Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


1t is daily coming more obvious that
serious political troubles are brewing in
Peru.
1t is said that French encroachments
will precipitate the establishment of a
British protectorate over Siam.
Calvin Curtis, the artist, died this
morning in his native place, Stanford,
Conn. He had been an invalid for 80
years.
The body of Associate Justice Samuel
Blatchford, of the U. S. Supreme Court,
was laid away in the family vault at
Greenwood cemetery, New York, at
noon to-day.
The United States dispatch steamer
Dolphin, at the Brooklyn navy yard,
is under orders to convey Secretary of
the Navy Herbert on tour of inspec-
ton of all the naval stations on the
Atlantic coast.
Archibald Livingston, the son of q
wealthy bridge contractor residing in
Sidney, Australia, who arrived here a
few days ago, after a tour of England,
was drowned while bathing in the Del
aware river yesterday afternoon.
The wholesale case of poisoning at
Mansfield, o., by the eating of cheese
is much worse than at first supposed.
Nearly every person in twenty-five
families who ate of the cheese is now
affected and for twelve persons there
is very slight hope of recovery.
Bardwell, KY, is well armed now
and will give a hot reception to any
mob that will come. The negro arrest
ed at Milan has proved that he was at
Fulton the day of the Ray murder, and
has been released. The matter of Mil
ler's guilt has been conclusively estab.
lished.
At Kansas City, Mo-, yesterday an
undertaken, who was preparing the re-
mains of Joseph Elder for burial, found
that the man had bled to night. An ex-
animation showed that Elder had been
shockingly mutilated in a nameless
manner. Mrs. Elder and son by a
former husband are held for the
murder.
The iron and steel wage scales were
signed last evening by Jones and
Laughlins' mill, the largest in Pitts
burg, employing about 1000 men. The
works will be put in operation early
next week. The workmen conceded a
reduction of from s to Is per cent,
while the firm wanted cut of from 10
to 20 per cent.
Lewis ]. Frank, a tiremen, died to-
day from injuries received i'll the fire
in Chicago on Monday. Half q dozen
persons are still missing. 1t is believed
more bodies are under the ruins. Search
is still being made. The cold-storage
building is said to have been on fife
in the same place several times previous
to Monday.
The sensation in regard to the failure
of Thornton's Bank at Shclbyyille, ILL.,,
has been heightened by the failure OF
the Starr mills for nearly $4,000. The
bank has long carried the mill, and
among the liabilities of the latter is
about $4,000 due Thornton & Son
The promised statement of the bank
is not yet ready.
While Mrs. Heenan Howard and hel
mother, Mrs. Fitzgerald, ofWarsaw, n
V. were returning from funeral yes
terday afternoon, the horses attached
to the carriage in which they were rid
ing ran off, throwing the two ladies out,
and fatally injuring Mrs. Howard, who
was thrown forward, her head coming
in contact with a projecting iron rod
which penetrated her skull four or five
inches, and remained suspended until
assistance came and removed her.
Among the failures announced to-day were
the Bank of Commerce, of Springfield. Mo. /;
C. NJ. Barnes, stationer Chicago, for S113,-
600; w. B. Moore, stock broker, New York,
and IT. II. Boyer, stock broker, New York.
All the directors of the Plakington Bank,
Milwaukee, Wis, have been indicted under tie
law of the State defining the responsibility Of
bank directors.
The President decided not to accompany
Mr.. Joe Jefferson on fishing trip from Buzz
yards Bay. Mass, to Peters Pont, in Sandwich
this morning