Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-04-21
TELEGRAPHIC RREVITIEs.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The Worcester. Mass, Light Infantry left
Baltimore to day for Washington.
II is said thst work ON the Panama cana
will be resumed within few months.
A general resumption OF work at Pitls
burg took place at the E igar Thomson
SIC 81 works ted, after at ten weeks stop
The resumption gives work for 1.5OO mep
II ID reported In Paris that Baron Hirech
The Hebrew phllanthropst, has purchased
n immense estate In the ate of Penney
vaoa with the ct j-c; Of establishing there
colony for Russian Hebrews.
L. lie stated that the conservative church
men of Massachusetts will present for The
eff GO OF bishop Raw Henry Yates satteree,
D. d., nov the rector of Calvary Church,
New York.
Work on the Worlds Fair site at ,cksoD
Park, Chicago, Ia entirely suspended to-day
Six hundred of the nine hundred and fifty
mea at work struck yesterday and the re-
ma,nder declined to 60 to work this morn
lag.
Some malicious person wrecked passen-
ger train on the Alabama Southern Railroad
near spriogVil!e last night. The engineer
aud firemen were killed and several other
persons Injured. The 6sh bars OF the track
had been removed.
Yesterday without the slightest warning
an attacking party Of so union men board
ed the schooner Fay. at Chicago, quickly
overcome the non-unon crew and threw
them on the dock and drove them away.
The greatest violence and brutality was
used toward the men.
a dispatch from San Antonio, Texas, Gays
that after q conference between Secretary
Rask and many prominent stock men from
Colorado, Wyoming and other States. the
Secretary resolndsd his recent order moving
the quarantine line many miles south Of the
thirty sixth parallel Of latitude.
The missing link in the chain Of title es-
tebishiug Gan. Fremont's claim to the Is
land of Acatras, In San Francisco Bay, has
been received at Finlay, o. The o. 8. gov.
eminent now has possession OF the island,
and Fremont's heirs are suing for Its value,
which Is estimated at $4,000. 900.
Tfoubis ba, beer brewing between the De.
trot Consolidated Street Railway and Ito
employees for some time past, which oulml-
netsd this morning In $50 conductors and
drivers refusing to go to work. Some ofthe
lines are completely tied up while others are
running very irregularly under police proteo
ton.
A general lockout of ssonemssons was In.
augurated 10 Pittsburg and Allegheny this
morning by the Master Msson's Association.
The trouble arose over dispute OF hod
carriers at work on the Providence Mission
Church 10 Allegheny City over non-union
meD. This lockout may result In preclpitat-
ing the lockout of all the men engaged In
the building trade.
IL Is reported in London that the confer
euces which have taken place between the
delegates from New Foundland, on one
side, and Lord SalisbQry and Lord Kuute-
ford, Secretary OF Srate for Colonial Affairs,
on the other eide, have been of satisfac-
tory nature to all concerned, and that they
are leading the way to practical and def
cite arrangement. II Ia believed that the
differences existing between Canada and
Nav Foundland 81 been adjusted end that
Canada is supporting the policy OF New
Fouudand in connection with the much dis
cussed bait question.
The continued wet weather In eastern Kansas
is having damaging ofsct upon the crops pros
pects For the two weeks past rain has fallen
every night. TIL, ost crop will be a failure, mono
having been Gown yet and corn will bs very late
The early potato crop will be . total failure.
Whest, however. Looks well.
Four csrlosds of Pinkerton guards arrived in
the Peunsylvsuis coke regions to day. All were
heavily ST ned. 1t is thought these men will take
the lace of the miitis. Everything was reported
quiet in the coke regions iris morning. Trouble
NAV occur this afternoon, however, when the
evicsions take place.
The Union cigar makers Of Chicago who num-
Der about 1 800 men, have sent their employers
formal notice of dem and for advance in wages
on May 4th, in default of which They will strike.
A long struggle is auticI ated.
The funeral of Bishop Gilmtur occurred with