Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-10
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

DR.. VIM. Carson, one of the most as
tinguished physicians of Cincinnati
died last night.
A whole section of prisoners attempt
ed to escape at the House of Correction
at Ionia, Mich, this morning. Three
were killed.
North Attleboro, Mass, is much ex-
cited over the murder of Patrick Nc
Carly, aged 66, which took place some
time last night. There is no clue to
the assassin.
People out of work are in open re-
bellion in Sydney and Brisbane, Aus
tralia, owing to the recent failure OF
banks stopping the payments for many
public works.
The steamer State Of Texas, before
reported adrift with a broken screw,
was picked up 20 miles off Mt. Desert
Rock by tug and towed into Rock
land, Me-, to-day.
Oscar F. Hill, cashier Ct the Com
mercial National bank of Ogden,
Utah, is defaulter to the amount OF
So, 600 and the bank will go into vol
untary liquidation. .
A Pan Handle train struck buggy
containg Mrs. John CAM and her child
rem, John and Mary, near Richmond,
Ind, last evening. ALI three were
killed and mutilated.
A comet was visible in the northern
sky, at Seattle, Washn., last night some
degrees below and three or four de-
grees west of the polar star and near
the top of the Great Bear.
The Sunday attendance at the Co
lumbar Exposition at Chicago is grow
ing smaller and the directors are con-
templating reducing the price of ad-
mission on that day to 25 cents.
Among the failures to-day were: Geo.
E. Watson & Co., furniture dealers, Jer-
Sey City, for $4,000; the Chamberlain
Investment Co., Denver, s., 1862 900, and
A.Y Dawson, stock brokers, Philadel,
phia.
At San Francisco last night Nellie
Horton, telegraph operator, shot and
instantly killed c. r. Hagan, a motor,
man. She demanded Hagan to fulfil
promises and marry her, and he
refused.
The sheriff of DEVILS Lake, Mani
toba, left Deloraine yesterday having
IN custody Baumberger, the murderer
of the six Kreiders, at Cando. He
will certainly be lynched, as 1000 men
are ready to take him from the sheriff.
The Coraopolis Oil Refining Com :
pany's Works at Coraopolis, Pa, on
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad,
together with several tanks, were COM
pletely destroyed by fire last midnight.
The loss is about $4,000. The fire was
caused by slight explosion of gas.
William Waddell, his wife and four
children, while in camp on the border
awaiting the opening of the Cherokee
strip were drowned at Englewood,
Kan, a few days ago. Waddell, wife
and family were camped in a valley
-
and it is supposed the heavy rains of
last Thursday and Friday flooded their
dug-out and the occupants were washed
away in the darkness.
President Cleveland took his first sail down
Buzzards Bay this morning in the Ruth"
Dr. Bryant believes that the trip with its en-
viroments will do the President good deal
of good As Nr. Cleveland walked from Gray
Gables 10 the boat landing he appeared some
what lame. He moved very slowly. The
weather is perfect DR.. Bryant and Colonel
Lamont accompanied the President.
Almost the entire city of Denver COL, WAS
shocked at 4:30 o'clock this morning by the
explosion of 5000 pounds of dynamite in a
storage house in south Denver. There WAS 4
general destruction of window pancs, and
many doors were blown from their hinges.
Two men are supposed to have been blown
to pieces. The accident is supposed to have
been the work OF tramps