Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREFITIES.

FOrepaugh'S circus Is stranueu aI
Button Ohio. The show has been
meeting with poor luck.
Suit for the Impeachment of Mayor
Fitzpatrick, of New Orleans, was filed
today on behalf of 25 citizens.
The first snowfall of the season oc-
Cured at Havre, Mont, last night.
There was deposit of over four inches.
Beverly Adams, colored, was hanged
at Hopkinsville, KY, this morning for
the murder of OFT Campbell, also color
ed.
Engineering parties will be sent out
to survey routes for ship canal be-
tween Lake Superior and the NIississip
pi river.
John R. Gentry won the first heat in
the free-for-all race at the Terre Haute,
Ind, track to-day, in 2:03 81. Gentry
got the stallion record of the world by
the BOB "a and he was under strong
pull at the wire.
The body of ten-year-old Geo. Rauh
was fished out of the Baltimore harbor
last night. 1t is believed he deliber-
ateIy planned to kill himself. The lit
lie fellow remarked to his playmates
Yesterday that they would never see
him again.
A very rich gold strike has been
made in the Zirn Cultz Mine, in the
Pine Nut, Douglas county, New. Six
hundred dollars worth of ore was
taken out in two hours. During one
day ore was extracted that was esti-
mated to be worth 81 400.
The annual convention of the Ala
bama State Press Association, in session
at Montgomery, adjourned yesterday.
Resolutions were passed severely crit
icising the committee of Englishmen
now in this country for the alleged
purpose of investigating so-called south
ern lynching outrages. Ida Wells was
denounced as fanatic and crank.
A desperate encounter took place
yesterday at Beechfort, KY, between
George Wilson, deputy sheriff of Leslie
county, and VIM. North, prominent
Bell county farmer. Both parties fired
six shots, the sixth passing through
Wilson's heart, killing him instantly.
North was slightly wounded. The
dispute grew out of tax settlement.
Enoch Davis, of Vernal, Utah, was
shot to death at Salt Lake this morn
ing for wife murder. Davis maintained
that the shooting was accidental, claim
ing that he found his wife in bed with
a DR.. Butler and that in attempting to
strike the man with his pistol his wife
threw herself in the way and was kill
ed instead. DR.. Butler had committed
suicide before the trial and his evidence
was never heard.
The steamer New York, from South
aupton for New York, passed Fire ISL
and at 1853 p. m. to-day. The New
York; has beaten all records on the
Southampton route, her time from the
Needles to Fire Island being six days
five hours and twenty minutes. Allow
ing two hours to complete the run TO
Sandy Hook lightship, she will have
made the voyage In six days, seven
hours and twenty minutes.
George Lodge, of Youngstown, Ohio,
one of the oldest German lodges of
Pythians, has decided to leave the order
because of the action of the Supreme
Lodge and the language used by Past
Supreme Chancellor Blackwell, Rep
resentatives of eight of the German
lodges of Knights of Pythias of Mil
waukee met last night to take action
on the utterances of Supreme Chancel-
lor Blackwell at the national encamp-
ment, resolutions were passed, but the
meeting refused to make them public.
Two street cars collided this morning on
Smelling avenue line near the State Fair
Grounds, Minneapolis, MINI. Both cars were
completely wrecked. A boy was seated on the
font seat of one car and was pinned in By
the wreckage. 1t wa, ten minutes before he
could be relieved. Several others were in
jure1