Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTlES.

Salvador
Jules Aldige, one of the wealthicst
citizens of New Orleans, and largely
i lentifed with cotton seed oils, d,ed in
Paris to-day.
Patrick Egan, ex-United States Min
lister to Chill, sailed for home last even
ing, He was escorted to the steamer
by detachment of police.
U. S. Senator Irby, of South Caro-
lima, is out in reply to the charges
made against him by Adjutant General
Farley, which he denounccs as false.
The health officer of northampton
county, N. c., reports the existence
there ola disease resembling cholera.
Persons attacked die in six or seven
hours.
A four-year-old child of John w.
Ferrier, of New York, fell 2lO feet
down the whirlpool elevator shaft at
Niagara Falls this morning and was
crushed in horrible manner.
Mrs. Mayer, wife of DR.. Henry C..
Mayer, both of whom have been arrest
ed in Detroit for wholesale poisoning,
gave birth to a son last night. The
doctor showed no feeling when inform
ed that he was father.
At Guthrie, 0. T., last night young
cowboy named Burdcss, who was I'M
der the influence of liquor, became
mixed up in fight with three negroes
and was pounded to death. 1t only re-
quires leader to make triple lynch
ing.
The largest dispensary in South Caro-
lima, the one at Greenville, was yester-
day closed under temporary injunc-
ton granted by Judge Norton, princi-
pally because of alleged unconstitution-
atty of the law. The case is to be
heard Monday
Among the failures to-day were the
Nebraska Savings Bank of Lincoln;
the r. B. Beaumont Co., manufacturers
of jellies, of Rutherford, N. j., and
New York city; Baker & Bissell, hard
ware dealers, Sioux City, Ia, and the
Buckeye Cycle Co., Cincinnati.
VIM. Cook, a railroad section fore
man at Pemberville, Ohio, while in
drunken condition yesterday, made a
murderous assault upon his four child
rem with mattock handle. The crazy
father picked one Of the children up
and dashed him against the wall in
flicting injuries that will prove fatal.
Two or more Of the children will die.
Lynch law is strongly talked Of
The Louisville Southern bondholders
at a meeting yesterday decided to aban
don their attempt to procure better
terms for the road in the Drexel, Nor
gan & Co. reorganization Of the Rich
mond Terminal system. They voted
to accept the offer of the re-organiza
ton committee and surrender their
first mortgage bonds for 20 per cent. of
new second or third mortgage bonds
and 80 per cent. preferred stock.
Prof. John B. Stephenson, for five
years superintendent of the public
schools of Brooklyn, Mich, and one of
the foremost citizens of Jackson coun-
ty, has eloped with Miss Ida Culver, a
pretty young woman of % years of age.
The professor is 90 years old. Before
going away he turned all his real estate
over to his wife, at the same time in
forming her that she would never see
him again. He has family of grown
children. The pair have been traced
to Chicago.
Sturges T. Dick, cashier, and son of
the founder of the banking house Off.
R. Dick & Co., committed suicide in his
bed room, in Meadeville, Pa, at $50
o'clock this morning. His wife was in
an adjoining room and heard the shot.
Her husband was dead before she
could reach him. Mr.. Dick was fifty
years of age. There has been slight
run on the bank during the past few
days. 1t is thought that this trouble,
together with the condition of his
health, was the cause Of the self MUIR
der.
Amelia Berg, the German girl who
puts trained tigers through their per-
formances at q menagerie on Midway
Plaisance at the Chicago fair, was bad
ly hurt last night by new tiger. She
was trying to make the brute sit on a
stool, and when he refused she tried to
drag him by the forepaws. He was too
heavy and the girl slipped and fell. The
tiger leaped upon her with fash and
before the attendants could drive him
away ne had lacerated the girls right
thigh in fearful manner, Miss Berg
was carried away unconscious and al
though not fatally injured will not be
able to walk for six weeks or two
months.
An army of crickets has invaded Wyoming
and is stripping the country of all vegetation.
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