Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Garden lltV, MAS, lOf the past wv
days.
During the trial of the Panama
Canal case to. day, the presiding jusi' e
ordered that NJ. Bourgeois, the late
Minister Of Justice. should be summon
ed to testify.
The Atkinson house furnishing COM
pany with Is branches in New Eng
land cities, has made an assignment.
The liabilities are 100000 and the
assets 100000.
II. II. Golduaite, travelling sales
man, accidentally killed his sister-in-
law, Miss Hattie Pischon, at Fort
Wayne, Ind, last night, while careless
ly handling his revolver.
In an effort at Greenvillc, Tex, yes
terday to arrest Warren Hickman, col
ored. City Marshal Nelvin was shot in
the head fatally, but WAS able TO return
the fire, killing the negro.
Daniel Nelson, once member of the
German Emperor's body guard, and q
veteran OF the Mexican war. was
found hanging dead from a raltcrin the
garnet of his ramshackle home at
Freshpond, n. j., yesterday.
The guards at the Charlestown prison
at Boston, yesterday found all the par
aphernalia necessary for an escape suf-
icient to liberate every man in the
prison if once the guards were disposed
of. The equipment was seized.
The young women of the little town
of Esthcrville, Iowa, have decided that
any young woman in Estherville who
should don the hoop-skirt would be
socially ostracised. After the meeting
the dry goods merchants of the town
agreed not to orderany of the denounc-
ed garments.
An explosion Of gas occurred early
this morning in the Whitsell mine near
Pcrryopols, Pa. Ten men were in
iurcd. The mine boss cannot recover
and six of tho miners were very serious
" burned about their faces and bodies,
so that their recovery is doubtful. 1t
is thought that the gas has been ac-
cumulating in the mine for some time.
The report of the execution Of the
Indian Loring, by shooting, sent out
from Caddo, I. T., Friday, was incor-
rect. All the preparations for the ex-
ccution were complete, and the sheriff
told the newspaper men there would be
no reprieve. There was then race Of
correspondents to get to the telegraph
office, and while they were on the way
mounted messenger brought to the
sheriff q reprieve for the prisoner.
Meantime, however, the story of the
execution had gone all over the coun-
try.
The freshet in the Hudson is the
highest since 1889. The lower part OF
Albany is under water and steam rail
road trains and electric ears are pre-
vented from running. Last night the
ice in the Mohawk west of Schenectady
broke up and formed an immense
gorge against the Fitchburg railroad
bridge. The water overlooked the
banks, flooding Edison Park, and that
part OF the city occupied by the West
inghouse Company and the general
electric. The first floors OF the Edison
general electric, which aggregate six
teen acres, are under water to depth
of three feet; both plants have shut
down and ! ,0C0 men are laid oil. kreu-
81 avenue, which is thicllly populated is
under two and Il half feet Of water for
a distance of about thrcc-fourths of a
mile. The river is Is feet above low
water mark.
Last night at Kite Places house, i'll De-
troit. Jos. Es,er, % years of age, shot and
seriously injured Annie Shea. an inmate OF
thc place. aged 2S He then placed the re-
volycr to his right ear and blew his brains
out. The cansc Of the shooting was jealousy.
A ROYAL SILVER WEDDING.-rhe
silver wedding of King Humbert and
Queen Margaret Of Italy will he cele-
L,,,,J rrOr,-thn I-th IN the 9th OF