The Washington bee., 1895-10-19
This WEEKS NEWS.
A Sumnaft 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 party issue
in the Dominion.
Official returns for the last fortnight
in September show 4,249 new Eases or
cholera and 1,7O1 deaths in Volhynia.
| Russia.
Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, we'll known
| as writer of high class literature for
juvenile readers, is i'll beyond recovery
| in Chicago.
A tug brought man to Lorraine, o.,
| clinging to a 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 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 a critical condition.
The defalcation of Cashier ]. r. Col
| can, of the Fort Scott, Kan, State
Bank, has caused that bank to close.
Depositors will be paid in full.
Business is at a standstill in the
Scotch steel and kindred trades in Glas-
gov owing to the uncertainty whether
the ship building strike will spread
Charges have been filed against 173
letter carriers of Chicago. The allega-
M q
as to ensure the dismissal Of the men.
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.
G. L. Miller and wife of Lawson, o.
T., were murdered in cold blood by un-
known parties, and Will Miller, their
son, was so badly wounded that he
cannot live.
An explosion of a 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 a coal mine two and a 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,
several persons were badly injured, but.
1t is thought none fatally
The crew of the tug John Loe:e, of
Southampton, picked up a 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, 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 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
rnfn hxyf fhn
to use coercive measures if necessary,
is causing the Sultan of Turkey great |
uneasiness.
Major B. III. Richardson, editor of |
the Columbus. Ga, 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 a man found in the
ChampIain canal at Whitehall has been
identified as that of Gideon Passenault
of Lange Garden, Rouville County,
Quebec. 1t is believed that he was ac-
cidentally drowned.
Ansonia Pigelow, for many years
prominent in comm. rcial circles in Chi
2ago, is dead in that city. Mr.. Bigelow
was born on a farm in Washington
County, n. Y, November Z, 1883 He
went to Chicago in 1855.
James j. Brooks, eX-chief of the |
United States Secret Service Depart
nlent, but of late years in charge OF a
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 a few miles
from Butte, Mont, were knocked from.
the top Of high trestle by a falling
timber. John McFarrish was killed |
and John Holmes and George Abra-
fams were fatally injured, and Dan
Harrison was seriously hurt, but may
recover.
William G.. Eea ting, Of Rome, n. Y,
Who was arrested or complaint of Far
ner George Fits, of Groton in 1892, on
the charge that he was Ped" Austin
d had buncoed him out OF $4,000. re-
covered verdict against Fits at Cort-
ard for S1.S41 for false imprisonment
The case created much interest and
r-oC botIy CONTESTED for tbraa 1ov,S