Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-11
TELEGRAPHIC BRETITJPS

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unearthed large vein of copper ore
The Diamond Match factory 3,
Frankfort, n. Y, has closed down
throwing out of employment 80 hand,
Twelve new cases yellow fever wers
reported at Brunswick, Ga, to-day
One white and eleven colored. One
death.
The largest grain elevator in TIE
world, having capacity of 45, 200 bush.
sis al hour, was completed at Buffalo
to day.
Five OF the largest iron mines on the
Lake Superior ranges have resumed
operations since the repeal OF the silye.
purchase law.
Evans, the rape fend, was found
guilty at Bardstown, Ky, to-day, al d
his punishment fixed ut death BY lie
jary. The mob was satisfied and i'm.
mediately dispersed.
AT a general meeting of all the disaf.
fected miners in the Broad Top region.
near Huntingdon, Pa, yesterday, it
was decided to accept the reduction
from so to 10 cents per ton and declare
the strike off.
The triple screw cruiser Columbia
left Cramps shipyard, at Philadelphia,
Pa, on her official trial trip this morn.
ing. AS the weather conditions are
favorable the vessel will probably pro-
coed direct to Boston.
The bark Itenus, which sailed from
Pisagua for New York last April has
been given up for lost. Her crew was
composed of foreign sailors. Capt.
Slower and his wife, who belonged in
Millbridge, Me-, were on board.
Theophile Wenton Welcome, other
wise known as Thomas Welcome, TO-
day married the widow of Patrick Kel-
liner at Greenfield, Mass. The brides
last husband was buried Thursday. The
bride is only 26, but has been married
three times, az has also the groom.
Perry Collins, of Washington, D. c.,
and j. Salmon, of New York, were
found dead in the St. James Hotel at
St. Louis this morning. Both men were
representatives of the Old Dominion
Cigarette Company. 1t is supposed
their deaths were due to asphyxiation.
A masked man entered the Nayaia
saloon, at Tacoma, Washn., last night,
passed through to the gambling room,
and pulling gun on the only dealer
present, ordered him to hold up his
hands. The robber then scooped up
the gold, amounting to 81, 100, and fled.
Yesterday afternoon Anoka, Mimi,
was visited by the most disastrous fire
which has occurred there since the big
blaze of 1884. AT l:30 o'clock fire was
discovered in the lumber yards of Pang
Bros, and this morning all that re-
mains of millions of feet of lumber is
amouldering ashes.
Sidney Wilkinson, the notorious Bal
timore morphine fend, whose name
and career are familiar to newspaper
readers from one end of the country to
the other, has been arrested in New
York and locked up in the Tombs
upon charge of forging the name
of his father to a number of small
9 ecks.
The grammar school at San Francis
co containing seven hundred children
was discovered to be on fire yesterday
afternoon. The children marched out
in an orderly manner, and there was
no panic. A l4-year-old pupil confess
cd that he had lighted the fire in the
garnet just to see how the pupils would
get out OF the school in case OF real
fire.
The greatest anxiety prevails it
Philadelphia shipping circles regard
ng the whereabouts of two vessels
whose loss would entail the sacrifice OF
wenty-siX lives. They are the Phila-
lelphia schooner Genevieve, Capt.
has. Haley, from that port October 7
or Charleston, and the Austrian bark
4jubay r., Captain Ranich, from Eu-
ME, Austria, April 10, for Philadel
'hia. Both are long overdue.
Further reports from Cortez, Col,
tate that over so Navajoes have been
lunting and slaughtering game and the
ettlers tried to drive them back to their
but did not succeed. They
hen sent for the sheriff, which started
he rumor of an outbreak. The Indians
ave gone back, protesting that hunger
them to leave their reserya
ion. Great depredations among the
livestock of the settlers is reported, due
o these hungry Indians.
A sharp controversy is going on be-
ween Governor Carr, of North Carolina,
nd officers of the Fayetteville, n. c.,
Light Infantry, growing
ut of an order issued some time ago
ropping the Fayetteville company
rom the State Guard because of its fail.