Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-17
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burg. w. W., assigned this morning
The factory employs about loo men
Liabilities about so, 900.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist. was
released from the penitentiary at BLACK.
wells Island, n. Y, early this morn.
ing, having served her term.
During quarrel at Golden, Pa, this
morning Dell Hartford struck Geo. Kelly
on the head with an axe, killing him
almost instantly Hartford was arrested
The steamer Augusta Victoria from
Southampton, arrived at the Sandy
Hook lightship this morning, making
the run in six days. nineteen hours and
nineteen minutes, beating her best IRE.
vious record by nearly two hours and
thirty minutes.
Edward LIE Masters and his wife who
lived near GAINESVILLE, Tenn. had a
quarrel last night. The woman :iaalIy
threatened him with shotgun aud
when her husband retalia,ed win q
threat to knock her down their son
shot his father dead.
Last November Col. c. Lause Via.
ston, Of Pasadena, Cal. while hurting
with party in the San Gabriel canon
became lost in snow storm and was
not again seen alive. His companions
made an attempt to find him bu, with
out success and were Obliged 20 return
to Pasadena. Ga Tuesday a yoaa.
man who was hunting il the I.ele
Rock Creek canon found the bod o.
the lost man.
A party of moonshiers in Russell
county, Va, yesterday attempted 10
lynch Deputy Marshal C. Z Cap.
but he escaped by a desperate rnn
down a mountain cave, and returning
with force Of officers succeeded in ar.
resting some Of his prosecutors wh9are
now in jail. Clapp is q native O: Vie
region aud the moonshiners regarded
him as a renegade because he il.
charged the duties of his Office.
John B. Gcmley, OF Tifiin, o.. as
signee OF the Foster interests, filed hi.
first report to-day. The document en-
bodies plea on the part Of the ex-sec.
rotary of the Treasury to be released
from the entanglements which he
dropped into by ndorsing paper for the
firms in which he is interested. The
aggregate amount OF such obligations
exceed 100000 After these indorsed
amounts are disposed of, an efior, vii
be made to shake off $325,000 indebt-
edness of Foster & Co.
Reuben Jackson, nine yeare Old
while playing on the roof Of a house n
New York Wednesday night tried 10
jump across gap. He missed his foot
ing and fell backward. but managed 10
catch the fingers of one hand in the tin
spouting, to which he held on. H.s
brother, who saw the accident. crawiei
to him, and caught him by the arm
but he was not strong enough to pull
him to place of safety, and the little
fellow finally let go his hold on the
spout and was killed. by striking the
pavement below.
Albert Boone, while coming down
Rocky river. Rockton, Wis, yesterday,
fell in with two men named Lapointe
and Higgins, who robbed him, knocked
him insensible and threw him in the
river, This revived Boone who swan
TO shore, causing the arrest Of
the toughs. Last night a crowd came
from Beloit and attempted to storm the
Rockton jail and release the two prison
crs. The citizens had heard of the at
tempt and drove the mob back with
shotguns, two of the crowd being ear.
ried off morally wounded. The whole
country is hunting them down.
Howard Radcliffe, a farmer, yesterday is
covered the dead body of Major Russo lying
in one of his fields near Wheeling. ". VI
with rifle ball through his heart Russell
and his wife were recently tried for the mur
der OF Mrs. Russcll's mother, Mrs Amanda
Welch. by poison. They were acquitted hy
the jury. After the trial Russell was warned
l'y notice on his door 10 leave the county
bur lie paid no attention to it, other than Ia
20 armed. At the time ne WAS killed be e.r-
rlcd Winchester and a revolver. The sii-
ing was done near a piece of woods ard & Is
supposed the assassin fired from ambush.
Tank Examiner Miller. at 1:05 this af,er-
noon shot himself through the temple fals-
ins instant death, in the Second Naiionai
Bank o: Altoona. Pa Tn. opinion as given
ont is that he was not competent to I'll tie
position, and worry over the bank a.r'
clnoed the suicide.
Opening and Closing of the Mails
Northern mails close at 80 and 80 n.
ald - 30, 3 As and s As p. NJ. Open S;
8 90 a. m, IL 90 M and 0'p N.
Southwestern mails via Charlottesville
close at = SO and II 90 a. m and , 10 p
nj. Open at s 90 r. u and 3 90 p. N.
Chesapeake and Ohio mails close at ] 81
2. m. and IS p. N. Open at S 00s n. and
3 GO pm.
Southern mails, via Richmond, close at
10 45 8. m. and 3 80 and 45 p. IN. open
q. S 90 a. N. and - 80 p. m.
Manassas Division mails close at ! 30 a. n.
aud 30 p. m. Open at 00s. IN.
Alexandria and Round Hill mails close Z!
3 40 a. m. and 4 90 p. m. Open at 90 an