Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-18
TELEGRAPUIC BREYITIES.

Frank {. Amy, the murderer o.
Christie Warden at Rutland, Vt, has
confessed to his lawyer that he is Geo
II. Abbott, the desperate.
The threatened strike on the Union
Pacific Railroad did not take place yes
terday and it is now doubtful whether
the men will 60 out at all.
Thomas NJ Barr & Company, coffee
brokers, of New York, failed to-day
The failure has caused general demon
alization in the coffee business:
Charles B. Williams, managing editor
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer was
found dead in his Office this morning.
Apoplexy is supposed to have been the
cause of his death.
Two tramps taken to Dubuque
from Greeley, Iowa, this morning, are
believed to be the murderers of officers
Firth and Talcott, who were shot by
tramps last Friday morning.
The coal barge Meredito in tew
parted her hawser on Friday morning
last off Five Fathom Lightship near
Delaware Breakwater and has not been
seen since. She had crew Of five men.
A temporary peace is about to be es-
established in the Choctaw Nation.
Locke is at Antlers under the protec-
ton of the United States soldiers and
some of his men started home yester-
day.
Miss Mollie Nealson, the young
woman faster, last night completed her
fast of thirty-one days at Pittsburg,
thereby winning 81 100. She weighed
POP pounds at the beginning and l64 at
the end.
Since the failure of the Irwin Manu-
featuring Company, at Louisville, a
few days ago, the fact has been reveal
ed that several Louisville banks have
been made again the victims of the
forgeries.
The boiler of a saw mill near Brooke,
Ohio, exploded yesterday. The mill
and machinery were blown to pieces,
and number of the employees were
badly injured, two of them being in
stantly killed.
A destructive hail, wind and rain
storm passed through northern Indiana
yesterday morning, cleaning strip
about two hundred yards wide entirely
across the country. The town of GRAY
elton was completely wrecked.
The five gangway men who were I'M
prisonment in Crystal Ridge Colliery,
Pa, yesterday by the mine taking fire
were safely taken out yesterday after
noon through an adjoining mine. The
burning mine will now be flooded.
Charles A. Pillsbury, the millionaire
miller of Minneapolis, who it was re
ported had lost heavily in the late
wheat deal, is in New York, and says
"Ncither myself nor any company
represent lost one dollar in the wheat
deal in Chicago"
In Cincinnati the announcement is
made of an immense iron and steeI
combine that includes thirteen of the
most extensive companies in Ohio and
Pennsylvania. They are organized I'M
der one management, with capital
stock of S12,OOO,00O, and Cincinnati is
to be distributing point.
A terrific explosion of nitro glycerine
occurred about noon at the High Elk.
plosive Company's magazine, two miles
from Lima, Ohio. One mans head was
torn of, and another fatally injured
The cause of the explosion was run Of
glycerine, caught fire from the friction
and before the men could run, it went
of.
The revolutionists in Spanish Hondu,
ras have captured the Bay islands, IT'LL
la and Ruatan. Last week about three
hundred men left the port of Ceiba
under the command of nephew OF
General Policarpo Bonilla, and sailed
for Utilla. Here they captured the
government buildings, and started for
Ruatan, which place they took without
trouble.
Much anxiety is felt in seafaring cir
cles over the non-arrival at Phlladel-
phia of the British steamship Castle
gate, which is now two weeks overdue,
and it is feared that she, with crew
numbering twenty-three men and a
cargo valued at 100000, has suffered a
fate similar to that Of the Naronic. The
Castlegate left Dantzic March with a
full cargo of sugar.
During last night burglars entered
the store of George NJ. Wilkinson, the
leading ieweler of Mansfield, o., and
completely Quilted it. They cracked
the safe and secured its contents, con-
sisting of over $50 gold watches, 4
large quantity of diamonds and other
valuable jewelry together with a con-
siderable amount of money. The to-
tai loss is estimated at over s., 900.
William George Robert, Earl of Cra-
ven, and Miss Carnelia Martin, only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley Mar