Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-08-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

TELEGRAPHIC BKEVITIES.
Governor Fleming, of Florida Ia out in
long card to the people giving his reason
for refusing to sign the certificate oielectioa
Of Senator Call to the U. 8 Senate
At Columbus, o., to day. WIN. ]. Elicit,
convicted of murder in the second degree.
for the killing OF A. @. Osborn last February
was sentenced to the penlteDiiary for lie.
The Southern Pacific steamer E dora i,
ashore on Great Bahama banks, 10 mil.a
south OF Great Isaac Shoals. The veaee
and cargo will become total wreck without
assistance. There are co passengers Gu
board.
The comm onwsalth Of Pennsylvsn has
fred the first shot In the litigation grown,
out ofthe Blrdsley deialcatiors. Two suls
were entered to day, one agairst the county
OF P niIade'phla and the other against John
Bardsley, late city treasurer, to recover the
money due the State.
Forest 6res are raging everywhere about
Cheboygan, Mich. Little rain has fallen
since April and the ground is dry 10 places
for four feet down. Trees and grass are ig.
Ing. Some OF the fruit on The trees has died
and fallen off. The crops are en- entire foil.
ure and the situation !s both discaurseirg
and alarming.
All the cases against Robert Fl zimmun5
at g.. Paul, Nina have been dismissed and
the Australian puglist and his wife and
trainer, Jimmie Carroll, have gone to San
Francisco. Fltzimmops was undecided as
10 his future. but expressed a willingness to
meet either Hall or Prltchard for any amount
from q. 600 TO 800, 900.
Those who have lived Is years en- tlo
Rio Grande have never sesn so much misery
among the Mexican population as this year.
The staple crop OF the Rio Graode Valley
ls corn, and the Mexican irjole, but the
drought has bsen go terrible for tho last IS
months that scarcely anything hes been
raised and stock has dad by the thousand
A Boulder. Col, special slys that another
rich And Of silver Ia reported on PomeToY
Mountain, near Caribou. The vein Ia abop.
three inches thick ami OF pure metal. 1t s
evident that there exists still larger vein
somewhere In the vicinity Of The same Kind
Of mineral and 1t Is thought these discoveries
will soon lead 10 developments that viii
ca in the shade even the wonderful mines
Of Nevada.
a special from San Francisco says thst
Mss Helen Kinniard, an aotresp, Who be.
longed to Mrs James BIO 70 Pottefs con-
pauy In Australia. arrived there yesterday
on the steamer Alam.Ga. M!ss Kinnad
declared that there was not the sllghtss!
doubt about the marriage of Mrs. Potter
and Kyrle Bsllew. They were, she ssgs
married In Melbourne on the occasion c!
their second visit to that city.
BARCELONA, Aug. S-1he national sbor $3.50
cistion fearing the consequences to Gpsnish work
men, that 1t Ia believed will follow tho going in.
to OBJECT OF the treaty in regard to Cuba and Porto
Rico, recently ratified by Spain ard the United
States held meeting to protest against the com.
mercal relstions that will be established under
the new arrangement The effect OF tho treaty
was set forth at length by the various speakers
who declared that IL would render Cuba colony
Of the United States
The last three days OF extreme hot weather Il
causing great alarm in North Dakota about the
wheat crop which is now within ten days Of bar
vest. The hot wave has prevail,d over tho cntiie
State and Is also reported being felt 10 Al equal
extent in South Dakota. The crop is In critical
state, and much al 1iety is msniiested rs to the
outcome.
g. n. shlnn, 81 years old, tn Oldest son OF Re'
DR.. g W. shinn. rector Of Grace Episcop, cbuch'
1t Newton, Mass, committed suicide by cat.iag
dis throat yesterday. He had recently failed 10
get the government to adopt patent letter boz
IF his invention, and w.s also dospoad ,at ffOn
Ilinesa
Miss Mary Hensoldt az imbscile and helpless
sdy, past the meridian of life, WAS yesterday
found outraged and murdered in her room on the
over part OF Victoria, Tex whore she lived sone'
summary ju.tice will be metsd out upon the H.
human wretch If caught.
Alvin Cummins OF Danvi!le. Nj, wss killed
IN saw mill near Hope, on Friday sfternoon
de wss caught fast and drawn on to circular
'aw and his body was CIT in two. The raw ps''s1
through his heart.
Some OF tho American sympsth rs in "ina;0',
Canada opposite Detrsi. yesterday deco'aI'
heir houses with a gs, &c, In honor of the u o
g., but the authorities ordered the d.cora; ons' 10
b, removed.
The Cooper House. Ccopertown, N y bafne-
this morning between seven and eight o'el0."
All the guests, Of which there were large nun
Der, escaped in safety.
It is reported that Balmaccds, thfens.
Minister Egsn, hal off red tho Uni.ed St1 E,
81 600 OCO for the cruiser Baltimore. Inc 'A'