The Washington bee., 1894-09-01
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Events-The Worlds
Doinss fer the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.


place it upon the London market.
California wine growers have formed
a syndicate with $10,000,000 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
ne. will probably be guillotined Friday.
j. Sloat Fassett says he is a candi-
date for the Republican gubelnatorial
nomination.
Rev. DR.. Talmage will preach Sun
days in the Madison Square Garden
In New York.
the late Cyrus D. Alger, of New York,
claim his estate.
The cornerstone of the Commercial
Travellers home will be laid at Bing-
hamton October 8.
Germanys Emperor called on ex-
Empress Eugenie 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 a 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.
! FL. L. Winter, formerly an organist
an Denver, has been arrested in Lon
; don Oh a warrant for perjury issued
IN 1885,
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
! retary Carlisle, refuses to surrender
the Office.
Thomas Holt, sexton of the Church
OF Atonement in Brooklyn, who killed
i 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 contract laborer.
Judge Clearwater, at Kingston, N.
T., has held that stockholders are liza
ble for money deposited by bettors
should it be demanded back.
Prof. Langley, an eminent American
astronomer, will receive the honorary
n Of nf Evil T ,,,:,,rp
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
assassinatin 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 g. Bender, the
shot
John e. Milholland's State Club de-
clares open war ON Platt, 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 tie late Mrs.
Helen Astor ROOSEVELT instead Of The
$4,000 asked.
Ogdensburg, N. Y, authorities are
investigating the death Of the infant Of
Harry RavenhiD, 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 man and perhaps fatally injur-
ing six women.
Henry w. Fielden, 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 a cow and raised
chickens on land worth $1,000,0O0 an
acre, adjoining her residence on Four
| teenth street, Is dead.
The Indiana Democratic State Con-
yention 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-
terfeiting, have been remanded till
next Tuesday for examination. Dies
! for spurious coins, addressed to Hoyt,
! were found in Norwalk, Conn.
Republican Chairman Brookfield is
reported to have called a conference
of all anti-Tammany leaders, and to
| have started a boom for Col. William
| L. Strong as a mayoralty candidate.
Jose Won Krahl, said to be an Aus
| trian chevalier, was committed to Lud-
| low Street Jail, New York, as defend
I ant in a $4,000 suit for breach of
promise. brought by one Laura Fabry.
Miss Emma F. Bates, Republican
candidate for Superintendent of
nnI- hos nod