Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-03-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.


The executive comn!tte OF the worlds
fair directory has practically agreed to COD
cede the demand of organized labor 10 Chi
cago for an eight-hour day.
at Franklin, Pa. Thom as Moore ahot and
Instantly killed hs wifs this morning 10 q
fit OF insanity. He ia now raving mebiac
and has been taken into custody.
The lymp-inoculated COW which bora &
calf j few days ago at the University oiP Penn
sglVania veterinary hospital, died yesterday
The premature birth ls said to be the reiD
cause OF death.
a. Dlraugo. COL, the sdow blockade is
sill on, but tie road ia expected to be open
ed by Saturday next. No mail hes been re-
ceivei there for seventeen days and bust
ness is pa7al;zsd.
A syndicate OF capitalists from Cinclnoetl
have bought the Block tobacco factory in
Wheeling. W. Va, at prica something in
excess of 81 100000 The original DIVERS
retaiu an interest.
Toe fruit preserving aad canning estab-
lishment OF T. J. o. Schimmel, in Philadel-
phia. was totally destroyed By fire this
morning. The loss on stock aud buildings
is estimated al $3.50, 600.
Tne North Ashland, one of thu Reading
Company'a largest oolierics a. Ashland,
Pa, resum I'd work tbia morning after q
ihres months suspension, thus giving en-
poymsnt TO six hundred snd f'ty msn and
boys.
The collsctor of customa for the Tucson,
Ariz, district has made a seizure of The San
Rosario stamp mill and large stock OF
mechandiae for violation of the custom lava.
Philadelphia parties are tie ow5ers Of the
property.
The republican aud Farmers Alliance
members Of the Illinois Legislature have sc
set failed to reach al entirely satisfactory
agreement and the ballot to-day resulted !:
Palmer 1Ol; stres;el 9S; Ozlesby s. Strester
will prcpably bs elected.
The savings bank a. Ftesport, Pa, was
broken into LAST night and several thousand
dollars worth OF negotiable paper, besides
other valuable papers. aud money taken.
The foil ex ent OF tls loss is rot known.
Ths:e is go clew to the robbers.
Governor Hill. OF New York, to-day sgaip
refused to honor Mr.. Balkley's signature as
Governor OF ConoecIcu on the ground
that Bulkley was not the proper executive
authority to issue the Trit. With bis re-
iu'a G5v. Hill Il ed q lengthy opinion.
The Rio Greade is bsgian!ng to sw.ll,
and there ars fears of an over1jw In
southern Coorsd) AID northwestern New
Mexico more sncw is reported than ever
known in that section in twenty years. 10
east SD southern NsS Mexico the rain and
snowfall have been wonderful.
a New York policeman while attempting
to arrest number of disordeyly clock max
ers, nasty Polish Jews, wes attacked and
badly cut on bi5 head with loaded cane,
while ttae. strikers attacked the Btore win
doGs with stones. Assistance arriving four
OF the ringleaders we're arrested
L is rnmored ia Atlanta that Rsv. ]. G
Arm5trong who died ia that city las week
committed suicide, aad the coroner will he
called upon TO hold an inquest. Ia casa OF
sncn az event. an eff ,rt W L be made &c fad
soma of hls private papers in order to settle
the qaes ion Of his ;dsGisg with WILKES
Booth.
Ssler Au!hopy. one Of ihs olds. and bast
kroTn Catholic NUS in America, settles the
much disputed question o. tle baptism ofGep
shsrmsn In the Catholic Church. Sac said
yesterday: "The colonel, for General Sher.
man was cnly 4 coocel than, vas baptized
in Cincinnati jlst b.fore be started out in
oce CT his Virginia campaigns"
Nicola Piero, the young Italian who Wa
shot in New York CO Monday by bis pretty
lover, Pasq1alina LuSeEtili. d ed this mora-
ing in the hospital. Pisro had ruined the
youpg italian girl under promise of mar
riage. He gave her pistol and told her If
he did not keep bis word to kill him. When
he refused to u arry her she Flowed out his
Instructions.
Dottie DID on killed he- husb-nd Dave, near
Becky 'prings. Miss, last night. ho pair had
been separated since Christmas, aud Dave tried
to effect reconciliation. Failing in this he at
tackled her with a club. He had knocked her
down several times when sho grabbed mea.
knife and uaged it into his neck. He diei in
three minutes. She is in Jail.
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT Says
locomotive engineer II once had 80 inter.