave TN,
disease well in hand and that there is n,
danger of an epidemic.
1t is believed that the only names de
cided upon by Mr.. Cleveland for his
Cabinet are those of Lamont, Carlisle
and Gray. Members of his former cabi
NET facline to enter tho nav
John Duss has been elected leader o
the Economics, at Economy, Pa, il
place of Father Joseph Henrici. The 8.
spinsters and bachelors composing tin,
society are believed to OWN $50, 900, 900
1t is claimed that the colored boy, a
| the Jam esburg, N. j., reform school
who has excited scientific inquiry by hi
long fasting, has maintained life by
stealing oil and rubbing it over hi
stomach.
At st. Peters Catholic Church il
Poughkeepsie. N. Y, the Rev. Fathe
Milan Oh Sunday warned his congrega
ton not to attend Monday evenings per
torrance by "The Man from Boston
John L. Sullivan).
The last immigrant of the old year wh'
was landed at New York's Ellis IslanC
station was John Murphy, IA years o
age. from County Cork, Ireland. He hat
been preceded by AS, ,476 immigrants a
that port during the year.
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, editor of tn
Magazine of american History, died i,
her apartments ut the Cplem IN House,
New York, on Monday. Her death was
due to p 'eumonia. She was on, of TIN
most eminent Of American women o
letters.
The Mexic an Government has secured
it is reported, an elaborate pronuncia
mento of the revolutionists. in which
they declare for return to govern
ment under the constitution Of 1859
Two hundred prominent Mexicans ar
Implicated
party engaged in watching cock
fight in the third-story room of Il build
ing near Norwich, Conn, were surround
ed by the police, whereupo, they leaped
pell-mell from the windows, one being
killed and all of the others more or les
injured. A number of arrests wer,
made