Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-18
TELEGR lPIIIC BREYFrIES.

Sn!n1Illtu are Dtiil- NiAbS-lt4 lul0
the United States from Windsor Ont.
Tn, Mexican Central Railroad is
threatened TO be tied up with a strike
Yesterday system ofpostal delivery
by utilizing street cars in the delivery
of mails at sub stations, was inaugural.
ed in st. Louis.
J. S. Geiser and wife were murdered
at their home near otay Station Cal,
on Sunday night BY an Indian laboreg
named Jose Grabielo.
Fifty-seven Esquimaux who come 10
exhibit at the Worlds fair reached
Chicago last night. The ear also con
tanned twenty Esquimaux dogs.
Great uneasiness is felt regarding the |
British ship Knight Commander which
sailed from San Francisco, July 30, for
Queenstown. 1t is believed that TIE
vessel has foundered of Cape Horn.
DR.. Bryne and his wife, of Victoria
Pc. l., were victims of the drink
habit. Last night they appear TO have
resolved to end their lives together by
poison. and both were found dead this
morning, one on the bed and the Other
on the sofa.
Bernard J. Green, select council
man in Philadelphia, en- route 10 tie
Worlds fair dedicatory services a,
Chicago, fell from train near South
Bend, on the Pennsylvania Railroad
this morning, and was, it is thought
fatally injured.
In the District Court at st. Paul,
Mimi, this morning, Judge Brill az
nounced his decision in the mandamu'
proceedings brought by the democratic
State committee to compel Secretary Of
STATE Brown to group the fusion electors
in Inherent way from what he had
announced The decision was that the
court had no jurisdiction in the case
ana lDe case WAS ulSiniSScu-
A conversation took place this morn
ing between a telephone operator 10
New York and another operator in Chi
cago over the longest telephone ever
successfully used Mayor Grant viii
converse with Mayor Washburnc al
Chicago this afternson at four o'clocS
The operators of the new long distanc E
line will all be men. Girls will bag
nothing to do with the scheme. Rate Z
FOR the present will be so message.
Farther particulars of the wreck Of /
the steamer Bokhara on Sand Island,
one of the Pesadors group in the Fp I
KEN channel between the island Of
Formosa and the mainland of China,
state that the steamer struck at Id.
night, October TO- The steamer ran {
into the storm before dark and would
probably haze come through all right 3
had it not been ior the seas boarding her
The water poured in through tie
hatchings, the covers of which were
carried away, and down the compan' Z
ion-way leading to the fire room. Inc &
fires were soon out and the steamer be- 8
came helpless. When the steame'
struck she sank almost Immediately
OF the crew of 1870, 102 are missing
About 20 passengers were also drowned
Jose Gomez, Brazilian, and his Wiz
Minnie, woman about 40 years old I'D
claims to belong to the Stuyvesant family
New York, were committed to prison ~ ID.
city to-day in default of BAIL to await eza-
nation on the charge of swindling r diamo
broker and jeweler out of $4,000 worth
diamonds and jewelry. About $1,000 10y
of the property has been found in pawn 'a'l''
Each train arriving in Chicago bring rs
ouota Of pleasure seekers, who come to VT
ne,s the dedicatory exercises. Hotel men
are anticipating the greatest gathering OF
strangers that has ever assembled in the g.
There is a vast deal Of excitement il
apdotte Kan, over a search that is ie-.
made for 100000 treasure of gold 81
Jewels that was hidden by the famous Qn-
trell gang years ago.
President Jetry, of the Rio Graudc ri
road, late last night issued an ultimaon
the striking trainmen to report for duty w
morning or consider themselves dischar-s.
A company of United States CayaIF'
be sent to the southern Kansas border io'
protection of citizens from the remaaa
of the Dalton gang.