The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-06-29
THIS WEEKS NEWS.
A Summary Of Current Eyents-The Worlds
Doings for the Pas. Six Days Gathered
and Condensed for Our Readers
General

Elihu Allen, of Sandy Hill, one o.
the oldest paper manufacturers IN
the country, is dead.
Joe Shannon, OF the Adams Express
Company, was stricken with paralysis
at Cincinnati and will die.
A party of ten persons was drowned
by the upsetring of sail boat in a
squal On Lake Maggiore, Italy.
Fire destroyed eighty houses In Tot
tenham, Ont Business there is par
alyzed. The loss is estimated at $780,
900.
Judge Johnson, at Milwaukee, ap-
pointed G. N. Wiswall receiver of the
National Benefit and Casualty Com
pany.
Emperor William, through a CabI-
net order, has placed Grand Duke
Alexis of Russia upon the staff Of the
German navy.
Prof. Huxley, who has been in i'll
health for some time. is now in crit
ical condition, owing to a comp1ica-
ton of diseases.
A fire broke out in the new boat
house on the Quarantine grounds at
Staten Island, and the building was
completely destroyed.
John Evans Hodgson, a well-known
English painter and member of the
Royal Academy, died at Coleshill,
Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
Every preparation is being made
for the launching of the cup defender
at Bristol, R. l., and it will probably
take place within a very few days.
Edward Lemoke, reputed to be one
Of the wealthiest farmers in Iowa,
has been arrested at Webster, charged
with starving himself and his stock.
A party of eight Americans who
had been mining gold on the Yaqui
River, in the State Of Sonora, were
butchered by Indians two weeks ago.
Masked men in Arizona attacked
the party of E. B. Woodruff, paymas-
ter Of the Nacasari Copper Company,
killed the driver Moorno and obtained
$4,000
Tottenham, Ont, was almost entire
ly destroyed by fire. Eighty houses
are in ashes. and business is paral-
wed. The loss is estimated at $780,
000
Dwight L. Wing, the American who
was arrested recently on a charge of
defrauding the Wagonlits Compa NJ,
has been released in Paris on 5000
francs BAIL
The London Board of Trade has
awarded piece of plate to Capt Kane,
of the Morovia, for the kindness dis
played recently to the wrecked crew of
the Elmote.
A fight between the police and a
band Of brigands occurred near Lamia,
On the Turkish frontier of Greece ,on
Thursday. Three brigands and cor
poral Of police were killed.
The Bellaire Nail Works Company
has notified its 1000 employees of a
10 per cent. increase in wages. to take
effect On August 1. This will make
the second increase since April.
NJ. c. Fenton, aged seventy seven. of
the firm of Fenton & McGoun. manu-
facrurers of roof paint at Wilbreham,
Mass. died after an epileptic shock in
his room at the Empire House, Rome.
The body of Frank Fox. aged twen-
ty-two, son of Charles Fox, farmer of
Vienna, was found in Fish Creek. near
Rhine, n. Y. Young Fox had been
drinking hard and had family trou-
bles.
Rev. Philo G. Cook, better known as
Chaplain Cook, died at Buffalo, n. Y,
aged eighty-eight. Four charitable in
5titutions and half as many churches
are monuments to the memory of his
good deeds.
Warren Shipman, a merchant at
West Point, Miss, shot and killed
Clement Exum. SON of Postmaster
Exum. Young EXum attempted to act
as peacemaker between his uncle and
Shipman.
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" has
been revived at st. James's Theatre,
London. Miss Evelyn Millards Paula
was finely played, and the house be-
came enthusiastic, and gave her re-
peated recalls.
The sub-eXecutive committee of the
New York Republican State League
has decided to hold the next annual
convention of the league in the opera
house at Binghamton between Septem-
Der Is and 25.
The steamship Veendam reports that |
benjamin Cohen, Russian tailor, |
.Wenty-one years old, disappeared from
ler steerage few hours after she sail |
ID from Boulogne. 1t is supposed that |
le drowned himself.
Forest fires are burning on the |
Muncy and Allegheny Mountains. |
Much young timber has been ruined, |
and several sawmills and thousands of |
dollars worth of lumber have been
destroyed. The woods are very dry,
md there is no way to check the |
lanes.
Fannie Bassett, saleswoman, twen-
y-four years old, of rs West One Hun
lred and Twenty-seventh street, New
York, became insane yesterday morn
ng, after having an operation per-
ormed at the Presbyterian hospital,
vas removed to the pavilion for luna
les at Bellevue.
It is announced that Col. John Magee,
# Watkins, lis at the head of a syndi-
ate composed of some New York and