Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTlES.
The Cataract bank of Niagara Falls,
n. Y, the largest bank in Niagara
county, closed its doors at noon.
The body of ain unknown man found
floating in the river opposite Guldsbor-
ough, La, Wednesday, has been identi-
fed as that of Major G.. w. Turnbull,
who was short in his accounts to the
extent of several thousand dollars TO
the st. Louis coal company.
The faculty of the Johns Hopkins
medical school, at Baltimore, have
completed the necessary arrangements
for opening the school October I'd next
According to the terms Of Miss Gar
rett's gift the school will be open TO
women on the same terms as men.
News has been received by the Pres
byterian Board of Missions of the death
in Tabriez, Persia, OF Mira Ibrahim, a
converted Musselman. He ended his
life in prison, where he had been con-
fined because he had iorsaken the
worship of NIohammed for the Christian
religion.
The maple sugar labratory at Mont
pelier, VT, has closed for the season.
There have been weighed for inspection
4,759,762 pounds. The amount of
bounty will be in the vicinity of $12 800.
This covers the product of all the New
England States. The Vermont bounty
will be close to $4,000.
Frederick Stevenson, Swede, en-
ployed as q farm laborer at Wychoii,
n. J., was committed to Jail yesterday
on a charge of having criminally as
saulted 12-year-old Lizzie Halstead.
The child is now in a hospital at Pater-
son, and her condition is said TO be
critical. She is an orphan.
Caleb Wright, negro preacher on
the chain gang at Rome, Ca, commit
ted suicide by jumping into the river
yesterday. He was sentenced for wife
beating and had preached to the con-
victs several times. 1t is believed he
committed suicide on account of learn
go. l, - F,it
Twelve business houses and three
dwelling houses, about one-third of the
town of Leonardsville, Kan, were
wiped out by fire yesterday afternoon.
Loss $4,000. Those who defeated the
proposition to bond the town for $1,000
for water works few years ago, were
the only ones who lost by the fire.
On June Sd r. E. Talon, q contract
or of Beaver, Pa, left ostensibly to visit
the Worlds Fair. It's now alleged that
he has taken all the firms cash that he
could collect, and the absence Of Mrs.
Densmore, a portly widow and a sister of
his partner, is also significantly COM
mented upon. Talon left wife and
six children. He is A years of age
and weighs about 900 pounds.
at an early hour this morning near
Gufley station, Pa, Andy Muldoon, an
oil we'll shooter, was on his way to
Gufley to shoot we'll. He had two
hundred quarts of glycerine in his
wagon, and while coming down
steep hill, wheel struck large stone
and the wagon was overturned. Moth
ing was found of Muldoon or the
horses but few small pieces of flesh
scattered through the woods. The
shock was felt for Is miles around and
people in the vicinity were severely
shocked.
When the Rock Island west bound
train, which left st. Joseph, Mo-, at
7:45 last night, reached Virginia, Neb.,
man stepped up to the door of the
express car and asked United States
Express messenger Spear to be allowed
to step into the car and
write note. Spear consented.
When the train began to move out
Spear looked into the muzzle of re-
volver in the strangers hand. Keep
ing the revolver levelled with one
hand, the stranger with the other threw
rope around Spears neck, and then
bound him hand and foot. Searching
the messenger he found the key to the
small safe which he opened and from
which he secured $3.50. When the
train slowed up the robber made his
escape:
DIED.