Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-03
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.


TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Grasshoppers are becoming numer-
Gus in Schuyler county, N. Y, Destroy
ing vegetation at an alarming rate.
Labor Day was observed in many of
the cities of the country to -day, and in
several instances there were imposing
parades.
The games of baseball played by the
League clubs this morning resulted as
follows: New York 16, Cincinnati .;
Boston 5, Chicago 4.
Beyond an occasional shower of short
duration not drop of rain has fallen
within radius of twenty-five miles OF
Kingston, N. Y, since May.
The work which has been partially
suspended for several weeks in the
Lawrence mills at Lowell, Mass, will
start up on Tuesday with full force.
At the Tucuman railroad depot, Ar
gentine Republic, on the oath ult., To-
connective standing at the station sud
denly burst, breaking into thousands
of pieces and causing the death of the
engineer and seven other persons.
On the Goth of last month q violent
storm was experienced in fatal, Chill.
The streets are described as being con-
verted into rivers and the water stood
in many houses over three feet. Many
people were killed and others greatly
injured. Railroad traffic was interrupt
ed for several days.
George Rupert, mill worker, of the
West End. Pittsburg, Pa, met horri-
Bile death last night while intoxicated
by falling from the top of the bluff at
the head of Steuben street. When
found at o'clock this morning q
streak of blood could be plainly seen
extending from the spot where the
body lay to the top of the hill. sixty
feet above. Rupert's head was crush
ed in and his neck and both arms were
broken.
Near Newsite, Ala, this morning,
James Ashley and his son Robert, went
into field where Robert Cross, ayoung
farmer, was harvesting. Robert Ash
10y held Cross while his father fired
seven bullets into his body. Ashley
fred a, lons as Cross breathed, remark
ing: II am going to shoot as long as there
is breath in the damned rascals's body"
Cross went to church with Ashiey's
daughter yesterday and kissed her.
She reported the matter to her father
and the murder resulted. A posse is
in pursuit of the Ashleys and if cap
turei it is likely they will be lynched.
A small cyclone struck the southwestern
part of Louisville, KY, at 3 o'clock yester-
day afternoon and did $4,000 worth OF
damage The people in the vicinity were
nearly frightened to death and several OF
them had narrow escapes from being killed.
Point au Pic, the fashionable summer re-
sort on the lower st. Lawrence river, north
shore. suffered severely from fire yesterday
afternoon. Tho Warren Hotel, the Central
House, postofice, telegraph office and
largo number of cottages were burned.
Thomas Gauthier and Edward Larouche
tho latter brother of the cure of the parish
were drowned yesterday at st. Charles Bor-
rome, Quebec, while ferrying a yoke of oxen
across the Saguenay, the cattle having cap
sized the ferryboaJ.
Gov. Waite, Of Colorado, having captured
the county convention Saturday has made
his nomination at Pueblo, Tuesday next, a
certainty. The result and the means by
which it WAS accomplished have caused split
in the party.
Yesterday was the hottest day in three
weeks in Genesseo N Y,-9S in the shade
There has been no rain in three mon. ths. Ycse-
tation is parched and farmers have to haul
water long distance for their stock.
John z. Kaufman, wealthy brewer, was
shot yesterday at Glendale, near Cincinnati,
by his wife, who was the well-known concert
singer, Blanche Beekman. A few weeks ago
She tried to kill her brother-in-law.
Labor Day was celebrated in st. Louis to-
day by parade and picnic of all local labor
bodies, except the Typographical Union. The
printers refused to participate in the parade.
The west-bound Chicago Great Western pas
senger train was badly wrecked at Valera
Ia, this morning. Several passengers were
injured.
Thomas Robb and John Miller were drown
ed in the Delaware river opposite Chester,
Pa, yesterday afternoon by their boat capsiz-
ing.
Marvellous Results.