Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

lQOS. WALSH, picSIuCuo Va '
versity of Notra Dame, South Bend,
Ind, died there to-day.
The President left Gray Gables to-
day for cruise. 1t is possible he may
be bound for New York.
Fannie Post, an attractive young
lady of Schuyler, Neb., is thought to
be held prisoner by tramps on an
island in the Platte river.
Two persons were killed and four Sc
riously injured last night by the pre-
mature explosion of fireworks bomb
at an Italian picnic near Chicago.
Frank Beebe, a son of ]. Arthur
Beebe, member of the Boston family of
millionaires, was drowned in Buzzards
Bay last night by the capsizing OF his
boat.
A disease over which the doctors are
in dispute, has ragged with considerable
violence in Anaconda, Mont, for the
last ten weeks. 1t is alternately called
black measels and black smallpox.
Admiral Wadenkolk is prisoner
and is now on his way to Rio Janeiro
under heavy guard. He has been
declared to be traitor and will no
doubt be executed without much
ceremony.
Anna Witkower, who was until last
Sunday chambermaid at the Palmer
House in Chicago, is baroness Sohlbern,
wife of of a millionaire Austrian noble
man. The couple were married on
Saturday.
A posse has been searching since Sat
urday night in and around Briertield,
Ala, for negro who, it is reported,
shot and killed two women. The be-
lief is general that the negro was last
night captured and lynched.
William Baxter, of Holden, Mass,
was found murdered in a COW pasture
yesterday afternoon. The skull was
fractured in two places. A Ratchet
was found near the body and long
handled axe was at the side of the
dead man.
Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, is pre-
pairing, according to statement made
by friend, an exhaustive review of the
anarchist case which will be genuine
''roast" for those who secured their
conviction. He will reafiirm that the
men were bribed by prejudiced judge
an by jury selected to convict.
John Meyers escaped from the State hos
pital for the insane in Utica, n. V, this morn
ing and proceeding to his wife's home, muir
derously assaulted her with club. Her
screams attracted the attention Of q neighbor
who brayely tackled Meyers and the wife es-
capped Meyers then rushed back into the
house and cut his throat with razor. 1t IS
not believed that the injuries Of either will
prove fatal.
A young girl who was employed as a do
nestle at boarding house and George B.
Frame, border ut the same place, were struck
by train on the Rome Watertown and Og-
densburg railroad while they were attempting
to cross railroad bridge on the outskirts of
Watertown, n. Y, last night The girls body
was mangled horribly and the mans skull was
crushed. Both died Immediately.
The fve-mile road race of the Calumet
Cycling Club at Chicago Saturday afternoon
resulted in breaking the American road re-
cord for the distance. A. L. Leouhardt did
the trick in 1890, beating the former record
by eight seconds.
The Peoples Savings, the Rocky Mountain
Dime and Dollar and the Colorado Savings
Banks at Denver, failed to open their doors
for business this morning.
The Bank of Grand Avenue and the Mis-
souri, National Bank at Kansas City suspended
to-day.
The Duplex Company of New York assign
ed to-day.