Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREylTIES

Joliet, ILL.,, is aroused over tue ple'a'
lence of small pox which was recently
imported from Chicago.
The British steamship Buckingham
from Savannah to Genoa, Italy, was
fined nine hundred dollars at Norfolk,
Va, to-day for landing three stowa'
ways.
Mrs. Sarah Johnson died suddenly
this noon at her residence, 915 kaighn
Avenue, in Camden, n. ]. She was
rs years old and was the oldest woman
In the State.
kilograms to Bradstreets received
from 119 cities throughout the country
show that there are wage earners in
enforced idleness at the present time
numbering more than SOL 900.
The new steamer jamestown was
launched to-day at Roach's shipyard at
Chester, Pa. She will make an import
ant addition to the feet of the Old
Dominion Steamship Company.
The huge hy-wheel in the power
house of the Des Moines Electric Rail-
way exploded this morning, wrecking
the roof of the building and inflicting
damages amounting to $4,000. No,
body was injured.
The tug International, the largest
and probably the most complete tug
boat under the American flag, was sold
in Philadelphia yesterday to the Phila,
delphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany for $4,000.
Thursday afternoon young man en-
tered the Sioux City, Ia, police station
saying that he was A. H. Pilla, who a
few days ago shot and killed two gam
blers and confidence men named
Myers and Blum who attempted to
swindle him.
Lewiston, Utah, better known as the
camp Floyd district, the scene of the
recent gold discovery, is developing in
to bonanza camp. Gold is extracted
at cost of 81 to SO per ton including
all expense of labor and milling. The
ore averages Slipper ton.
Mrs. Fanny Landers died yesterday
at the Brewer, Me-, aims house from
starvation. She refused to take foo6
for So days, during which time she
drank only a little water. Her hus
band died just before she began hel
fast and dependency probably caused
her action. She was so years old.
Anton Witty, aged so years, sho
himself at his home, in Newark, N. j..
at an early hour this morning and dice
instantly. The deed was committed
with shot gun, the muzzle of which
Witty placed in his mouth. The charge
blew the top of his head oil. Lack o
work is given as the cause of the man.!
act.
Joseph Belson and George Lake, both old
miners, were working at the head Of a drift
| leading from q pump sna1t IN Cooper Hollow
Kan, yesterday afternoon when water broke
through from an adjoining drift and at once
rose about 20 fec. above the mouth of til,
drift where the men were at work. Both mel
were undoubtedly drowned,
Roscoe Parker, colored, has confessed that
he is the murderer of L. P. Ryan and wife
the old people who wcro found dead at Win
chester, Ohio Tuesday morning with thcil
skulls crushed and Threats cut. Large crowds
of both white and blacks fill the streets and
trouble is expected.
A race war has broken out at Laguna De
Gallo, N. NJ. A dispute arose between Mcxi
cans and Americans over the ownership of {
herd of sheep. In battle that followed five
Americans and nineteen Mexicans were killed
Frank Cole was charged at Three River
Mich, yesterday with committing an outrage
on girl seven years old. 1t would not re
qure much of an effort there to have a lynch
ing bee,
A cave-in occurred at Mulhall Station, Pa.
early this morning, where the Carnegie Steel
Company are erecting large furnace. A
Hungarian was killed and another fatally in
jurcd.
Grain dealers and millers in Ohio Indiana
Illinois, Michigan, Kansas aud Missouri re
port 4 smaller acreage sown to winter wheat
this fall than the amount sown in 1892.