Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES


end and everything is quiet.
The Enfanta Eulalie arrived in Chi.
cago to-day and received hearty wei.
come.
Fire just before daylight this morn,
ing destroyed the Schelp wagon and
carriage factory in st. Louis; loss $40.
OGO.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered
at the scene of the mine disaster that
occurred near Fuente, Tex, yesterday
morning.
The three caravels, towed by a tug.
passed around the Battery into East
river at 1920 to-day on their way from
New York to Chicago.
a damaging rain storm visited the
Hinton, w. Va, section yesterday
evening and interrupted railroad traffic
on the Chesapeake and Ohio road. Two
trcstles were carried away.
The runs on several of the Chicago
banks continued to-day, and the Illinois
Trust Savings Bank kept open ul2
O'Clock this morning paying depositor,.
The officers of the various banks say
they can stand the runs
Count Zdenko Zinslly denies the
charge that he had driven lis horse
upon trainer ut the Vienna race
course on Sunday. Count Zinshy says
the affair was purely an accident The
trainer confirms the statement of Count
Zinsky.
A runaway occurred at LAYTON,
Mich, last evening, and rs 4 result
Mrs. l.. A. Pagan is already dead,
while her mother, Mrs, Joseph Ellison
and Mrs. Thomas w. Murphy are SUI
fering from injuries from which they
arc not expected to recover
DIR. Stellar Smith, Mr.. Edwin Booths
physician, says it is not thought posi-
BILE that Mr.. Booth can live longer than
midnight tonight and it is extremely
doubtful if he can survive until then.
Already he is practically dead and la,
been since he became unconscious
Miss Minnie Cunningham, a l&-ycar.
old girl, was attacked in a lonely place
on the road near Cooley, Wayne conn.
ty, w. Va, by colorcd man who erin,
inally assaulted her after beating her
into an unconscious state. The people
of the locality are very much excited
over the case and are securing the
woods. Ifcaught he will be lynched.
Two switchmen in the employ Of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis
Railroad yesterday were riding on the
foot board of an engine near Memphis,
Tenn, when the rails spread and the
engine, jumping the track, buried its
front deep into IN embankment. Both
men were caught beneath the engine
and crushed into the earth. Ii reqnlF-
ed hours of toll to recover their re-
mains.
Sapione Martello was electrocutedln
Dannemora prison, New York, at ll:5l
this morning. Martello killed another
Italian named Giovanna ParcIIo on
March ), 1892, in Saratoga. The murder
er stabbed his victim repeatedly and
cut his throat. Jealousy was the cause.
The execution was the first in fifty
years of a person convicted ola capita.
crime in Saratoga county, and the third
in the history of the county.
Mrs. Henry NJ. Field, widow Of the
late Henry NJ. Field, the capitalist
was quietly married to-day to Mr.
Thomas Nelson Page, the author.
The ceremony took place at "Byrd'
Nest" the country home OF Mr.
Thomas B. Byran at Elmhurst, Chica'
go. After a short visit to the groom,
home in Virginia, it is probable that
Mrs. and Mrs. Page will live in Wash
ington.
The fact that there has been trouble ID
New York and some Chicago banks have been
in difficulty, has caused some anxiety To
felt by stockholders and dcpositors in 81
Louis banks.