The Washington bee., 1894-11-24
THIS WEEKS NEWS
A Summary OF Current Eysnts-Tht Worlds
Beings for the Past Six DAYS Gathsrsd
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.

Prof. Lowell at Lowell Observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz, announces that Mars's
canals have begun to double.
A. L. C. Merrill, the oldest estab-
lished carpet house in Montreal, sus-
pended. Liabilities about $4,000.
The President has appointed Edward
K. Lowry, of Ohio, second secretary
of the United States Legation at Pekin.
Maggie Sheehan shot and killed her
brother William during drunken
quarrel at Croton Dam, near Peeks-
kill.
Syracuse authorities will make ex-
ira effort at the inquest to convict
Pugilist Fitzsimmons of causing Rior-
dams death.
Robert E. Lee, colored man, TWEEN
ty-four years old, was stabbed in the
neck, back and thigh by his wife Viola
in New York.
DR.. J. P. Gibbons has so much faith
in his resuscitation apparatus that he
is willing to submit his own person to
a 2,500-volt current.
Andrew Carnegie has presented to
the Braddock Free Library statue of
Mercury, one Of the great Italian sculp-
tor Clos three masterpieces.
William Henry Scott, of Falmouth,
N j.. took his life on his sisters grave
at Flushing. He swallowed morphine
and shot at himself with T. pistol
John Y. McKane has consented to
give his books of account with the
town of Gravesend, that the towns
financial affairs may be Strengthened
out.
The Hyde heirs, who claim a $780,
100000 estate in England, have been
informed by their agent in London that
there is a good prospect of their get
ting it.
Wilbur H. Robinson, of Kalamazoo,
Mich, heir to a S50,000 estate, has con-
fessed to many robberies Of farmhouses
in Cass County. He was soon to have
been married.
Gov. Waite's wife favored woman
suffrage, but now that her husband is
beaten she says Colorado women acted
scandalOusly and ought not to have
the right to vote
c. e. Rogers, who has arrived in
Chicago from Bluefields, Nicaragua,
says the Americans there are a mis-
chief-making crowd who abuse Nicar-
aguan hospitality.
DR.. Parkhurst denounced ex-senator
Plat as traitor to the cause of re-
form. The Committee of Seventy is
unruffied by Mr.. Platt's published
reference to busybodies.
The father of Miss Stevens, of Wat
erbury, who married aged Commodore
Mayo, of Washington, and afterwards
lost her mind, grieved so that he was
taken to retreat, where he has just
died.
The Committee of Seventy, of New
York, has ordered bill to be pre-
pared for the removal Of all the police
justices in that city, and for the es-
adjustment of new scheme of police
courts.
Robert A. McCarver, in order to
avoid testifying against his friends
who are under indictment at Memphis
Tor lynching the six negroes August
81, denied belief in God, in heaven or
in hell.
1t has been discovered that railroad
house runners and West street, New
York, loungers, have been swindling
emigrants returning to Europe from
New York.
Miss Ella Cooney, of Cato, N. Y,
who disappeared three weeks ago and
sent letters to her parents saying she
was being held captive by negroes,
was found in Syracuse, her hair cut
on and her mind a wreck.
William H. Twombley, who sold his
right to one-half of the 5000, 900 estate
of his uncle, Charles B. Chauvin, of De-
troit, before the latter was mysterious
ly murdered, has settled his suit to
annul the conveyance for $4,000.
Marion S. Gardner shot A. r.
Youree, Postmaster at Sumner, near
Perry, Okla. Gardner and Youree
were claimants for the same piece of
land and had quarrel. Youree will
die.
Mrs. Hart has recovered a verdict
for 81 ,259 against Tiffany & Co., of
New York, for a trunk containing
valuables belonging to her, stored with
the defendants and by them delivered
TO her husband without her authorize
ton.
Eugene V. Debs, Sylvester Keliher,
G. w. Howard, L. w. Rogers and other
officials of the American Railway
Union, indicted for conspiracy, have
been ordered to appear before Judge
Grosscup In Chicago and personally en-
ter plea.
Lady Edmond Fitzmaurice, daughter
! of w. j. Fitzgerald, of Litchfield,
Conn, has obtained in London a de-
cree against her husband multiplying
their marriage. Lord Edmond Fitz-
maurice was married to Miss Fitz-
gerald in 1889.
The President has appointed John
karel. OF Chicago, Consul-General at
st. Petersburg; Charles Jonas, of Wis
consin, Consul at Prague, and named
postmasters for Pine Plains and Sack
EFT Harbor, N. Y, New London, Conn,
and Newport, R. I.
George K. Whitworth, who killed
/ Chancellor Allison in Nashville and is
himself dying from a self-inflfcted
wound, says Allison bled him of half
his fees and borrowed court funds
from him so that there was q prospect
that Whitworth's bondsmen would
have to make good.
Frances Willard, before the National
Convention of the w. C. T. u. in Cleye-
land, advocated women on the nolice
force. equal suffrage, equal moral
standards, single tax, arbitration. abo-
lition Of living pictures, public owner