Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-06-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.


Secretary Blaine has decided to remain
over day in Boston and start for Bar Hsr-
Dor tomorrow. He is in very comfortable
health this morning and was not 30 Ill as
was reported on his arrival Monday In
Boston.
Allie Glenn, seventeen year old, of Ridge
field, Conn who is making bicycle tour OF
the Southern States, sends word to his pa
rents that he was recently held up by high
waymen on lonely Virginia road and rob-
bed OF all his valusbIes.
A storm passed over st. Louis at o'clock
this morning and did considerable damage
to wires of all kinds. Telephone poles were
blown across the street railway tracks and
caused a cessation of that traffic. Many
trees we're destroyed and some damage wac
done to buildings.
Harris A. smiler, James J. Slooum and
Joseph Wood all under conviction to ct FIR
death for murder In New York, but who had
appealed to the Federal courta, were re-
sentenced by Judge Barrett in the Supreme
Court to-day to be executed at Sing Sing
prison during the week beginning July 6.
next.
Governor Fleming, of West Virginia, has
received from Judge McClsugherty of the
Mcdowell Circuit Court certified copy OF
the grand jury's report concerning the al
legged Ill treatment of Hungarian laborer+
on the Norfolk and Western railroad exten.
! sion. After thorough investigation they re-
port that no persons Of foreign or native
birth have been subj soted t. cruel treat
ment as laborers or otherwise on said rail-
road extension.
O. P. Boyd, local editor of the Titus county,
Tex, Times, was found dead yesterday short
distance from Mount Pleasant, with his throat
cut from ear to car. lie was suspected OF being
tho correspondent of scurrilous paper published
| in Kansas City, but it is not kno~n that no was
killed on that account He was 25 years of age
| and generally believed to be sn exemplary young
man.
Gen. John W. Foster, who conducted the nego-
tistions between this country and Spain for re-
ciprocsl relations, is now trying to negotiate al
agreement for reciprocal trade with another
country, the name OF which is kept aecret.
The farm house OF Valentino Beck, near Beaver
City, Mob, took fire yesterday during the absence
OF Mr. aud Mrs. Book, and their two children, a
girl Of and boy of . years peri he'd In the
flames.
There WAS furious electric storm yesterday
afternoon and last night in Cincinnati and Gov
ingtou, accompanied with q strong gallo. The tele
graph wires were rendered use oss for several
hours and twelve hundred telephones were burned
ont.
The latest intelligence from CaravOn, Wales,
shows that there is little. il any, hope OF the re-
covery OF Mrs. Duncan, who was brutay assault
| cd by her husband short tina ago.
Miss Bessie Pnney, daughter of Supreme Court
Justice Pnncy, was instantly killed last evening
at Madison, Wis, by jumping ON cspiage at
tsched to runaway team.
There is family feud in Bart county, Mob,
over the accretion Of land on the west bank Of the
Missou,i. Several fights have occurred, and all
pc, Elephants are armed.
Rev. Presley B, Smith, for many years promi-
nently identified with tho Baltimore Conference
M. E. Church sonth, died in Gan Francisco yes
terdsy.
Dispatches from varions points in Illinois re-
port moro or loss rain in the State yesterday
which will benefit the crops greatly.
Tho largest number of immigrants that over
landed at New York in one day arrived there THE
morning-5,3 800.
Now men will take tho places Of the SEQ strik-
ing coal and ore handlers at Ashtsbula Harbor,
Ohio, to-day.