The Washington bee., 1894-09-08
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Eyents-Ths Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Davs Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
G eneral.

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| Great fires are devastating the Prov.
inee of Ontario.
Zelaya says the Mosquito prisoners
| will have strict justice.
The Democrats have carried Arkan-
sas by 10000 majority.
The friends of Moraes deny that he
Is plotting against Peixoto.
Spain has cancelled the reciprocity
treaty between the United States and
| Cuba.
Three men were wounded at an at
tempted lynching at Blue Ridge
Springs, Va.
The schooner Only Son was sunk
near He'll Gate after striking a rock
during the fog.
The Lexow committee has postponed
its reconvening until after the Republi-
can Convention.
Baron Sternberg, Chief Of the Inter
| national Anarchists, has been arrested
at st. Petersburg.
The outlook in Morocco is serious.
Several towns have been pillaged and
| disorder is spreading.
A stay pending appeal has been
granted ''Bat" Shea, who was to have
been executed this week.
New Jersey authorities are prepared
10 hang three Woman-murderers slmul-
taneously next Thursday.
Several men at work in moonshine
distillery near Passaic, N. j., were cap
J tured by revenue officers.
Uncle Sans cash balance is beyond
the danger point, and the gold reserve
increased Treasury receipts.
Pittsburg cotton-tie manufacturers
! find they can compete with foreign
manufacturers without protection.
Seven people have been summarily
| shot in Hayti for attempting to MUIR
der President Hypolite's daughter.
The street cars of Hazleton, Pa, are
| stopped, as there is not water enough
| to be had to run the electric plant.
Mr.. Platt has selected Congressman
| Wadsworth, of Geneseo, as Republi-
can candidate for Lieutenant Governor.
Enormous loss of life and property
| followed a midnight earthquake Shock
| and sudden river flood near Uvalde,
| Tex.
| It is estimated that the Democrats
| will have 1872 Representatives in the
next House; Republicans, 131; Popu-
| lists, IL.
The hearing before the State Lunacy
| Commission regarding evils Of the
Wards Island Insane Asylum has been
| resumed.
John Abbott, of South Amboy, N. J.,
was locked UP on charges of horrible
brutality to his three-year-old stepson,
who may die.
Dun Williams, nephew of Allen G.
Thurman, committed suicide by leap
ing from a window in the Capitol at
Columbus, 0.
Fresh evidence has been discovered
against Won Kotze, who was accused
recently Of writing anonymous letters
to Berlin aristocrats.
Miss Elizabeth III. W. Lord, who died
In poverty in Brooklyn, had $13, 900 in
bank at South Berwick, Me-, which
she left to Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage.
Mrs. Sarah Gordon, Of Brooklyn,
learned that her daughter had been
married secretly since last April. The
mother was enraged, took poison and
died
The American Consul at Shanghai
has given up two Japanese to be tried
by the Chinese authorities, who have
promised that they shall not be tor
tured.
Mrs. Donohue, of New York, hemmed
in by flames, threw her two children
from a fourth story window. They
struck on a canvas awning and rolled
safely to the street.
An explosion of L pan of alcohol
fatally burned Mrs. George q. New
land and seriously burned her hus-
band, Wallace French and George
Guernsey at Saratoga.
Sir Julian Pauncefote is said to have
proposed to the United States to join
Great Britain in an alliance that would
involve this country in the Chinese,
Japan and Corean war.
The New York police boat Patrol,
with Supt. Byrnes and Commissioners
Murray and Sheehan aboard, saved
seven persons from the capsized yacht
Mosquito near New York.
j. M. RAPPORT, who left New York on
May 10 on a wager of $1,000 that he
could walk to San Francisco by De-
cember 1, has arrived at Kansas City
two days ahead Of time.
A railway bridge over the Bronx
River began to sink while train rum
ming fifty-tive miles an hour was pass
ing over It. Speed was increased,
and all the cars got over safely.
Clarence E. Brown, son Of Vice-Com-
modore E. M. Brown, Of the New York
Yacht Club, was arrested in suit for
$4,000 damages, brought by the moth
er of Fannie Ward, the actress.
Elmira Reformatory officers testified
for the defense, denying specific acts
of cruelty, but admitting that inmates
were knocked down and kicked and
that the redIhot iron hook was used to
pull men out of cells.
Mrs. Charles Babcock, Of New York,
held a revolver pointed to burglars
face as he was forcing his way into
her room. he lodged as she fired and
she pursued him, firing several other
shots, but he escaped.
Women tried to vote at school eIec.
ton in Deerfield, n j., and the meet
ing was broken up by a gang of Phil
adelphia toughs. Shots We're fired,
oiy to o1yS morn uSad