The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-10-26
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Events-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.

The great exodus from Canada to the
United States has become a party issue
in the Dominion.
Official returns for the last fortnight
in September show 4,249 new cases OF
cholera and 1,7O1 deaths in Volhynia.
Russia.
Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, we'll known
as a writer of high class literature for
juvenile readers, is i'll beyond recovery
in Chicago. -
A tug brought man to Lorraine, O.,
clinging to mast. He is unable to
talk His vessel is said to have been
sunk and eight lives lost.
The jury in the Foglia murder case,
New York, returned to the court room
with a verdict Of guilty Of manslaugh-
ter in the first degree.
The death of Philips swells the num-
Der Of people killed in the Pittsburgh
street car accident to five. One other
| man is in critical condition.
The defalcation of Cashier J. r. Col
can, of the Fort Scott, Kan, State
| Bank, has caused that bank to close.
| Depositors will be paid in full.
Rtsiness is at a standStill in the
| Scotch steel and kindred trades in G]as-
| Cow owing to the uncertainty whether
| the ship building strike will spread.
Charges have been filed against 173
| letter carriers of Chicago. The allega
! tons, if proven, are of such a nature
{l,n
Mrs Harriet A Ryan, aged sixty
| FIVE years. of Kings Station, who was
mentally afflicted, committed suicide
| by deliberately setting her clothes on
, fire
Commodore DeGrass Livingston, one
| of Canastota's wealthiest citizens, fell
down stairs at his home and was
| killed. He was about sixty-five years
| Of age.
A special to the Minneapolis Tribune
| from Alexander, Mimi, says: Edwin P.
Lewis shot his wife three times and
| Immediately shot and killed himself on
| the street.
c. l.. Miller and wife, Of Lawson, o.
T., were murdered in cold blood by I'M
known parties, and Will Miller, their
son, was so badly wounded that he
cannot live.
An explosion of converter occurred
at the Frankstown mill of Jones &
Laughlins, Pittsburgh, Pa. Ten men
were injured, three, it is feared being
fatally burned.
Four men were suffocated by gas
smoke in coal mine two and half
miles from Story City, Ia. The dead
are Albert Peterson, single; Alexander
Eastman, single.
In a wreck, caused by broken frog,
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
between Bluefield and Renova, w. Va.
several persons were badly injured, but,
1t is thought, none fatally.
The crew of the tug John Logic, of
Southampton, picked up body off
Pike Bay with life preserver attached
to it. 1t is supposed to be the body of
Edward Forrest, second engineer of
the Africa.
While making a coupling in the lower
yards at Niagara Falls. a West Shore
brakeman, whose home is said to be in
Buffalo, was instantly killed. His body
was cut in two. He caught his foot in
a frog.
President Smith, of the Mormon
Church, at a secret meeting made some
sensational remarks of a political char
acter. 1t is believed that the church
intends to exercise all it's power in
politics.
The resolution of the Marquis of
Salisbury to secure the adoption of the
| reforms proposed by the Powers, and
to use coercive measures if necessary,
is causing the Sultan Of Turkey great
uneaSineSs.
Major B. II. Richardson, editor of
the Columbus, Ca, Enquirer, is dead.
He was one Of the best known news
paper men in the State. He was a
brother of Frank Richardson, of the
Baltimore Sun.
The body of man found in the
Champlain canal at Whitehall has been
identified as that of Gideon Passenault,
of LANCE Garden, Rouville County,
Quebec. 1t is believed that he was ac-
cidentally drowned.
Ansonia Bigelow, for many years
prominent in commit rcial circles in Chi
cago is dead in that city. Nh. Bigelow
was born on a farm in Washington
County, N. Y, November (, 1883. He
went to Chicago in 1866.
James J. Brooks, ex-chief of the
United States Secret Service Depart
ment. but of late years in charge of
Pittsburgh detective agency, died of
heart disease at his residence in that
city, aged seventy-six years.
Four bridge carpenters at work ON
the Northern Pacific road few miles
from Butte, Mont, were knocked from.
the top Of high trestle by a falling
timber. John McParrish was killed
and John Holmes and George Abra-
hams were fatally injured, and Dan
Harrison was seriously hurt, but may
recover.
William G.. Heating, of Rome, n. Y,
who was arrested on complaint of Far
noer George Fits, Of Groton, in 1892, on
the charge that he was Red" Austin
Il had buncoed him out of $4,000, re-
covered verdict against Fits at Cort-
ard for $1,S41 for false imprisonment
The case created much interest, and
was holly contested for three days.
A special dispatch from Eldred, Pa,
SAWS that on the Buffalo division of the