The Washington bee., 1893-11-18
THIS WEEKS NEWS,
A Summary Of Current EVents-The Worlds
0Oings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

more C1ty STOCK mas been sold
Lillian Russell's marriage with Fd
ward Solomon has been annulled
Sylvia Grey, the London Gaiety act.
ress, has married rich Australian
One man was killed and several wars
injured by caye-in on Goat Island
The net value of the estate Of tho
late Edwin Booth is nearly $500.OO0
The Republicans Of Boston have
nominated Thomas n. Hart for Mayor
The United States Supreme Cour+
decides the great lakes to be high seas
The New York Excise Commissioners
have refused license to Tom Gould's
dive.
Spanish troops are now concentrated
at Melilla-
Prince Pedro has started for a French
seaport, whence, it is said, he will sail
for Brazil.
1t has been decided to allow the
Worlds Fair buildings to stand through
next summer.
The independent glass manufactur.
ers have formed combine to fight the
Flint glass trust.
Brunswick, Ga. has been visited bv
frost, and the yellow fever epidemic is
practically ended.
city and Brooklyn under one city char.
ter has been revived.
The Governor of Florida has direct.
ed the Sheriff of DuyaI County to pre.
vent the Corbett-Mitchel prize fight.
Terrific storms have carried devasta-
ton along the British coast. Many
vessels and over 200 lives are reported
lost.
The daughter Of ex-Secretary of War
Elkins was united in marriage in New
York to Edward Bruner by Cardinal
Gibbons.
Prince Alexander, Of Battenburg,
who for a time was ruler Of Bulgaria,
until unseated by Russian conSpir-
acy, is dead.
DR.. Deems, the celebrated pastor of
the Church OF the Strangers, New
York, is dead.
Emperor William opened the Reich
stag in state in Berlin, and outlined
the Governments policy in his address
from the throne.
The General Term Of the Supreme
Court of New York has reversed the
Parkhurst Society.
Fires have been lighted in the roll
Ing mills of the Mahoning Valley Of
Ohio, the men having agreed to the
SAFE rate of wages.
Lands in the heart of Spokane
Wash, belonging to the Northern Pa
cific Railway are reported to have re-
verted to the Government.
BOSS" McKane, of Gravesend, L. l.,
says he will bring libel suits against
the New York World and other papers
that have recently attacked him.
Col. James CaVanagh, of the famous
Sixty-ninth Regiment of New York,
has resigned Col Cavanagh COM
manded the Irish Brigade in the
civil war.
Miss GeOrgiana Putnam, the colored
school teacher Of Brooklyn who was
removed some time since on charges.
has been reinstated by the Board Of
Education.
DR.. Talmage has brought suit against
Maynard, Merrill & Co., publishers, for
printing a sermon of his in the "Prac-
teal Reader and crediting it to Wen
dell Phillips.
The friends of limited woman suf,
rage scored victory in the House OF
Commons by vote Of 147 to 126. 1t
gives women the right to vote for par
lsh councillors.
Col. Fellows, District Attorney elect
of New York, made a speech at Little
Rock, Ark, warmly opposing free coin.
age of silver. His argument attracted
great attention.
Three hundred lives and nearly one
hundred vessels are now reported 10
have been lost during the late storm
on the British coast
1t is claimed that pension frauds IN
vOlving S250,000 have been discovered
at Buffalo, n. Y. w. BOen Moore, a
pension examiner, is charged with car
rying out the scheme Of fraud.
T. J. Ray, Superintendent Of the In
ternational and Great Northern Rail-
road, northeast Of Houston, Texas
with deputy sheriffs and two biood-
hounds, ran down a gang of four Tram
wreckers and lodged them in jail
The German officials in New Britain
east of New Guinea, have had SeYelt
fights with the natives, who trieu !"
destroy the German settlement. Ihe
Germans have been victorious a1ter hF
fiicting heavy losses on the naIi'e''
Few Germans were Killed.
The Baltimore and Ohio, the Ene,
the Pittsburg and Western, the Niche'
Plate and other railroad lines are ~
ported to have lost thousands Oh uvl
lars through accepting cleTe1y ~
cuted counterfeit tickets reading nTLn ~
Chicago to New York, and SOU "
Chicago cut-rate houses.
England's long coal strike IS &' I~o'
ended. The strike has proven S .ho
cess, as the miners all go back ut nJ -lI
old wages. The victory was re1eis. ~.
with wild demonstrations ol IA IA
Church bells were. Tung, mee,in-o lid
and thanksgiving services VIII w -'0
IN all Dissenters' chapelS.
A drunken crank in New forH LIS G,os
q revolver and fired SeYeTdl eYIdl,,ico's s.cy'
through the windows OF Dei-lIy'olIId 80 hid
restaurant on Fifth avenue. a. ricI"
so he yelled Down with the . and and
The mans name is G. A. RoeTI, ~ has
he is a stone-cutter by trade. ne nt FOR for
worked in the Dock Depar'Lneeuss co.
years, and made an average OF rc~or, en-
week, which he spent mostly loF III -,