The Washington bee., 1893-04-15
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.


| Reports reached Berlin that Emin
Pasha had been murdered by the ma
| tiyes.
| The Home Rule bill is in discussion
in the House of Commons on its second
reading.
The greater New York" bill was
killed in the New York Senate by an ad-
verse vote of 13 to II.
An extra session of the Kansas Leg is
lature will be held about May 15 to
restrict railroad rates.
The public debt statement for March
shows reduction of $1,95s,173 The
receipts were $34, ,437, ,S44 and the expen-
ditures $as, 1893.
Mrs. Montagu, who was sentenced one
year ago in Dublin for causing the death
of her little child, was released after full
filling the penalty.
The elections in Kansas resulted in Re-
| publican success. Women voted in large
numbers, but the women candidates did
not get their votes.
| Carter Harrison's majority over Aller-
ton in the Chicago Mayorality fight will
be about 10000. The City Council is
Republican by a small majority.
Charley Mitchell has agreed to meet
Jim Corbett at Coney Island in December
next, and the battle will take place there
if the authorities do not interfere.
| The Colombian Government has grant
ed an extension of twenty months to give
opportunity for the organization of a
new Panama Canal company.
| Speaker Crisp has left Washing ton, {,
for his Southern home satisfied that he
| would have no opposition for reelection
when Congress meets in September.
| Valuable finds have been made in the
old Indian mounds at Martins Ferry, o.,
bones, skulls. implements and bits of
| jewelry having been secured in great
profusion.
Mrs. w. j. Knight, of Dubuque, Ia,
who was in Chicago, carried 81 900 worth
of diamonds in her pocket, fearing to
leave them in her room, and while out
walking lost them.
Secretary Gresham has issued a card
| stating that the American repres enta-
tives in Paris on the Behring Sea case
will be backed by the Government fnan-
cially and otherwise
Attempts to circulate a petition at
Asbury Park, N j., for the pardon of
Carlyle Harris, proved a failure. The
feeling against Harris is bitter, as he ran
a disorderly house in the place.
President McLeod's resignatio on from
all connection with the Reading is taken
to mean in Boston that he will in the flu
ture reside there and devote his atten-
ton to the Boston & Maine and the New
England.
News from Hawaii bearing the date of
March 30 tells of the arrival there at that
time of ex-Ccngressman Blount. the
United States Commissioner sent by
the President to investigate the condition
of the island.
The steamer used by the Sultan fol
his own pleasure and to convey guests
and members of his household foun-
dered near Constantinople and it is be-
lieved that sixty persons on board at the
time perished.
|
Carolina, which goes into effect on July
1, gives the entire control Of liquor sell
ing into the hands of the State, liquor
not being obtainable except from auth
orized dispensaries.
A meeting will probably soon be held il
New York to urge upon the Englisi
Government the release from prison OF
Irish political offenders confined for ter
[ years and the establishment Of amnesty
for Irish exiles now in this country.
Monsignor Satolli, in answer to the re
quest of w. D. Kennedy, Inspector Gen
eral of the Knights of Pythias, said tina
order was not under the ban of the
Catholic Church and that the Bishops
were investigating secret societies il
general.
Judge Barrett, in New York, refused
to grant the clothing manufacturers {
permanent injunction restraining the gar
ment cutters from injuring their bust
ness by boycott or otherwise, and dis
; ; missed the preliminary injunction
already granted.
Mrs. NJ. w. Caldwell, negress o1
| DIoohlyu, EeCelVeu HOuO udiudSeS III Cn'
United States Circuit Court from tn
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail
road Company, which, although she ha(
frst-class ticket, forced her to ride il
. the car set apart for blacks.
6 NJ. Dupuy has succeeded in forming
+. French Cabinet. He announced that TIN
\ Panama scandal should not interfere witt
Parliament's duty to the people. 1t i
: thought the budget discussion will b
finished by Saturday. NJ. Develle an
nounced the extension of the Panam
concessions.
The State election in Rhode Island re
suited in neither party having a major
ity. Baker, Democratic candidate fo
: Governor, has small plurality, an
both Democratic candidates for Congress
have pluralities, but, as pluralities do no
} elect, new elections must be held.