Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

lie largest maui OF counterleltcrS
ever made in West Virginia was made
yesterday. Two of the men were ar
rested in Parkers5rrg and three men
and one woman at Bellevile.
Matte Clark, a negro woman, COM
m:tted suicide at Tyler, Tex, yesterday,
by saturaling her clothing with kero-
s.ne, applying match and roasting
herself to death
1t is thought by many that the bill
recently introduced in the legislature
ut Spring field to open the Illinois ex
hibit TO tic public on Sunday, will, if
successful, result in the opening of the
Worlds Fair on that day.
Yielding to urgent pressure on the
part of his colleagues, NJ. Bourgeois
will re-assumc the Office of Minister of
Justice of France, which he resigned
in order to answer to the charges made
by Madame Cottu, and which he re-
garded as reflection upon him.
Charley Mitchell and Jim Hall left
New Orleans last night for st. Louis.
From there they will proceed direct to
New York, and propose to seek an in
terview with Corbett or his representa-
tive ard arrange the matter of the bat
tie ground. AS soon as that is done the
pugilists will sail for England.
NJ. J. O'Brien of Chattanooga, Tenn,
formerly treasurer of the Catholic
Knights of America, and who de-
faulted in the sum of $4,000 of the
funds of the order met the supreme Of
licers of the organization at Toledo, o.,
yesterday, and submitted a proposition
with a view to making settlement.
Ruiz Sandoval, who was en- route to
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, was captured
by detachment of forces under Gen.
Vasquez, recently, and was taken 4 pri-
soner to Amapala. On arriving there
ajudgmcnt of repatriation was decrcod
and he was ordered to leave Honduras
Immediately,
The fast passenger train on the
Georgia Central railroad jumped the
track eight miles south of Forsythe,
Ca, last evening. The engine and 5
coaches were almost completely de-
molishcd, but, though the train was
running at high rate of speed, no
body was killed. The accident was
caused by n broken axle.
Fire III the Borden block in Chicago
at 3:l5 o'clock this morning caused
loss of $4,000 and created great eX
element for time. The third floor
the building is occupied by agents for
various powder companies, and there
was quantity of explosives in the Of
fees. Three fremen went into the
blazing building and removed the dan
gerous stuff while the chemical engines
played upon their clothing. An cxplc-
: sion was thus aycrted.
Elias Lorring, the Indian who was
t. be shot at Caddo, Idaho, last Fri
day, and who was granted new trial
ut the last moment has bolted He
was on parole and is the second Chloe
taw on record who fed his fate. \
revision of the law will probably re-
suit. II is stated that no effort will
be made TO catch him any more than
there was to catch murderer Jackson
Fletcher who escaped in 1891 and is
now farming ten miles from his former
prison.
Lightning struck the Stonngton line
steamer New Hampshire on her tip
from New York TO S;onington last
night. 4 ball Of fire seemed to burst
over the stairway in the main saloon,
with report rs if dynamite bomb
had struck the upper deck. Fourteen
of the saloon windows were blown to
pieces and glass in other parts of the
boat was shattered. A bunch of cleo
trio lights suspended on the rear deck
was demolished and the sheathing
around the deck covering was torn of
and scattered about the deck. The
passengers were greatly frightened and
many who had retired rushed from
their state rooms in their night clothes.
The damage is slight.
Recorder smyth again disappointed every
body in New York this morning by failing To
announce his eagerly expected decision in tie
Carlyle Harris case. Whether Harris is to
have new trial for the murder of his wife,
OF which he has been convicted, rests absolute
" with the Recorder.
The steamship Empress eff India. which ar
rived at Victoria, P. C.. from Yokahoma yes
t.r' ay, brings adyic,s that there was la-le
fire in olio on the last Sunday i'll February
which destroyed $50 houses. No lives were
lost
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