Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

There Is no perceptlble change IN
Edwin Booths condition this morning.
The old Liberty bell started on its
Journey from Philadelphia to Chicago
to-day.
A dispatch from Port Colborne, Ont,
says the Welland canal was opened
The lockout clothing makers in New
York returned to work this morning,
the differences being settled.
this morning.
Colonel Edwin II. Webster, excel
lector of the port of Baltimore, died at
his home near Belair, Md, this morn
ing, aged SO years.
Judge Nash, in Geneseo, n. y, this
morning sentenced Father Flaherty,
who was found guilty of rape, to seven
years and six months.
The expected strike of union carpen-
tiers at the worlds fair grounds, Chi
cago, did not take place this morning.
The men are at work as usual.
The hearing of evidence in the Car
lyle w. Harris case by the governors
commissioner, ex-State Senator George
Raines, will be begun in New York to-
morrow.
A special from Denmark, S. c., says
that colored man charged with rape
is being tried by the citizens. Great
excitement prevails. 1t is probable
that the prisoner will be lynched.
There Isl big stir in mining circles. at
Guanjuato, Mex, over the discovery of
extensive and rich deposits Of tin, south
of that city. The find was made by
Frank Gordon, an American prospector.
Three young men Julius Falk, Mar
tin Arelt and Charles Liplak hired a
boat yesterday and rowed out to the
Breakwater near Cleveland. The boat
capsized and Falk and Arelt were
drowned.
4 train running between Santiago
and Valparaiso Chilli, was wrecked
Saturday night The engine, with two
cars, fell 81 feet. The cars took fire
from the lamps, and it is rumored
many passengers were burned to death.
a serious fight is reported to have
occurred Friday between Bluff City,
Utah, coWmen, and q band of thirty
Navajoes. Two of the cowmen were
shot while the Indians got off apparent
ly unhurt, taking with them herd of
cattle.
Mathew Nobacker, q German butch
er, 25 years old and unmarried, was
shot and instantly killed last night by
Isaac Dickson, negro in a st. Louis
saloon. The killing was unprovoked
and cold blooded. Dickson was ar
rested.
The Red River of the North is forty
two feet six inches above the low water
gauge and is still creeping upward.
For miles north of Grand Forks, n. d.,
the ice is still solid, and gorge may
form at any moment which will flood a
million acres of the valley.
At St. Joseph, Mo-, Saturday evening
at o'clock Mrs. Henry Burvenich,
wife of timer, horsewhipped Anton
Burvenich, prominent druggist. Her
husband stood by and saw fair play.
The trouble originated over the settle
ment of an estate, in which the families
were estranged.
A partition wall in the electric light
building being erected in Cincinnati
collapsed this morning, precipitating
fourteen workmen into the cellar, dis
lance of forty feet. There were nearly
fifty men at work in the building,
majority of them being on the fourth
floor. The center section gave way,
carrying the workmen with it. One
man was killed and six others badly
injured.
Rev. DR.. Arthur Mitchell died at Saratoga.
N. Y, this morning He was born in 1885
at Hudson, n. Y. He found his first pastoratc
in Richmsnd, Va.