The Washington bee., 1895-09-28
This WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary OF Current tvents-Ihe Wcrlis
Doings for the Past Six DAYS Gathered
AID Condensed for Our Readers
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ENGLAND is angry at an American S
concession TO lay a cable to HaNan.
John W. CriSgs was nominated for
Governor OF New Jersey by the Repuo-
licans.
Senator Vest. in an interview, denies
that he has abandoned the free silver
cause.
Russian military men were consp.cu-
ous at the French naval manoeuvres ct
Mirecourt.
The steamship E3an. from New Y 7rk
TO Rotterdam, was sunk in the EnSilSn
Channel; no lives lost.
Ross c. Won Bokkelen was charged
with rob5ing the Merchants Loan and
Trust Bank of Chieago.
The Spanish transport steamer, San a
Barbara has arrived at Havana with
additional troops from Spain.
A national purity congress undnr the
auspices Of the American Purity alliance
is 10 be held in Baltimore Oct. II, 10,
and 16.
At Clarksville, Tenn, a monument
was unveiled To the memory O. GuSta-
vus A. Henry, a well-known public man
and orator.
Forty thousand persons, including
Governors OF fourteen States, attended
Field Park.
A weird paper by Gail Hamilton was
read at q church neSr Boston. Blaine S
historian tells what she saw and heard
when at deaths portal.
The San Francisco police have frus-
trated a plot to assassinate Durrant.
The plot was cOncocted by well-knoHn
criminal. whose identity is kept secret.
One wall Of the old Colonade block in
Nashville. Tenn, fell in, burying SIX
worknen under the debris. After an
hours work they were all dug out alive.
The Paris police have asce.;ained that
the name of the man in their custody
who attempted to explode bomb in the
Rothschild Bank a few days ago is We
tor Bolay.
The Spanish cruiser Baraisteugi was
sunk in a collision with the steamer
Mortera. off Havana. Admiral Parejo,
seven officers and thirty-eight OF the
crew were drowned.
Dr. Harlow Williams. sixty-five years
old. a widely known veterinary surgeon
of jamestown, n. Y, committed sui
eide by taking cloroform. No cause is
assigned for his act.
Advices from Antanarive, Madagascar
are to the effect that a condition boT-
dering on anarchy prevails in the dis
tr1ct Of Imerina, where every one is
fighting for power.
During a thunder storm the Tenth
United Presbyterian, the Providence
Presbyterian and the Eighth United
Presbyterian churches at Allegheny,
Pa, were struck by lightning.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro says the
Brazilian Government has decided that
II Englan@ est blishes a cable station Oh
the isis ! Of Trinidad the British Min
lister at Rio Janerio will receive his
passport.
Eleven Mussulmans have been arrest
ed for being implicated in the attack
upon the American ST Pauls College at
Tarsus, which occurred early in August.
Several students were maltreated and
missionaries were threatened.
The barns OF James Cole at Cameron
Mills, n. Y, were burned. During TIE
excitement Mr.. Cole hung up his vest in
the burning barn. He had 1922 in a
pocket OF the garment, and did Ici
thing of it until it was too late.
The steamers Constantine and Treve-
thick collided off the entrance to the
river Tyne. The Constantine was cut
to the waters edge and was run ashore
to prevent toundering. The crew were
rescued by means of life line rockets
Among the fossils discovered by Prof
J. L. Workman Of Columbia college. who
has been exploring in Wyoming, is the
skeleton Of a prehistoric man found il
the sediments OF the bed OF an extinct
lake, in which the man was probably
drowned.
A despatch from Shanghai states tha.
the Chinese expect to retake possession
of the Liaotung peninsular about the
middle Of October. The same CORES
pondent reports that Russia has secur-
ed the privilege of a second Chinese
loan OF 100, ,0O0, 900 taels
Anthony Gaa, a Jacksonian Democrat,
eigthty-four years old. is dead In 1860 |
he is said to have made vow that if |
Lincoln was elected he would never do |
Lincoin's election till his death Gaa, al |
though a skilled mechanic, was public |
charge.
For the alleged death by criminal mail |
practice OF Irene Severt, at Fremont. |
Iowa, j. A. Gum, a leading business |
man, and DR.. Roatman have been ar |
rested and held in $4,000 bonds. The |
girl left a statement, written by an
other doctor, charging these men with |
her ruin and death.
Two printers, w. E. Miller and Cor |
nelius Cronan, who were stealing a ride |
on top OF passenger car Of Boston & |
head bridge at the Massachusetts, ave-
nue. crossing in Boston and knocked |
from the train. Miller'S skull was frac-
tured and he died at the hospital
The body of Allen w. Dale, a Pennsyl-
vania Railroad civil engineer. about
ixty years Of age, OF West Philadelphia.
Nas found in the canal near Princeton
Basin. He was student in Princeton
College in 1854. 1t is thought that he
nmmitted suicide, although some of his
friends are inclined to believe that he
net with foul play.
According to the Independence Beige,
he agent in the Bahamas of a Belgian
1rm has telegraphed to his principals
hat an immense quantity of rifles, am
and other military stores. in
ended for the insurgents in Cuba, has
'een found on the British island of An
!rO. These stores. the agent says, were
secretly shipped from New York.
The large saw mill of Frank Weekly. |.
ocated four miles back OF Proctorville.
ohio, was blown to atoms by a boiler
XploSion. The proprietor was h yn to
,ieces, some parts OF his body being
ound one hundred yards away George
iatthews, an employe, was blown dis
ance Of fifty yards and his mangled re-
Mains lodged on top Of a rail fence.
William Turner, the engineer, was bad
Y cut about the head and rendered un-
onscious. He cannot live. Several |
theirs were injured.
Official advices from the United States
Iinister to the Hawaiian Islands, under
ate Of September 4, state that I'D to |
h. time thfrty-tv,o caseS nf obo1ar. |