The Washington bee., 1894-08-04
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Eyents-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.

| The Synlie of Rome will visit the
United States soon.
The beef-killers in the South Omaha
packing houses are on strike.
John w. Love, the Watkins, n Y.
enlbezzler, is now in jail at that place
The budget bill has passed it's second
| reading in the British House of Lords
The San Francisco Mint has begun
the coinage of standard silver dollars
Wallace Burt was hanged at Doyles
| town, Pa, for the murder of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Wrightley.
1 Ihe House of Representatives al
| Washington passed the railway postal.
| clerk reinstatement bill.
thousands of small but lively frogs
zen IN the streets of Cambridgeport
Mass, during heavy shower.
! More stories of Brockway's brutal.
lty were told before the Elmira Re
formatory investigating committee.
M. Rogers, one of the first men in
this country to make a business of cut.
ting ice, died at New London, Conn,
aged seventy-nine.
Jack McAuliffe, the light-weigbt
pugilist, and Catherine Rowe, one of
The Inman sisters, actresses, have been
married in Brooklyn.
A fiVe-year-old boy is said to have
been cured of hip disease by the relic
OF st. Anne in the Church of st. Jean
Baptiste, In New York.
The French Chamber evicted the
newspaper reporters, but soon invited
them back; the reporters declined, and
the Chamber soon adjourned.
The gunboat Bennington has sailed
from La Libertad for San Francisco
via Acapulco with Gen. Ezeta and
three other refugees on board.
One hundred men have been dis
charged from the B. & o. shops at
Chicago junction for refusing to with
draw from thei American Railway
Union.
Nicaraguan Minister Guzman has
been empowered to act for Salvador
In like capacity, and he will demand
The extradition Of ex-Vice- President
Antonio Ezeta.
The Tillmanite Justice of the South
Carolina Supreme Court decided that
the dispensary law of 1903 is still in
force and Justice-elect Gary ds expect
ed to uphold him.
The steamer City of Peking, from
Hong Kong for Yokohama and New
York, which was ashore in Yeddo Bay,
has been f1oated without damage aud
has arrived at Yokohama.
The Mayor of Enid, Okla, complains
to the Secretary of War that armed
United States soldiers there have brok-
en- into houses and tried to extort in
formation by threats Of death.
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf is trying to
secure permission from Russian and
Polish Hebrews to form agricultural
colonies within the Cars domains, in
stead Of being forced to emigrate
The House Committee on Immigra-
ton has rejected the Lockwood bill de-
signed to prevent persons living In
Canada and Mexico from crossing the
border to work in the United States.
Mr.. Coco Tateno, the ex-Japanese
Minister, took leave Of the President.
Expressions Of personal and national
goodwill were exchanged. Mr.. Tateno
and family will leave for Japan via
san FRANCISCO.
Secretary Herbert has finally accept
ed the 300 tons of barbette armor in
tended for the battleship Oregon, rep
resented by the 17-inch Carnegie Har
veyized steel plate, which has been
tried at Indian Head.
A bill to incorporate an elevated cleo
tric railway under the name of the
National Rapid Transit Company, to
connect New York and Washington,
was adversely acted upon by the House
Committee ON Judiciary.
Mrs. Sarah X. Stanton was run over
and killed on the Dutchess County
Railway at Van Wyck's station. She
was crossing the track In front Of the
approaching train, and did not, appar-
emily, hear the whistle.
While repairing a trolley line on
Water street, Newburg, John Spratt,
forty-five years of age, fell from the
latform car to the street, a distance
Of about fifteen feet, breaking his neck
and fracturing his skull.
Reports that the Sherman Banks
stockholders are not likely to receive
full payment in that institution's liqui-
QACiOu were ny pduh
to be true A stockholders meeting
was called for next Tuesday.
Victims of PaddIer Brockway swear
at the Elmira investigation that he
beat them into bearing false witness,
whereby fifty inmates were railroaded
to Auburn prison. One was kicked in
the face for refusing to bring disgrace
on his family.
Speaker Crisp, having expressed the
wish that Democratic members of the
House shall remain in Washington un-
til the tariff bill has been disposed
Of, the Armor-Plate Investigating Com
mittee may postpone it's proposed visit
to Homestead, Pa.
The actors colony at Sayyille, L. l.,
turned out to hear the trial of the men
implicated in what is now known as
the Comedy Castle drama. Manager
Bob Monroe, who was accused OF
gtabbing Hotelman Harris, was held
In $4,000 for the Grand Jury.
United States Consul Sundberg re-
ports that since the May floods began
10 subside a malignant and fatal fever
has prevailed i'm the city Of Bagdad
and suburbs, more especially among
the river, and these poor people are
left to die without the aid Of doctors
or medicine.