Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The Adams Express Company has
decided not to declare dividend st
this time.
The volcano of Galoongong, in Java,
is again in eruption, and several vii
lagos have been destroyed by the flow
of lava.
Monroe Heath, of Chicago, was found
dead in bed at Asheville, n. c., yester-
day. Mr.. Heath was mayor of Chicago
in 1876 and was a millionaire.
A tough character named Charles
Carr yesterday assaulted 14-year-old
girl at Ossawatomie, Kan. The brute
was captured and lodged in jail. A
lynching party is organizing.
A fire occurred at South Nyack, N.
Y, this morning, destroying the ele-
CANT new residence of Rev. Ross Tay-
lor, burning to death four of MIR. Tay-
lor's children and seriously iDjuring
three workmen.
A man named Patrick Reilly, who
had a grudge against the Italians work
ing on sewer near Glen Island, N. Y,
last night placed nine cartridges under
the shanty, and was in the act of setting
off the terrible charge when the watch
man arrested him.
The dilatory conduct of Guatemaaa
in the matter of the disputed boundary
gives Mexico reasonable cause to sus.
pect some trick on the part of the willy
Guatemalans and for this reason the
Mexican government is pushing troops
down toward the frontier.
VIM. McGrath quarreled with his
wife at o'clock this morning at their
home in Newark, N. J. An hour later
he committed suicide by hanging him
self in the cellar. The body was found
by his wife. who entered the cellar for
bucket of coal. She tainted and the
two were found in the cellar at $50
o'clock by a grocer's clerk.
AT the Bethlehem Presbyterian
Church in Minneapolis last evening one
OF the members and an usher got into
an alteration which finally resulted in
Il fist fight The question whether
door should be shut or not caused the
trouble. The elders of the church
looked on in amazement, but many of
tho congregation made grand break
for the door to see the fight.
A special from Guadalajara, Mexico,
says detachment of mounted police
who went in pursuit of Antonio San
chez, the noted bandit chief, who COM
mitted many robberies and murders in
that section, has just returned to
Ameca, that State. They report that
they came upon Sanchez in the noun
tains and shot him to death. Some of
hsdesperate band were wounded and
captured.
Joseph Hendrecher, the young Illi-
nois farmer who frothed at the mouth
and wanted to bite people in Central
Park, New York, yesterday afternoon,
and who was diagnosed at the Presby-
terrain Hospital for hydrophobia and
summarily transferred to Bellevue, was
as docile as lamb at the latter institu-
ton this morning. He has quite re.
gained his composure, and the physi-
clans do not anticipate return of the
spasm.
Considerable excitement is reported
in South Christian, KY, over the efforts
of negro leaders to work up race riot.
The animus is the hanging of Willis
Griffey, the rapist from Christian coun-
ty, whose victim, Miss Lena Berry,
lived in Lafayette. He was brought to
Princeton for safe keeping, but q mob,
after three Intellectual attempts, formed
in the section where the crime was
committed, came there, took the negro
from Jail and lynched him, 1t is said
that secret meetings have been held
since among the negroes, from house to
house, and they have become bold in
their utterances and threats. The
white citizens are alarmed and are
sleeping on their arms, ready for any
emergency.
Terry and Fannie Cox, and II years old
respectively, were burned to death Saturday
night near Arimorc, I. T., and their father
was so badly burned that no hopes of his re-
covery are entertained. They were trying
to fill lamp with coal oil while the wick |
was burning
Choral taken with suicidal intent Satur.
day night ended the life of Linda Miller, one
of the most famous musicians in the South, in
her apartment at the Vendome Hotel, Knox.