Evening star., 1896-02-22
THE WEEK.

Whether the managers Of the proposed
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fight would be able to
elude the authorities of Texas and Mexico
and conduct the contest was matter OF
very general interest, even to those who
| cared nothing about the fight itself; the
| sporting men won, and Bob Fltzsimmons
knocked out Peter Maher in the first
round, the fight lasting less than two min
utes; the ring was pitched on the Mexican
side of the Rio Grande river, about two
| miles from the village Of .Langtry. Tex
An interesting contest took place In the
Maryland legislature over the Bruce civil
service bill; the house adopted substitute
for the senate bill. referring the question
to the people; the bill provides for the sub
| mission Of the question to the people at
the next election. with the exception of
Baltimore, where special election will be
held May II. The United States Senate
committee on Pacific railroads examined
G. p. Huntington as to his relations with
the roads, and heard him regarding the
proposed refunding of the Central Pacffics
debt for one hundred years. The President
sent to Congress the correspondence with
the German government relating to the eX-
clusiOn of American insurance companies
from Germany; the German government
consents to reopen the question. The Pres
| ident signed the bills extending the opera
ton of the mineral land laws to the north
half OF the Colville Indian reservation In
Washington, and to open the forest reser-
vations of Colorado to the location of min
ing claims. Representative ColsOn Gep)
OF Kentucky introduced a resolution to in
vestfgate the action Of Secretary Carlisle
tn refusing to accept the bid Of William
Graves for 81. 100000 in bonds at 1153301,
and awarding them to J. Pierpont Morgan.
Secretary Olney received & cablegram from
Paris. announcing that President Faure
had signed the pardon Of ex-United States
Consul Waller. The House committee on
territories voted to reconsider its former
vote against the Arizona and New Mexico
statehood bills, thus leaving them still be-
fore the committee. The President nomi-
mated w: A. Woodward Baldwin to be
third assistant secretary of state. When
the agricultural appropriation bill occu-
pied the attention of the House q good
deal of criticism Of Secretary Morton was
induiged in; an amendment was adopted
making mandatory the execution of the
provision in the bill for the distribution of
seed. The soap. lye and coffee essence fac
tory OF P. G. Thomson & Co., in Phlladel-
phia, was destroyed by fire, at loss of
| nearly half million. Bernard ]. Ford,
ex-surerintendent OF the state capitol build
Ing In Trenton. N. j., withdrew his plea Of
not guilty Of official misconduct. The an
nual meeting was held of the American
Newspaper Publishers Association at New
York. Capt. Jameson was held blameless
by the board Of inspectors for the ground
coast. A number Of girls and women We're
buried beneath the ruins of the shirt fac
tory OF Stettheimer & Co. at Troy. which
was burned down. Mrs. Ethel Kelso killed
her two children, and then tried to kill
herself. while insane in New York. An
other cold wave swept the country; two
men were frozen to death in Chicago: rail-
roads in western New York are blocked
by snow. James Fitzgerald was hanged
at st. Louis for numbering his sweetheart.
Annie Naessens. November "a. 1888; the
affair was bungled, the first rope breaking.
Aimus Butterfield, rich miser. committed
| suicide in Chicago. f. r. Campbell was
killed by his son Robert on the streets of
Nashville, Tenn. The council to try the
Brown
charges of immortality, was convened in
| that city. The deaths of the week in
cluded President c. c. Waite of the c., II.
v. and T. railroad, at his home in Colum-
bus, and Judge John r. Grace of the court
| of appeals of Kentucky, of heart failure
while sitting alone in his room at Frank
| fort, Ky.
| One hundred and twenty people were kill
| ed, 400 injured and several hundred houses
demolished by the dynamite explosion in
Fledendorp, a suburb of Johannesburg, in
the Transvaal, South African republic. Fire
caused panic at masked ball given by
| the Artists Club Of San Taren, in Portugal,
and many persons perished. Mr. Atherley-
Jones, liberal, offered an amendment in the
British commons, which, after discussion,
| he withdrew, deploring that the queens
speech did not contain an assurance that
all matters Of difference between Great
Britain and Venezuela be referred to arbi-
tration. company of Alsatians belonging
10 ti0 IeEHldn nIdntry Qes6fteO, and
marched across the frontier into France
Sir John e. MillaiS was elected president of
| the Royal Academy in place of the late
Lord Leighton. Rev. J. d. Mcdonald, pas
| tor Of st. Andrews Church, in Toronto
and probably the best known Presbyterian
divine in Canada, died.
In the District.
The Commissioners reported favorably
Senate bill 1892 for the Improvement of the
water supply of the District by acquiring
water right at Great Falls; they also ex-
pressed themselves in favor Of the compile
| ton OF the Washington aqueduct. The
| map Of the second section of the proposed
street extension was reported to be COM
| Pete. despite the legal decision to the ef-
| fect that the act was unconstitutional
| The National Poultry Association held
| successful exhibition extending through
| several days. The fifth congress of the
Daughters of the American Revolution met
and adjourned. At brief meeting of the
| beard of trade certain proposed amend
| ments to the bond bill were approved, and
! a committee report on grade crossings was
| adopted. George Washington was COM
| memorated by elaborate exercises in the
| public schools. arranged through the ef-
iGrts is OF o,tia me board OF trade; many we'll
c;ses. A general military display was
| given and appropriate sessions Of the pa
triotic societies were held. AT jackson City,
during raid on the gambling establish.
ment of John Nelson, BENJAMIN Hines a
| special deputy sheriff, was killed, and Ed
| ward Dcutermann, deputy sheriff; Milton
II. johnson and Perry Smith. special deputy
steriffs, and Charles ONeiil, a bystander
were badly wounded. The project to es
| tablish hospital for contagious disea ses
! or Analostan Island was abandoned by the
commissioners. 1t being established that
| the cost of such an undertaking would be
too great. Billy Mcmillan a local prize
| fighter Of some repute died as the result of
| opium smoking