Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-14
TELEGRAPHIC BRETITIES.
The Backus Wire Nail Company, of
Cleveland, Ohio, made an assignment

The Viking ship arrived in New
London, after its voyage from Norway,
yesterday evening.
Albert Won Gelder, the son of Count
Wilen Won Gelder, nobleman of high
rank in Amsterdam, Holland, was ar
rested in Chicago last night, charged
with stealing 81, 800 worth ofdiamonds.
Postmaster C. B. Woolley, of Long
Branch City, Nj, disappeared sudden
" last night. An inspector has been
examining Woolley's accounts during
the past week and has discovered
shortage of $2,OS0.
Five Russian sailors from the Rhyn-
da became intoxicated and created
brief reign of terror among women
whom they pursued in upper Sixth
avenue in New York yesterday. Three
of them were arrested.
The sheep war in Plateau Valley,
COL, is in no wise subsiding. On the
contrary the indications point to an i'm
pending clash between the belliserents.
Over 5000 rounds of cartridge have
been sold in Dubuque within the past
four days.
A desperate conflict took place at
st. Joseph, Mo-, yesterday between
two tailors, VIM. Walsh and John Nc
Gee, the weapons used being shears.
The men fought like tigers for half an
hour. when both fell to the floor fright
fully hacked. The recovery of either is
considered improbable.
At gainesville, O., this morning the
Lake county bank Of Aaron Wilcox "
Company posted a notice on its doors
as follows: "This bank has suspend
ed temporarily, being unable to meet
the run on it at present, owing to the
stringency in the money market. All
dcpositors will be paid in full"
The Cunard line steamer Scrvia,
which sailed from New York May a,
arrived at Queenstown to-day. She
reports that on June 7 she ran down
the ship A. p. McCallum, from London.
The McCallum was so badly damaged
that she filled and sank 4 short time
after the accident. The Servia stood
bv and rescued "A of those on board the
sailing vessel One man was drowned.
Yesterday the river at New Orleans
reached seven feet above low water,
and is still rising. At three points in
front of the city the water ran over the
top of the levees, flooding the cutters
and the streets in those localities. A
siX-inch additional rise is expected. A
break occurred last night just below
Baton Rouge, La, and at midnight 1t
was twenty feet wide and washing fast.
Mrs. Kate Kerch, living 10 miles
from Parliersburg, w. Va, having lost
her reason, poisoned two other young
children, threw two others into q well
and then killed herself She tried to
kill her eight children, but four were
saved by the desperate struggle of her
fourteen year-old daughter Mollie. All
five are dead. The husband was away
from home at the time. She killed the
two smallest by poisoning their milk
with strychnine.
A run started on the Irving Savings
Institution in New York this morning
almost as soon as the doors of the
place, at No. 96 Warren street, were
opened, and in q very short time the
little room in which the savings bank
does its business, was completely filled
with depositors whose faces showed
their great anxiety over their savings.
In twenty minutes the paying teller
had paid out $500, Treasurer Ct. B.
Latimer said that the bank had in hand
million dollars, and could get that
much more if necessary, at moments
notice. This is the bank of which the
superintendent of State banks, Preston,
yesterday discovered Il deficiency of
$7O,S00 Three of the bank officials,
the president, secretary and paying
teller, are held responsible for the
shortage, the first two named having
"overdrawn" their accounts and the
third Illustrated funds"
P. II. Hall, leading physician Of Pioneer
Tex, states that there is halr-dczen business
men in that city who will back John l.. salli-
van to the amount of $4,000 against Jim
Corbett. providing that Sullivan would UNI
dergo thorough training Of at least six
months.
Gen. A. w Campbell died at his home in
Jackson, Tenn, last night, aged Go years.
He was brigadier general in the confederate
army and a prominent candidate for governor
on several occasions.
A Tampa special says the Louisiana
Lottery Company has purchased bay
front property there and will con-
struct terminal facilities for its line
.