Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-20
TELEGRApHIC BREYITIES.

l., was entered by burglars last night
who blew open the safe and got Sl59
in money and stamps.
Denver Brooks, q farmer of Plymouth,
N. Y, was sandbagged and robbed OF
500 on the outskirts of Norwich, N.Y.
last night. He was afterwards found in
sensible.
No. II colliery of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company, located be-
tween Lansford and Tamaqua, Pa, is
on fire. The fire started at three
o'clock this morning 1t originated in
the lamp house at the foot of the shaft.
Alfred Getz, colored Welsh noun
tain desperate, convicted of criminally
assaulting Mary Sicily, over eighty
years old, was, at Lancaster, Pa, this
morning sentenced to fourteen years
ar d nine month in the eastern peniten-
tiary.
Hurled by furious wind, section
of heavy sheet smokestack iron was
lifted from the top of the ten story
Boyce building in Chicago this morn
ing and dashed through the skylight OF
one story building adjoining. Eight
persons were injured.
To-day at Mobile, Ala, representa-
tives of the city of Montgomery pre-,
sented to the cruiser Montgomery a
silver service as testimonial of the ap-
probation Of the people Of Montgomery
at the honor done them in naming the
cruiser after that city.
Yesterday evening Judge ]. D. Far
rell and Army Seymour quarrelled on
the streetin Jonesboro, Ark, and fight
ensued in which Seymour was badly
berten. Friends separated the men.
Seymour subsequently got pistol and
killed Farrell He was arrested.
At 1910 o'clock this morning train
on the Reading Railroad ran into wa
gon at Washington Lane crossing just
above Walnut Lane station, Philadel-
phia. There were three persons in the
vehicle, two of whom were killed and
the other was seriously injured The
fagman at the crossing was also struck
and killed.
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Mrs. Charles A. Hayden, nee Miss
Charlotte Howard Wilkinson, who
married C. A. Hayden, of Avon, N. Y,
on November 1st on her deathbed, died
at late hour last night at the home Of
her parents in Newark, N. ]. Miss
Wilkinson had been told that her NAL
ady-a violent form of typhoid fever
would result fatally. She sent for her
betrothed and was united in marriage
= lille in bed.
Florence Wells, the sixteen-year-old
daughter of George Wells, of Rochester,
n. Y, died at her fathers residence
early this morning from the effects Of
a criminal operation performed, it is
alleged, at the solicitation Of her Sc
Queer, George Willard, young rail
road man, early last month. Willard
was arrested in Chicago last week and
taken to Rochester last night. The
police are searching for the physician
who is charged with having performed
the abortion.
While hook and ladder truck was
answering a hurry call for a fire at
Newark, II. j., this morning it collided
with trolley car. Five firemen were
thrown to the ground. Three are be-
lieved to be fatally and the other two
seriously injured 1t was impossible
to avoid collision as the horses of the
truck were on dead run. In an in
slant the car struck the truck, turning
it completely over and burying the
iiremen under the weight of ladders
and other heavy stuff. The truck
horses were swerved about and fell i'll
the debris, while the car was damned
like a ram in the wreck. Twelve pas
sengers on the car were hurled forward
in mass, many of them being slightly
injured. Two women tainted but were
otherwise uninjured.
An explosion of coal dust occurred at noon
in the Blanche Coal Works, near Golfers, w.
Va. Four men dead and two fatally injured
have been taken ont Eighteen men were at
work in the mine and it is not thought that
will escape death of injury. The explosion
was caused by blasting coal.
The Nebraska populist State committee
yesterday announced that in the event of the
republicans contesting the election of Judge
Holcomb, as governor. they would retaliate
by contesting the election of every republican
candidate.
Paul Conrad, president of the OH Louisiana
Lottery and the head of that concern since it
moved away from New Orleans, died this
morning.
About two inches of snow fell in northern
New York last night The mercury dropped
to DE-;
THE MARVELLOUS KoLA NUT.-The State
Department has been calling upon United
States consuls in Africa for specific informa-
ton respecting the marvellous kola nut,