Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

Fire yesterday III Weiiseou, Ouio, oee'i'?
ed ZEN business bouses. Loss s45 900 The
town has no fire department.
Nineteen members represented the joint
Illinois assembly to-dsy. One ballot TeeulI-
ed, Palmer IA. Sireeter 4. Ogiesby L.
A Mexican woman and FIVE children were
drowned a. solomonvile. Ariz, yesterday,
while endeavoripg to cross the ella river Cd
raft.
A Wholesale lumber firm OF Omaha is &c
cussd OF attempting to eecure By fraud
thousands Of acres OF timber land in Wash
irgton.
William n. Crawford. who is to hang a;
Decatur, Ills, March IA. has made cor
fesaion, telling the manner in which ne BIZ
ed Mrs. Colonel Matthias.
Lsavenworlh, Ka9.. is IL state cfa;srm'
owing to the number OF incsndiary fires oc-
curing in that CITY. the f:e department
is worn out with exerticas.
E. G. Lindsay, travelling man for the
Oriental Tea Company, shot himself at the
PEBBLE House. Portland, Me-, last night
and was found dead morning.
The failure of A. E Nichols was annouDc-
ed on the Consolidated Stock Exchange in
Nav York to-day. Over 2 coo shares were
bought and sold FIR bis account.
William Blackwell, a oolored youth, aged
81, Yves hanged at Gonzales. Tex. yesterday,
for the unprovoksd murder of white lad
named lump Rainey in July laat.
The clothing manufacturers of Rochester,
N. Y, the % ost prominent branch OF indus.
try there, entered lockout at noon today.
| If not settled soon 20 900 people will be at
| fected.
The towns of San EazaTlo and Socorrc,
Tex, have bsgun suit against Chas. Can
H., Simon P. Drake and Frederick P. o.
colt for the possession of q portion Of the La
Prita grant. valued ct over 81 100000
The lower branch of the Missouri Lsgis-
lature has passed bin reducing passenger
| fares on the main lima Of railroads from
three to two and one-haf cents, and Oh
branch lines from four to three and one
half cents per mile.
| Frank Au'z m was arrested In Chicago
last Digbt. charged with attempting to dis
pose of So 600 worth OF diamonds. He has
confessed that he fund the diamonds which
wealthy lady lost from her carriage 10
that city sst month.
Lyman Hyde, au old farmer, and his
t@enty-.hree. year cd daughter. Judith, lost
their lives, and Enene. sixteen yesr-old
daughter. was fatally irjared by su engine,
Wills attempting to drive across the rail-
road trace at sharkey, Ohio, yesterday.
1t Ia said that the Grend Trunk railway
ard its connections have violated the Inter
state commerce act by taking about $50
Canadians from Chicago and ABOUT 900
more from points ia Wisc,nain AID Michi-
gan to Canada to vote, and returning them
free of charg'.
The j1ry In the case of SArsh McMLl or,
the 7-year-old girl, charged with murder
in pushing child named Nellie May Co..
ners if i bridge at Akron. in Buffalo, N. Y,
causing her death, II November last, to day
returned a verdict Of not suilty on the
ground that Sarah waa irseoo at the time
she committed the act
d.. Gsorge Bird, a prominent physician
and e1-Mayor OF Wheeling, w. Vs., Was
shot twce and killed by Dr.. Geo. j. G,rri-
son, an equally prominent physician. They
hid been enemies for long time. This
morning they met On the street. No one
kcows how The dispute started. Garrison
was Immediately arrested.
George F. Work and James 2. Dungan, wreck.
ers OF the Btnk Of America and the American Life
Insurance Company, we're to day in Pbilsdelphia
sentenced to four and three years respectively in
tho penitentiaIy. Louis F. Pieffor, the president
of tho wrecked bank who pleaded guilty and
turned States evidence was sentenced to two
| years in the same institution.
Tho Methodist Episcopal conference of Phila.
delphis to day by vote OF l20 to 96 decided
against admitting women delegates to the elccior-
al and general conferences OF tho chi rch.