The Washington bee., 1896-02-15
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
rHE NEWS OF THE WORLD FOR
A WEEK CONDENSED FOB
BUSY READERS

is a total loss.
Sewall Oakes. ten years old, Of Ban
gor. Me-, shot himself at being told to
saw some wood.
Congressman William H. Grain, OF
the Eleventh district of Texas. died OF
pGeumania in Washington.
Ex-United States Treasurer James II
+ uston assigned, and his bank in Con-
uersville. Ind. suspended.
The Rev John Fitzgerald, Of Char,
iotte, n Y. was adjudged guilty OF
arson in the second degree.
Eight families were burned out in the
destruction of the Brighton apartment
eouse in Chicago. Loss, $4,000.
The Canadian House of Commons
Gdop;ed q motion virtually declaring
agaiHst annexation to the United States
Germany informed Venezuela that
Fhile she will recognize the Monroe
ioctrine, Venezuela must pay her just
iebtS.
A log house in Marengo township,
Itch, was burned and a whole family
IIr. and Mrs. Page and two sons-were
remated
J. II. Richelderfer was found dying
rom cploroform in Philadelphia, his
ONE was robbed and his housekeeper
lurdered
Two freight trains on the Wabash
Eailroad cellided az Carpenter, H..
>illing one man, injuring several others
Ind causing a serious wreck
One of three moonshiners captured in
montgomery County. Ark, after des-
serate resistance, was the Rev. j. A
rogers, an Adventist preacher.
The British Government has received
dispatch stating that the British
orces have won two victories over the
lave traders in Central Africa
1t Is now believed that ex-Consul
Yaller will be Internationally released
) France on condition that the United
tates wave all claims for indemnity.
There are but forty voters in Somers
:'oint. n. j., and fourteen Of them have
:eclared their intention of running for
; he office Of Mayor at the spring elec-
ton.
Gen. s. w Westmore, a graduate of
West Point. committed suicide at New
relans by jumping into the Missi> i>sipi
!{e believed he was doomed to ill
:, ealth.
The Republican State Committee has
called the New York State convention
!. or March "a in New York city. It also
renewed it's pledge Of loyalty to Cover
nor Morton for the Presidency.
Edwin F. Uhl, of Michigan, now AS
sistant Secretary of State, has been
rendered the post Of Ambassador to
Germany. to succeed the late Theodore
Runyon, and has accepted.
After waiting fifteen years ]. E. Wat
llins and Miss Mary PasSmore. of Ham
n. j., have been married.
Miss PASSWORDS father objected to the
He died few weeks ago.
1t has just developed that on Decem-
Der 19 James Edgar Balm EARL, a we'll
known young man of Kinderhook, N.
Y. and Luella Maude Hope Booth, an
English actress. were married in Pater-
son. N. ].
The war feeling in Caracas, Venezue-
ia. still runs high. Gen. Barrios has
asked President Crespo for permission
10 raise two regiments of volunteer
land Scouts.
John Hays Hammond, the American
mining engineer. has been released
from Jail at Pretoria in $4,000 bail Oh
cordition that he remain under con-
>tant police surveillance 1t is believed
his release was due to his illness.
Henry Truelsen was elected Mayor of
duluth by 776 majority. He was a self
INSTITUTED candidate, and was opposed
iH all the newspapers and the leading
L. 2:@u> His war cry was pure water
a"d r'w water works owned by the
city"
=, rresS ntative Low {Rep., N " has
IL Il, duced bin in Congress for the
const: uciioa of fifty first class torpedo
boats al not mere than SiI5. 900 each
and six torpedo gunboats and torpedo
ct not more than $3.50 00a
each. The bill! approprates sll, $50 osO
At a meeting OF the Prohibition
Amendment League Of Iowa at Des
Aoines, composed of about equal num-
uerS OF men ard women. a fght devel-
opsd. The women in bitter terms de-
the men as tra.tCrs to the
cause. Then they cried and the men
raved
The Spanish cruiser Alfonso XIII,
with Gen. Weyler, the newly appointed
Captain-General and Conmander-in
Chief Of the Spanish forces in CUBA on
board, has arrived at Havana The
usual salutes were fired Gsn. W-eylel
proceeded to the palace, and at once
took the oath of Office
Tammany Hall gave Richard Croker
an immense dinner in New York anG
presented him with a loving cup. Ba
the dinner was marred by seditiot
John c. Sheehan was openly repud
atsd, and his right TO ths leadership Of
Tammany Hall was bitterly denied.
The feast is said to have cost $40 q
plate
Eliza Stephenson. sixty-f1ve years OLE.
d.ed n the hospital at Plainfield, y. J
apparently poverty stricken She had
been working by the day for the past
twenty years. On searching her hen1
six notes ranging from s1o0 to $500 and
an account book showing $4,000 on de-
posit in the Home Savings Bank were
found
Miss Hattie Benedict, aged nineteen
daughter of Elisa Benedict, a farmer.
OF Marengo. II. Y. has awakened from
her five weeks of cataleptic sleep. She
lay as one dead. utterly deprived &C
voice. hearing and muscular action, ami
yet she says she was sensible Of what
was taking place about her. and her
great fear was that she would be bur-
led alive. The cause is thought to be
due tn q constitutional defect SlInerir-