Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The noted race horse Aristides died
at St. Louis yesterday. He was q
years old and greatly noted as q race
horse.
The bark Edmund Finney arrived
o. the Delaware Breakwater last night
having ON board the shipwrecked crew
of the schooner Mary A. Power, Capt.
Wyman, from Fernandina, Fla.
Charlie Keller and his wife were
driving over the railroad tracks at
Lima, Ohio, Tuesday night when a
switch engine backed upon them, de-
molishing the buggy and killing them
both.
The Rev. Rodney Edwards, formerly
of Trinity Episcopal Church in san
Francisco, was indicted by the grand
jury yesterday for embezzling twelve
hundred dollars from Mrs. Allen, a
widow.
Mrs. Cleveland and party arrived at
Buzzards' Bay this morning. Mrs
Cleveland appeared in excellent health
and she expressed pleasure at beng
back once more among the scenes OF
her former pleasant days at Gray
Gables.
The board of managers of the Phila'
delphia and Reading railroad at noon
to-day decided to abandon the plan for
the rehabilitation of the company be-
cause of the required number of assents
from general mortgage bondholders and
shareholders not being obtained.
The drought has caused much suffer-
ing in various parts of the German en-
pi-e, more particularly among the peas
antry, who have lost all their young
crops. The Grand Duke of Hesse has
caused to be distributed throughout
the grand duchy 300 van loads of turf
litter and 5000 sacks of corn flour.
AS result of poison, either inten-
tionally or accidentally placed in the
family dinner on last Thursday, John
McKibben died in st. Luke's Hospital,
st. Louis, yesterday. Two married
daughters are seriously i'll. The fact
that a younger daughter had endeavor-
ed to purchase arsenic at neighborlng
drug store few days previous to the
dinner has caused the coroner to inves-
tigate the matter.
Great excitement has been caused at
Andrichow, town of about 1000 in
habitants in Austrian Galicia, by the
rioting of number of socialists. The
mob had full possession of the place
for a time and took advantage to loot
a number of shops and rob the proprie-
tors ofmoney and goods. When the
troops arrived they charged upon the
mob without ceremony and some OF
the rioters were killed and number
injured.
At Sandusky, Ohio, last night, Mrs Robert
Hogan, in the presence of her husband. swal-
lowed an ounce Of laudnum and then sat
down to await the effect Of the drug. Hogan
nude no effort to get physician and to 4
neighbor who happened to call he said he was
willing his wife should die. Efforts were
made to save the woman's life, but she will
probably die. The Hogans had been married
but two weeks.
At Greenfield, Ind, yesterday Mrs Mar
garet Price, sister of Hon. c. G. Ohutt, at
to npted to kill herself, using butcher knife
and cutting fearful cash in her throat. She
ha, been laboring under deIusion for some
time that she swallowed set of false teeth.
Simon Wade, Joshua Calvin, Sam Jetier-
son and Premus Brown have been convicted
of murder in the Choctaw court at Wilburton,
Ark. and sentenced to he shot to death on
the 18th of July.
The foreign countries that withdrew their
exhibits at the Worlds Fair, on account of
Mr. Thatcher's plan of awards have all come
back to the fold, except France and Denmark
The City National Bank of Greenville,
Mich. was cosedIthis morning by order of
Bank Examiner Caldwell.
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