The Washington bee., 1893-11-11
TEIEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

The strike of lOngshoremen hos.
lapsed after titful fight Of ter M doN rOt
The Republican State eonventior 20 ~.
been called to meet at Syracuse On Ias o'E
tober 10. Oe'
Since the first of August fortv-o;os.
suspended national banks have raSTnl Isn't
ed business. uiii'
The total net receipts OF gold in M
York from Europe in the naSt CIV e,
weeks have been $34, ,57S,354 S3
The great Brooklyn Futurity poo =.
SheepShead Bay was won by n ! rT5 'T,i,a a.
who captured $49,715 in stakes ''IO'
y Chinese mob near Men Yam loo.
ed a Catholic chapel and destroy = .|I'' ,S-
houses of several native converts e
K. ID. Wrenn won the tennis .bau,
pinnship of the United States At Nm ,I,l'
port. The winner is Harvard man
The English Admiralty has dacd.,
to continue building battlesbinS ~
spite of the disaster to the Victoria
Mrs. Lucy Hooper, the weu-knov,
writer and art critic, died in psr;r
after a lingering illness, aged ff+S
eight
Stories of President Carnot's sArio,,,
Illness are pronounced untrue bv tba
Paris correspondent Of the London
Times
Mystery surrounds the case of t
ShOrtell, st. Louis passenger 9cnn+
found dying Of morphine POISONING in
park.
There were 100000 paid admissions
to the Chicago Fair last week. Tbs
end Of summer is bringing great crowds
to the Fair.
Democrats and Republicans in Sou.
ard County, Kansas, will unite in =
joint county convention to nominate
ticket against the POpulists.
Jack D. Myers, the burglar WIN
made a sensational escape from the
Tombs prison, New York CITY. last
July, has been recaptured.
Two Choctaw ringleaders, SiTIan
Lewis and Simon Wade, will be pyp.
cuted at Macallister, I. T., September
8, while others will get a 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 stumn.
During the past six weeks over &c.
100000 bushels of wheat have been ex-
ported to Europe. In the corresponding
period of last year less than 2O,OO)O 900
bushels were exported.
Between March 4, 1898, and Arg1,s,
30, 1893, the total number of pensions
of all classes granted under the gen.
eral law was 26,42G, and under the act
Of June 27, 1890, the total was 24,S51.
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 IL camp meeting now
being held in grove in East Noting.
ham township, about a mile from Lin.
coin Station, Pa. Big Frank" Carr.
who is now at Rawlinsville, is expeet.
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. FIoquet. on Ieav.
ing a stormy political meeting in the
Rue AngOuleme Friday, was stoned BY
a mob of 5000 persons. Two revoE
yer shots were fired into his carriage,
but he escaped without injury Mny
persons were hurt in the scuffle.
The Abe Lincoln command of the
Union Veterans Union has withdrawn
from that organization and SURRENDERED
its charter. The cause is said to be
due to an order issued prior to the last
national election by Gen. w. II. Mich
ael, Commander of the Department Of
the Potomac
Governor Flower has commuted to
for life the sentence OF
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 Nicar.
ague Canal and Construction Company
to sell its securities, the famous cor
poration has failed. With President
Warner Miller's consent and approval
B. Atkins, of New York, Wl
appointed by Judge Benedict rs receiV'
er Of the company, with $4,000 bo1ds'