The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1894-10-20
THIS WEEKS NEWS
A Summary Of Current Eysnts-Ths WsrIgs
Doings for the Past Six DAYS Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.

| Frank Craig, the New York prize
fighter, has accepted the challenge is.
| sued by Ted Pritchard, of London.
Gen. J. Warren Keifer, ex-Speaker
| Of the Ohio House of Representatives,
| announces that he is candidate for
Governor.
1t is reported that $500 of the Scotch
miners who We're among the strikers
have resumed work, and that the strike
is dying out.
The report of the Yale Financial
Union for the season Of 1884, as made
public, shows total receipts for the
year of $61 ,4SO.71.
A private letter received at Silma
from Cabul, the capital Of Afghanistan,
says that the Amir, Abdur Rahman
Khan, is seriously i'll.
Henry H. Pierce, a well-known resi-
dent of South Norwalk, Conn, took a
large dose of paris green. He died in
the NorWalk Hospital
Lord Rosebery has returned to Lon
don from Dalmeny Park, Scotland. His
l.nrdships stay in Scotland was Of
short duration, he having arrived there
Why oH 'odl uiudy last.
The new mills at the American Tin
Pate Factory at Elwood, Ind, have
been started up, and President Leeds
has Informed the men that there will
be no reduction in wages.
A dispatch from Paris to the London
Tines says that Auguste Jean, coulis-
sler or outside stock broker, has alb
seconded, leaving behind him liabilities
amounting to over 100000 francs.
The President has accepted the resig-
nation of Second Lieut. Butler Ames,
of the Eleventh Infantry, a son of ex-
Gov. Ames, of Massachusetts,, and a
grandson of the late Benjamin F. But
Ter
Brig.-Gen. Otis has rebuked the Off
GERS of a court-martial at Vancouver
Barracks, Washington, who tried Capt.
William 2. Goodwin, Fourteenth In
fantry. on the charge Of drunkenness
on duty.
Louis Kessler, of Holland, N. Y, shot
and killed his wife Annie while she
was at lunch with her mother, Mrs.
Frederick Schleifer, and then killed
himself. Family troubles led to the
shooting.
Nine prisoners have escaped from
the Madison County jail at Asheville,
\. C., among them George and William
Cody, sentenced to hang, and George
Roberts and George Hensley, indicted
for murder.
The First National Bank of Kear-
ney, Neb, has closed it's doors and
posted this notice: This bank has sus-
pended payment owing to impossible
ity to make collections or realize on
it's assets
Henry Dykes's corn crib at Clarks-
vile, Tex, was fired, and as he rushed
out of the house to save his agricul-
tural implements his face and breast
were filed with buckshot, killing him
instantly.
The cholera reports for July and
August show that 3,713 cases and
2,O43 deaths were reported in st. Pc
tersburg and it's suburbs in those two
months. The disease occurs now only
spOradically.
w. R. Elmenhorst, President Of the
st. Lawrence Sugar Refinery Com
pany, committed suicide at Montreal
by shooting himself with a revolver at
his residence. Nervous prostration was
the cause of his act.
Detective Thomas Hutchinson. of
Belvidere, n. j., arrested Charles
Schoonmaker ct the house of the lat
ter'S father, Martin Schoonmaker, a
respected farmer Of South Fallsburg,
on charge Of bigamy. /
Tn T
England, Shaw Lefevre, President of
the Local Government Board, said the
general election could not be postponed
long. 1t would certainly be held before
the end of another year.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says that medical
circles in st. Petersburg believe that
a council of the most prominent sur
geons in Europe will meet in Corfu
soon after the Cars arrival /
George Van Taylor, who was in Jail
in Cheboygan, Mich, charged with the
murder of Gus Genesmere, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor. In a letter to the officers he
confessed that he had committed twelve
murders.
Ex-Premier MERCER has been re-
moved from his residence to Notre
Dame Hospital, Montreal. Mime. Mer-
Ger remains with him night and day.
His malady has now reached it's most
advanced degree and gangrene has set
in in his limbs
"A dispatch from Buenos Ayres re-
ports that Jabez Spencer Balfour, who
wrecked the Liberator Building So
ciety, escaped from Salta, in the north
ern part Of the Argentine Republic, on
August Is, and is supposed to be in
the Netherlands.
A mob broke into the jail at Irvine,
KY, took Alexander Richardson, a
white man, out, and hanged him to a
railroad bridge about 100 yards from
the telegraph Office. Richardson, who
was twentyone years old, was charged
with numbering Mrs. Wylie White.
The Paris Soliel says that in conse-
luence of case of determination of
French and German soldiers having
been reported to him, Gen. Mercier,
Minister Of War, has issued an order
'orbidd:ng the frontier troops to 90
beyond their stations without special
permission
James Fitzgerald, awaiting sentence
.or murder in the first degree at st.