The Washington bee., 1896-02-29
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
THE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR
A WEEK CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.

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The stranced steamer Otranto was
floated off Fire Island beach.
j. c. Colburn has been appointed
postmaster at Concord, n. Y.
Cuban insurgents We're discovered in
force within ten miles of Havana.
President Kruger's pet society adopt
I'D belligerent resolutions denouncing
England
Many excise licenses are being re-
newed in New York towns to get ahead
Of the Raines bill.
The Secretary of State Of Illinois re-
fused to file certificates of consolida-
ton for the Gas Trust.
Miss Irene Sanderlin and Mrs. Foster
were killed by Chesapeake and Ohio
train in Richmond. VT.
The Transvaal Government has re-
leased all the Reform Committee pris-
oners under $4,000 bail.
A bill to practically shut American
cattle and sheep out of Britain was
introduced in Parliament.
Ellen Randolph, colored, was behead-
ed in Chicago by murderer who fired
the house to hide the crime.
An English paper revives the report
that William Waldorf Astor is to mar
~ Lady Randolph Churchill.
Premier Canovas called on Spanish
naval officer to apologize for offensive
language regarding Americans.
At Amesbury, Mass, John Griffin,
fourteen years old, was kicked to death
by horse in his fathers stable.
Ballington Booth has declined his
officers offer of the leadership Of an in
dependent American Salvation Army
Carrie Hall, forty-five years old, of
Hartford, Conn, was found dead in a
hallway. She had died from exposure.
Franz Michael Schwab, Of Brooklyn,
shot and killed his wife. He also shot
his son and grandchild. The son may
die.
Senator Hill prevented vote on the
PETER resolution to investigate bond
issues under the present Administra-
ton.
Venezuela's Congress has met for
what was declared in speeches to be
the most important session it has ever
held
The French Senate voted, 1S4 to 60,
to cease its warfare on the Bourgeois
Ministry rather than imperil the Re
public.
John Dillon is the chairman-ele OF
the Irish Parliamentary party. Thorn
as Sexton has resigned his seat in Par
lament
Garry Holly, farm laborer, shot
wounded Nick Combs in Breathitt
County. Ky
Secretary Carlisle met number Of
New York business men and expressed
much confidence in the outlook for
sound money.
Senator Hill again blocked consider
alton of the resolution for an invastiga-
tion Of the bond issues under this Ad-
ministration
London dispatch to Caracas reports
that England has decided to accept
the Guiana boundary as the American
commission shall fix it.
Jacob Moser, sixty-five years old.
shot and killed Marguerite Senger, the
wife of e neighbor, in Milwaukee, and
then committed suicide.
The brick manufacturers of the Hud-
son River district are about to form q
combination to do away with middle
men and control the price.
ExPresident Harrison expects to
write a complete history Of the consti-
tutionai amendments, largely in the
form of magazine articles.
The thermometer at OXbow, n Y,
registered 54 degrees below zero Tues
day morning, which is believed to be
the lowest ever reached in the State
Private Iams, who was drummed out
OF camp at Homestead in 1852 for
cheering when H. c. F'rick was shot.
was probably fatally wounded in Bal
timore.
Sir John e. Millais was unanimously
elected president of the Royal Acad-
emy to fill the vacancy caused By the
death of Lord Leighton.
Annie Schaeffer, New York wait
ress, after being cut in the hand with
glass, was stricken dumb at prayer
meeting and has not spoken since.
Agnes Ann McNeill. seventy-seven
years old, was found frozen in her hut
near Hicksville, L. 1. Her brother
John refused to give her body to the
authorities
The business men Of Mitchell, S. Oak
burned the plant Of the Mail newspaper
IN the street. The editor had assaiiea
prominent people and the management
Of puhlic 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-
.ure or of being eXpeued.
Congressman Fairchild's bill appro-
priating 100000 for making a national
park of the Palisades on the Hudson
received favorable hearing before the
committee on Military Affairs.
Engineer John keach, of Bingham
ton. n. Y, and Fireman John Lewis.
of Greene, y. Y, were killed by the
Xplosion of a locomotive attached to
/ D., L. & W. r. r. train, near Rich
teld Junction, N. Y.
James Mccartney, a bartender. shot
almsef in his wifes arms in New York
:lty. He was out of work, and was
lbout to be evicted from his home.
heir six children were asleep in the
next room at the time
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler and
Prince Pierre Troubetzkey were mar
Tied Tuesday at Castle Hill, Va, the
nome of Col. Alfred Rives, the father
II the authOreSS who was last yeal