Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-12-13
TELEGRAPHIc BREVITIEs.

Tners are Indications o: an early sstsls-
msnt of the Alabama Goa ninsrs' strike.
TIE Tiger nine at Burke. Idaho, has
been closed On acooans ola strike OF the
union Miners.
Ex-CoDgressnaa john q. HeistaEd died
at Lancaster, Pa, this morning of pa.esis,
afser a long illnesa.
a heavy fi,w OF natural gas was struck
this morning in tho well helng drilled By
the Exposition Society in Pttsbu-g.
Two robbers in7sdsd Chiosgo street car
last Eight and succeeded in getting gold
watch and soma money from The passengers.
The Royal Salt Company of Kanspolis
Kae., struck salt IN their shaft last night ct
dspth Of $40 feet. Tue vein ia $40 feet
thick.
Welsh s. Lea, manu -aotnging nachnls!g
OF Philadelphia, made an assign rDent to-day
TIE firm have eli ,es 10 Londop, Nsw York
and San Francisco.
The cru;s-r Newark, .s.nrned to Cramps
shipysrd yes,eioey. having met with CT
accident to ber machinery similar to that
of Wednesday last.
The house OF Robi. Lind5lom in Chicago,
has besn d5spoiled Of IS 00o worth of dla-
monds. TIE robbery occurred While the
family wers.Gt dinner.
A London dispatch received this morning
ia New York says: "a broker failed here
to-day with imms1ss liabilities. He was s
! trader in American securities"
The cold snap which was sprung on the
the city of NswYork las. night ushsred IN al
| epidemic CT q es thia morning but forlp-
nately none CT tue these Tas disastrous.
The Irish eDvoys-Mr. William O'Btisp,
Mr.. 7. P Gill and Mr. Hariirg oa-sai!ed
from New York to-day, the two former fer
Boulogne snd the latter for Queenstown.
Tee Michigan Grange is in open revolt
against the National Grange on account OF
ths stand taken bg thu national organization
! in inlorsiDg the proposition for Government
Icons on real estate.
The extensive slaughter houses Of john
Dsks in the town of Brunswick. nesr Toy,
n. Y, wers burned last night aud carload
OF live hogs. dressed hogs and cattle, en6
msUy pounds of lard were consumed. The
| fire ia believed to have been inceadiary.
The sui iect under discussion ct tia DE-
ti5nal meeting in Indianapolis yesterday OF
Mataodist ministers and prssidiag elders
co 1stitu,ng the general committee, wes Elk
tension. Tia discussion of the su5i9ct &C.
cupiei the entire DAY.
Louis E. Pisf3r, who Tas president OF
the broken BAak Of America and vice pFesi-
deGt OF the American Lfe Insuranca Cam-
p2ny, and sg .insj whom warrant vas is
suad yeeisrdsy charging BIN with gehypojh
ecatiog SOCKS sad conspiracy 10 & fraud the
depoaitors OF tie bank end tbs insurance
company, wac a.:si.ed in Phiiadelphis this
morning.
fire ia thu Indiana Mei:cal College at In
disnsp9lis yesterday morning caused some con
stcrnation amonS the f7emen, TIE Are broke out
in the dissec.ing room, sni was quickly suSdued,
though when III, iremen rushed in end beheld
human forms, young and old, and of both Sexes
stretched out, somo wero tho eve of losing
nerve
John Pe.iliot who murdered his wife at no.
tel in Columbus, Ind, on July 4'h, was to-day
sentenced to 90 years in tn penitcntiary.
Millionaire Hughes, OF Alles hcncr, Pa. In his
Will left $4,000 TO a barkeeper in Philadelphla
who concocsed il j cocktails whon he visited thgt
CITY last snmrner Mr. Hughes did not know the
mans name bat dc lc:i5e3 aim in il 5 Will as hav-
ing Roman rose and bI,hy head. There arc
number of claim hts for tho money but it appears
that Pat. Furry is tho man who will get The
money.