Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

ton train at the avenue crossing IN
Chicago this morning and two persons
killed and three injured.
The Rev. w. w. Kone, aged 80 years
died at Denison, Tex, yesterday. lie
was the oldest Baptist minister in the
United States having entered the min
istry at the age of IS.
VIII H. Scoggins, assistant cashier OF
the failed Commercial National bank
at Nashville, Tenn, has been arrested
on the charge of being cognizant of the
operations which caused the wreck OF
the bank.
This is the last day for depositing
Richmond & Danville and Georgia p :
cifc securities with Drexel, Morgan q
Co. Practically all the securities are
deposited. No extension oftimc will be
made and penalties will be exacted at
ter to-day.
During the Central Railroad litiga-
ton at Savannah, Ga, this morning
Justice Jackson intimated that the fact
that the lease of Macon and Northern
was made by competing lines, made no
difference as to the validity of the Cen
trail endorsement on the bonds.
Police Officer Verdon of st. Louis
narrowly escaped lynchiDg last night
by crowd of citizens who were horri-
fed and incensed at his brutal treat
ment of Hugh Mcclure, whom he had
arrested after an argument about re-
ligion. Verdon was crazy drunk.
The Chicago Tribune this morning
has the following: SIT was generally
understood that the imprisoned anar-
chists were to be let go in the event OF
Gov. Altgeld's election. The anar-
chists believed that he was merely an
alien by temperament and sympathles
and they were right"
At conference of the bankers and
the board of trade and transportation
OF Cincinnati last evening on the silver
question. resolutions were adopted
favoring an early session of Congress,
the immediate repeal of the Sherman
bill and the putting in of one hundred
cents ofsiver in silver dollar.
Rector Ahlwardt, the notorious Jew
batter Of the German Reichstag, who
was reelected in two constituency and
who has chosen to sit for the Arnswalde
district, the constituency he represent
e. in the last Reichstag, has again been
convicted of libelling Prussian officials
and sentenced to three months impris-
ment.
This morning at $50 freight train
from Washington for Baltimore, on the
Baltimore & Potomac Railroad, jump
ed the track about miles this side of
the latter place. J. P. Cohen, flag
man, leaped from the train and sus-
tanned fracture of his right leg. He
was brought to Washington and taken
to Emergency Hospital. He thinks he
is the only person injured.
The steamer Falcon which will bear
Lieutenant Peary and his party of eN-
plorers to the Arctic regions, will leave
Philadelphia tonight for New York.
She will remain at the latter port until
Friday and will then start for Green
land. 1t is believed that two l5-year-
old lads have slowed themselves on
board the Falcon in order to accompa-
ny the expedition. The police have
searched the steamer but thus far with
out finding any trace of the supposed
stowaways.
A gang of train robbers were last night
taken by the police almost in the act OF hold
ing up the Missouri Pacific express in the
suburbs of Omaha, at the point where the
same train was hold up few nights ago, ana
where it has been previously halted several
times by highwaymen. One of the men dis.
closed the whole plan with the above result
The Sycamore Hotel at Lake George, n. Y,
wa, destroyed by fire at an early hour this
morning; loss 100000. No one was injur-
ed. There were about one hundred guests at
the house besides the servants.
John Berry, riding his celebrated chestnut
horse Poison" is the winner of the cowboy
race from Chadron, Neb., to Chicago. He
covere 4 tho last $50 miles of the distance in
"a hours.
The trial OF Julia Force for the killing Of
her two sisters last February is now in pro-
grcss at Atlanta, Ga. A verdict of acquittal
on the ground of insanity is expected this
evening.
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