The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1894-09-29
THIS WEEKS NEWS
a Summary Of Current Evsnts-Ths WsrlGs
Doings for the Past Six DAYS Gathered
and Condensed for Our Rsadsr&
General.

General.
I Three thousand shirtmakers will 60
vi q strike in New York.
/ English capitalists have arranged to
/ operate an extensive aluminium plant
n Kansas.
Ira Hurd, Of Allegan, Mich, was
| ;hot in his own house by his wife Sat
| lrday night in mistake for burglar.
The big organ in Festival Hall at
I.he Chicago Worlds Fair has been
lDresented to the University of Michi-
gan.
Searle, the bicycle rider from Chi
cago, reached New York in s days 8
hours The best record Is z days IL
Hours.
l John Jacob Astor has bought a hun
Ilred-acre tract of land ON the Williams
bridge road to West Chester for $780,
100.
Drexel, Morgan G. Co. have contrib
| Ited 81 900 to the Turkish relief fund,
which is being collected through the
Christian Herald.
One hundred female suffragists Of
fTopeka, Kan, will adopt a new dress,
6the striking feature of which will be
Ia Turkish trousers.
Gen. Ezeta will endeavor to enlist
the help Of Gen. Diaz, Of Mexico, to
kform one republic out Of the Central
EAmerican group.
The marriage engagement Of Albert
EGould Jennings, of Brooklyn, and
I Sue Adelaide Crimneins, daughter of
John D. Crimmins, is announced.
A. G. Highton, a Jail bird from Bos-
Eton. represented himself as a rich man
at Duluth, Mimi, and passed two
forged checks. He was arrested at st.
Paul.
Henry w. Elliott, Augustin Days
English property man, was arrested
fby Government inspectors and sent to
tEllis Island as an alien contract la
lborer.
Three dormitories have been added
Ito Yale College, Vanderbilt, White and
Berkeley Halls, named in honor Of the
donors. Vanderbilt Hall alone cost
million dollars.
New York Aldermen passed the Grim
ImnS Harlem street railway fran
ichiseS, which he had been so sure of
| that he kept on track-laying till stop
Iped by the authorities.
Margaret Young, granddaughter of
IAN English sailor who married a South
Pacific Island queen a hundred years
ago, has been called to reign over the
group against her will.
Luther Prescott Hubbard, the anti
tobacco crusader, who said that as a
result of sixty-five years abstinence
from smoking he had saved over $11S,-
| 900, died in Greenwich. Conn.
' ]. Coleman Drayton is at Bar Har-
Dor, where he will remain a week or
two. He took one of his sons Thurs
day TO private school in the suburbs
Of Boston, where he will remain for
the winter.
7 Reports from the Missouri Slope,
Red River Valley, and James River
Valley indicate that wheat threshing
n North Dakota Is practically COM
pleted. The yield is placed at 10000
900 bushels
The body Of Joseph Evans, a fire
J man on the White Star steamship Tou-
tonic, who fell overheard from the
! steamer September IL, was recovered
1t Pier "a North River and taken to
lthe Morgue.
! Charles +. Wilson. brother of '.Dink,
! Wilson, who was put to death for the
murder Of Detective Harvey, of Syra-
cuse, has been sentenced to die in the
week commencing November 6 for the
4 Same crime.
Pursued by man who had eloped
from him and whom he supposed to
| De dead. Allen Skaggs surrendered
himself and was sentenced to one year
in the West Virginia penltentiary at
.his own request.
AT Carthage, No, Lizzie Christy, a
respectable young woman, pleaded
guilty to stealing a horse, buggy and
harness. and got two years in the peni-
|tentiary. The police say her lover
committed the theft.
The first real move in the project
which it is hoped will result in the
connection of Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Il by water is now being made by the
engineering committee of the Pittsburg
|Chamber OF Commerce.
The family of Clarence Osborne.
numbering six persons, and a boarder
manned HUT, We're poisoned at Mem
|phis, Tenn. The dose was pu. in the
|coffee. Mrs. Osborne prepared the cof-
fee and partook freely. There is no
|clue
The Nicaraguan Minister at Wash
lngton has received official notification
that martial law at Bluefields has been
superseded by decree issued by the
Goyernor. DR.. Madriz, re-establishing
the constitutional law of Nicaragua at |
that place.
Annie Abbott, a small woman. weigh. |
ing ninety pounds, has been exhibiting
wonderful powers in New York. One |
OF her feats was TO place her hand on |
the back of a child and the strongest |
man in the room was unable to lift the |
child from the floor.
New York river pirates shot Owen
Seery, who was sitting on an East |
River pier: Bowery thieves shot Mich
ael Walsh in a doorway. Walsh will
die; Seery may recover Both shoot
lngS occurred almost at the same mo-
ment. Two arrests We're made of !
Seery'S supposed aSsailants.
The Judgment of the court-martia
before which Capt w. 2. Goodwin.
United States Army, was tried for
on duty, will not be made
Dublip until IN shall ba ,,,o-,,,,-. |