The Washington bee., 1893-10-28
fElEeRAPHIc ssIsrs

| The strike of 'lOngshoremon
lapsed after fitful Aght Of tan ~as , col
The Republican State convoDtIa uaS&
been called to meet at SyracnSo on ~ has
| tOber 10. 1Se On De
Since the first of August fort
suspended national banks have rosg slgnt
ed business. reSum.
Inc total net receipts Of gold in Y.
YORK from Europe in the naa. NeW
weeks have been $34. SIS 354 p"S' SIX
The great BROOKLYN Futur;+r
Sheepshead Bay was won by Dom,
who captured $49,715 in stakes DO''llnO,
A Chinese mob near Mien yon
ed a Catholic chapel and destrovsea' 'oV' W
houses OF several native converts Tue
r. ID. Wrenn won the +ApDis
piOnship of the United States =. nam Nd
port. The winner is Harvard man
The English Admiralty has doo;s.,
to continue building battIesbinSa q
spite Of the disaster to the Victor;s u
Mrs. Lucy Hooper, the well-knOu-
writer and art critic, died in po%a por'l
after a lingering illness, aged Sfts @
eight. uity'
Stories of President Carnot's S0r;ou.
illness are pronounced untrue bv tS
Paris correspondent Of the L0nSns
Times Auoa
Mystery surrounds the case Of TT
ShOrteil, st. Louis passenger ayor.
found dying Of morphine POISONING ~
park. ~
There were 100000 paid admission,
to the Chicago Fair last week TSs
end OF summer is bringing great crowds
to the Fair. ''N'us
Democrats and Republicans in Saw
ard County, Kansas, will unite In :
joint county convention to Nominate I.
ticket against the POpulists.
Jack o. Myers, the burglar VII,
made q sensational escape from tbs
Tombs prison, New York CITY, lac,
July, has been recaptured.
Two Choctaw ringleaders. Suo,
Lewis and Simon Wade, will be eTa'
cuted at Macallister, I. T., Septembs,
8, while others will get a new trial
Women suffragists in Kansas will
open a campaign in favor Of equal snf'
frage in Kansas City September / and
2. Many women will take the stumn
During the past six weeks over -.
0O0, 900 bushels of wheat have been az.
ported to Europe In the corresponding
period OF last year less than 20OO0001
bushels were exported
Between March 4, 1893, and Augus
30, 1893, the total number Of pensions
OF all classes granted under the gan.
eral law was 6,426, and under the ae,
OF June q, 1890, the total was 24S51
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 ths
New York World and other papers.
Abe Buzzard, ex-highwayman, is the
chief figure in camp meeting now
being held in a grove in East Noting
ham township. about a mile from Lin.
coin Station, Pa. Big Frank" Carr
who is now at RawlinsYille, is expect
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 FlOquet, on leay
ing a stormy political meeting in the
Rue Angouleme Friday, was stoned by
mob of 5000 persons. Two reVOk
yer shots were fired into his carriage
but he escaped without injury. Many
persons were hurt in the scuffle
The Abe Lincoln command of the
Union Veterans Union has Withdrawn
from that organization and SURRENDERED
it's 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 eommuted to
Imprisonment for life the sentence Of
Edward 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 Nicaf
ague Canal and Construction Company
to sell it's securities, the famous cor
pOration has failed. With President
Warner Miller's consent and approval
Thomas B. Atkins, of New York, Wn
appointed by Judge Benedict as recel'
er Of the company, with $4,000 bonds