Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-19
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The farmers in central and northern
Iowa are greatly excited over the APP
pearance of worm about an inch in
length that is devastating the fields OF
seed timothy.
The bark Alice Reed, from Cienfue-
Cos, arrived at the Delaware Breakwa-
ter last night, Both mates had yellow
fever on the passage. One died and
was buried at sea.
Steam yacht Oneida, with President
Cleveland on board, left her anchorage
off Jamestown, Il. l., about 7:30 this
morning and proceeded outside, pre-
sumabiy to the eastward and Gray
Gables.
Among the failures to-day were the
State National Bank and the German
National Bank of Denver, the Citizens
National Bank Of Armourdale, Kansas,
and the Bozeman National Bank of
Bozeman, Montana.
A dispatch from Tonawanda, n. y,
says that Mrs. Conrad Veilham has
fallen heir to about 100000. 1t
seems that by the death of an uncle in
India fortune of $50, 900 was left
to be divided between five heirs.
TIE residence of John Ulrich at North
Paramount, o., was destroyed by fire
this morning by the explosion Of gas
oline stove. Mr.. Ulrich was fatally
burned, while his wife and tive-yeal
old child were seriously injured.
Rev. Edwin Benjamin Russell, the
well-known rector of the American
Chapel in Florence, Italy, has abandon
ed the Protestant Episcopal Church
and has been received in the Roman
Catholic Church by Archbishop Corri-
gan.
Charles Eckman who was working
on a boiler of the electric street railway
at Omaha yesterday, started to crawl
inside the boiler, when his assistant
heard him scream. He found Eckman
in the manhole, with his legs hanging
ounside. Several men attempted to
extricate the body, but received severe
shocks. The body was burned to a
crisp by the time the machinery was
stopped.
Judge Jenkins, of Milwaukee, Wis,
will not resign from the bench of the
United States Circuit Court in conse-
quence of his indictment by the grand
jury as a director of the Plankinton
Bank. He has reached this decision
since conference with Chief Justice
Fuller of the United States Supreme
Court and his Circuit Court conferees.
The chief justice will personally lay
Judge Jenkins case before President
Cleveland.
A horrible story of outrage reached Alton,
H. yesterday afternoon. The crime hap
pened on the Missouri shore opposite Alton.
The victim il the wife of fisherman and
during his absence three men came to his
home and choked his wife into insensibility.
The neighborhood have organized q lynching
party.
Lopez Mumaugh, worthless and dissolu;e
cigar maker, shot and killed his divorced
wifes sister, Miss Mary Winch, and then kill
ell himself at Indianapolis Ind, last evening.
Mumaugh has always been cruel to his family
and his wife secured divorce last fall.
The excursion tain carrying tie Sunday
Schools of Bethany and Bethlehem Churches
of Buffalo was wrecked at East Aurora la /
night. One man was fatally injured and
twenty others, old and young, more or less
hurt.
The remains of Anthony ]. Drexel were
consigned to the tomb at Philadelphia this
morning with services az transformations as
was the life of the great banker and phlan-
thropist.
The Mobile Regisie, Company has assigned.
A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE-Having
"A qualified as administrator of DANIEL
deceased, all persons having
claims against the estate are hereby. notified
TO present the same, duly authenticated 70
me, and all persons indebted to said estate are
required to make immediate settlement.