Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

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at Minesville, Pa. this morning, eight
men were seriously burned.
! The cholera statistics in Hamburg
/ FOR yesterday show considerable liz
crease in thc numhcr ofncw casts Of
the disease
The fire yesterday III the Milwaukee
Street Railway barns was not caused
by the explosion Ola bomb. but origi-
mated from fire which had been left in
car.
1t now seems forceonc conclusion
that the Montana Legislature will split
into two bodies as it did two years ago,
and that Two senatorial claimants will
90 down to Washington.
Yellow fever has become almost ep.-
demic in In Gilayra, Venezuela, the
mortality in Caracas continues to in
c. ease, and in smaller towns down the
Puy Valley it is spreading in every di-
rection.
The differences between the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad officials and
the grievance committee of the broth
erhood of trainmen has been settled by
the signing of a wage scale which
makes an average increase o.: from S TO
IS cents per day.
Peter Suffer, Il retired farmer, aged
55 years, murdered his wife Teresa at 10
o'clock this morning at their boarding
place in Des Moines, Iowa. He first
strangled her with a towel and then
Drained her with a hammer. Suffer
gave himself up to the police.
Emmett, small son of j. A. Argen-
bright, of Lexington, Va, was drowned
yesterday by breaking through the ice
on North river. Not returning home
last night his parents, fearing the worst,
instituted search which lasted all night
and up to 10 o'clock this morning, when
the body was found. The boy had
broken through the ice near an air hole
and met his death alone.
Last night mob of 200 citizens in the
town Of Luling, La, forced an entrance
into the Jail, took therefrom two ne
groes named Adam Gripson and Lewis
Fox, carried them to neighboring
tree and swung them up. The negroes
entered the store Of Abraham Silver on
Christmas eve and attempted to rob the
store. Samuel Bastel, clerk attempt
ed to eject the negroes and was shot
through the heart.
At Pittsburg, Pa, just before II
O'Clock this morning an upright boiler
in the carpet cleaning establishment of
R. B. Hutchinson, on the fourth floor,
exploded, knocking hole through
either side wall. ]. 0. Cox, foreman,
was blown through one of the aper-
lures and fell through the roof of
shed lfty feet below. He was terribly
mangled and will die. Clarence Shaw,
aged lG, was blown through the hole in
the other side Of the building but his
clothing caught on projecting timbcrs,
preventing his falling. He was terribly
bruised and scaldcd but will probably
recover
Cora Griffith, Is years old, went to Indian
npplis eight months ago with her parents.
Since then both Of her parents have died.
Yesterday afternoon the young woman spent
her last dollar for a dancing lesson. At sup
per time she went to restaurant ANA begged
something 10 eat. then went to her boarding
house at :i22 cast Washington street, sw:l-
ayed an ounce of carbolic acid and dic,l in
an hour Miss Griffith left letter in which
it WAS indicated that unrcqrte,l love lei her
TO take her life.
1t is said that s., 800, 900 of Panama, canal
money was sent to this country, and no cx-
pianaton has been given OF what use was re
cessary to BE made OF this sum; that DsLes-
scis paid visit 10 the United States and so
remarkable We're his powers of persuasion
that within eleven months congressman no
lougor believed tl,.t the building Of the canal
hy the French would be Il violation Of the
Monroe doctrine,
dispatch from F;,irport, n. y, says that
Rev. NJ. Thompson, who disappeared from
Washington, d. G., several days ago has been
found and is ell right.
1t is said in Rome that Mgr. satollis mis-
sion TO this country is not regarded as n SITE
cess in certain quarters and that the Jesuits
are limiting that he may be recalled.
John L. Sharpsten, associate judge of the
Supreme Court of California, died in San
Francisco last night Of paralysis.
The opinion among many Catholics in New
York is that something has been concealed in
the McGlynn matter
Hon W. f. Gladstone to-day celebrated his
SD birthday.
Bob slavin, the comedian, died suddenly in
Toledo, o.. to-day.