The Washington bee., 1893-05-06
TELEGRAPHlc BRIEFS.

make the German representative at
Washington an Ambassador.
The list of casualties by last weeks
cyclone in Oklahoma Territory, foots up
fully 100 killed and 500 injured.
Queen Victoria. who has past several
weeks in Florence, Italy, arrived with
her suite at Windsor Castle.
"Dave" Dishler, on trial for helping
"Bunco King" O'Brien to escape, was
acquitted at Rome, N. Y.
The Ohio Republican State Convention
will be held at Columbus on June and s,
The old ticket will be renominated.
1t is probable that the trial of Lizzie
Borden for the murder of her parents
will begin in June. at Fall River, Mass
Senator Proctor, of Vermont, and two
local capitalists will build at Kenville,
Tenn, the largest marble mill in the
world.
The failure of the Union Loan and
Trust Company, at Sioux City, Iowa,
has carried down number of business
houses.
The Canadian Pacific Railway officials
have completed plans for line of steam
ships between Vancouver and Sidney,
Australia.
For allowing Murderers Pallister and
Roehl to escape from Sing Sing, Keep
ers Hulse, Murphy and Glynn have been
dismissed.
A syndicate has been formed in Chi
cago for the purchase of the jeff Davis
mansion or Confederate White House,
at Richmond. Va.
An effort is being made to raise the
gunboat, Scraps, sunk in the war of
1912 at Upper Marlboro, Nd, for exhibit
ton at the Worlds Fair.
Aged 64 and a widower, J. A. E.
Gibbs. inventor of the Wilcox & Gibbs
sewing m achine, will marry Miss Maggie
Craig, of S taunton, Va, aged 25.
Canada's Government will give 81, 900
to the families of the Cuttyhunk, (Mass.)
life saving crew, lost in trying 0 rescue
the men of the st. John brig Acquatic.
The statistics of cigar manufacture in
the Ninth Revenue District of Pennsyl-
vania for the year 1892 give that district
rank as probably the first in the country.
Andrew T. Sullivan has been appointed
postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y, vice
George S. Collins, deceased. He has
been connected with the Office for the
past seven years.
DR.. William Everett was elected to
Congress in the Seventh Massachusetts,
to succeed Representative Lodge, who
resigned to become q. S. Senator. He
is son of Edward Everett.
J.C. Haven, Memphis (Tenn) proof
reader, disappeared, and so did David
Lampkin's wife. 1t is now believed they
eloped on $4,000 of Lampkin's money,
and they are being hunted on the Pacific
coast.
A telegram was received at the De
partment of State from the United States
Minister at Constantinople reporting the
settlement of the Marsovan incident, the
burning Of the American College at
Marsovan.
President Cleveland, when questioned
by business men and others who we're
anxious for an early session of Congress,
is said to have named September as the
date when he will call the national legis-
lators together.
/ News was brought to the Adjutant
General of Colorado at Denver that the
Navajo Indians in New Mexico had be-
gun hostile demonstration against the
white settlers and killed eight of them.
Troops will be sent to quell the trouble.
The hearing of evidence before Com,
missioner Raines in the Carlyle Harris
case took place in New York. A num-
ber of witnesses testified to Helen Potts
buying and taking morphine pills, but
this testimoney was controverted by ply
sicians and friends of the dead girl
SmokeIess powder, manufactured a!
the Government works at Newport, has
been tested, with satisfactory results, in
guns up to six inches calibre, and the USE
of ordinary gunpowder is likely to be
abandoned in military Or naval opera
tions in which small arms or rapid firing
guns are the chief weapons
The Register at Stanford University
announces that ex- President Harrison
will begin his course of lectures on inter
national law next October, when tn,
new school of law will be opened. Be
sides general instruction in law, tn
course includes training in branche
that will fit students for the public ser
vice.
Captain Gilbert G. Wiltse, u. S. N.
died in New York from congestion O
the brain, after six days illness. H
had been in the navy about thirty-eight
years, fifteen of which was sea service
His last duty was the command of tn,
Boston. from which he was detached
about four months ago, and placed OF
waiting orders. He commanded thu
Boston during the trouble in Hawaii
when our flag was raised over the isl
ands.
The finishing work upon the World
Fair buildings and exhibits has bee,
pushed with tremendous energy by
great army of workmen, aud the Expo
sition was formerly opened on Monday
May /, according to the previou
proclamation. Like all the precedin
Worlds Fairs since 1850, however, tn
opening at Chicago was considerably i
| adyanca of the comnlation of the fai