Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-21
T%ELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

President Nunez, Of the republic of
Colombia, died on the 18th inst.
Early this morning Annie Romani
was shot and killed by her husband, in
a tenement on Mott street, New York,
next 10 the police headquarters. The
murderer escaped.
Labor agents at Birmingham, Ala,
are securing negroes III large numbers
to go to the Massillon, o., district to
take the place of striking white miners.
Two hundred left last night and 700 or
500 will follow soon.
Herman Eckert, a young Wayne
county farmer, who has been out of
employment for some time, hanged
himself yesterday at Cherry Ridge, Pa.
Dependency over his idleness is be-
lieved to be the cause of the suicide.
F. Percy Smith, the Philadelphia
broker, died at Cape May this morning
from exhaustion, the result of a COM
pound fracture of the leg sustained by
falling when stepping from a train at
Cape May Courthouse on the ODD ult.
c. c. McIllier, publisher of the Meade
county, KY, Messenger, committed
suicide at Brandeburg Wednesday, u.s.
ing a pistol to effect his purpose. He
left a note stating that the act was de-
liberate and the result of sickness, dis
appointment and a hopeless future.
Another victim of the Baltimore
Rapid Transit cars met an awful fate
at Castle and Fayette streets this morn
ing. The list of the dead since the in
PRODUCTION of the Rapid Transit two
years ago now reaches tifty-eight. To-
days victim was Elizabeth Thurwey, a
widow, eighty years old.
Sebastian Wenzel, a laborer in St.
Louis, was shot and fatally wounded
this morning by Mrs. Emma Leon, a
widow aged 30. Wenzel, claims he is
not acquainted with Mrs. Leon and can
give no cause for the shooting. The
woman claims Wenzel insulted and
abused her a few days ago.
While squirrel hunting this morning
neal North Buffalo, Pa, John Tarr,
proprietor of the Central Hotel at Kit
tanning, Pa, was probably fatally shot
by his companion, w. d. Sloan. Tarr
wore a brown hat. Sloan mistook it
for a.fox and sent a full load of shot
into Tarr's head and neck.
Lizzie Christy, an attractive girl of
modest manners, pleaded guilty at
Carthage, Mo. yesterday to stealing q
horse, buggy and harness at Webb City
last summer and was sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary. 1t is said
that her sweetheart, q young farmer
really committed the theft, and then
deserted her.
The subject of expelling the mem
bers of the American Protective Asso-
citation from the trades and labor unions
of St. Louis Is creating considerable ex-
oitement in labor circles. The A. P. A.
organization is numerically strong in
that city and if its members are e1-
PEELED from the labor unions it will re-
suit in the local disruption OF the latter
organizations.
Will Meyers was arrested in Cincin-
natl last night for the murder of Forrest
Crowley, in Atlanta, Ga, on Wednes-
day. This morning he confessed to the
murder, and says he was assisted by
Ben Allen and John Conley, who are
both Atlanta gamblers. Conley Is I'M
der arrest in Chattanooga. The police
are searching for Allen, who has recent
" served a six-month's term of i'm
prisonment for gambling.
A peculiar accident occurred on the
West Shore railroad near Bowmans-
vile, n. Y, this morning. A car of a
long freight train jumped the rails and
ran for over a mile on the ties on a
straight line. Just as q train was pass
ing the other way on another track,
the derailed car, which was rounding a
curve, made a lurch and pitched into
The cab of the passing engine in which
the fireman and brakeman were sitting.
The brakeman was killed and the fire.
man badly injured.