Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREYlTIES.

NAAO'
The Newark, n. j., Athletic Club has
offered a purse of $4,000 for the Cor
bett and Mitchell contest.
Fire at Eureka Springs, Ark, yester-
day destroyed about fifty small build
ings occupied by the poorer classes.
The steamship Tacoma arrived at
Victoria, &. c., yesterday with 3 cases
of smallpox on board among the Chi
nese.
Hanlon has sent q formal challenge
to Petersen, the California sculler.
Hanlon asks that the race take place
on Lake Calumet, Chicago, in July, for
81 900 side.
The sentences of Willard Tom Whit
son, murderers, who were to hang at
Bakcrsvlle, n. c., March 24. have been
committed by Gov. Carr to so years in
the penitentiary.
Captain Bishop, with four troops of
the Fifth Cavalry from Fort Reno, yes
terday received orders to clear the
Cherokee strip of all intruders and left
last evening with his command for the
scene.
In st. Louis last night Harland Muir
ray, after dispute with his wife at
tempted to shoot her. The bullet in
stead struck and killed his 65-year-old
mother, who attempted TO shield her
daughter-in-law.
A conference of ministers and prohi-
bitionists interested in the formation Of
new national political organization
was begun in Lafayette Hall, in Pitts
burg, the birthplace of the republican
party, this morning.
The officers of the law intend to pro-
tect at all hazards the men accused of
the murders at Deland, Fla. In the
adjacent towns the military companies
are sleeping on their arms, and special
trains were waiting to speed them at Il
moments notice.
VIM. ]. Seaman, the well-known
Irish comedian, who is now all inmate
of the Bloomingdale insane asylum in
New York, is suffering from paresis
and will not live more than week.
He laughs and weeps all the time and
it has required several men to look az
ter him for the past week.
Turn Hall, in Paterson, n. j., was
totally destroyed by fire early this
morning Seven frcmen were injured,
and it is believed that two of them will
die. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
An cx-policeman named Krine Over
heck, died from injuries received by
falling from an alarm wagon while ell
route to the fire.
Andrew Johnson, Swedc, cnroute
from Chicago to New York with his
family, is missing, and it is believed he
was robbed and murdered. He had
81 500 in his possession and was last
seen on the train near Massillon, Ohio,
with four strangers, thought to be Chi
cago gamblers. His fur cape, stain"d
with blood, was picked UP ".or AJossi,.
lon yesterday.
The '"-.eral services over the body
of Alice Leonide Cozzens, the suicide,
took place thia morning at 240 West
lG0;h street, New York, and were
conducted with great secrecy. Coro-
nor Messmer when asked if there were
any new developments in the Cozzens
case, said that he had been informed
on excellent authority that rcputa-
bic elderly woman had declared that
Miss Cozzens was secretly married, but
she would make no positive statement
or reveal her name or address until she
had made sure Of the identity of the
suicide.
a professor of the Imperial Univer-
sity of Japan says in lecture on the
collision between education and re-
iigion," that all emperors are reverred
rs divine in the Shinto Creed and that
the japanese nationality rests on this
creed. There is an attempt being
made on all sides to settle the problem
ofrelision and its polito-serial bearings.
Buddhism shows an energetic revival
of activity. The conflict between
Christians and their antagonists arises
from the revived nationalism of the
japanese people which has been gather
ing strength for tho past five years.
Recorder Smythe, in New York, to-
day denied Carlyle Harris new trial.
The decision concludes: IA careful
examination of all the facts and cir
cumstances established upon the trial
of this cause, as we'll as of the addition
al facts which have been presented
upon this motion by way of newly dis
covered evidence, leads me to the con-
clusion that if the defendant had pre-
duced the so-called newly discovered
evidence or so much of suoh evidence
as could be legally admitted upon the
trial, it would not have changed the
! verdict that was rendered against him.