The Washington bee., 1895-12-14
this WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Events-1he Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Rsadsr1
General

hunting expedition.
Gold to the amount of s2,eoo.ooo was
shipped to Europe Saturday. :.
William O. Bradley, Republican, was
inaugurated as Governor of kentucky
lists. The road will be about 200 miles
long, and will tap valuable coal mln-
ing district.
Burglars secured $3.50 in money and
a quantity of stamps from the post
office at Clinton, N. Y.
Twenty or more wrecks have been
reported from various seaports OF Italy
with great loss of life.
A thousand stonemasons struck In
New York to enforce their agreement
for 50 pay for an eight-hour day.
Efforts Of tailors' contractors in New
York to return to the sweating system
may precipitate a strike of 2O,00o men.
President Cleveland has determined
to remain several days longer in the
hunting grounds in hope Of good duck
ing weather.
Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania
has announced that he will not be
candidate for reelection to the United
States Senate.
Bronze fac-similes Of ancient Roman
coins imported by Columbia College
were detained at the Custom House as
counterfeit money.
The Sultan Of Turkey has granted
the permission demanded by the pow
ers for the passage Of extra guardships
through the Dardanelles.
The report was published in New
York that Mrs. Dimmock, niece of the
late Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, will soon
be married to the ex-President.
Congressman Black, of New York.
has introduced a bill to pension Mrs
Mary Gould Carr, widow of the late
Gen. Joseph B. Carr. at $50 a month.
William H. B. Smith, an inventor, OF
Forest Hill, N. j.. with an office in
New York, drank chloroform liniment
after spree in New York and died.
. A concession from the Chinese Gov
ernment to build line of railroad from
tidewater to Pekin has been obtained
by a syndicate of American capital
The Rev DR.. Joseph F. Johnson. rec
tor of Christ Church. Detroit, Mich.
has been elected Bishop Of the new
Episcopal diocese of Southern Califor-
MIA.
Four men have been arrested at Buf.
falo on suspicion of wrecking the D.. L.
& w. train at Preble. They were sent
to the penitentiary until their records
can be looked into.
The four boys who wrecked the New
York Central train near Rome, N. Y,
have been committed to Jail to await
the action of the grand jury on thu
charge Of murder in the first degree.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama. make.
a strong speech in the United States
Senate against the payment Of Eng
lands Behring Sea claims. and asserts
that the actual amount due Is 500, 10;
instead Of s425, 1000.
Exceptionally heavy weather prevail
ed during last week over the British
Isles. Numberless small wrecks have
occurred, and considerable damag.
has been done to shipping, but the loss
OF life has been small.
Joseph T. Jenkins, a gambler. stab
bed w. B. Macklin in Chicago cable
car. Macklin fell asiinsv jenkins ir
getting up to give his seat to a lady, {
quarrel ensued and the stabbing fol
lowed. Macklin will die.
new trial has been denied in the
case of Theodore Durrant, of Sar
Francisco, convicted of the murder ol
Blanche Lamont. He has been SEN
fenced to death, but the date of his
execution has not been set.
James NJ. Hurd, aged seventy three,
# Biddeford, Me, was found dead in
ed with his skull crushed and his
throat cut. His son, Alfred Hurd,
Who has always been regarded as pecu-
liar, was arrested and confessed to the
murder.
ruling by Judge Allison that Lud
low Street Jail, New York city, is the
proper place to confine Federal prison
CrS demoliShes the claim Of the defense
IN the trial of Sheriff Tamsen that the
General Sessions Court has no juris-
diction.
Emma Allen, young married wo.
man Of Elmer, Pa, was shot de.d by
her cousin, Ernest Allen, who resides
at Addison, n. Y, but has been at Ell.
mer visiting relatives. Allen says il
was an accident, but the coroner has
held him for murder.
The divorce business is not languish-
ing in Chicago. Five Judges ground
out 100 divorces in three hours last
Saturday. They averaged twenty te
each and nine minutes for each di-
vorce. Judges Payne. Hanecy. Horton,
Bretano and Tuley did the business.
The petrifed bodies of three men,
supposed 10 be prospectors who visited
Bismarck, N. D., many years ago, and
mysteriously disappeared under cir.
cumstances which pointed strongly to-.
wards murder have been found in a
lonely gulch several miles north OF
that town.
Lizzie Schauer. the young woman
who was committed to the workhouse
by Magistrate Mott, of New York city.
has been discharged from custody on
an order from Judge Andrews, of the
Supreme Court. The Judge said there
was no evidence on which she could
have been committed for disorderly
conduct
The date for the big Confederate re-
union and cornerstone laying Of the
jefferson Davis monument at Rich.
mond. Va, has been finally postponed
to June 80 and July l and next year
in order that the veterans may &C
from Richmond to New York to attend
the reunion Of the blue and gray on