Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-05-20
Telegraphic Breyities.

An explosion OF gas occurred this morl-
Ing at the burning Nelson mine, at Shame
kin. Pa. Debris was shot from the shaft a
hundred feet in the air. The damage to tho
shaft has not been ascer.aiuec. No one was
Injured.
This morning Baltimore was visited by
very heavy wind and rain storm. Eight
houses In single row on north Paca street
were unroofed snd the rooms dsluged. Con-
siderable damage was done in the south
western annex.
The steamship Beacon Light, which ell
rive OF New York to-day, reporta May 49,
at midnight, was in collision with an ice-
berg 90 feet high. About fifty tons of Ice
fell on the bow, which stove the decks and
threw the steamer on her beam end, causing
her TO leak.
This forenoon two police officers went to
htuse in Boston to search for stolen prop
erty. Their ring was answered by man
supposed to be VIM. Grossman, who, upon
learning the officers e!rand, placed reyo.-
yer to his head and blew out his brains.
Three members of the Jesse James gang charged
with murder arc under arrest at Jetieraon, WIS.
Barney Benson, while insane with drink bru-
tally murdered ] Try Sweeney in Chicago this
morning.
Clinton G. Reynolds, the New York lawyer who
was shot few days ago by Alphonse Stepheni, died
this morning.
In San Francisco last night Edward Fladnng.
German shot and instantly killed his wife and
then fatally shot himself.
Tho mill hands in all but two Of the planning
mills of Buffalo, N. Y, struck this morning. They
want nine hours instead of ten aud no reduction
in wages.
Early this morning pstroimsn found Martin
Copno.y, a laborer, dead on a lot in Baltimore.
The mans left temple was crushed and his head
was lying against q rock. ] he police are making
| investigations.
At the National Conference of Charities and
| Corrections in Ba timore this morning, the csre
and attention of the insane was discussed. CaEdi-
nal Gibbons has been invited to deliver tho ad-
dress at the close of the conference to-morrow
| evening.
At aa carly hour this morning whom Lake
| view C6ucGCTy, OicFclaiui UNIV ""0 i''NS
from visitors, tho remains Of President Garfield
wero removed from the public vault to the crypt
in tho monument. This is to be their last resting
place.
J. Kneeland, vol known attorney of Bing-
hsmton, N Y, attempted nuicide this morning
by cutting his throat with a razor On psne OF
glass in one Of the windows in his room no had
written tho words Il am innocent in blood. 1t is
beloved that no was slightly dcIauged. He will
probably survive his injuries.
A Connelsville, Pa, special says: The biggest
land slide ever known on tho cast branch OF the
Baltimore and Ohio rosd occurred near oDlnence
last night The track was carried away and the Dad
bed covered for quarter of a mile. no trains arc
cxpected through until tonight.
In tho British House of Lords to-day the Earl
OF Wemyss and March. Liberal Conservative, do
nounced the tendency of tho government toward
socialist legislation Parliament, he declared seem
ed to DO ready to do anything in tho shape of
grandmotherly legislation, and to mcddle with al
fairs which ought to be loft to private enterprise,
like workmon's houses, the payment Of wages ana
tho feeding and education of the poor.