The Washington bee., 1894-08-18
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Evsnts-Ths Worlds
Doings fer the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers

In revolt
! James Fl. Cummings, an actor, blew
out his brains in New York.
Brazil will issue gold loan and
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
he will probably be guillotined Friday.
! j. Sloat FaSsett says he is a candi-
date for the Republican gubernatorial
nomination
Rev. DR.. Talmage will preach Sun
Gays 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 Bling
hamton October 8.
Germany's Emperor called on ex-
Empress Euganie 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.
II. l.. Winter, formerly an organist
in Denver, has been arrested in Lon
don OH warrant for perjury issued
in 1886.
"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 bribfng are
to be made against friends Of city
officials in New Orleans who are in
dicated for dishonesty.
julius Dove, 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.
Y, has held that stockholders are La
BILE for money deposited by hettors
should 1t 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 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. c. 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 az
rival
Advices from ST. Nicholas Gle Orc
state that one Of the Mexicans who
assassinated George e. Bender, the
American mining man, has been
shot.
| john e. Mi1holland'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 Ravenhill, said to be tire father
| of seventeen children, all of whom
died in infancy.
! A sudden storm in Loudoun County,
| Va, blew over 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 a COW and raised
chickens on land worth $1,O0O,0O0 an
acre, adjoining her residence on -Four
j teenth street, is dead.
! The Indiana Democratic State Com.
yention will demand the immediate
passage of laws freeing sugar, GOA
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 conference
of all anti-Tammany leaders, and tt
have started a boom for Col. William
L. Strong as mayoralty candidate.
Jose Won Krahl, said to be an Aus
trian chevalier, was committed to Lud
-, S+root Toll Now York as defend