Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-04
FROZEN TO DEATH IN PARIS.

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| FROZEN TO DEATH IN PARIS.
Many XIII Themselves to Escape Suf-
| fering From the Cold.
LONDON, Jan. A dispatch from Paris
to the Daily Telegraph says that many
| deaths have been caused there by the ex-
| tremely cold weather a number of old and
| very poor people have been frozen to death
in their miserable lodgings. Others. despair
ing of finding other relief from their suffer-
! ings, have killed themselves, and several
| destitute persons have been picked up life
| less in the streets.
An old couple occupying fiat in the Bou-
| levard Chchy were found dead in one OF
| their rooms. They had ignited a brazier Of
| charcoal. and the fumes had killed them
| Many of the suicides have used this means
of killing themselves.
Currency Reform I'm Austria Hungary.
| VIENNA, Jan. 4.-Dr. Won Piener, Aus
| trian minister of finance, will go to Buda
Pesth today to confer with Wekerle. the
| Hungarian prime minister and minister of
| finance in regard to currency reform. There
| is a prospect of an agreement between the
| ministers being reached, and this fact caus-
| ed an improvement in the tone on the boerz
| here today.
| LONDON, Jan. A dispatch to the Gen.
trail News from Paris says that it is as
serted that at the reopening of the cham
| Der Of deputies the government will intro
| duce a proposal to convert the Az per cent
| rentes into By per cents. -,.-
Declined the Position.
| LONDON, Jan. 4.-Mr Arthur Ellis. finan-
cial editor OF the Daily News who was Of
fered the financial editorship of the Times,
made vacant by the retirement Of Mr..
Crump, has declined to accept the position.
Bread Riots Feared.
ROME. Jan. 4.-Great distress prevails
among the poor in the Compartments Of
| Apulia composed of the provinces Of Bari,
Foggia and Lecce. and it is feared that
| bread riots will occur. Every precaution
| has been taken to preserve order, but many
| of the people have been rendered desperate
| by hunger. ,,5s
Ordered to the CameroOns.
| BERLIN, Jan. 4-The German cruiser
Hawk, which is now at Cape Town, has
been ordered to the Cameroons to aid the
| Hyaere and the German lard forces in
guarding against further trouble. The dis
patch of the Hawk to West Africa is
more matter of precaution than neces-
| sity, no fear being entertained by the Ger
man officials in the Cameroons of further
| trouble with the natives.
Arrest of an Anarchist.
! PARIS, Jan. Am anarchist named
Tamecourt was arrested at Argenteul to-
! day. The police seized at his lodging an
| discriminating letter from London.
Death of Baron Creye.
| LONDON, Jan. 4.-Baron Crewe died las
| night from influenza at his residence,
Crewe Hall. Crewe, county of Chester. He
was born in 1872.
| A Russian Bank at Teheran.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 4-Dr. Witte
! minister of finance. proposes to improve the
/ Russian trade with China and Persia by
| founding a bank at Teheran, capital of
| Persia. He will also create agricultural
credit institutions on the mutual liability
| plan.
Quiet ON the MOnteneRrin Frontier.
LONDON, Jan. A special dispatch to
the United Press from Vienna says that ad-
vices that have been received from Belgrade
deny that there has been any outbreak on
the Albanian frontier.
Colonization of Siberia.
ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 4-The Russian
| government will grant 2OOOUO roubles yearly
| for the purpose Of promoting the coIoniza-
| ton of Siberia and the Russian possessions
| in Central Asia. Each family of coionists
will be granted 100 roubies. The scheme
| provides that 10000 roubles shall be ex-
pended in building log huts for the colonists
Coin Decrease In Foreign Banks,
| PARIS. Jan. 4.-The weekly statement of
| the Bank of France shows a decrease of
| 12,15O,OOO francs gold and 4,GOOOOO francs
silver.
| BERLIN, Jan. 4.-The statement of the
Imperial Bank Of Germany shows de-
crease in specie Of a. 44.OOO marks
| LObengula stopped mt the Znmbesf.
CAPE TOWN. africa. Jan. 4-Advices
from Palapye have been received to the ef-
| feet that the post runner of King Khama
| the ally Of the British in the operations
against the Matabeles, has arrived at Pala-
| pye. Zambesi, station. He states that the
Barotez tribe have armed force along
| the banks of the Zambesi river to prevent
Lobengula. king Of the Matabeles, from
crossing the river.
Mr.. MOrRnn's Dig Gift to the Poor.
NEW YORK, Jan. At has developed
that J. Pierpont Morgan is the one who
has donated large sum of money to Ma
| than Straus' new charity, the grocery store
where articles of food may be purchased
cheaply by the poor. The amount given is
understood to be $4,000