The Washington bee., 1894-08-25
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Eyents-Ths Worlds
Dongs fer the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.

The Kaffirs in North Transvaal are
in revolt
James H Cummings, an actor, blew
out his brains in New York.
Brazil will issue a gold loan and
place it upon the London market.
California wine growers have formed
a syndicate with $10,000,O00 capital.
The Scotch local government bill has
passed the British House of Commons.
Twenty fresh cases of cholera and
many deaths are reported from Liege.
Santo has been refused a respite, and
he will probably be guillotined Friday.
j. Sloat Fassett says he is a candi-
date for the Republican gubematorial
nomination.
Rev. DR.. Talmage will preach Sun
days in the Madison Square Garden
In New York.
Two women, both alleged widows Of
the late Cyrus D. Alger, Of New York,
claim his estate.
The cornerstone of the Commercial
Travellers home will be laid at Bmg-
hamton October 9.
Germany's Emperor called on ex-
Empress Eugene of France at her
home in England.
Gen. Caceres has been inaugurated
President Of Peru, but will have to
fight to keep the Office.
Two wOrkmen were killed and six
others injured by the falling of wall
In Jersey City's new City Hall.
1t is rumored that George J. Gould
will not bring the Vigilant home this
fall, but will anchor in the Clyde.
II. L. Winter, formerly an organist
in Denver, has been arrested in Lon
don Oh a warrant for perjury issued
in 1856.
A mutiny in the leper colony, on
Robben Island, Off Cape Town, was
only suppressed by the police firing
into the mob.
Shipping Commissioner Dryden, Of
Baltimore, who was removed by Sec
rotary Carlisle, refuses to surrender
the office
Thomas Holt, sexton of the Church
of Atonement, in Brooklyn, who killed
his wife Sunday night, pleaded guilty
to homicide.
Formal charges of jury bribing are
to be made against friends Of city
officials in New Orleans who are in
dicated for dishonesty.
Julius Dove, a scenic painter, was
taken to Ellis Island on his arrival
in New York from Germany and de-
tanned as a contract laborer.
Judge Clearwater, at Kingston, N.
Y, has held that stockholders are liza
BILE for money deposited by bettors
should it be demanded back.
Prof. Langley, an eminent American
astronomer, will receive the honorary
degree of Doctor of Civil Law during
the British Association meeting.
Twenty-eight houses were wrecked
at Scranton, Pa, by cave-in caused
by robbing the pillars of a coal mine
underlying a portion of the city.
Judge J. B. Talley, of Alabama, has
been removed from office for helring
the Skeletons avenge their sister by
assassinating Banker R. G. Ross.
Mayor Gilroy, Of New York. will sail
for Europe. He denies that he is to
meet eX-MayOr Grace in London to
arrange for Democratic harmony.
Cashier Henry A. Gardner, Of the
Second National Bank of Altoona, Pa,
has gone with $4,000 of the banks
money and a woman not his wife.
Levi P. Morton said in Switzerland
that he would sail for New York Au-
gust Is and not decide as to his candi-
dacy for Governor until after his ar
rival.
Advices from ST. Nicholas de Orc
state that one of the MeXicans who
assassinated George e. Bender, the
American mining man, has been
shot.
JOHN E. Milholland's State Club de-
clares open war ON Plat, and orders
its members not to enroll with the
Union League Republicans in this
county.
Justice Barrett has fixed $4,000 as
the yearly amount for the maintenance
of the two children of the Late Mrs.
Helen Astor Roosevelt instead of the
$4,000 asked.
OgdenSburg, N. Y, authorities are
investigating the death of the infant Of
Harry Ravenhil, said to be tire father
of seventeen children, all of whom
died in infancy.
a sudden storm in Loudoun County,
Va, blew over a temperance 'bush
meeting" tent upon $500 people, kill
ing a man and perhaps fatally injur-
ing six women.
Henry w. Fielder, arctic explorer,
says the Peary route to the North Pole
is the most feasible and that the Well
man expedition was disastrous owing
to ineXperience.
Mrs. Mary S. Van Beuren, of New
York, who pastured COW and raised
chickens on land worth $1,0O0,00O an
acre. adjoining her residence on Four
teenth street, is dead.
The Indiana Democratic State Com
vention will demand the immediate
passage of laws freeing sugar, coal
and iron, and will indorse President
Cleveland in unqualified terms.
Hill and Hoyt, charged with coun-