Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHlC BREFIIlES.
The Clan Mclean wined and toasted
its chief, Sir Fitzroy Donald Mclean,
last night in Chicago.
Work on the break at Magnolia, La,
has been abandoned. The break is ITO
feet wide and ten feet deep.
The Lone Star Iron Co., OF Jeffer-
son, Tex, was yesterday placed in the
hands of the receiver. Liabilities
100000.
"Joe" Bird, Choctow Indian, has
been sentenced to be shot to death at
Wilburton, 1. T., June 80, for the muir
der of his wife.
Frank Cannon, aged IA, stabbed and
fatally wounded his brother Edward
at their home in Covington, o., yester-
day during quarrel.
The Central Wesleyan College at
Warrenton, Mo-, was burned last night
Several persons were injured by falling
timbers while attempting to eXtinsuish
the blaze.
DR.. Gulick, one of the best known
physicians of Scranton, Pa, commit
ted suicide this morning by thrustlng
the muzzle of shot gun into his mouth
and pulling the trigger.
An attempt was made to rob q Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas passenger
train at Moran, Kan, yesterday morn
ing. Two men boarded the engine and
at the point of revolyers ordered the
engineer to stop the train. He told
them that posse was aboard and they
had better escape. They took the adj
vice and left the cab.
The safe crackers who robbed the
two safes at Fayetteville, n. c., We'd
nesday night were pursued by the shel-
iff and deputy, and after an exciting
chase, in which many people joined,
through the pine forests, were captured
this morning at Keyser. The stolen
money, nearly $4,000, was found on
them, and ore of them was shot in the
arm and thigh.
A startling discovery was made to-
day in the affairs of the Central Rail
road & Banking Co., of Georgia. 1t
appears that Henry James & Co., lum-
Der merchants of Baltimore, had offer
ed to sell lumber to the railroad COM
pany at $3.50 per thousand and had
been requested by Hopkins & Schley, OF
Savannah, to bill it at so per thous-
and. The proposition was declined.
Five men met in an encounter with
revolvers on Halstead street near
Adams in Chicago last night. Shots
followed each other in quick success
sion, and when the smoke had cleared
away the police found three wounded
men and took one prisoner. The
shooting grew out of bitter emnity
between Jake" Spinner and Kane on
the one hand and George Wilson,
Jim" Hoolihan and Christensen, all
peddlers, over business affairs.
The Gcucssce, n. Y, Oil Works, limited,
have made a general assignment. The liza
bilitics of the company are about 100000.
The schooner John Holland from Norfolk
for Providence was sunk this morning near
Cape Henry, through a collision with the
steamer Michigan from Baltimore for London
The collision occurred at 4 o'clock. The schoon
err was loaded with coal aud sunk in 20 min
utes. The crew was taken to Norfolk.
It was learned yesterday that there exists
among the 1900 prisoners in the Ohio peni-
Tertiary at Columbus, Il secret organization
formed for murder The warden and two
deputy wardens were marked for slaughter.
John Barnita yesterday placed his neck
across the rail under moving train at Mona
han, Tex, and was killed he was despon-
dent from continued ill-hcalth.
At Pittsburg, Pa. this morning judgments
and executions were filed against the Du-
quesno Tool Works Company for $3.50, 900.
The Kentucky House has settled the State
capitol removal fight by deciding in favor of
Frankfort, the present seat Of government.
The Reading Rolling Mill Company has
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