The Washington bee., 1893-09-02

Worlds Fair on Sunday last.
Extensive improvements are to be
made in the New York Post-O Office
Mr.. BIount will probably be the Dem.
| ocratic nominee for Governor of Geor-
gia.
All of the Denver banks will proba-
! bly, reopen without loss to the deposi-
tors.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher celebrated
7 her eighty-second birthday on Saturday
last.
Forty mine japanese Illegally landed
at San Francisco have been sent back
to British Columbia.
The Cherokee Strip will be opened
for settlers at II o'clock noon on Sat
urday, September 16
The Maharajah of Kapurthala sailed
| for Europe from New York delighted
| with his American trip.
Spencer, Trask & Co., New York
| bankers, have gone into liquidation and
will pay all obligations in full.
Ex-Congressman John f. Russell, of
| Massachusetts, is likely to be the DEM
| ocratic candidate for Governor.
New York saloon-keepers wish the
| State Liquor Dealers Association to
take action abolishing the free lunch.
The coal mines at Buttonwood. Pa,
| abandoned twenty-five years ago, will
| be opened, giving 1000 employees
| work.
The Democratic State Committee of
| New York has decided to hold the
State Convention at Saratoga Octo-
| ber 5.
| The New York State Fair will be held
| at Syracuse September IA and 15.
There will be $4,000 offered in pre-
| miums.
The Iowa Democrats renominated
| Governor Horace Boies by acclama-
ton. Lieut.-Gov. Boston was likewise
| renominated
By the death Of the Prince of Sake
| Coburg, the Duke of Edinburgh sue
| ceeds to the throne Of that German
| principality.
| Mrs. Ann Hyde, the noted centenar-
| ian and oldest person in the Hudson
River Valley, died at Fishkill, aged 1O4
| years, months and 26 days.
| Eleven girls were injured by the ex-
| plOSiOn of a steam mangle in the Hell
| Gate laundry, No. 24S East One Hun
L
| The Republicans of the Senate say
| they propose to push the investigation
| into the right of Mr. Martin to hold his
seat as Senator from the State of
| Kansas.
| Gen. John Palmer will ask the G. A.
Il. Grand Encampment at Indianapolis
| in September to provide for the perna-
| nent care of Gen. Grants Mt. Me-
| Gregor cottage.
| Prince Komatso Yoratio, of Japan,
second in the line of imperial success
| sion, arrived in Chicago Saturday to
see the Fair. He is accompanied by a
| considerable suit.
Deputy Sheriff t. A Cunningna n,
| of Welch, w Va, an officer we'll
| known in five Southern States, has
been shot dead by Eugene Robinson,
| fugitive murderer.
| Mrs. J. D. Blood, Of Amsterdam, n
Y, was ascending Pixies Peak last
| week apparently in the best of health
At the Halfway House the altitude
became too great for her. and she was
taken back to the city, where she died
Superintendent Preston, in his report
On the condition of the Madison Square
Bank, New York, shows that the capi-
tai is impaired to the extent of $371,-
312.O3. No irregularity was found in
the management Of the bank.
Billy Plimmer, the little English BAN
tam champion pugilist, defeated George
Dixon, the colOred feather-weight
champion, in a fOur-round match for
points at Madison Square Garden, New
York.
After sleeping through two years
Bridget Prendergast woke at last at
the Central Hospital for the Insane at
indianapolis. She was twenty-six
years old when she fell into her
strange cataleptic slumber. Now she
| is twenty-eight and is dying.
Boston friends of the Paine cup de-
fender Jubilee have by no means given
up the hope that she will be the boat
selected to meet the Valkyrie, in spite
of her repeated defeats by the Vigilant
The Jubilee is to be put in the best
racing trim.
The relations between France and
Italy are growing worse. In France
there are frequent riots between Ital-
ian and French workmen, and in Italy
anti-French manifestations continue in
spite of the earnest desire of both
| Governments to restore order.
A special from Kingwood, w. Va,
says that Sam Yeager, one Of the IA
nous Cooley gang, which operated on
the Pennsylvania border, has escaped
from Jail at that place. He was to
have been tried next week for COM
plicity in the murder Of old man Xope.
The jury at San Francisco in the case
of NJ B. Curtis "Saml Of Posen," for
the murder Of Policeman Grant re.
turned a verdict of acquittal The jury
on the first ballot stood to for ac-
quittal. This was the third trial of Cur
tbs. The jury in the first two trials
disagreed.
The thirty-day time limit in the case
of New York and Brooklyn savings
banks expired this week, and the
banks were ready to meet their custo-
mers. The general report is that the
depositors are increasing daily and
that within week or two everything
will be in good shape again.
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