The Washington bee., 1896-04-11
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
TtiE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR
A WEEK. CUNDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.

Mrs c. A. Curtis has been eiecte'
Mayor of Cimmarron. Kan
England is reported to have conclude
! treaty of alliance with Spain
Albert Baker, of Rutland, VT, a me
chanic, killed himself by drinking tw
ounces of laudanum
French Deputies voted confidence II
the Bourgeois Ministry by maJorit.
| of Sc in total vote of 522-
The Court of Appeals has granted I
! new trial to Frank Gallo, sentenced &
the electric chair from Rochester
Cardinals Gibbons, Logue ant
! Vaughan have united in an appeal To-
| arbitration as a means of avertinl
wars.
OF the candidates to represent Cubs
and Porto Rico in the next Cortes al
but ten are Spaniards and few ever Wis
tied either colony.
Walter Dygert, an American, who hat
been held 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 a 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 Or. ". L. Ryder, prominent dem
tist
The Louisville Courier-J Journa1 prints
q sensational story that Governor Brad
ley, of Kentucky, has Joined the A. P
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, III. 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 past
season. He sails for England April %.
fter giving ten more concerts.
Of in, +I,o Il.
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 thei'
boat at Buffalo.
Commander BoothTucker. recently
appointed to take charge of the Salva.
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.
or the National Union, pleaded guilty
IL st. Louis to embezzlement, and was
sentenced to two years in the peniten-
tii.ry. Avery embezzled about $4,000.
Thomas Wharton, member of the
editorial staff of the Philadelphia
Times, committed suicide by jumping
from the fourth story window of hi
boarding house. He was thirty-six
years Of age, and is believed to have
been suffering frCm temporary insanity
4 detachment Of Spanish troops az a
h2liograph station IN Pinar del Rio was
attacked by insurgents and besieged
The garrison held out eighteen days.
wing on hard-tack and water. The
Government Will provide a special re-
ward for them.
John Van BrCcklin, q ged eighty years.
md his two sisters, Eliza, aged eighty
three, and Martha, aged seventy-thcee,
died in the same house on the samt.
Jay of pneumonia near Pompey Hill.
y. Y. The three were taken i'll almost
simultaneously
Deputy United States Marshals CAP
tured gang of five outlaws southwest
Of Coffeyviile, Kan, after hot fight, !r
which Oliver Rocks, one of the despera.
does, was mortally wounded The four
other injured prisoners were taken to
ort Smith, Ark.
Rev. William T. Bailey, pastor oc
Curtis Bay, Md, Baptist Church. was
para.yzed in the tongue while preacn-
ing, and lost the power of speech The
congregation was dismissed Mr.. Ban.
ay's physicians say paralysis w7.s !
brought on by hard study
Fred Bemer, living seven miles north
of McLeansborough, ILL.,, killed his WIFE |
and two-year-old child. The woman
IN
0ody thrown out and covered with corn
5,aiks and an old carpet The little |
Joy 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 at !
,ltoona, Pa, William Jones, forty years !
old, was accidentally electrocuted. He |
was standing on an iron girder which |
Imports the shafling. engaged in oil /
Ag the machinery. The snout of his /
III can came in contact with a bare |
i5ctric arc wire and the current Of 5000 !
otis passed through his body, killing |
lis instantly
Alaska adyices received by the steam
er Willapa say that enterprising Sit
fans intend to drain a lake back of |
hat town and to gather by the wagon
.oad gold bullion and dust that for
years have been brought down and ac-
.umulated in the bed of the lake by
rlaciers. A tunnel about 1000 feet long |
5il be built and it will run water from !
The lake. whose bottom is believed 20
be paved with gold to a great depth.
A dispatch from Constantinople says