The Washington bee., 1896-04-18
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Mayor of Cimmarron. Kan
England is reported to have concluded
a treaty of alliance with Spain
Albert Baker, of Rutland, VT, me
chanic, killed himself by drinking Two
ounces of laudanum.
French Deputies voted confidence IN
the Bourgeois Ministry by a majority
of Sc in a total vote of 522-
The Court Of Appeals has granted a
new trial to Frank Gallo, sentenced tc
the electric chair from Rochester
Cardinals Gibbons, Logue and
Vaughan have united in an appeal 1or
arbitration as a means OF aVertlns
wars.
OF the candidates to represent Cuba
and Porto Rico in the next Cortes al
but ten are Spaniards and few ever Wis
tied either colony.
Walter Dygert, an American, who has
been held a prisoner by the Spanish In
Cuba, will be taken to Havana this
week and set free.
Secretary Sheerin, of the Democratic
National Committee, thinks that Mat
thews will be nominated at Chicago
and Harrison at st. Louis.
Venezuela is to erect bronze column
in honor of Americans who left New
York ninety years ago to help drive the
Spanish out of South America.
Miss Sallie Emma Owen, a beautiful
aud wealthy young woman OF Talbot
ton, Ga, was shot and instantly killed
by DR.. w. L. Ryder prominent den
tisI
The Louisville Courier journal prints
a sensational story that Governor Brad
ley, of Kentucky, has Joined the A. +
y and is the A. P. A. candidate for the
presidency.
A cablegram announces the election
of Gen. Tiresias Simon Sam, Minister
of War under Hippolyte, as President
of Hayti, and that the country contin-
ues perfectly quiet.
Charles H. Larkin and Patrick Cordi-
gan. two members of a wrecking crew.
were struck by a freight train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Downing
ton, Pa, and instantly killed
James Pollen shot and killed his wife
and mother-in-law and then attempted
suicide at Clinton, Ill. He had quar-
relied with his wife, and when her
mother interferred he shot both.
Paderewski is reported to have taken
in $20S, 900 as the gross receipts OF sew
enty-eight concerts in America the pasI
season. He sails for England April y.
after giving ten more concerts.
Guilty of murder in the second de-
gree" was the verdict rendered by the
jury in the Hyde case at Buffalo. He
was indicted for murder in the killing
| of Capt Philips and his son on Their
! boat at Buffalo.
! Commander Booth-Tucker. recently
appointed to take charge of the Saliva
| ton Army in this country, arrived
| from Liverpool on the steamer Majestic.
! He was met at the pier by large dele
| CATION from the Salvation Army.
Alfred L. Avery, the defaulting
| treasurer of Mound City Council No. 81,
! OF the National Union, pleaded guilty
| IN st. Louis to embezzlement, and was
| sentenced to two years in the peniten-
| ti&ry Avery embeZZled about $4,000
Thomas Wharton, member of the
, editorial staff of the Philadelphia
| liIneS, committed ny
! from the fourth story window of his
| boarding house. He was thirty-siX
years OF age, and is believed to have
| been suffering frCm temporary insanity.
| 4 detachment of Spanish troops at a
| heliograph station IN Plnar del Rio was
| attacked by insurgents and besieged-
| The garrison held out eighteen days.
| i;v.ng on hardtack and water The
| Government will provide a special re-
| ward for them.
John Van Brccklin, aged eighty years
and his two sisters, Eilza, aged eighty
! three, and Martha aged seventy three.
died in the same house on the same
! day of pneumonia near POmpey Hill.
y. Y. The three were taken i'll almost
| simultaneously.
Deputy United States Marshals cap
tured a gang of five outlaws southwest
/ of Coffeyville, Kan, after hot fight, ir
which Oliver Rocks one of the despera-
does, was mortally wounded. The four
| other injured prisoners were taken to
Fort Smith, Ark.
Rev. William T. Bailey, pastor o!
Curtis Bay, Nd. Baptist Church, wa,
paralyzed in the tongue while preach
ing. and lost the power OF speech. The
congregation was dismissed. Mr.. Baii-
ay's physicians say paralysis was
brought on by hard study.
Fred Bemer, living seven miles north
Of McLeansbOrough, ILL.,. killed his wife
and two-year-old child. The woman
was cut in a horrible manner and hel
body thrown out and covered with corr
stalks and an old carpet. The little
boy was hung by the neck to a rafter
A sheriff and an angry mob is in pur.
suit.
While at work in the lathe shop OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company a.
Altoona, Pa, William Jones' forty year:
old, was accidentally electrocuted. He
was standing on an iron girder which
supports the shafting, engaged in oil
ing the machinery. The snout of hi!
oil can came in contact with bare
electric arc wire and the current Of 800
YoIts passed through his body, killins
| his instantly
Alaska advices received by the steam
, er Willapa say that enterprising Sit
kans intend to drain a lake back O
that town and to gather by the wagon
load gold bullion and dust that 70
years have been brought down and &C
cumulated in the bed of the lake b!
+, glaciers A tunnel about 1000 feet Ions
will be built and it will run water from
the lake. whose bottom is believed t
| NTH cold fCo