Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-06
TELEGRApHIc BREvITIEs.


ed in the morning papers, is without
undation.
Col. Henry O. Kent was nominated
for Governor of New Hampshire by
the democratic convention to-day by
acclamation..
A telegram from Port au Prince
states that there has been an attempt
against the life of the President; that
the authors have been shot and perfect
quite prevails.
The strike of the coat-makers IN
New York was practically settled last
evening. The fight was directed square
ly against the sweating system and the
workers gained the day.
The proceedings in the case of the
State of Nebraska VS.. Richard Scannell,
bishop of the Catholic diocese, to have
been heard to-day at Omaha, has been
postponed until September II.
Jas. Coleman Drayton has Instituted
proceedings in New York to secure a
divorce from his wife, WHO is daugh-
ter of VIM. Astor. Hallett Alsop Bor-
rowe is named as the correspondent.
Incomplete returns from the Arkan-
sas State election indicate that Clarke's
majority will reach 10000. The legis-
lature will no doubt elect James Il.
Berry to succeed himself to the United
States Senate.
An attempt is being made to form
combination of twenty of the largest
breweries in Chicago. which are outside
of the present great trust. When COM
pleted the combination is to have
capital of s13,OOO,oOO.
In Chicago yesterday the grand jury
returned true bills against five men and
two women, the anarchist fire bugs,
who have been renting buildings and
insuring the contents which were re-
moved and the buildings burned.
Fire last night burned everything at
Cromwell, Mimi, except the school
house. The fire came upon the place
without warning. People saved their
lives by getting into the lake, but it is
feared that many settlers lost their
lives.
DIR. G. H. Ohr, one of the attendants
of Peter Walther, who died in Cumber-
land last night from supposed attack
of cholera, in an interview this morn
ing, states that the case was one OF
genuine Asiatic cholera-the genuine
epidemic cholera of 1854.
The taking of testimony was begun
to-day in New York in an action
brought by Attorney General Stockton
of New Jersey, to annual the charter
of the American Tobacco Company, on
the ground that it was operating as a
trust against the laws of New Jersey.
Mrs. ]. Coleman Drayton has until
to morrow to answer the charges named
in the complaint of her husband, j..
Coleman Drayton, which was filed in
the court of chancery in Trenton, N. j.,
on June 9th, asking that his marriage
be annulled. Up to noon to-day no
answer had been filed by Mrs. Drayton.
The village of Hogensburg, N. Y,
has been much excited over the mys-
FERROUS disappearance of an Indian wo-
man, Mary Ann La France, who re-
Gently had lived with an Indian named
Isaac White. Last night the woman's
body was found in the st. Regis river
wrapped in large horseblanket, Sc
curely bound, and then fastened to a
piece of iron.
The encouraging condition of bust
ness and the extent of its revival in the
South is shown by the national bank
clearings of several southern cities.
Throughout the entire South there is
batter feeling in business circles than
has been seen for the last two or three
years, and reports from all over the
country show that the increasing pros
perity of the South is attracting wide
attention from capitalists, manufac-
turers aud farmers.
Another incendiary fire occurred at
Asbury Park, N. j., last night. The
confasration started in barn and
soon spread to two others. They were
destroyed with their contents, includ-
ing about a dozen valuable horses,
wagons, hacks, Sc. A dwelling caught
from the burning stables, and Mrs. Pol
lard, an occupant, leaped from a
window with an infant in her arms.
Six other women living in the house
followed after her. 1t is believed the
incendiary intended to burn both As
bury Park and Ocean Grove.
Last evening as the steamer City OF the
Gratis was starting out from Cleveland, Ohio,
for moonlight excursion, she was run into
aud badly injured by the schooner Emma
Hutchinson. There were 1000 passengers
on the City of the Straits at the time and it
was miracle that no one was seriously hurt.
But they had seen the danger in time and hs
rushed to the other side of the boat.
The first rain for several weeks in the Win