The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-11-02
this WEEKS NEWS.
4 Summary u eusfent Esents-Ths Worlds
Dsiags for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our neadsrs

and Condensed for Our Readers
! q. Jordan has been elected president
Of Oxford University.
| Charles Halle, the noted pianist, is
dead at Manchester. England.
Mary Cary, an inmate of the Bing-
hamton State Asylum, hanged herself
In the stairway.
| Charles D. Rose has cabled the New
| York Yacht Club withdrawing hrs chal-
tenge for the Americas cup.
According to advices received the
Armenians of the aictrict OF Marash
have attacked the inhabitants Of four
Turkish villages.
Meadow Valley. Kan, q small village
on the Valley division OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul, has been
! wiped out by fire.
| The United States cruiser Marble
head has arrived at Mersina, Asia
Minor. in order to protect the mission
aries Of that district
Jube Walker killed his wife at
/ H.,
| Cotton Belt Railroad. Jealousy h sup
| posed to be the cause.
| James ]. Van Allen has been arrested
| on writ charging alienation OF the af-
fections of the wife of Col S. p. Colt,
and has given 100000 bail.
| One man was killed, one fatally and
four seriously hurt by an explosion in
the dry and mixing room Of the Fibre
ioid works, Newburyport, Mass.
! Mrs. c. M. Miles has secured q YER
/ dict against the New York Central
! Railroad for the death Of her husband
In q railroad collision at Verona last
February.
A wreck is reported to have occurred
on the Wabash Railway near Mexico,
Mo. Two killed and several injured.
The town of Ceres, Pa, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
Major Davidson, of Berkley Springs,
w. Va. aged thirty-three, an ex-State
Senator and prominent In politics, COM
mitted suicide by shooting. Cause,
! physical infirmity.
The lifeless body Of Daniel P1atner,
! former prison keeper, whose home
was in Clyde, was found lying in a
| patch Of woods just within the limits
Of the city Of Auburn.
J The large barn owned by John J.
! Gray and situated in the town of Flor
Ida. Montgomery County, opposite Am
sterdam, was destroyed by fire with $50
tons Of hay. LOSS, $1,000.
A dispatch to the Daily News from
Springfield, ILL.,, says: United States
T@A
lied the announcement that he will not
be a candidate for reelection.
| By an explosion in the mill Of the
Pacific Lumber and Milling Company
at Fairhaven, Wash, two men were
killed, another fatally injured and three
more severely hurt. The mill was
wrecked
! A special from Moscow, Idaho, says:
Judge Beatty has accepted the resig
nations Of Reosivrs- Payne, Oaks and
Rouse of the Northern Pacific, and ap-
pointed Andrew F. Burleigh receiver
for idaho.
Mrs. Mary J. Eaton, a native of
Rochester. committed suicide by shoot
Ing herself in the left ear at Buffalo.
She was flfty-six years Of age. Intense
suffering from neuralgia is attributed
to be the cause
Two more members Of Seth wyatt's
band Of Oklahoma despsradoss have
answered for their many deeds of law
lessneas. They are Jim Umhra and
Mexican Jes, two Hsxioans. They
were lynshsd by enraged cattle men.
A Chicago paper says: The storage
battery patents q this country have
passed into the control of q trust The
trusts o@sial name Is the Electric
Storage Battery Company. It Is CAPT.
talised at 10000 900. Its headquarters
arc In Philadelphia.
Fire in factory No. / Of the whitney
Glass Works at Glassboro destroyed
the factory. warehouses, packing house.
q store and meat market. The loss Of
Whitney Brothers is over tloo.0 Full
by covered by insurance. Nearly 1908
men and boys are left without employ
ment for the winter.
J. Fred Rsbbon. aged twenty three,
town tax collector of Genesee. was ar
rested at Perry, Wyoming County. and
brought to Genssee. His arrest Is the
result Of an examination Of his books
In his absence, which showed a short
age Of between $500 and 1900.
By the explosion of eombustihle ma
terial In the candy manufacturing e.
tablishment OF Charles Holman at Mas
sau. n. H., the Holman block, q large
brick structure on Main street, was en-
tirely destroyed By IRE. The loss viii
reach $4,000, but it 10 fully insured
Detective o'Loushlin, Of Buffalo, ar
rested Antonio Columbus as he alighted
from the Lehigh Valley train. on infor-
nation telegraphed from Pitson. Pa.
whore Antonio is wanted for murder.
The Italian sullsnly submitted to ar
rest, and said nothing beyond that he
had done the killing in self-defense.
Miss Consuslo Vanderbilt. the future
Duchess Of Marlborough. was one Of
the many victims Of thieves At the
Meadow Brook Hunt Club house last
Saturday at Hampstead, L. I. She lost
q diamond skirt pin valued at $4,000,
which was used to hold the skirt to
the waist In all about $1,000 worth of
jewelry and $1,000 in cash were stolen.
disa afroua FIRE visited the VILLAGE