The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-08-24
NEWS ITEMS.

zation of London rates bill.
Surveys of Mount fopocatoncl, in Mexico,
show it to be 1890 feet high.
Robert Greer manager Of the Washington
News Company, died suddenly.
John jackson and James Bundy are in Gus
tody, charged with highway robbery.
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The istrict commits toner's have appointed
a number of new members of the police force.
The cunning season in the District for reed
birds, snipe and plover will open September l.
George Bull, coll ector of the Ebbitt House,
is hell by the police on charge of embezz!e-
ment.
Fire at Pricevile, Ont, has destroyed a
saw mill and forty dwellings, causing loss
of $4,000
ADJ lcation has been made for letters Of ad-
ministrat on upon the estate Of the late Judge
Joseph Holt.
A. H, Tucker, the district superintendent Of
police at Wa. Burmah, was murdered Monday
evening by Dacoits.
Thadders Tribhl, !, street preacher. is held
by the police until all inquiry is made into
| his mental condition.
| Eight persons were attended Saturday night
at the Emergency Hosp tai for wounds fecelv-
| ed at the hands of others.
1t is posslbl, the bill correcting the error IN
| the new riff bill, in relation to the tax on
| alcohol may pass the Senate
The warrant of exlradition has not yet been
served upon General Ezeta on board the Ben
nington, off the California coast.
| The nomination for Vim. l.. Malbury for
district attorney Of Maryland will not likely
| be confirmed at this session of Congress.
The absence of quorum in both houses OF
| Congress is accepted as proving conelusvely
that tariff legislation for this session is ended.
| The President has approved the bill amend
| ing the act OF 1892, granting additional quar-
| altine powers to the marine hospital service
Herr Dove. the inventor of the bull .t-proof
coat, is said to have been wounded during
performance near Berlin, bullet having
| pierced his cuirass.
Sunday next special services will be he'd in
the Eastern Presbyterian Church, Washington,
for Knights of Phytias who will attend the
! national encampment.
A majority of the councils gen raj OF the
various departments of France have approved
the anti-anarchist law, only three having thus
far opposed the measure.
issued an order under the new act to immed-
ately man all life-saving stations on the Al
lantic and Gulf coast.
The managers of both the democratic and
| republican congressional national campaign
commit lees are preparing for the coming cam
paign with much energy.
The coast survey has received dsplt III
confirming the report OF the drowning OF Lieu
tenant Crosby, of the navy. and four enlisted
men off the coast of Oregon.
| The marine hospital service has received in
| formation that there have been twenty one
| deaths in the city of Marseiles, France, from
cholera since the 4th instant.
The Corean minister at Washington and the
secretary of the legation will sail from San
Francisco OH the 2Sth instant for home, hay
| ing obtained a leave of absence.
Spain, Italy and Great Britain are sending
warships to Mazagan, to which place the Sui
| tan of Morocco's troops retreat ed after having
been defeated by the Kabyle rebels.
Captain E. W. Nicholson, superintendent of
| the Treasury Department stables in Washing
| ton, shot himself in the stomach, and died
| after being removed t. the Emergency Hos
pital.
In the supplemental sugar bill reported to
| the Senate from the finance committee the
compromise rate of 40 per cent. straight was
allowed to remain, but the differential was
| stricken out
According to the report of the Portuguese
prime minist 'r that country is gradually le-
covering from the economical and financial
| crisis under which it has been llboring since
the year 1890.
Owing to the lack of quorum, the Senate
| in executive session did not pass upon the
nomination of Ex-Governor Pot II, of Tennes-
see, to be United States judge for the middle
| district of his State.
Frederick Hilton, the youngest son of eX-
Judge Hilton and partner OF the firm of Hill
ton, Hughes Il Co., New York, died in Carls-
bad Tuesday. He had been sufferer from
| ntllmmatory rheumatism
Chairman Wilson of the ways and means
committee of the House of Representatives,
who was the guest of Represent itive Strauss
at Long Branch has returned TO Washington
He looks for tie Presidents return on Thur
day.
Sir \, lillian Vernon Harcoutt stated in the
House of Commons Monday that the govern
ment was not prepared to announce Its policy
with regard to the home-rule bill and evicted
tenants bill, in view of the veto of those meas
ures by the House of Lords.