The Washington bee., 1894-01-20
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary of Current Events-The Worlds
0ongs for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers

Six 1ve-cent restaurants are now
running in New York.
Mrs. Ann Badly, the oldest woman
In Indiana, is dead at the age of 104
years.
The Bank of England has been exam
ined by the Government and pronounc-
ed sound.
The ID. Lathrop book company, Of
Boston, has failed with Liabilities Of
S25o,000.
| A Montevideo dispatch reports Ad-
miral Mello suffering from wounds
and disease.
| Over one hundred New York editors
have formed a Republican State Edi-
torial Association.
Farm hands are in demand in Colo
| RADIO and Dakota. The services Of
$500 have been engaged in Chicago.
The Latin & Rand powder mill at
Rifton, Ulster County, N. Y, blew up
| On the 9th inst, and four men were
killed.
| Fifteen thousand men and boys are
waiting at various points along the
Hudson River for the ice harvest to
begin.
/ A Chicago special says a small divi-
dend on Worlds Fair stock will proba-
bly, be paid about the middle Of the
month.
Mayor Manning vetoed the resolu-
| ton OF the Albany Common Council
for the strict enforcement of the Sun
day laws.
Governor Flower has ordered that
! the New York Custodial Society for
Feeble Minded Women, at Newark, be
Investigated.
Huyler Westervelt, the famous pitch
er of the New Jersey Athletic Club,
has signed a contract with the New
York league club.
The steamer A. L. Mason struck a
snag at Delta Landing, Miss, and was
sunk with loss of $175.000. Three
persons were injured.
May Barrowcliff, the young woman
assaulted in Jersey City, gives signs
Of returning consciousness, but thus
far her memory is blank
British troops have been fired upon
| by the French in Senegambia, but 1t
may have been blunder, as both forces
were hunting native marauders.
An explosion in the Albany Theatre
Saturday last caused the total destruc-
ton Of the building. The city building
adjoining was considerably damaged.
Governor Flower has ordered all en-
ployees of the State to undergo civil
service examinations, and all persons
not properly qualified must Facate
their positions.
The citizens Of Jacksonville, Fla,
propose to form a law and order league
to prevent the Corbett-Mit fight.
They are determined to prevent the
fight at any cost.
Fiftyrtwo prisoners are now con-
fined in Chicago jails charged with
murder The arrests for lesser crimes
were nevr so numerous, and the tails
are overfowing.
ton, N. Y, a well-known politician and
lawyer, died on the 9Th inst, aged
eighty three years. He held number
Of important offices.
The latest reports from Brazil indi-
cate that the Government Is more than
holding its own against the insurgents,
but the news is SO colored that the real
facts are difficult to learn
The Ohio Farmers Alliance, in con-
vention at Columbus, adopted a reso-
luton unanimously demanding that
President Cleveland remove J. Ster-
ling Morton, Secretary Of Agriculture.
Britain is to have thirty-two new
warships, among them two battle
ships, to cost $5,0O0,000 apiece, and a
cruiser designed to be the biggest,
swiftest and most powerful In the
world.
Andrew Carnegie, on the steamer as
he Is about to start for Egypt, told a
reporter that he is not afraid Of the
income tax, and that he would like to
see so low a tariff established that 1t
would be a permanent one.
The cutter Corwin has arrived at
San Francisco from Honolulu. The
Captain stated to a United Press re-
porter that there had been big row
In Hawaii, and that the Queen was
probably back on her throne.
An Austrian has invented powerful
shears for cutting torpedo nets on war
ships. The shears are attached to the
head OF the t0rpedoeS, ana uney gaSn
the net without reducing the speed Of
the torpedo or exploding 1t.
DR.. Parkhurst, In a published state
ment indirectly charges District At
torney Nichon and the extraordinary
Grand jury with dishonesty In not Sc
curing the indictment Of Police In
spectors Williams and Schmittberger.
The New York Mercantile Exchange
has approved Governor Flowers sug-
gestions in his annual message for the
suppression Of the sale Of oleomar-
garine, and endorsed Senator Hills
Senate bill to protect the dairy inter-
eStS.
Bradstreet's reports that assumptions
Of work in industrial lines were very
last week. There were re-
ported 4S0 business failures through
out the United States, as compared
with 31S the week before and 313 in
the week year ago.
Civil service reform is being enforced
at Albany, N. Y. Thirteen colored
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