Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-01
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITlES.

Ohio, to-day.
The national silver convention met at
Chicago to-day and was called to order
by Gen. A. J. Warner.
A large number of farmers near Eos.
toria, o., are feeding their wheat to
hogs rather than sell it at the low prices
now ruling.
A dispatch from Rome says Right Rev.
Joseph Rademacher, D. D., Bishop ,f
Nashville, Tenn, has been appointed
Archbishop of Wayne, Ind.
Dick Burge, of England, has chal
lenged Jack McAulifIe, the American
champion, to fight at catch weight for
stake ofs1O,OOO, and McAulife has
accepted the challenge.
Congressman ]. A. T. Hull, of Des
AToines, Iowa, was thrown from his car
rage yesterday and sustained injuries
which will prevent his taking part in
the extra session of Congress.
Fire in a closet in the Gedney House,
New York, at 2:45 this morning, caused
panic in the hotel and sent the one
hundred guests rushing down stairs and
fire escapes in their night clothes.
News comes from the mountains near
Dunlap, Tenn, of raid by genuine
ku-klux who surrounded a young mans
house and beat him dreadfully. A
fight followed and several persons were
shot.
The United States cruiser New York,
which is now receiving her finishing
touches at Cramps shipyard, Philadel
phia, went into commission at noon to-
day. The ceremonies were brief and
simple.
The Siamese minister to France to-
day informed Foreign Minister De-
velle that Siam was prepared to give
the supplementary guarantees requir-
ed by France. Meanwhile the block
ade Is still IN force.
The top of the cabin of the schooner
Charles has drifted ashore off Hatteras
also, at Kennekot, the body Of man
wrapped up in small standing jib.
lie could not be identified, bnt is sup
posed to be Capt. Ireland OF the Charles.
Sunday night G. w, Smith, Rhine
lander, Wis, contractor, shot aud in
stantly killed his wife and then put two
bullets into his own breast. Failure TO
bring about reconciliation with his
wife from whom he was separated was
the cause.
Advices from Shoe Lake and Spoon
er, in Washburn county, Wis, say that
between 400 and 500 Indians have con-
gregated and may so on the war path.
Many of the Indians are armed and
threats upon the lives of settlers have
been made by them.
On his return home, three miles west
of Caddo, l. T., Willis Corbett, full
blood Chickasaw Indian, found his
wife and little baby lying dead in the
yard with q bullet hole in the head and
three more in the body Of each,
There is no trace of the murderer.
Saturday afternoon young couple
named Fisk quarreled on the streets OF
Paris, Texas, and the woman drew
pistol and shot her husband in the
head, killing him almost instantly.
They had been married but week.
The woman had previously led an
abandoned life and was addicted TO
the use Of morphine.
The lease of the Chesapeake and
Ohio and Southwestern Railroad to the
Newport News and Mississippi Valley
Company was cancelled last night by
reason of the new Kentucky State law
prohibiting companies, associations and
corporations of other States operating
any railroad in that State until they
have become corporations Of that State
The Pope in his encyclical upon the
labor question says: "The poor have
right to be assisted by the rich, though
property be sacred. If the poor have
no work it is the duty of those who can
to provide them employment" "a
strike" the Pope says, "can only be
justified as q means of defence, and
when a man finds his labor unrcmuner-
alive he has right to discontinue it"
A dispatch received from Buenos Ayrcs
states that the revolution in the provinces Of
Buenos Ayres, San Luis and Santa Fe con-
tinucs. Contrary to expectations the insur-
gents have taken most of the towns in the
provinces named with little bloodshed. 1t IS
reported that many insurgents have been cap
tured at La Plata.
Among the failures reported to-day are the
Bellingham Bay National Bank of Whatcom,
Wash; the private bank fl. W. Case at As
toria, Ore. and the Wyandotte County Bluk
of Upper Sindusky, Ohio.
At II o'clock Sunday night landslide &C.
Cured near Villa Rica, Chill, completely bury
ing and entombing an entire family Of six
persons.
SPEER's PORT GRAPE WINE in bottles,