Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Viking ship will sail from New
York on Monday for Chicago.
Ex-senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska,
who suffered a paralytic stroke month
ago, is slowly sinking.
Patriotic songs by choir of 100000
voices is to be one of the features of the
fourth of July celebration at the worlds
fair.
All is quiet at the Cheyenne agency
but the Indians are sullen and it is not
known how soon trouble may be pre-
cipitattd.
The lone bandit who went through
the Northern Pacific sleeping car be.
tween Wadena and Perham, Wis, b; S
been caught at Frazee.
A Great Northern coal train YVES
wrecked IS miles south of West Supe-
rior, Wis, this morning. Three men
were killed and is cars were ditched
and burned.
The Chicago Athletic Club made
match yesterday between Peter Maher
aud Billy Woods. If Maher loses to
Flood Monday night the match will be
declared off.
The Cunard steamship Campania,
which arrived at New York to-day
from Liverpool, logged on June Goth
54S miles-1S miles in excess of the
best previous record.
A serious wreck occurred on the
Hudson Central R. r. a few miles west
of Rochester, n. Y, at , o'clock this
morning by rear-end collision of two
freight trains. Seven men were injured.
Mrs. Cal Sinninger, wife of the edi-
tor of the Bremen, Ind, Inquirer, yes
terday horsewhipped A. G. Baker, edi-
of the Standard, for making disparag-
ing remarks against her through his
paper.
Walter E. Shaw, the lawyer, who on
March 81, last year, at Houston, Texas,
brutality murdered his mother and an
red aunt by cutting their Threats, was
sentenced yesterday to be hanged on
July 2Sth.
William Buckley was assassinated by
whitecaps four miles north of Column
bia, Miss, on Thursday evening while
on his way home from court: where he
was witness against some of the muir
tlerous white-cap gang.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis left New York
for Cranstons, near West Point, this af-
ternoon. She drove from the Hotel
Marlborough, her winter home, to the
steamboat Mary Powell, which left at
. o'clock this afternoon. Mrs. Davis
concluded TO make the trip by water
instead of by rail, owing to the heat
Of the day. Mrs. U. S. Grant is at
West Point, and it is expected that she
and Mrs. Davis will meet there.
The Rescue crevasse, twenty miles
below Baton Rouge, is the most seri-
Gus of the season. Efforts were made
to close it, but as the levee was built
of sand and yielded very quickly to the
encroachment of the water, the break
quickly widened, and all work was
abandoned this morning. The Gre
vase will probably run until the river
goes down. Many fine plantations
will be overtlowed and the property
loss will be large.
AT midnight last night the saloon
building, occupied by Theo. Geidiman,
at Leipsic, Ohio, was discovered to be
on fire. The flames spread to SUI
rounding buildings and six of the best
business places were destroyed. The
fire is supposed to have been the work
ofan incendiary. Deshler Fire Com
rany came to the rescue and saved adj
joining property. Two young men
were landed in the city prison for steal
ing goods during the fire.
Lane Lloyd a Wechman, 81 years old,
committed suicide early to-day by shooting
himself in his shoe shop in New York. Be-
for he fired the fatal shot he made his will in
the presence ola witness one of his work
men.
Miss Abbie Graffan, aged 70 years, fell
aecp in her chair last evening ut her home
in Auburn, Ne. By some movement lamp
near her was overturned and she was burned
to death.
VIM March, 81 years old, was arrested in
New York this morning, accused Of commit
ting a criminal assault upon his 13-ycar old
daughter.
A HINT TO BATHERs.-It is not easy
to convince the young men and the ir-
repressible boys who go bathing during
the heated term, that it is possible to
have too much of good thing. But
the numerous cases ofdeath by drown
ing and the seemingly unaccountable
way in which young people of the
sterner sex succumb to fever, longest
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