The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-10-12
THIS WEEKY news.
4 Summary of Current Eyents-The Worlds
Doings for the Past Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General.

Snow fell during the past week in the
Catskills.
Spain, it is reported, will shortly send
twenty-five more battalions to CUBA.
Many vessels were wrecked in the
recent heavy gales on the great lakes
Ex-Police Justice Scion B. Smith,
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 Whisky
Trust.
A great gale in England has beel.
| attended with loss of life and shipping
disasters.
| Gen. Malone, who suffered from
| 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 Ill at
Atlantic City. N. ].
| Capt. r. D. Evans, Fighting Bob,
has been assigned to the command or
| the new battleship Indiana.
Father Wagner, Of ST, Joseph. Mo.
Is charged with abducting 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.
| The Democratic convention of Che
1 " H..
dent Cleveland for a 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 q 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 a letter, asking for new Com
| mittee Of Seventy to inaugurate new
| reform campaign.
| The new American line steamer St.
| Paul made an average OF Il knots an
| hour in a run up the coast from the
| elaware capes.
John G. New, ex-President Harrison's
| closest friend, reports that he favo-s
| 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 hour
| on her trial tip, the fastest time ever
| recorded for a steam vessel.
The Spanish cruiser Cristoba1 Colon
has been wrecked, and is probably a
| total loss This is the third Spanish
| warship wrecked within a 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's
demands by degrading Viceroy Lin, of
| the province Of Scz-Chuen for his SYM
pathy 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
civic organizations in Boston passed
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 80, less
cash in the Treasury, to have been
| $941 0S9, $50, an increase for the month
of 81, 1884, 6S7.
M Lebon, the French minister Of
commerce. announces that contract
has been signed for laying a subma-
rine cable between Brest and New
York, and for a link between the
French cable system and the Antilles.
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 a 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-trea sury.
The draft called for the payment of ST.
449, 900 in gold.
The Good Government Club Conven-
ton in New York nominated county
ticket of it's own.
The tents of the Barnum & Bailey
show were torn into shreds by cyclone
Al Burlington. Iowa.. The animals, the
fat woman, the giants and the living
skeletons and the circus riders were all
exposed to the storm. Hail broke the