Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES

and large number OF passengers in.
jured though none fatally.
Judge John D. Brien, LAWYER Of
Nashville, Tenn, was stabbed and
badly wounded yesterday afternoon bv
A. W. Griswell, in the heat ola debate
during which harsh language was used
One of the trustees of the BROOKLYN
Tabernacle said last evening that the
$4,000 necessary to pay part of the
floating debt of the institution had been
raised and that DIR. Talmage will re.
main in Brooklyn.
William B. Gambrill, we'll. known
cotton dealer, and for many wear,
superintendent OF the Druid Cotton
Duck Mills, fell dead on the street, in
Baltimore, this morning. Heart dis.
ease was the cause.
Ogallala, Neb., is entirely surround.
ed with prairie fire, and every citizen il
out fighting the flames. The whole
country, for distance of 20 miles, is
b!ackened waste. The damage to
houses, outbuildings and crops is very
great.
Governor Flower, of New York, 10.
day committed the sentence pronounced
against Michael T. Sliney, the murder.
cr, to Imprisonment for life. Sliney
was convicted in New York city for
the murder of Bob" Lyons, a butcher
The condemned man is insane.
G. l.. Jones and j. E. Jones, editors
of the Shell Lake, Wis, WMchman,
were soundly thrashed last night in a
public caucus and before five hundred
people by Dr. VIM. Beck, young ply
sician, for numerous alleged ISLANDERS
published by the Joneses.
G. A. Howard. cashier of the Smith
county, Tenn, Bank and Trust Com
pany, has gone to Washington in re-
spouse to a telegram from Senator IIar-
ris. 1t is understood that Dir. Howard
has been rendered the place of third
assistant postmaster general.
A miners lamp caused an explosion
in the Nelson shaft, near Shamokin,
Pa, at 7 o'clock this morning. Many
miners escaped, but twelve or fifteen
are still in the mine, with poor pros
poets of escape. Ten bodies have been
recovered. A number of mules will
perish from sullocation.
Thirteen houses were destroyed by
fire at Walnut Ridge, Ark, last night.
The Star hotel and several business
houses were burned. A man and .
child persisted in the hotel. Another
man was probably fatally injured and
two others sustained broken limbs by
jumping from the windows.
Edmund Mahon, of the" Country Cir
Gus" company, playing in Nashville.
Tenn, was fearfully cut in the throat
last night by Arthur Stanton, son of q
hotel keeper. Mahon, who was under
the influence of liquor, had raised a
row with Il waiter when Stanton in
terfercd with the above result.
The steamer Newport from Colon,
which arrived at New York to-day,
brought as passengers eighteen Boliv-
ian Indians for the Worlds fair at Chi
clgo. These are the first of their
kind who have visited the United
States. Among the Indians is one Of
the largest men in the world He is 8
feet 10 inches in height, is 25 years of
age and weighs AS pounds. He is
married and has seven children.
The Cleveland, Ohio, saw mill and
lumber works was burned this morn
ing about three o'clock. Loss $4,000.
The wind carried sparks to Nathan
Beernstein's barn, and IA horses were
burned to death. The flames then
spread to an adjoining tenement owned
by Bernstein. Three persons were
taken from the upper story by the fire
men in an unconscious condition. They
soon recovered and were uninjured.
The safe in the Union Passenger Sta
ton of the Baltimore and Ohio and
Chesapeake and Ohio railroads at Lex
ington, Va, was cracked last night by
unskilled workmen and robbed of near
ly $500. The safe was rolled out Of the
building on the rear platform under the
glare of an arc light and the door
smashed off with crude tools. Two
negroes, natives, have been arrested at
Buena Vista and it is reported they had
the money on them.
Mrs. Edith Himmelbright, who yes
terday appea ed to the Indianapolis po-
lice for protection against Chas. Marc
kus, with whom she eloped from Cam
den, N. j., and who represented her
self to be the wife of a prosperous Phil
adelphia merchant, is the wife of Thos.
Himmelbright, of Camden, an engineer
in print works. Marckus was fire.
man in the same works and boarded
with the Himmelbright's. Mr.. Him
says his wife had written to
him since she eloped and begged him
to take her back. He had promised to