The Washington bee., 1895-08-24
this WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Essuts-The Worsfs
Do;ags dr the Past Sin Days Gathered
and Condensed for-0w Readers

and Condensed tor Our Readers
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Mrs. Helen Stewart took the oath Of
Office and became Sheriff OF Greene
county, Mo.
Peter Frederick Rottsrmd, the fam
Gus historical painter. died at Potts
down, Pa. yesterday, aged ~ years.
It has been officially announced that
the coronation OF Car Nicholas II. will
take place in April.
Two men were fatally shot and one
badly beaten in a fight between ferry
men at Edison, Washington
The big harvesting machinery shops
of Amos Whitley & Co., at Springfield.
O., have been purchased by an English
syndicate.
Twenty people were injured in a
trolley car collision at Indianapolis. A
misplaced switch was the cause OF the
accident.
The iron foundry Of the Knowles
steam pump works at Warren, Mass,
was burned. Loss, $175.Oo
Ex-Mayor Van Horn, OF Denver, fell
from a window of the Grand Central
hotel at that place. this morning, and
was killed.
Twenty people were injured in a col
trolley car, at Chester, Pennsylvania,
yesterday.
A movement has been started In Lon
don to establish a new line of trans
Atlantic steamers to run from Cardiff
to New York.
Fire destroyed the cigar factory Of
Whitmore Bros, and the tobacco ware
house of Julius MarQuise, at Kirkville,
N. Y. Loss $4,000.
Jacob Gisax, GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
banker, committed suicide by placing
his head on the railroad track In front
of an approaching train.
Yellow fever is on the increase at
Havana, Cuba. One hundred and sixty
eight cases have been reported during
the last two weeks
The latest reports from Eagle Pass,
Tex. say that out of 835 returning ne
gro coIonists Quarantined there, there
are lis cases OF. smallpox.
A heavy win0 storm at Baltimore de-
mohshed St Efizabeth's Church and did
much damage to other buildings. The
loss amounts to over $4,000.
The lake steamers Britannia and Rus
sia colnded in the Detroit river yester-
day. The Britannia was sunk and the
fSaSSl9 D80ly QanaSoO.
The Hopkinton Savings Bank Of Hope
Valley, Rhode Island. has suspended,
and will probably wind up Its affairs.
This is the second time It has been in
trouble
Ex-Mayof Arnold gave a luncheon at
Gravesend, England. TO Admiral Kirk
land and the officers Of the United
States cruisers, San Francisco and Mar
blehead
Sir William Howland, ex-Heutenant-
governor Of Ontario, waS quietly mar
ried, at Toronto, to Mrs Bethune, the
widow Of the late MY. Bethune. The
bride Is sixty.
The Remington Paper Company, of
WATERFOWL, owning the largest paper
mills in Northern New York, has volun-
p 1S,,z tes bsf oeae e wages OF ITS Ell"
III. e Holmes, the alleged murderer Of
Minnie and Annie Williams and others,
will go to Chicago for trial for murder
Of the Williams girls
The colt stable Of the Genesee Valley
Stock Farm, at Elmtra, was burned.
Eleven thoroughbred colts persisted in
the flames. The loss on barns and
stock is placed at $4,000
The United States cruiser Atlanta, has
been ordered from Key West to New
York for repairs. defects being discover
relieve her at Key West.
A gang of robbers attempted to hold
up three men at Erie, Pa A fight oc-
Cured in which one Of the robbers was
killed and Barney Smith and Harry
Easteflick, two Of their intended VIC
Tins, mortally wounded.
The town Of Spragle. in Skamania
county, Wash, was burned yesterday.
All the buildings in the town, including
the Northern Pacific car shops and round
houses, were destroyed. The loss Is
81 200, 900.
The Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Com
pany. Of Lebanon, Pa, have notified the
employees in the pudding and rolling
mills that their wages are increased 10
per cent. the order to go into effect on
August 16.
Meyer Schoenfeld, the leader of the
garment workers strike, said yesterday
that the strike had not been declared off
and that 1t would not be until the Con-
tractors Association meets tomorrow
and decides to accept the new agree
ment.
Charles Dunlap, general superinten-
dent Of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific railroad. died in Chicago at 21s
o'clock yesterday morning Of injuries
which he received at the chutes last
Thursday night. He was forty-eight
years old.
The State Department has received
the following cablegram from Consul
Gernigan, at Shanghai, In reference to
the reported massacre near Kuchong:
Americans safe. none hurt. Ten Brit
'sh killed"
H. c. Tyler lowered the worlds pro.
fessional one-mile bicycle record Of 1850
rs, at New, York, yesterday, covering
the distance in 40 2-5. He went for the
two-mile record. off which he clipped
two-fifths Of second, his time being
1856. ....
The North American Phonograpn Com
oany yesterday secured temporary in
Junction from Vice-Chancellor Emery, Of
New Jersey, restraining the Edison
Photograph Works and Thomas A. Ed
ison personally from selling monographs
to anybody but the plaintiffs, who claim
the sole right to sell the instruments.
The Provincial Court, OF Kissengen,
has rejected the application Of Louis
Stern, OF New York, to rescind its order
for his arrest in connection with charges
of having misstated his sons age for the
purpose Of evading a tax, and has also
refused the alternative demand that he
be not required to furnish bail.
i The indictment against President c.
P. Huntington, Of the Southern Pacific
for violating the Interstate commerce