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

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The Spanish caravals reached chica-
go to-day. ..,s
The Cherokee commission has failed
to make a treaty with the Ponca ln-
dams and their reservation will not DC
opened at the strip.
The fast mail train on the Lake
Shore R. R. ran from Buffalo to Erie'
IS miles, in l hour and As minutes.
One stop for water was made.
A special agent of the Treasury De-
partment yesterday, at Philadelphia
seized nearly 1900 pounds of tobacco
which had fraudulently passed by the
custom house at Ogdensburg, n. Y.
A Young man with an iron bar in one
hand and brick in another stepped
quickly up to the window of Benedict,s
iewelry store in New York this moru-
ing. He smashed in the plate glass
window and grabbed handful OF
watches, but was at once arrested.
The Iron Trade Reriew this week
saws: ''In the interval of mill repairs
and scale negotiations, of mine shut
downs and, to some extent of additional
furnace curtailment, their is so little
buying and selling that the iron mar
ket scarcely exists outside Of quota
TONS"
The yacht Juanita, while cruising
in Gravesend Bay, Long Island, yester-
day evening ran afoul of a sloop yacht
floating bottom upward. A search OF
the cabin was made, but no bodies were
found, but there was in the cabin
wearing apparel and enough fishing
tackle for dozen persons.
The Worlds Fair 'hyer" on the big
Four" while speeding at 50 miles an
hour, struck split switch at Fairfield.
Ind, yesterday and the chair coach and
sleeper were derailed. While there
were none who escaped severe bruises,
it was found that no bones were broken
and no one had sustained fatal hurts.
David Lavender, the wealthy farmer
who Tuesday evening in the suburbs
of Chattanooga murdered R. H. Reed,
was arrested yesterday. He acknowl-
edged his crime and the coroner's jury
found him guilty, duplicating Jas. r.
win as an accessory A later dispatch
saws that Irwin was shot and killed
yesterday by Reeds brother near their
home in north Georgia.
The cannon ball train from Long
view due at Palestine, Texas, at nine
o'clock last night was held up and rob-
bed two miles from Neches. A
man secreted on the baggage car crawl
ed over the tender and commanded the
engineer to stop the train, pointing a
pistol at him at the same time. When
the train was stopped three men went
to the baggage car and covered the ex-
press messenger and baggage mas
ter with pistols and commanded them
to open the safe. The only booty Sc
cured was some local express money,
not over the amount of $500.
Among the arrivals at Victoria, B. c., By
the steamer Empress of China is John Bale,
director of the imperial experimental station
of agriculture at Gacz, Austria He has dis
covered the cause of q serious par't disease-r
among silk worms--apd 49," going to work
out cure
A dispatch from Newport, r. l., says the
last 81 hours have developed little change in
the condition of Justice Blatchford. He still
continues to grow weaker and is likely to
drop off at any moment.
Captain George White Remick, who served
on the Kearsarge during her engagement with
the Alabama, died at Newburyport, Mass.
to day aged ~ years.