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

| General.
Snow fell during the past week in tn,
| Catskills
Spain, IL Is reported, will shortly sent
twenty-five more battalions to Cuba.
Many vessels were wrecked in TIL
recent heavy gales on the great lakes
| Ex-Police 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 Whiske!
Trust.
A great gale in England has bee,'
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 al
Atlantic City, N. J.
Capt R. D. Evans, Fighting Bob, u
| has been assigned to the command OF
| the new battleship Indiana.
Father Wagner, of ST, Joseph. Mo,
| is charged with abducting a fifteen
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.
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mango county, N. Y, endorsed Presi-
dent Cleveland for 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 a 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 letter, asking for new Com
mittee Of Seventy to inaugurate new
reform campaign.
The new American line steamer St.
Paul made an average Of 81 knots an
hour In a run up the coast from the
Delaware capes.
John c. New, ex-President Harrison's
closest friend, reports that he favocs
Robert T. Lincoln as the Republican
candidate for President.
Charles Lynn's filibustering expedi-
ton, which carried $500 rifles and am
munition to the insurgents, is believed
to have landed safely in Cuba.
The new French torpedo boat Le-
forban made thirty-one knots an houl
on her trial trip, the fastest time ever
recorded for q steam vessel
The Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon
has been wrecked, and is probably q
total loss. This is the third Spanish
warship 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
alibi.
China has responded to England
demands by degrading Viceroy Lin, Of
the province of Scz-Chuen for his SYM
patty 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 a common
drunkard, died in Bellevue Hospital
from a fractured skull, and there is
evidence of foul play.
A meeting Of different religious and
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. 3d. less
cash in the Treasury, to have been
s941, 0Ss, e36, an increase for the month
of $1,S34,6s7.
M Lebon. the French minister Of
commerce. announces that a contract
has been signed for laying q subma-
rine cable between Brest and New
York. and for link between the
1SlSH SaDiS cAN Vic <AAisAiiSS.
The United States Geodetic Survey
has established a line between the
Golden Gate at San Francisco and 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
mangled 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. 900 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 shreds by a cyclone
at Burlington Iowa.. The animals, the
fat woman. the giants and the living
skeletons and the circus riders were all
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