The Washington bee., 1896-03-07
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
TIE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR
A WEEK CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS

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l.avard Peters, of Chicago, killed
EIc.-a Larbig, his sweetheart, and COM
mitted suicide.
Michael Eraemer killed his mother and
..irn.elf in the midst of a family debauch
in New York city.
Cen. Weyler told Karl Bottcner he
expects 10 end the Cuban war IN
year and a half.
Many excise licenses are being re-
newcd in New York towns to get ahead
OF the R2ines bill
1t Monticello, n. Y, n:ne disorderly
tralnrs we're sentenced to sixty days in
Albany penitentiary.
The evicted tenants bill was defeated
in the British House of Commons by
d vote of 271 to ia.
There was a riot in the Kentucky
Legislature over the proposed unseat-
ing ui two Democrats.
The New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio Railroad was sold for s1O.OOO,OOo'
and will be decided to the Erie.
Fitzsimmons says he will give Cor
bett a dose of his own medicine before
he has anything to do with him.
George Watson, a Newark On. j.
clothing merchant, committed suicide
1T the Gilsey House, New York city.
Ballington Booth has declined his
officers offer of the leadership of an IN
dependent American Salvation Army
An excavation for a building at NO.
324 East Houston street, New YORK
city, revealed spring of boiling water
Miss Kate Flynn was shot five times
by a rejected suitor in New York CITY,
but the doctors think she will recover.
Spencer Clinton, a prominent lawyer
Of Buffalo, surprised society by mar
rying Cora Caldwell, his stenogTapker.
mob attacked the United States Con-
solate in Barcelona. All Spain is excited
over the American Senate's action regard
,ng Cuba.
me first copy of the British case in
the Venezuelan boundary dispute was
n;ailed to the United States Govern
mcnt.
Secretary Carlisle met number OF
New York business men and expressed
much confidence in the outlook toi
sound money.
Senator Hill again blocked consider
ntiOn of the resolution for an inVeStlga-
lion of the bond issues under this Ad-
nliniStration.
The new Johnson projectile pierces
Il seven-inch HarVeyized armor-piate
which heretofore has def1ed the best
orojectile made.
The steamships Kara and Cayo have
starred on a race frUm New York to VAL
3araiso, Chill, on the result OF which many
Hagers have been made.
Jacob Dietzei, siXty-eight years Old,
OF Chicago, shot his daughter, Mrs
Henry Onner, and then shot himself.
Both will probably die.
William H. Pearson, of Chicago, a
telegrapher and stenographer OF ma
tional reputation, committed d suicide be-
cause of the death of his wife.
A revolution has been proclaimed in
Nicaragua by agitators who accuse
President Zelaya's Government of de-
signing to establish dictatorship.
The Binghamton house furnishing
store and Babcock & Stowelrs hard
ware house were burned out Tuesday.
The loss was $25O0CO. The insurance Is
$4,000.
Sound-money Democratic members
If the Kentucky Legislature who nave
:,een voting for the reelection of Sem
ator Blackburn have asked him te
withdraw.
Resolutions to recognize Cuban bel
igerency, labor with Spain in behalf OF
|uban autonomy and intervene. if nee
essary were reported to the House at
W ashingtOn.
Jesse NJ. Gregory, who murdered his
wife in New York, was convicted OF
manslaughter in the first degree and
sentenced to seventeen years in Sing
Sing prison.
The bus; ness men of Mitchell, s. Oak
burned the plant Of the Mail newspaper
in the street The editor had assaIleG
prominent people and the management
of public institutions.
The faculty of the University of Mis-
souri, has given 400 students the alter
native of signing a pledge to refrain
from creating disturbances in the fu-
ture or of being expelled.
Calculations as 10 Ile erect Oh the dllOl-
inent into thirds of the liquor tax to be
raised under the Raines bill show that
New York city would be 100000 better of
if she received no part of the money.
The grain commlIIee OF the New
York Produce Exchange presented ar
guments to show that New York has
lost her position as the leading corr
mart through unjust differential rates,
1t is reported that the famous orator
and ex-Congressman, w. Bourke Cock
! ran, will retire from public life and
b come a monk in the Roman Catholic
Church. Mr.. Cochran denies the rumor.
Nicholaus Claussen, a baker, of San
Francisco, shot and killed his wife at
! the house of a friend named Foley,
where Mrs. Claussen was apparently
| hiding to escape the wrath of her hus-
| band.
The thirtieth annual encampment Of
| the Grand Army of the Republic will
| he held at st. Paul the first week in
September, the controversy with the
railroad companies over rates having
been settled.
| NJ r. Shankland, executive clerk Of
| the United States Senate, died at
| Round Hill, Va, froni the effects of
the grip. He had been connected with
the executive Office of the Senate for
,hirty-four years.
A well-dressed man, forty years of
| 400, who is known by the names OF
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