The Washington bee., 1895-01-19
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
a Summary of Current Events--The Worlds
Ooings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers.
General.


cutters went out on strike.
Fire damaged the foundry of Gag
non & Freres, Quebec, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Wilson Brown, jr., White Plains
lawyer, was sandbagged and robbed
near his home
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
has indorsed Secretary Carlisle's finan-
cial reform plan.
Unusually severe and repeated earth
quake shocks were experienced at
Rangoor, British Burmah.
Three thousand unemployed work.
fngmen invaded the Montreal City
Hall and yelled for bread.
James Woolsen, of Syracuse, shot
himself at his brother-in-law's house
in Seneca Falls, and will die.
The Famous Laundry Works at
Dayton, O., were completely destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000; partially in
sured.
James Mclaughlin, of Savon, N. Y,
committed suicide. His dead body
was found in his barn hanging from
beam.
Germany's Chancellor, it was hinted
in the Reichstag, is studying how to
get even for Americas tax on bounty
raised sugar.
Premier Stoiloff told the Bulgarian
Sobranje that the resignation of the
whole Cabinet had been accepted by
Prince Ferdinand.
The Bourse Gazette, st. Petersburg,
says the new Russian loan has been
subscribed forty times in excess Of
the sum required.
William Taylor, who assassinated
Magistrate Doty at Richmond, KY.
was found guilty and will be hanged
within thirty days.
Col. D. S. Alexander, of Buffalo, said
Gen. Harrison told him that under no
circumstances would he again be
candidate for President.
John Moran, laborer, Of Wadding-
ton, N. Y, committee suicide by TAX
ing laudanum at Potsdam. The loss
of love affair was the cause.
Samuel Cohn & Bro, shoe dealers,
OF New York, confessed Judgment for
S53,722. Attorneys for creditors report
Senator Jones, Of Arkansas, has in
troduoed bill providing for the allot-
ment In severalty Of the lands Of the
five civilized tribes to the Indians.
The United States cruiser Detroit,
with the Vatican relics which we're
exhibited at the Columbian Exposition
in Chicago last year, has arrived at
Naples
Charles G. Riley, young man Of
sweetheart, Blanche Graves, because
she went to church with another young
man.
Signor Giolitti, ex-Premier of Italy,
passed through Vienna on Sunday on
his way to Berlin. It is reported that
he fed from Rome to avoid being ar
rested.
Samuel M. Welch, Of Buffalo, was
appointed Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorney for the northern district
Of New York in place of William F.
B. Woodward.
The funeral of M. Auguste Burdeau,
President Of the French Chamber Of
Deputies, who died December IL, has
saken place. A large number Of off,
-ials attended.
The Boilermakers' Union of London
mas decided to secede from the Trades
Congress on account of the Socialistic
tone of the resolutions recently passed
by the congress.
A lis pendens was filed against the
realty of the late Jay Gould's estate
in this country in the suit of the st.
Louis Soldiers Orphans Home to re-
cover $11,000,000.
Samuel G.. Seely, the dishonest book
keeper of the Shoe and Leather Bank.
New York, arrived from Chicago and
was held in default of $4,000 bail at
Ludlow Street Jail.
A gathering of 800 Socialists at
tempted to hold an anti-Crispi demon
stratfon in Milan, but the attempt fail
ed to arouse public interest. There
was no disturbance.
The pension appropriation bill was
reported to the Senate unchanged, and
the military academy bill with the
amount appropriated by the House re-
duced nearly $4,000.
John Garvey, the tramp who entered
the Astor mansion in New York and
took sleep in one Of the beds there,
was sentenced to years imprison-
ment in the penitsntiary.
In consequence Of pleuropneumonia
having been detected In cattle landed
from Canada on December 6, the i'm
portation Of cattle from Canada into
Belgium has been prohibited.
J. c. Wood, of OsWego, aged twenty
three years, brakeman on Rome,
Watertown and Ogdensburg freight
train, fell between the cars at Pierre
pont Manor and was decapitated.
The Dunkirk Chamber of Commerce,
in response to an appeal from Mon
treal, has decided to do everything
possible to establish a direct steam
ship line between France and Canada.
At Boston, Mass, James Murphy at
tempted to murder his wife by shoot
ing her and attacking her with an
Indian club and an axe. He then cut
his throat. The physicians say both
will die
A monument to Father Damien, the
lepers' friend in the Hawaiian Islands,
has been unveiled in Louvain, Bel
gium, amid the great rejoicing of the