Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-07
TELEGRAPHIC BRETITIES.

W. F. Brice, cashier of the City Ma
tional Bank, of Quanaha, Tex, is fug-
tive and a defaulter in the sum OF
s37, 900.
A blasting accident occurred at Rox-
bury, Mass, this afternoon. One work.
man was fatally hurt and four others
badly injured.
An application for the use of the
Gray's Armory at Cleveland, O., for q
lecture to be given by w. G. P. Brock
inridge has been refused.
Before Surrogate Arnold in New
York to-day argument was heard on
the application of the Soldiers Orphans
Home, of st. Louis, as holders of mort
gage bonds to compel the executors of
the will of Jay Gould to make an ac-
counting or to file an inventory.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
early this morning by masked men to
blow open the safe in the Office of the
Cleveland, Ohio, Stockyards Company.
An employee was caught in the office
and held up while the robbers tried to
open the safe, but the explosion only
blew of the lock.
A heavily laden freight train collided
with gravel train on the Terminal
Railroad at Wheeling, w. Va, this
morning. A number of cars were
wrecked. John NIaurer, William Bracy
and an unknown Italian were seriously
injured. Bracy will probably die. Sew
eral other men were badly hurt.
The city marshal and two of his SER
geants were summoned before the
grand jury at Salt Lake, Utah, yester-
day and asked to disclose the name of a
woman said to move in high circles
whom the police had found in a ques-
tionable resort with an equally we'll
known society man. The marshal re-
fused to disclose the names of the par
ties thus compromised, and the Judge
ordered him into custody until he made
up his mind to answer.
The remains of Ex-Governor Leon
Albeit, of New Jersey, were this
morning conveyed from his residence,
in Jersey City, to Greenwood Gene
terry, Brooklyn, for interment. Only the
pall-bearers and relatives and immedi-
ate friends of the deceased jurist ac-
companied the remains to the ceme-
terry. During the interment of his re-
mains salute of seventeen guns was
fred on the State House grounds in
Trenton in honor of his memory.
In the South Carolina Legislature to-
day the House by vote of 55 to 81 kill
ed the bill to reduce the legal rate of
interest in that State to per cent. af-
ter hard battle by the friends of the
banks. A bill has been prepared by
the joint committee Oh Offices and off,
GERS making horizontal cut in all
salaries of State officers to fit the 5
cents pound cotton situation. The
reduction is over 20 per cent, leaving
the Governors salary $4,000.
General Eliakim Parker Shannon
died of cancer of the stomach in New
York this morning. General Skam-
mon was born at Whitefeld, Me-, in
1916. He graduated in West Point in
1887. He was later appointed presi-
dent of ethics and mathematics in that
institution. During the Seminole war
i'll Florida in 1888 the general took an
active part. In 1916 AZ he was aide-de-
camp to General Scott in the Mexican
war. During the late war he was
placed in charge of Camp Chase, Ohio.
] he body of A. D. Barnes, a janitor, hacked
. I'd mangled in frightful manner. was
found in pine-board case early this morning
in an alley in Chicago. There in no clew to
the persons who killed him.
John Burns, the labor leader of Great
Britain, arrived in Chicago this morning from
New York. He leaves this evening for Dem
Yer to attend the convention of the American
Federation of Labor.