Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-29
T%ELEGRApHIC BREVITlES.

The New York constitutional con-
vention adjourned sine die to-day.
At midnight last night q disastrous
fire broke out at Saltwater causing a
loss of $4,000.
A. Lehman, ofNew Orleans, who was
the head of the largest dry goods house
in the South, died in New York last
evening.
To-day every tin plate plant in the
United States, with possibly one excep-
ton, will be closed down, throwing
several thousand men idle, until the
wage dispute is settled.
Mrs. Sutherland, who is temporarily
insane at Gore Bay, Ont, last night
wrapped her three-year-old son, Earl,
in a quilt and drowned him in a barrel
of rain water.
An old mar named Stearns was kill
cd by his l6 year-old son yesterday at
their home, near Fayetteville, Ark.
At the time Stearns was beating his
wife. when the son struck him with a
siugle.tree on the back of the head.
Jacob Zahndt, who built several of
the Worlds Fair buildings and who per
formed similar work at the Mid-Winter
Exposition, committed suicide in San
Francisco last night by gas asphyXia-
lion.
Last evening an electric car in Pitts
burg, Pa, struck a surrey in which MIR.
and Mrs. VIM. J.. Jones had just seated
themselves for a drive. Mrs. Jones re-
ceived injuries from which she died q
few hours later and Mr.. Jones received
slight injuries.
A passenger train ives saved from
plunging through a burned bridge be-
tween Dundee and Lamont, Ia, yester-
day by a seven-year old girl. On hear
ing the approaching train she ran be-
youd the curve ard tagged it with her
red apron.
One week ago five persons who ate
breakfast at the home of 11rs. Osborne
in Memphis, Tenn were taken violent
ly i'll from what resembled arsenic
poisoning. Yesterday one of the vic
TINS died. The others are recovering.
An examination of the contents of the
coffee pot shows that it contained ar
senic.
The childlen of the late Jay Gould
to-day procured from Justice Lawrence,
of the Supreme Court of New York, an
order requiring the commissioners of
taxes and assessments to show cause
on October 4, why the assessments
which have been placed upon their
property should not be cancelled.
At $50 o'clock this morning Axel t.
Peterson, of Kenosha, Wis, was waylaid
by four men on Chicago venue and
robbed of $40 and a gold watch and
chain. After robbing him the men fed
pursued by Peterson. He succeeded
in capturing n of them, Thomas Har-
rity, when the latter drew q revolver
and shot him three times, probably ia
tally wounding him.
Captain Howgate, alias II. Williams,
e1.chief of the Weather Bureau, who
is accused of embezziing s3S0,000 from
the United States government, is still
in Ludlow street Jail, New York, and
Deputy Warden McCabe says that so
far as he knows, there is no probability
Of Howgate being taken to Washing
ton for trial before Monday or Tuesday
although the order has been signed for
his removal.
Last night, on a Pennsylvania freight
train, five well-dressed men were
stealing a ride in a box car and when
the train stopped at Yanwert, Ohio,
three men jumped on the car and pro-
ceeded to hold up the five others. One
of the attacked men drew his revolver
when one OF the trio shot and killed
him. When the train reached Delphi,
the desperadoes dropped off and es-
capped.
Capt. Manard, the English marksman,
last night gave a private exhibition in
Chicago of his new bullet-proof coat.
Capt. Manard used a .3S bore Martini
Henry rifle in his experiments. The first
test was vt a piece of steel one-eighth
OF an inch thick, which was pierced
ed by the bullet. Shots were then fired
at the buflet-proot jacket which was
worn by Mr.. Manard's sister, after
the regulation Springfield rifle in use
in the American army was used. The
bullets failed to pierce the protection.
Jed Newton, a well-to-do farmer, of Nor.
wich, N. T., and Mrs. Edward Southern, a
domestic in his family, were struck and in
SANITY killed by the Richield Springs Ex-
press at a grade crossing on the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western road this morning.
The ~rescuing party still maintain that the
two entombed miners in the Carbonate, Pa,
mine are alive and that a rescue will be made
before tonight.
Three men we're killed at Haverhill. Mass
this morning by the caviDg in Of q bank of
dirt