Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The report that Chinese troops ale
creating a reign of terror in Corea is
officially denied.
James II. Eckels, Comptroller of the
Currency to day delivered speach at
the State Association of Michigan at
Bay City.
Bernard Toker and his wife were
murdered last night by Is year old
Frank Morris, at Rich Hill, Pa. Rob
berry was the object.
A dispatch from Rome denies the re-
port that signor Crispi has gone to Can
ossa. 1t is asserted that the Pope eau
not recognize King Humbert as SOW
ereign in Rome.
Mrs. Rogers, sister of the late Gen.
John A. Logan, took morphine at Muir
physburg, ILL.,, yesterday with suicidal
intent. 1t is thought her life will be
s.ved.
1t is again reported that the noted
B Ii Dalton, who was reported killed at
Purcell, Okla, some time ago, is not
dead, but is living a quiet life in dis
tlnt State.
Messrs. Kurth and Deterling, repub-
iican members of the New York Legis
lature, have instituted suit for 100000
damages against the editor of the AL
bany Argus for libel in charging them
with bribery in voting to seat five re-
publican delegates from Brooklyn.
The depot, postoffice, general store
aud sawmill of Wunderlich Brothers,
with several million feet of lumber, two
hundred cords of tan bark and several
thousand cords of wood was consumed
by fire yesterday afternoon at Elmhurst,
Wis. Trains are unable to pass as the
roadbed for half mile is destroyed.
An attempt to wreck New Jersey
Central railroad train was made about 6
o'clock last evening at the Chapel ave-
nue. crossing in the Greenville section
of Jersey City. Laborers on hand caF
which was derailed found two large
stones wedged between rails and cross
ing. They removed the distractions
just as a crowded local train passed by
at rapid rate of speed.
Chas. Garrett, aged Is, just released
from the Eastern penitentiary, where
he served three years, arrived at Le-
banon, Pa, at midnight last night, and
this morning went to the residence of
his wife. The wife fearing him ran
from the house and Garrett followed,
catching her in the yard of a neighbor.
Selling her by the hair ne bore her to
the ground and whipping out razor
drew it across her throat from ear to
ear. She staggered few feet, when
she fell in bloody pool aud expired.
Garrett escaped.
Clarence, the ten-year-old son of Fer
dinand Ward, of Grant & Ward fame,
living with his uncle, Fred. D. Greed,
at Thompson, was kidnapped at 8
o'clock this morning in a public street
of Putnam, Conn.,, while on his way to
school, by two men in carriage, the
boy screaming Justify. Ward has tried
several times TO obtain peaceful posses
sion of the child. The Ward boy comes
into possession of q trust fund of $780,
600 when of age, which sum was left
him by his mother.
After one of the most heated contests
in the history of the order Col. Thos.
G. Lawler, of Rockford, ILL.,, was this
afternoon at Pittsburg elected COM
mander.in-chief of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, defeating his only oppon-
ent, Col. Ivan N. Walker, of Indian
apolis, by majority of eleven in vote
of649. Lawler was born in England.
Major a. P. Burchfleld, of Pittsburg,
was elected vice commander and
Charles 81. Shupe, of New Orleans,
junior vice commander.
All interest in the democratic State
convention, which will be held at
Columbus, Ohio, next Tuesday and
Wednesday, centers in the proposed
resolutions censuriEg Senator Brice for
failure to support the administration on
the tariff bill. The Senator's friends
are now making the prediction
that if any resolutions censuring Mr..
Brice are adopted, he will promptly
resign his seat in the Senate. Of course
this would lose the democrats one vote
in the Senate, as his successor would be
a republican.
About 400 sugar and rice planters
and orange growers of the first Louis
lana congressional district met at the
Plaquemine parish courthouse at Pointe
La Hache yesterday. All were former
democrats. a. NJ. Henoshan, ex.U. S.
naval officer at New Orleans under
Cleveland, presided. Speeches were
made by seyeral sugar planters who
advocated acting with the republicans,
while ex-Congressman Wilkinson and
REPRESENTATIVE Dimond called nnon