The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1894-10-06
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Events-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six DAYS Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

There is a general resumption of the
glass factories in New Jersey.
The safe in the Gallatin, Mo-, Post
Office was blown open and $1,000 in
stamps and money stolen.
A package containing $3.50 has
/ been stolen from the Wells-Fargo eX-
! press Office at Atchison, Kan.
Mrs. Katherine Hartman, aged 105,
was run down by a motor car in South
st. Louis Tuesday and died Friday.
David Forest WILDER, of Oneonta, has
been nominated by the Republicans for
Congress from the Twenty-first dis
| trict.
R. l.. Peace and Ulysses Aaram
shot each other fatally near Canton,
Ga, Sunday night They fought about
a girl.
The gamblers who have been driven
from Chicago have apparently selected
Hammond, Ind, as the scene of their
| operations.
The Bank Of England's return shows
decrease in coin and bullion of $780,
21S, due to exports and bars sold, most
ly for Germany.
Asa G. Quincy, an Adams Express
| Company employee, who sued for dam
| ages for false imprisonment, has got
$4,000 from the company.
Prof. David Swing is critically i'll at
his home on the Lake Shore Drive,
/ Chicago. The disease from which he
is suffering is acute jaundice
Gen. Miles has ordered a court-mar-
tial of, the officers said to be RESPONSE
be for the caisson explosion on the
grand boulevard, Chicago, last summer.
The clerks of the Bank of England
are holding angry meetings to protest
against the recent admission into the
service of the bank of two patches Of
lady clerks.
President J. r. Hazard, of the bank
of SedgeWck City, Kan, who was
charged with fraud by means of forged
deeds of real estate, has been arrested
in Plymouth, n. II.
Cerutti the Italian subject who is
pushing a claim for reparation and in
demnity against the Government Of
Colombia, alleging ill-treatment and
imprisonment, is in Rome.
The United States Circuit Court at
Boston has rendered decision which
will compel the Federal Government
to refund $50, 100000 duties collected
on iron beams from various importers.
The cruiser Detroit has been ordered
to sail from Norfolk for the China sta
ton early next week, stopping en- route
at Rome, where she will deliver the
Vatican display at the Chicago Fair to
the Pope
''Billy' Plimmer is i'll in New York,
and his physicians do not understand
his malady. His face is badly swollen
and he is otherwise sorely affected.
DR.. Duval says he was dosed before
his fight with Murphy.
The Flower City Democracy, the
rOck-ribbed Cleveland organization Of
Rochester, is not in sympathy with
the third ticket movement. The club
at ratification meeting formally en-
dorsed the Saratoga ticket.
The steamer Knickerbocker, thought
to have been lost in the late Gulf
storm, has arrived at New Orleans.
She lost her second mate and one sea-
man, and had her main mast carried
away and her bulwarks stove in
1t is understood in st. Petersburg
that the Gar and his family will pass
the winter in Corfu, with the eXcep-
ton of Grand Duke George, who will
go to Cairo. The Czarewitch will prob
ably act as Regent in the Cars alb
Sence.
Admiral Shufeldt, retired, was seri-
ously injured by being thrown from
q carriage during a runaway at Lees
burg, Va. His skull was fractured,
and it is feared that, owing to his adj
vanced age, his injuries will result
fatally.
John A. Cockerill, editor of the Com
mercial Advertiser and the Morning
Advertiser, New York, has sent his
resignation to Butler, Stillman & Hub
bard, who represent the business He
says that he has decided to quit the
business.
Mrs. Sterling, formerly of the Ly-
ceum Theatre Company, of London,
whose husband died a few months |
ago, is now married to Sir Charles |
Gregory, K. G. NJ G., professor of |
mathematics Of the Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich.
Private advices from Salvador say
that yellow fever is epidemic through |
out the republic, and that the mortality |
is very great. The disease is particu- |
larry fatal to foreigners, taking them
off within twenty-four hours. Among
the first victims was American Consul !
Pollock.
Major G. W. Dick, Chairman of the |
Ohio Republican State Executive Com |
mittee, has received a letter from ex-
Speaker Thomas 3. Reed, who was |
invited recently to make several |
speeches in the Ohio campaign, in |
which he says it will be impossible for |
him to accept.
The contest over the will of the late |
sem-mllionaire Elvin D. Hall, of Bos- |
ton, formerly treasurer Of the Stand !
ard Sugar Refining Company, which |
has been going on in the Suffolk Pro- |
bate Court at intervals since last June,
has been finished, Judge McKin dis
allowing the will.
The Treasury Department has de-
cided that whiskey exported from the |
United States under the Mckinley tar
if, and imported under the same law, |
placed in bonded warehouses, but not |
withdrawn until after the new tariff |
act took effect, will have to pay duty |
at the new rate of $1.10 per gallon
News has just been given out at |
COnStaI,tinOD1e of a serious fipht ar !