Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

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Francisco confirm the death of Robert
Louis Stevenson, the novelist.
The fire bugs who month ago burn.
ed dozen barns and an entire bust,
ness block in Springfield, ILL.,, are again
at work.
Col. ]. B. Batchelder, U. S. govern
ment Gettysburg historian, died this
morning at his home in Hyde Park,
Boston. of pneumonia.
Fourteen persons were bitten by q
mad dog in Salem, n. j., Yesterday,
and seven of them went to New York
city TO be treated at the Pasteur lnstl-
tute.
A royalist plot has been discovered
in Honolulu. Several arrests have
been made and a number of guns cap
tured. An uprising of those favoring
the monarchy was contemplated.
Elmer Foster, manager of the jewelrv
house of E. V. Roddin & Co., in Chi
cago, committed suicide this morning
nv shooting himself at his residence.
He had overworked himself in the rush
of holiday trade.
The president of the miners organi-
zation at Mas>i!licn. o., says that the
miners a, cep ed the award of the boar d
of arbitration under protest, reservlng
: right to ask for new settlement
when opportunity offers.
dispatch from Lima, Peru, says
the no.lns which was started on We'd
uesday by crowd of hungry women
and children continued throughout the
nj ,ht immense crowds rushing through
the streets. calling on the government
for food. Serious trouble is predicted.
In the House of Representatives yes
terday Chairman Wilson, of the ways
ard means committee, introduced a
bill repeating that portion of the new
tariff act which imposes difierential
duty on sugar imported from countries
paying bounty on sugar exports.
R. A. Chesebrough, who was the
republican candidate for Congress in
the 18th New York congressional
district at the last election, served
notice to-day on Colonel George Nc
Clellan that he would contest the
election He charges wholesale coloniza-
ton frauds.
Manville, Wyo., and that section was
struck by the worst sand storm ever
known at noon yesterday. 1t set in
from the West, driving cloud of sand
which filled the air so that for two
hours buildings twenty feet distance
could not be seen. Deposits Of sand
and dust six inches deep were left in
some dwellings. No lives were lost as
far IS has been heard, but much dam
age is done.
Two men who had robbed safe in West
Liberty, Iowa, last night were accosted by
officers on train. The robbers drew revolv-
ers, kept the officers at bay and one of them
threw stick of dynamite on the track which
exploded and so alarmed the engineer that he
stopped the train and the thieves escaped.
james Patton, an aged farmer, and his
grandson, James Lindsay was found dead in
their home four miles west of Newburgh
n. Y, yesterday, having been suffocated By
coal gas. The rest of the family had been
absent from home during the night.
Henry Harris, who was so severely shot in
fight in a baltimore and Ohio box car near
Fostoria, O., two weeks ago, when his two
companions were killed, died last night. half
dozen ullets had been taken out his head
and body.
Captain Buford a. Tracy, prominent citi-
of Winchester, Ky, was accidentally kill
ed yesterday By being caught in an elevator
shaft. Captain Tracy served on the staff of
Colonel Breckenridge during the war
The wholesale grocery warehouse of John
Mctilersey's Son and Company. Front street
Philadelphia, was Quilted by fire early this
morning. Loss $4,000.
Bio Janeiro adviees assert that Brazil will
not take part in the Atlanta, Ga. fair, be.
cause there are no funds for the purpose.
Governor Flewer has dismissed the charges
4 yalnst District Attorney Fellows of New
York city.