Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-06-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

II is announced that the army worm bas
urquestioDably appeared in central and
weetern Kansas.
The trial Of the seven soldiers charged
with the killing of a. Hunt OF Wslla
Walls began yesterday.
The rain he past twenty four hours has
been exceedingly heavy all over lows and
some damage end loss of life is reported.
The Illinois Central Railroad has begun
the wholesale discharge of passenger END
fl eight conductors on their Iowa division.
A purse Of S25 600 has been offered Big tie
Magic City Athletic Club of Omaha, Neb.,
for finish fight between S!avin and 8ulIi
van.
Gov. Pattiscn to-day vetoed the oompul-
sory education bill passed by the Pennsyl.
yapia Legislature few days before Its adj
jourpmsnt.
Jacob Scheele expated the murder OF Con
stable D:uker at New Canaan, Conn f, In 1888
on the gallows at Bridgeport this morning
The drop fell at 1896. and scheele died
without struggle.
Haytiau Consu. Price said to dey In NV
York that there was not the slightest foun-
dation for the statement that President Hyp-
polyte had been shot that he had receive d
mail from Port-au Prince OF later date
than the time of the alleged shooting ar d
that his sdvices indicated that everything
was rsrqail down there.
The marriage OF General John M. Soho
field, oommsnder-in-chie OF the army of tie
United States, to Miss Georgia Kilbourne,
OF Keokuk, Iowa, was solemnIzsd at st
Johns Episcopal Church there ct noon to-
day, the officiating clergyman being R G.
McIlwain. AS far IS consistent with the
high rank OF General SchoGed and tie
social prominence OF his bride, the weddine
was devoid of display.
a clcudb1rst killed at least twenty three
people and many mules, besides doing great
damage to property at the Conception mine
In San Luis Potosl, Mexico, yesterday. a
great stream poured down the mountain
sweeping everything In its course. The
miners houses were swept away, and the
mine filed with water. A number Of peo-
pie living In CT # dwellings were buried
alive and it is believed that there must have
been at least fifty lives lcst.
LIS. night the congregation OF the Allegheny,
Pa, Reformed Presbyter church of which Lev.
]. r Milligan, who was recently denosod by the
synod, is tho pastor, unanimously withdrew from
tho Reformed church and will sock admission to
the United Presbyterian church.
1t WAS announced in Now York to-day that Fl.
Victor Newcomb, one of Wall streets boldost spec
ula.ors, has been placed in private insane asy-
lum He is not violently insane, but is suffering
from softenirg of tho brain. bis maady is asid
to be hereditary.
Tho power station CT the Sea Shore Electric
Street Ra way at Asbury Park. N. j., WAS de-
stroyed by Are this morning; loss $50 GOO Fix
tt en- dynamos and eight engines were destroyed
yacht containing eleven persons WAS struck
by squat and upset in Eice Lake, near Peter
boro, Ont, last night. Jno. Foote and his two
daughters wore drowned.
A freight train on the Chiasgo and Erie road
was di.ched last evening at Disko by brokon rail-
Sixteen cars were wrecked and twenty heal OF
imported cattle killed
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith. U. s. Minister to
ST Petersburg and vire, arrived at New York TO-
day.