Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-04
nection with the recent visit of t
Russian naval officers to France.
TELEGRAPHIC BREYlTIES


Snow fell this morning at Canoiaha.
RE, n. Y, and is still falling fast.
Negotiations for the purchase of the
steam yacht Vamoose for the Brazli4p
navy are said to be under way.
A big hind-end collision freight wreck
occurred on the Lehigh Valley Railroad
near Morganville, n. y, this morning
Two firemen and the engineer are re.
ported killed.
A triple lynching occurred near
I.ynchburg, Tenn, last night Ed. Wag-
ner, his son-in-law and daughter, all
negroes, were hanged by other negroes
for barn burning
Winfield Booz, saloon keeper at
Greenpoiut, n. Y, was shot last night
by John Mehlen, Is years of age. He
may die. The shooting took place at
the side entrance of Booz'S saloon. 1t
was, il is alleged, the outcome of the
saloon keepers too great regard for
Mehlen's wife.
The stables attached to the Clifton
race track OF Paterson, n. j., were
burned at an early hour this morning
A number of the track hands were
sleeping in the building at the time,
but all escaped safely except John
Brennan. Nine valuable horses were
burned to death.
A terrible wreck occurred last night
Oh the Ohio Southern Railroad near
st. Paris, Ohio. As gravel train was
returning to Springfield one car Jump
ed the track, pulling several Others
down a thirty-feet embankment. Thir-
ty Italian laborers in a box car were
carried down in the wreck. Two were
killed and eleven injured, some fatally.
Father Sullivan, of st. Columbia's
Church, at Washington and Buchanan
streets, Louisville, was assaulted in his
study last night by Nick Trainor,
worthless crank. Father SuIiyan's
n )se was broken and there was Il long
cut on the back ofhis head. Trainor told
the police that he assaulted the priest
because he had refused to give him
cloak sent him from New York.
julius Weberman, silk weaver liy-
ing in West Hoboken, n. j., became
insane recently, but was not put I'M
der restraint. Last night Weberman
called on Miss Bella Eichmann, OF ,Ier-
sey City Heights, to whom he had
been paying attention, and asked her
to marry him. She said she would not.
Weberman instantly drew a pisto!,
shot himself in the head and fell dead
at the girls feet.
Burglars robbed the house Of S. p.
Wheeler, president of the Illinois Heat
ing Company in willamette, a suburb,
fifteen miles north of Chicago, at two
O'Clock this morning and then set fire
to it. Mrs. Crop member of Mr..
Wheelers family, was caught in the
flames, and burned to death. Mr.
Wheeler on being awakened attacked
The burglars and shot and killed one of
them. The flames were extinguishcd
before the house was burned.
The richest find yet made in FL PasO
county, Col, eclipsing in point of free
g,ld exposed and size of pay streak, all
previous discoveries, has just been
made in the Catherine. The vein was
uncovered at depth of twelve feet
and is fully two feet wide. Pieces Of
quartz weighing four hundred pounds
have been taken from the vein, which
appears fairly plastered and filled with
wires, cubes and nuggets of gold
Many Of the nuggets are much larger
than grains of com. This is at the
rate of $4,000 a ton.
Gen Jose Manuel Hernandez, who was one
of the chief leaders of the revolution in Vene.
znela during tho summer of 1892, was ar.
rested in New York to day on orders of arrest
granted by Judge Cullen, Of the Supreme
Court of Brooklyn, in two actions brought
against him. arising out of his capture of the
city Of Bolivian in August 1892, and the i'm.