The Washington bee., 1896-04-04
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The new ram Katahdin has been
placed in commission.
The STRANDED steamer Otranto was
f1oated off Fire Island beach
]. C. Colburn has been appointed
postmaster at Concord. N. T.
Cuban insurgents were discovered liz
force within ten miles of Havana.
President Krugers pet society adopt
ed belligerent resolutions denouncinS
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 a 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 as
introduced in Parliament.
Ellen Randolph, colored was behead
ed in Chicago by murderer who hred
the house to hide the crime
An English paper reyiyes the report
that William Waldorf Astor is to mar
ry Lady Randolph Churchill
Premier Canovas called on a 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
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 a vote on the
PETER resolution to investigate bond
Issues under the present Administra-
tion.
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 so.
to cease it's warfare on the Bourgeois
Ministry rather than imperil the Re-
public.
John Dillon is the chairman-el of
the Irish Parliamentary party. Thom-
as Sexton has resigned his seat in Par
lament
Carry Holly, a farm laborer, shot
and killed James Combs and badly
wounded Nick Combs in Breathitt
County, Ky.
Secretary Carlisle met a 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 investiga-
tion Of the bond issues under this Ad-
A 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 a neighbor, in Milwaukee, and
then committed suicide.
The brick manufacturers Of the Hud-
son River district are about to form a
combination to do away with middle
men and control the price.
Ex-Presfdent Harrison expects to
write complete history of the consti
tutional amendments. largely in the
form of magazine articles.
The thermometer at Oxbow. N. z,
registered 81 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 1882 for
when H. c. Frick was shot.
was probably fatally wounded in Bal
timore.
Sir John E. Millais was unanimously
-'?~+@d president of the Royal Acad-
emy TO fill the vacancy caused By the
death of Lord Leighton.
Annie Schaeffer, a New York wait
ress, after being cut in the hand witt
glass, was stricken dumb at prayer
meeting and has not spoken since.
Agnes Ann McNeill, seventy-sever
years old, was found frozen in her hut
near Hicksville, L. /. 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 assaiieC
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 expeued.
Congressman Fairchilds bill appro-
priating $50o,000 for making a national
park of the Palisades on the hudson
received a favorable hearing before the
Committee on Military Affairs.
Engineer John Keach, of Bingham
ton, n. Y, and Fireman John Lewis,
Of Greene, N. Y, were killed by the
explosion of a locomotive attached to
d D., l.. & w. R. r. train, near Rich
field Junction, ". z.
James Mccartney. bartender, shot
himself in his wife's arms in New FORK
city. He was out of work, and was
about to be evicted from his home.
Their six children were asleep in the
next room at the time.
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler and
Prince Pierre Troubetzkey were mar
ried Tuesday at Castle Hill, Va, the