The Washington bee., 1895-02-23


Charles M. Hughes, superintendent
Of the American News Company, died
suddenly in his Office at New York.
Cline w. Cameron, aged eighteen
tried to kill himself and his wife
Mamie. aged seventeen, in st. Louis
The Union League Club of New
York has opened a subscription list for
the benefit of the Nebraska sufferers.
Auguste Vacquerie, the dramatic
Guthor, poet and journalist, is dead in
Paris He was in his seventy sixth
year.
The rumor that Prince Ferdinand OF
Bulgaria had been expelled from that
country and had fed to Roumania is
denied.
Thomas Durant, q highwayman, who
robbed a stage near Oroville, Cal, was
captured and sentenced to life impris-
onment.
Believing he was dying Of conSump-
tion, George II. Wilkinson, of Denver,
killed himself while walking with his
sweetheart
The Government has issued an order
and munitions Of war from New Zea-
land to Samoa.
The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung says that
the court-martial Of Won Kotze, impli-
Gated in the letter scandal, will begin
ON February 81.
Gen. Arthur Goergei, formerly a
Hungarian General under Kossuth, is
dangerously i'll at Budapest. He is
seventy-seven years old.
Frank Gardner, of New York State,
who was travelling in Mexico with
George Martin, was thrown from his
horse near Topic and killed.
The Committee on Woman Suffrage
OF the Massachusetts, Legislature de-
cided to report, eight to three, in favor
Of municipal suffrage for women.
The French liner La Touraine, from
New York February for Lisbon and
Mediterranean ports, grounded at Lis
bon harbor, but was soon floated.
Hon. e. Carleton Sprague, senior
member Of the law firm of Sprague,
Moot, Sprague & Brownell, of Buffalo,
died Of apoplexy, aged seventy-two.
All the coal companies operating COL
lieries in the Wyoming Valley have
issued orders that all collieries should
90 on full time after Monday until
March 1.
Mrs. Albert Peterman, Of Crooston,
Mimi, confessed to burning two of
her babies in the stove as soon as they
were born. She said the babies were
still-born.
Ray Conkright, a six-year- son Of
Leonard Conknght, while playing on
the ice ON Cayuta Creek. near Waver-
ly, N. Y, fell into the water and was
drowned.
Charles w. Mouk manager of Over
holt & Co.'S distillery at Broadford
Pa. was murderously assaulted by two
men at Connellsville, Pa He will
probably recover
The President Of the Board of Gov
ernors Of the Montreal General Hos
pital announces that the anti-toxine
system for curing diphtheria had not
been a success there.
The Dundas Street Methodist Church
at London, Ont, was destroyed by fire.
Fire Chief Roe and Firemen McDon-
aid and Biddell were seriously If not
fatally hurt by falling walls. Loss
$4,000.
Political agitation of a serious ma
ture has occurred among the students
Of the Moscow University, in Russia.
A large number Of students have been
arrested for participation in the move
ment
Before 400 people at the Farragut
Club exhibition In Boston Jimmy
Kaveney, Of Boston, knocked out in a
minute and a half young keenan,, Of
Woonsocket, whose name in the arena
is John T. Joyce.
Seventy-two cases of smallpox are
under quarantine at st. Louis. Not
withstanding the health authorities are
making great efforts to combat the
spread of the disease, it is feared that
1t will become epidemic.
1t is alleged that Cardinal Vaughan
Is in disfavor in Rome On account of
his opposition to an active propaganda
TO convert the Anglican Church and
his project to build a magnificent ca
thedral In London.
The house Of Frank Jones near
Drennon Springs, KY, caught fire
while the family were sleeping, and
Jones's wife and two children were
burned to death. Jones was SO badly
burned that he will not recover.
A plot of natives, involving murder,
was discovered on the island of Java.
1t was the intention Of tia plotters to
murder all the Europeons and Chinese
in the district IL possible. All the
chief movers in the plot and fifty of
their followers have beer arrested and
placed In prison
Shaking Grass, an IroQuois Indian,
who fought in the Federal service in
the civil war. and was a member of
the Grand Army Of the Republic. died
at his home at No. sos Broome street,
New York. His age was sixty-five
years. He WA formerly pilot OF the
Ottawa River. A tomahawk was bur-
led with him In the Evergreens Gene
tary. Thers were some Indian cers-
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