The Washington bee., 1895-11-09
this WEEKS NEWS.
4 Summary Of Current EyeHts-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.

| Paso now being named as the place.
The Reorganization committee of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company an
under the new plan have been very
heavy for the first day.
Ben Powell, a young man Of Mem
phis. Tenn, was assassinated as he en-
tered his home. Richard johnson, a
negro, has been arrested, charged with
the crime.
John A. Thomas, of Denver, Col,
after being married two weeks to a
fifteen-year-old girl, shot and killed
himself after unSucceSSfully trying
chloroform as a means of suicide.
The Nicaraguan commission, through
Col. Ludlow. it's chairman, has submit
ted to the President through Secretary
Olney Its report upon the examination
Congress last season.
Emma Hudson, a factory operative,
twenty-one years of age, committed
suicide at Utica by jumping into a els
tern. A year ago a sister of the de-
ceased committed suicide in the same
manner.
The Duke of Cambridge, upon his re-
tirement from the post of commander
in-chief of the forces, has been gazetted
chief personal aide-de-camp to the
Queen and honorary colonel-in-chief TIC
the forces
Miss Flagler, whose shooting and
killing of negro boy who was steal
ing fruit, several months ago, created
q no ind f0, ma n.
slaughter by the District Of Columbia
grand jury.
Sergt. Goldberg, of the Northwest
Mounted Police at Duck Lake, Mani
toba, was shot dead by an Indian cat
tie thief whose capture he was at
tempting The murderer escaped and
is still at large.
August Olsen, of New York, thirty.
eight years old, committed suicide by
hanging himself to beam in the cellar
of his house. He had been out of EN-.
ployment for more than six months
and was respondent.
Francis Cuthbert Valentine Shorts,
who shot and killed John 10y and
Maxine LIE Boueuff in the Valley Field
cotton mill in March, 1895, was found
Beauhornois. Quebec.
K. Y. Cruikshank, prominent citi-
zen Of Coburg, Ont, was shot by John
Phillips, an old and wealthy resident
Cruikshank is dying. Phillips wa:
found later with his brains blown out,
lying on his daughters grave.
Half the village of Lancaster, short
distance from Cornwall, Ont, was
wiped out of existence by fire. The loss.
including all the principal stores, hotels
and many private residences, amounts
to $4,000. with about $4,000 insurance.
Moses J. Loving, a wealthy retired
farmer Of Leeminister, Mass, aged
eighty-two years. committed suicide by
strangling himself with towel. Grief
on account of the death Of his wife and
poor health is said to have been the
cause.
San Salvador's Secretary Of the In
terror has issued instructions to Gov
errors and high port officials under no
circumstances to allow Chinese immi-
grafton, as it is believed they bring
Chinese contagious disease into the
country.
An official report that has been made
to the Porte states that twenty Arme-
mans attacked the gendarmes at StVer-
eek in the Province Of Diarbekir. In
the fight that ensued several Mussul-
mans were killed. Afterwards the Ar
menians set fire to the bazaar.
Burglars entered the store Of S. Y.
Tank & Co., the largest Chinese mer-
chandise warehouse in Boston. and
III %1f ot~
in cash and seventeen gold watches.
Jacob Hertzka. well known in the
mining market at Vienna, committed
suicide by shooting himself.
At Falconer, suburb of Jamestown.
N. Y, H. j. Elmer Legerquist,
Sweed, stabbed his sister, Mrs. James
Nebergig, with a knife, inflicting ter
rible wound. The ARRAY was the result
of domestic difficulties. The woman's
injuries will not prove fatal. The
would-be assassin has been arrested.
The Oak Ridge Sanitarium at Green
Spring, O., a four-story structure, 100
feet square, was destroyed by fire. The
forty-eight guests, most Of whom were
invalids, all escaped, many Of them
having to be carried from the burning
building. The loss will be in the neigh
borhood of $4,000, with an insurance
of 100000
Springfield, o., was visited with one
of the most disastrous fires in Its his
tory Wednesday. The Lagonda Hotel
was entirely consumed as the result.
The building was a fve-story brick
and the finest hostelry in the city. The
loss on the building and contents Ia es-
timated at 100000, partially insured.
Other losses aggregate $4,000.
Edward Stocquelin. London chalk
artist, died in the London streets. He
was we'll known in certain localities for
the colored sketches which he rapidly
drew with chaIks upon the payements,
receiving charitable contributions from
those who appreciated his artistic work |
Stocuuelin was grandson Of Mrs.
Siddons, the famous English actress,
who died in 1881, and his father was
for many years private reader to the
Queen.
Chief Deputy United States Marshal
Vinson has returned to Spokane, WASH !
from the Okangon reservation, bring |
ing news of a most horrible crime per-
petrated by two Indians named Choa- !
wanska and Poiekolpotay. They stole
a little tweIve-year-old girl, Mary |
daughter of James Poll. and taking
her out in the mountains, repeatedly