The Washington bee., 1894-07-07
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary of Current Eyents-The Worlds
uoings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

Killed his employers young daughter
! and then himself.
Z. z. Huntington asks Uncle Sam
to spend 100000 to improve a har-
Dor for his use.
About 5000 persons are attending
tne convention of the Republican Ma
tlonal League in Denver.
Howell Thomas goes to prison for
| nVe years for his part in the Townley
estate claim swindle.
Inc tenth annual convention of tbe
National Editorial Association is in
session at Asbury Park, n. J.
Policeman Newschaffer. of Now
iork, round what is said to be a pearl
worth $1,000 in a small clam.
a modified decree was entered in the
Nhlcago Gas Trust case, which is a
practical victory for the trust
Al AL syracuse Henry vogler killed
william Strutz, of whom he was ieal-
ous' and then committed suicide.
Inc wrathful attitude of the French
ana the retaliatory mood of the Ital-
ians may plunge Europe into war.
John V. Alexander, the swindline
collection agent" of New York. was
sentenced to four years i'm State prison,
The last of the concerts of the saen-
serlest FESTIVAL In Madison Square Car
' oen' New York, was attended by d.
900 people.
carrie Reid, a bookkeeper. in Chi
caso, was shot and killed by a man
supposed to be Fred Hunt, who then
committed suicide.
Fubllsher Richard Worthinston. of
New York, was arrested, charged with
appropnating to his own use SO 600
OF his firms funds.
lne May account Of the receivers of
.he Philadelphia and Reading shows
,he balance was reduced S112971. .2S
between April 80 and May 81.
"A swindler is buying goods in New
YORK, offering In payment forged
checKs Oh Port Jervis bank. and
pocketlng the cash he gets as change.
The New York Milk Exchange has
nouned It's suPpliers that they would
hereafter receive two cents instead Of
one and three-quarters cents a quart.
Henry S. Gilley, of West Union, O..
was taken from his bed by fifty mask
ed men Monday night and whipped
nearly to death with hickory switches.
The body OF an unknown woman
was found in the river at Rochester.
The police think it is the body Of Mrs.
Della Francis. who disappeared Friday.
: Judge Seaver, of Buffalo, suspended
! sentence on the boy forger Grimmel
/ because he could not conscientiouSly
send any boy to Elmira Reformatory.
Henry Cabot Lodge. speaking at
| Harvard, said the great fault of
! American universities is that they are
training men to be critics rather than
| men of deeds.
A prominent diplomat says that Dip
| lomatic etiquette was not violated by
the failure of the President of the
United States to return the French Am
bassador's visit.
An intercolonial conference has been
opened at Ottawa for the discussion
Of scheme for uniting Great Britain
and the colonies by means of steam
| ship and cable lines.
The popular sentiment in Honduras
I is against Nicaragua. President Ze-
laya denies the news of a revolution
in Granada, but risings are rumored
in South Nicaragua.
| Keir Hardie startled the British
! House of Commons by his biting cofl-
mentS upon a motion to congratulate
the Queen upon the birth of an heir
To the Duke of York.
No newspaper in Constantinople has
been allowed to publish any report
of the assassination of Nj. Carnot.
JNI ,inl.,
| that be had died suddenly.
| President Zelaya, of Nicaragua. init
| mates that his Government, in dealing
with the Mosquito coast question, is
actuated solely by consideration for
| the welfare of the reserve.
The New York Prohibition Conven-
| ton nominated a ticket headed by
| Francis f. Baldwin, of Elmira, and
| declared for woman suffrage and
against sectarian appropriations
The Behring Sea arbitration has con-
WINGED ST Charles Tupper, Canada's
| High Commissioner in London, that
there never will be war between Brit
| ain, Canada and the United States.
| ]. A. Wright, of Dewine. Tex, went
| TO a field where his sOn-in-law, ]. j.
Glover. was plOwing, and shot and
| killed Glover. Family troubles We're
| the cause. Wright surrendered to the
| authorities.
Joseph Whitsett, of Vineland, \. j.,
| I'm a crazy tit drove blacksmith's file
| into his wife's back Then he got a
| razor and slashed her and his daugh-
| fer in a frightful way. locked himself
| in the house and set fire to it. He
| had to be dragged from the flames.
| The daughter may die
The bodies of four victims of the
| disaster to the tugboat Nicol. off Sandy
| Hook. have been washed ashore. Three
| have been identified. Thirty-eight
I nersons are still known to be missing.
! An investigation of the causes of the
| loss of the tug will be begun by
| limited States officials.
A burglar with few garments on
| robbed George Bartholomew, OF Mont
| clair. Y. J.. while he was sleeping. ued
mn his door with clothes-line. gave
| his wife good scare and escaped.
| Nathaniel Haynes. Of Oyster Bay, Ia.
/. was also robbed by an audaclous
| thief.
Justus Rice, the Cowboy Evange-