The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-08-31
this WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Events-Ihe Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.

cisco arrived at Havre yeSteruayc.
The United States cruiser San Fran
cisco sailed from Gravesend for Havre
yesterday.
A force OF 10000 cavalrymen will be
sent by Spain to reinforce the Spanish
army in Cuba
The Glass Trust met in Cleveland
and advanced the price Of window glass
fifteen per cent.
The condition of Mr.. George Augustus
Sala, who is i'll at Brighton. England, is
much more serious.
Peter Frederick Rothermol, the fam
Gus historical painter, died at fotts-
down, Pa, yesterday, aged Is years.
Herr Won Puttkamer, formerly Gov
ernor of the Fogo District, has been
appointed Governor Of the Camerons.
DIR. Schnurdreher, Of Prague, and two
guides fell over prec1pice while as
cending Mount Blanc, ana all three were
killed.
The latest victims of the anti-foreign
feeling are two Spanish priest, who
have been murdered by Chinese mob
at Hoyun.
II is semi-officially stated that cholera
has been imported into Galicia from
Russian Poland, where it is widely
prevalent
The Porte has again rejected the de-
mand of the Powers that the proposed
reforms in Armenia shall be under for
eign control.
Twenty people were injured in col
lision between a switch engine and
trolley car, at Chester, Pennsylvania,
yesterday
The Presidents of Hayti and San Do
mingo have asked for papal mediation
to regulate the deliminationS OF those
two countries.
President Faure gave reception at
Havre to Admiral kirkland and the
officers Of the United states steamship
San Francisco.
John Cleghorn and Patrick Mears,
fisherman and river pirates, unearthed
over 900 in gold and silver coin near
Maysville, KY.
Lewis Swift astronomer at Echo
Mountain Observatory, California, has
discovered a new comet in the Con-
stellation Pisces.
The town council of Frankfort-on-the-
Main has voted 10000 marks to be dis
tributed among the veterans Of the
Franco-PruSSian war.
The Socialists of Germany have an
nounced six mass meetings for Sedan
day, to protest against the celebration
in honor of German war victories.
The Hopkinton Savings Bank Of Hope
Valley, Rhode Island, has suspended,
and will probably wind up its affairs.
This is the second time 1t has been in
trouble.
Ex-Mayor 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 Rowland, ex-lieutenant-
governor of Ontario, was quietly mar
ried, at Toronto to Mrs. Bethune, the
H.
bride is sixty.
The manufacturers of irrigation ma
chinery at Chicago, want the farmers
of Illinois to erect windmillS and put
in irrigation systems instead Of trust
ing to providence.
Albert Golden was dragged half
block and fatally injured by a Chicago
cable car in attempting to save his
child from falling under the wheels. The
child was saved unhurt.
NJ. Louis Jean Pacques Terrier, mem
her of the Chamber of Deputies and
Minister of Commerce and Colonies in
the late Dupuy Cabinet, is dead. He
was Al years Of age.
/; A passenger steamer on the Rhine
came into collision with a string of
bargeS in tow of a tug near Mehrum
yesterday, sinking one Of the barges
and drowning eight persons.
The British steamer Lycia, Captain
Jones, at Avonmouth, from Montreal,
reports that she sighted thirteen large
icebergs on August IL and H. from
twenty to $50 miles east of Belle Isle.
w. w. Kettle, a clerk in the War De-
partment at Washington, shot himself
in hotel at Pittsburg. A note was
found, leaving the landlord his watch
and $40 for the annoyance caused him.
The French transport Provence has ar
AlpiarS from MAZDA hrinp
ing a large number of sick and wounded
French soldiers. Twenty-six Of the in
valid men she took on board died during
the voyage.
The strike of the jute workers in Dun
dee is spreading rapidly Thirteen thou
sand went out yesterday in addition &c
the 1000 more who struck on Tuesday.
The strikers are very orderly, and are Civ"
ing the police no trouble.
The Remington Paper Company, of
Watertown, owning the largest paper
mills in Northern New York, has volun-
tarily increased the wages of its en-
ployes ten per cent.
1t has practically been decided that
H H. Holmes. the alleged murderer of
Minnie and Annie Williams and others,
will go to Chicago for trial for murder
of the Williams girls.
A cablegram has been received at the
State Department from Minister
Thompson at Rio de Janeiro saying
the Federal Government OF Brazil and
the Rio Grande revulutionists.
The United States cruz er Atlanta, has
been ordered from Key West to New
York for repairs, defects being discover-
ed in her boilers. The Cincinnati will
relieve her at Key West.
The indictment against President c.
p Huntington, of the Southern Pacific.
for violating the Interstate commerce
law. was dismissed to-day in the United
States District Court at San Francisco.
The number OF deaths resulting from
the breaking Of the gangway at the
Germania dockyardS, at kiel is larger
than was at first supposed. Divers have
already recovered fourteen bodies and
are seeking others.
At the session of the Catholic Con-
gress in Munich, letter from the Pope
was read urging that attention be paid
to the education of the young, to the
promotion of workmen's societies. and
TO the guidance of the press circulating
beneficial literature.
The reorganiZed whisney trust is likely
to get into trouble with Attorney-Gen-
eral Maloney, of Illinois. The attorney
general is sharply watching the reor-
ganization and quo-warranto proceed
ings are not improbable.