Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-03-05
TELEeRApHIC BREv1TIEs.


Thsthreatsned big strike Ia England may
be avested by the men sgreeiag to scoep' q
s ne, cent. reduction.
Some enc yesterday ssnt Ms. Z. ~ AZ
mour, Of Chicago, bottle Of poisoned Wine'
but baylng been warned he drank none
ofit.
The jury In the case of Burton Q. Weo.
ster. on trial in New York for the killing OF
Chss. E Goodwin 10 August !ass. failed to
ag,es upon verdict and this morning
Judge CowIng discharged ths jury.
The Baltimore Conference OF the Metno-
dist Episcopal Church, In Baltimore t'-day'
elected W. 9. Edwards. the Al delegate 70
the General Conference. The Sunday e1ef-
ciees en- the part of the conference Viii pe
the ordlnt tons Of elders.
John Wig, the Japanese ieper who Was
sent to the Philadelphia Municipal Hospi 81
several days ego. still refuses to say were
he vas employed before ne applied for &C.
mission to the aims houee. Ii Is a!ased en-
good authority, however, that up to last
Wednesday he was employed as COOK Ia q
| large boarding house In that city.
Rev. David E. hughes, clergyman, OF
Coaldae, who vent t, Philadelphia in Een'
/ ruary to be treated for tumor Of the nose,
has disappeared and all Efforts on the part
OF his family and friends to locate him have
failed. He was stopping at the Jefferson
Hcsp:tal and the day after his arrival vent
ont for walk and never returned.
A band of burglars tina. bsve been crack
ioe safes and robbing st,res near Mount
Carmel, Pc, were detected last night pluE'
de,iog Isaac Goldsmith's clothing store
Tina burglars were surrounded, but they
made desperate break for liberty and e.
capped. Blood marks In the anoW aho" that
some OF the gaog were shot.
The worst cpse CT t7phus yet reported We;
found ct No. 1872 Orchard street. New York
t,.dsy. Il was that of s woman who hat
been lying there with the disesns for over
week. Tho house is q fge-ssory tenement
aad there are is families In it. Mrs. Err
est.ne Matheneon, % years old, Is the NO
man. She took to her bad on Washington
G.t,set Thuredsy. Her four children whe
slept 10 tAe room With bOr played With tat
Ger children in the house.
Two Of the traio wreckers who have boon op
Grating in northwestern Mi. sissippi for the las
six months, srs safely lodged behind tho bars 81
Greenyille, Miss.
party of % vol srmed and mounted Gsrzs
revolutiorists a.e epcsmped thirty miles north o
Bio Grande City. A force OF deputy marahas and
troops left last evening for tie camp Of the rsvo
lutionists.
Oliver Curtis Perry, the noted desperado and
trsin rob5er, attempted to escspe from jail al
Lyons, NJ Y, last night, but wss spprehended in
the corridor and again llaced under lock and
key.
The discovery OF the barned remains ofs man
and horse in Thesual county, Aliz, has dis
clcstd murder which 10 charged to Sonora Pa
psgos noted smuggler. 1t is claimed thai
Papagos killed and rolb;d the mau and thor
burned his remains and those of his horse.
AS the retult Of runaway at Ainnespolia
Mimi, last night Lotto Mitchell is dead, Emma
Erickson fatally wounded, and Herbert Bedford
dauger,usly hurt. The women were Inmates Of
a house of ill-fame and with Bedford had driven
| out to O road house.