Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-22
Telegraphic Breyities.

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Commander R. P Leary. U. 9. n, has
been detached from the Naval War College
and placed on waiting orders.
Mr.. Charles Bradlaugh, member of the
House of Commons for Northampton, is
very ill and it is feared that he is dying.
General Isnstief has arrived at Rome
bearing !a5.as from the Car accepting the
arbitration If tbs Pope in the Balkan ques
ton.
After nearly six months of idleness the
miners At L4 Sale, ILL.,, and in the Oglesby
aud Peru mines have settled their dificu!.
tiss with the operators, and work will bere
sumed to day.
DR.. Philippe Rcord, the celebrated French
surgeon, who was Tor macy years known in
Paris as "thc great American doctor" is
dead d.. Rioord was born in Baltimore,
Nd, December 10, 1900
Susan B. Anthony has returned to Mime
npois from South Dakota. She says 1.-THE
State OF South Dakota is the place of all
others in the United States to which We are
going to turn our attention"
a dispatch from Denver, COL, says Frank
Pine. alias George Hail. the celebrated con-
fdence man and gold brick schemer, made
his dying confession last evening in the pres.
encs OF witnesses aud notary public.
. a local paper says: The Beford Clarke
publishing company in Chicago will resume
business ID a few days Their financial diff.
Gculties are about adjusted, their creditors
having nearly ali agreed to a compromise.
a largely attended nesting Of the whole
sale fruit dealers of Chicago was held yester
dae to formulate plan to make that city
the distributing point for Florida fruits for
the northwest and the States west of Ohio.
a dispatch from the City of Mexico says:
The government bonds supposed to have
been stolen have turned up all right. They
had been taken TO the stamp printing de.
partment coma months ago 10 be stamped
and had been forgotten.
q dispatch from Zalzbar says Yester
Lieutenant Gravenruth, Of Captain Wiss.
mans expedition, surprised Bushiri's camp
and put his forces to flight. Lieutenant
Gravanruih's men are continuing the pur-
suit of the rebee.
Argument vas Begun ia the Supreme
Court OF the United States to-day in the
well known case of Chas E Cross and Sam
uel G. White, the defaultDg president and
cashier, respectively, of the State Natioaal
Bank Of Raleigh, n c., against the State of
North CaroIins
Fargo special sa 5: Two men gained en-
trance to the Fargo pos;oiice last midnight, bound
snd gagged the night clerk Harry Milton placed
q red-hot poker on the soles of his feet and COM
PEELED him to give up the combination of the
vault door, In the vestibu.e of the vault were
forty or fifty registered packages. While tho
burglars were opening these Milton released him.
self secured revolver and shot at the men, OF.
however, until they had had time to blow out the
light. The robbers knocked the clerk down and
escaped.
Last night the Rutger, sophomores and fresh.
men had a cane rush at New Brunswick, N. j.,
and tore down the wooden fence on one entire
side Of the campus, because the gate had been
newly hung The cane was a tame affair, owing
to fear Of college discipline.
Henry Filler, captain OF watch for the Interior
department has boon made superintendent of the
Pension building in Washington
The .. S. {. Kearsarge has returned to the Del
aware Breakwater from Hsyti whittier she con-
veyed Fred Douglass
block of frame buildings and the Burlin
House at Lake, III were burned this morning.