The Washington bee., 1895-10-26
THIS WEEKS; NEWS.
A Summary of Current Eyents-The Worlds
Dsings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.


! A dispatch from Vienna says tina
Field Marshal Dunst-Adelshelm ant
! his wife have committed suicide.
About forty buildings, chiefly bust
ness houses, burned at Madison, Mimi
Loss, $150, 900; insurance, about s45,0oo.
Gov. Clarke, of Arkansas, intimate:
that he will convene the Legislature Il
necessary to stop the Corbett-Fitzsim-
mons fight.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
lost $120, 900 worth of securities belong
ing to the Fort Scott, Kan, bank,
which failed recently.
The State Bank in Duluth, Mich, OF
which Charles H. Stuckey, who fled
with $4,000, was the cashier. went into
the hands of an assignee.
Fourteen of the Hwasang murderers
lost their heads Sunday, and four vege-
tartan leaders left Kucheng Monday to
be put to death at Foochow.
The Galveston Council has adopted
resolutions inviting President Cleveland
to visit that city to witness the open
ing of the deep water harbor.
The Baltimore and Ohio southwest
John Terlinde, of Ivorydale. and fatally
mangled Emma Burke. near Cincinnati.
A dispatch from Creede. Col. says
that all the frame buildings in the town
have been burned. This is the third
disastrous fire in the famous mining
camp.
Park Pattison, Caledonia, Ont.
barber, tried to cut his wife's throat.
inf1icting some ugly gashes with a
razor. He then tried to cut his own
throat, but failed. Both may die.
Frederick L. Billion. who has resided
at st. Louis longer than any other in
habitant. Is dead, aged ninety-four. He
was born in Philadelphia April a3, 1901,
and was the oldest Mason in the West.
Michael Ryan, Ed. Gaffney and
man named Kane, tramps from New
York, tried to steal q ride on the cars
at Seneca Falls, and Kane fell on the
track, the train cutting on his head.
Fire in the main hoisting slope or
the Oregon Improvement Company's
mine at Franklin. Wash, caused the
death Of John H. Glover. s. w. Small
ley, John Adams and James Spafford.
For the first time In something over
thirty years the Olympic range of
mountains In the State Of Washington
has broken forth, and In one section is
beichanG out dre and lava in large
quantities.
W. Davidson Jones, q well-known
lawyer and patent solicitor of Amster-
dam, died, aged sixty-three years. He
was member Of the Montgomery
hor
ance.
Mrs. Samuel D. Smith. who was ar
rested at Detroit last spring and re-
GENTLY tried at Duluth for larceny of
$500 from Mrs. Cameron. q widow,
also Of Detroit. the jury disagreeing,
has confessed
Miss Frances Willard has been again
elected president of the W. G. T. u, at
the annual election in Baltimore, with
practically no opposition. although
complimentary votes were cast for sew
eral other prominent workers.
The jury in the trial of Maud Lewis |
for the murder Of State Senator Peter
Morrisey, OF Missouri, in her house last
May. returned a verdict of murder in |
the first degree and fixed her punish |
ment at fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary
Claud Wyatt, aged sixteen; Marian |
Fuller, sixteen; Nellie Macland, fifteen, |
and Katie Linsel, fourteen, left Coun-
sci Bluffs, Ia, for drive to Crescent.
Later word was received that their
team had run away and Wyatt was
killed
The Switchmen's Union Of North |
America has elected the following Off
GERS: Grand Master, d. D. Sweeney,
Jersey City: Vice-Grand Master, John
e. Wilson, Lacrosse, Wis; Grand Sec
retary and Treasurer, John Dougherty,
City.
John Connor, the young American
who swindled number of people in
Providence and Syracuse and was ar
rested on the same charge in Toronto
4 few days ago. was sentenced to six
teen months in the Central prison at
Toronto.
A special from Cripple Greek says
Town Marshal Dan Benton. of Gold
field. was instantly killed and Frank
smith, Andy Coyle and Frank Stevens
seriously wounded in spirited battle
n the little town Of Goldfeld at the
DOT Of Bull Hill.
Thomas Mccoy, Of New York, was
fatally stabbed in the heart
With a hat pin by his wife, from whom
ne has been separated for some time,
While dancing with a strange woman
1t a ball. The woman escaped and has
lot been located by the police
The fact that Chicago is at the mercy
If the highwayman and burglar has
'een made plain by Chief of Police
3adenoch issuing an order to the in
pectors calling upon them to instruct
III policemen to stop and question all
men whom they might encounter after
Midnight
The London Daily Graphic publishes
dispatch from Shanghai saying that
here were 400 troops on board the
Kung-Pai, on which an ex-
losion occurred on October Is, the
transport sinking Immediately there
fter Only twenty-four persons are re-
orted to have been saved.
The old Seven Stars tavern, In East
'incent township, Chester County, Pa.
ogether with the stables, was burned.
he Seven Stars tavern was one Of the
ldest landmarks In the country. Itl
'as built long before the revolution,
nd 1t was q favor1te stopping pIaoa
Dr. travellers going from PhfIadslnhfa