The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-10-19
THIS WEEES News.
A Summary Of Current Eyents-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

Catskills.
| Spain, it Is reported, will shortly send
twenty-five more battalions to Cuba.
Many vessels were wrecked in the
recent heavy gales on the great lakes
| Ex-Poiice Justice Scion B. Smith, q
prominent New York politician, is dead.
Peary, the Arctic explorer, says he
will never again attempt to reach the
Pole.
Full settlement has been reached by
the conflicting interests of the Whisky
Trust.
| A great gale in England has bee1
| attended with loss of life and shipping
| disasters.
Gen. Malone, who suffered from a
recent paralytic stroke. is somewhat
/; Improved.
The Prince of Wales denies any con-
| nection with the Rose challenge for the
America cup.
| Harry Wright, the famous baseball
| manager and player, is critically i'll Ut
| Atlantic City, n. j.
Capt r. D. Evans, Fighting Bob
| has been assigned to the command Of
| the new battleship Indiana.
Father Wagner of ST, Joseph, Mo,
| is charged with abducting hfteen-
year-old girl of his parish.
Formal orders placing Major Gene
| raj Nelson A. Miles in command of the
| United States Army will be issued
The Democratic convention of Che
mango county, n. Y, endorsed Presl-
| dent Cleveland for a third term.
The crack American steamer ST.
| Louis cut down her time four hours
| in her last trip across the Atlantic.
Corbett, the pugilist has left for Tex
as, although the probability is that the
legislature will pass law prohibiting
prize fighting.
The baseball season ended on Mon
day. and the Baltimore club is cham
pion of the National league for an
other year.
DR.. Parkhurst, in New York city, has
written a letter, asking for new Com
mittee of Seventy to inaugurate new
reform campaign.
The new American line steamer st.
Iaul made an average of q knots an
our in run UP the coast from the
L eldWare capeS.
John c. New, ex-President Harrison's
closest friend, reports that he favo.s
robert t. Lincoln as the Republican
candidate for President.
Charles Lynns filibustering eXpedi-
ton, which carried 2,5G0 rifles and am
Tunition to the insurgents, is believed
TO have landed safely in Cuba.
To-
forban made thirty-one knots an houl
on her trial trip, the fastest time ever
recorded for steam vessel.
The Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon
has been wrecked, and is probably
total loss. This is the third Spanish
WaGship wrecked within year.
The Durrant trial at San Francisco
IS now in it's tenth week. and will last
probably three weeks longer. The de-
fence continues it's effort to prove an
;,libi
China has responded to England's
demands by degrading Viceroy Lin, Of
the province of Scz-Chuen for his SYM
pathy with the recent Chengtu mission
outrages.
The police commissioners Of New
York have directed a resumption Of the
use Of the night club by the police, and
the Good Government Clubs denounce
the action.
Thomas A. Lynch, whom the New
York police locked up as common
drunkard, died in Bellevue Hospital
from a fractured skull, and there is
evidence of foul play.
a meeting of different religious and
civic organiza lions in Boston passed
resolutions of thanks to Gov. Culber-
son. of Texas, for his splendid efforts
to prevent prize fighting.
The monthly statement of the public
debt issued by the Treasury Depart
ment shows the debt on Sept. 80, less
cash in the Treasury to have been
S941 ,0S9, 636, an increase for the month
Of $1,S34,6
M. Lebon, the French minister OF
commerce, announces that a contract
has been signed for laying a subma-
rine cable between Brest and New
York, and for a link between the
French cable system and the Antilles
The United States Geodetic Survey
has established a line between the
SalSf dI Dan TdHCISCO ana the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which
will be of use in forming exact lines
of longitude and in determining the
precise shape of the earth.
VIM. Patche went into Thornton's
deer park near Varna, ILL.,, on Sunday.
The animals are known to be ferocious,
and danger signs warn trespassers to ,
keep out. Yesterday Patches torn and
mangIed body was found dangling
form the horns Of large deer. Life
had been extinct for hours.
The State Department in Washington
has been advised of the payment in Lon !
don of the Spanish draft for the Mora
claim. and the deposit Of the net pro-
ceeds to the credit of the Secretary Of
State in the New York Sub-treasury.
The draft called for the payment of ST. |
AS, COO in gold.
The Good Government Club Conven-
ton in New York nominated a county |
ticket of it's own.
The tents of the Barnum & Bailey |
show were torn into shrads by cyclone |!
Al Burlington, Iowa. The animals, the |
Eat woman, the giants and the living |
skeletons and the circus riders were all |
to the storm. Hail broke the |
Of Press Agent Hamilton's car