The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1894-10-27
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Evsnts-Ths Worlds
Dongs for the Past Six DAYS Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.

General.
Fifteen hundred cigar-makers have
struck in Florida.
Black diphtheria is raging at Wad-
dington, n Y, and Anderson, Ind.
Henry ID. Purroy was thrown from
his carriage at Saratoga and painfully
bruised.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
declared its usual quartely dividend,
s. per share.
Observation-Disclosures commemo-
rated the burning of the town by the
British in 1777.
Commodore Melville says that if the
five-day steamer materialiZes 1t VIII
have triple screws.
A clergyman of Cardinal Gibbons'S
household confirms the report that Sa-
TOLL is to be made a Cardinal.
Jealous Mrs. Connoyer, of Hartford,
Conn. summoned her husband to kiss
her good-by and then killed herself.
Louis Buckner. of Baltimore, paid
$4,000 for a trunkful of jewelry and
then learned that it was plated stuff.
Justice Diver, Of New York, was
thrashed by Morris Tekulsky, ex-Presi-
dent of the Liquor Dealers Association.
Indiana's ovation to Gen. Harrison
on his second swing around the circle
exceeded the Blaine demonstration Of
1884.
President II. o. Havemeyer and
Treasurer Searles, of the Sugar Trust,
Were arraigned and held in $1,000 bail
each
A plot to wreck and rob an express
train near Pittsburg failed because the
robbers put the dynamite on the wrong
track
There is a movement at Buffalo to
stampede the Democratic City Con-
ventiOn to Lieut.-GOy. Sheehan for
Mayor.
Emperor William unveiled the statue
Of his grandfather, the great Kaiser,
and opened the new Royal Theatre at
Wiesbaden.
Lawyer Moss, of the Lexow counse,
announced that there will be undoubt-
ed,y a reorganization Of The New York
police force
The Greater New York Commission
has issued an address to the people,
appealing for votes IN favor Of munich
pal consolidation.
President Roberts, of the Pennsyl-
wanna Railroad, says he thinks the
country has entered upon an era Of re-
turning prosperity.
The Federal Grand Jury at Chicago
indicted five prominent railroad men
and shippers for violations Of the inter-
state commerce law.
John Kelly, Of New York. convicted
of counterfeiting, says his wife led him
lnt0 the business so that she could be-
tray him to Secret Service agents.
John Boyd Thatcher declares that he
eXpecteS soon an Endorsement of some
sort from President Cleveland of Sem
ator Hills candidacy for Governor.
Col. Henry L. Turner, of Chicago,
son Of an abOlitiOnst. will marry Miss
Mabray, granddaughter of the largest
STAKEHOLDER of the ante-bellum South.
The Homer State Bank in Nebraska
was robbed of $1,000 in 1891. The
money has been found in a well on a
pace where the cashier formerly lived
Mrs. Monkey, of Baltimore, whose
husband deserted her in 1919 and went
TO California and made q fortune has
sued his alleged widow there for his
estate
Attorney Brooke, Of New York. ac-
cuses Recorder Smyth of petty mean
ness" in disallowing the expense items
IN the bill for the defense of Poisoner
Meyer
Thieves stole $1,000 worth of dia.
monds from Mrs Melville w. Fuller.
IN Washington, and returned them
when it was found they were sus.
pected.
Banker Henson, of Chattanooga, who
killed ]. B. West for DESTROYING his
home and was acquitted. has renewed
his suit for divorce, naming a new CO.
respondent
A silver wreath from American ad-
mlrerS was presented to Johann Strauss
10y Rudolph ArOnSon. of New York.
during the composers golden jubilee
celebration.
Judge Jenkins has been petitioned to
direct the Northern Pacific receivers TO
bring suit against Wizard. Hoyt and
Colby for the restitution of alleged
unlawful gains.
howard carroll has signed the Stat
en- Island ferry lease, with John ID.
CrlmminS and Gen. Samuel Thomas. Of
the Chase National Bank, as sureties.
and has begun running boats.
The French public is agog over the
act of the French Government in con-
fering the cross Of the Legion Of
Honor upon Capt Won Susskind. the
German military attache at Paris.
Emperor William. at a military cere-
mony in Berlin, said the army is "the
only firm pillar" and called on the
German battalions TO render uncoudi
ConaI obedience TO their War Lord
George, the blind son Of John Y.
Mckane, will open a cafe and restau-
rant at No. 1910 Broadway. New York.
with Caterer Testara, late steward of
the Union League Club Of Brooklyn.
King Alexander of Servia is at Pots.
dam. He was welcomed at the station
by Emperor William and a number of
German princes. A gala dinner in his
honor was given in the new palace.
The report that Lord Kimberly is
sulking because Prime Minister Rose
berry NEEDLES in the Foreign Office Is
met with an official declaration +bot