Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

At noon today the town of Elizabeth
town, Ky, was in flames and the entire
business portion was threatened with
destruction.
John T. Davis, wholesale dry goods
merchant, died at his home, in St.
Louis, today He was % years Of age
and leaves property to the value of
twenty million dollars.
AtOmaha, Neb., to-day Judge Dundy
ordered the wages OF the unorganized
employees of the Union Paci lic restored
to the basis which ruled before the re-
duction recently inaugurated by the
receivers.
None of the many New York fishing
vessels that were off the coast in the
severe storm OF Wednesday have yet
arrived in port. Some little anxiety is
felt for their safety in the absence Of all
news of them.
Rev. Mr.. Avery, former pastor of the
Methodist church at Fort Dodge, Ia,
is on trial charged by young lady Of
the congregation with carressing, kiss
ing and finally insulting her. Other
testimony is startling. Mr.. Avery has
left the city.
The strikers in the Pennsylvania
coke region are still giving trouble;
driving out men who are at work, &c.
The report that q call for troops had
been made from the coke region is de-
MED. Many OF the men in the Con-
nelsville region returned to work this
morning. The operators believe the
end is near.
Three burglars after blowing open
h. safe of the Irvington \. j., post
office with dynamite early yesterday
morning, were pursued by tax collector
Osborn, who shot and wounded one of
them, after duel in which bullets and
bird shot flew thick and fast, and after
a chase of several miles. The men
finally escaped.
B. \. Edmonson, a prominent citizen
of Brooks county, Ga, killed his neph-
ew, Yates Edmonson last evening. The
uncle was in q field and heard his wife
scream. Rushing 10 the house he
found his nephew had made an assault
upon her. Yates dashed to the front
door but was shot down in his tracks.
The coroner's jury rendered a verdict Of
justiiiable homicide.
Mr.. T. R. Post, a prominent operator in the
New York wheat ring at the Produce Ex
change, failed to-day. The announcement Of
the failure was followed by sharp rise in
VIII at, led by theIWest, where. it was stated,
some short wheat was being covered
Jack Redling and David Harper, owners Or
the celebrated Dos Cabazos nine, in O'd
Mexico became involved in quarrel yesterday
and shot and killed each other. These make
five deaths of owners of the property. Only
onc owner survives.
David Dudley Field the we'll known law
ger, died at his home in New York suddenly
this morning from pneumonia. He was
brother of Justice Field and of the late Cyrus
". Field. and leaves an estate valued at o,e
100000.
gMaj Brewer, of the Salvation Army, an
nounced at the Peoples Church, in Boston.
last night that Mrs. Darlington Booth is i'll in
New York with serious throat trouble and
that her condition is growing steadily worse
The steamer Lucania, from New York ar.
rived at Queenstown this morning The time
Of her passage was FIVE days, thirteen hours
and forty minutes.
Tammany Hall, Springfield, o. demo
cratic organization, passed resolution lsst
evening to turn Senator David B. Hills pic
.ure to the wall.
A dispatch from Montevideo announces the
Heath from heart disease on board the Z. S.
cruiser Yantic, OF Ensign ". A. Snow. il.
The recent storm is reported to have
swept away the fish nets along the Po-
.omac and Rappahanncck rivers, and