Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIPS
Mr.. Gladstone has been Summon

-Ai. i"7 pScu summoned
to an audience with the queen.
Bryce A. White, assistant cashier Of
the Wallabout Bank, Brooklyn, was mr..
rested last night on charge Of embez.
zloment.
The adjourned meeting of the Rich.
mond Terminal stockholders to bava
been held in New York to-day has
again been postponed.
An attempt to evict some negro set.
tiers in James City, near New Berpe
n, c., has caused great excitement
there and more trouble is threatened
Nearly every coal mine at Brazil
Ind, has been closed down, the result
of the switchmen's strike at Chicago
and the situation is growing critical
The Illinois and Fox rivers at Otta.
wa, Ills, are on a rampage, the ice
moving out OF these streams having
sent the level of the water up seven
feet.
Frank Hobson, the son ofa Philadel.
phia millionaire, who went TO Chicago
year ago as confidential clerk for 3
Mr.. LaMorris, is missing with s.. l75 in
cash.
The dead body of Mrs. Ann c. Muir.
ply, dissipatcd woman, was found
in blacksmith shop in Pittsburg at
o'clock this morning. Everything
points to murder
At the trial in London to-day of the
DeWalden divorce case Lady DeWal.
den swore that she had never been Gull.
ty of the slightest improperly with
Capt. Winter or any one else.
Consul-General New authorizes de.
NAL to all the stories and rumors of dc.
f,lcation in the consular Office ut Lon.
don, and states that there is no founda.
ton, whatever, for the stories.
A bloody feud of large proportions is
now on among the Chinese high bind
ers in San Francisco. Two have been
killed and the third narrowly escaped
with his life yesterday morning
Captain Charles W. n. Cunningham,
formerly of the 9th Massachusetts reg
iment, was found dead in his room at
Eagle Pass, Tex, yesterday morning
having committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head with reyo-
yer.
A. c. Beckwith, who was appointed
Senator from Wyoming two weeks ago,
by Gov. Osborne, was yesterday reap
pointed. The first appointment was
made before the vacancy existed and
it was feared would not be recognized
as legal.
]. II. Ladew, wealthy New
Yorker, has contracted with the Cramp
Shipbuilding Co. for steel steam yacht
guaranteed to make IS knots an hour.
The vessel will be registered in the
New York Yacht Club. The contract
calls for vessel 1S5 feet over all, %
feet beam aud 10 feet depth of hold.
The engines will be OF the triple ex'
pansion type.
Sherman Arp, convicted of the MUIR
der of WIN. Pogue, near Cedar Bluff,
Cherokee county, Ala, was executed
at sunrise this morning. On the seat
fold he reiterated his confession that
Burkhalter and Lcath, notorious moon
sinners, forced him to kill Pogue, be-
cause the latter secured indictments
against them for the illicit sale Of whis-
Ky.
The German Reichstas to-day rejected the
first clause of the army bill fixing the effective
force of the German army in time Of peace NJ
492,06S exclusive of officers and non.con.
aioO icJCttCi tiO a"'N'''
mcnt retaining the present effective force M.
til December 1895. Tho Reichstag then 3D.
jcurned until the 10th.
The British bark Alice N. Craig has Leen
wrecked at Rosario, on the west bank Of the
Parana, about 230 miles by water from
Bucnos Ayrcs. She foundcred in gale mud
Captain Ross, his wife and eight Of the crew
were drowned.
A Valparaiso dispatch states that it IS r'-
morcd that Santa Anna, in Rio Grande do Sui,
Brazil, which had been besesed by tho re-
bells, had fallen and that the leader Of the
government troops had committed suicide.
Thomas b. Reed, Speaker Of the 5lst Con
gress, made his first appearance as lecturer
before Chicago audience last night.
The schooner Lille f. Schmidt from 81
vannah for Baltimore. isstrandcd at 0cmcokc'
Va probably 4 total loss. Crew saved.
LAWYERS BrG PETITIoS.-EI- Congress
man Frank Lawler, of Chicago, appea red at
the Postoilicc Department in Washington
yesterday, accompanied BY burly coloEet