Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-08-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTlES.
The Brooklyn Biscuit Works, on Fulton
street. Brooklyn, were burned this morning
The loss is $4,000.
About one thousand operatives who
had been on strike in New Bedford,
Mass, resumed work to-day.
Ed. Oliver last night shot aud fatally
wounded Miss Anna Carlock and then
killed himself, at Chandlerville, Ill.
1t is generally understood in political
circles that Mr.. Levi P. Morton will
accept the republican nomination for
governor of New York.
The grand stand of the Chicago base
ball club is on fire and will probably
prove total loss. No game is in pro-
gress and no one was injured.
The democratic congressional nomi-
mating convention for the second West
Virginia district met at Martinsburg to-
day and renominated Hon. William l..
Wilson.
The coal sales agents in New York
made no change in the schedule of
prices for next months delivery and
restricted the output for September TO
100000 tons.
The Ohio Falls Car Works, at Jefler-
s)nville, Iud., will resume operations
during the present week, after an idle
ness of more than year. The CON-
pany employs from twelve hundred to
two thousand men.
An attempt was made last night to
wreck passenger train on the Kansas
City, Springfield and Memphis R. R.,
from Macomb for Willow Springs. Mo.
DISTINCTIONS were placed on the track
and the engine derailed.
AT Springfield, ILL.,, this morning
Wilson Howard, colored, dangerously
shot his wife and then pointing the re-
volver at his head pulled the trigger
and fell lifeless to the floor. Jealousy
is supposed to have been the cause.
Ex-Minister to Russia Charles Emory
Smith, Mr.. H. Stump, Chief Commits
sioner of the Immigration Bureau at
Washington, and Senator'S Smith, of
New Jersey, and Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, sailed from New York to-day
for Europe.
The Georgia republican State conven-
ton met at Atlanta to-day. One fac
ton wants to put out straight ticket;
another wants to endorse the populist
nominees, while still another wants to
do neither. 1t is not likely that the
convention will nominate ticket.
Nearly all the delegates are negroes.
Mrs. Emma Newton, aged 70, with
her sster-in-law, Mrs. James Gray,
started from Shelbyville, Ind, in bug
ey to neighbours yesterday, when the
horses ran away, upsetting the buggy
and mangling both the occupants in q
horrible manner. Mrs. Newton died
last night and Mrs. Gray is fatally in
jured.
b. the accidental upsetting of a can
die in wooden dwelling at Santamon-
lea, Cal, the ive-year-old son of Mrs.
S. Grimms and the three-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Dimonguez were
burned to death. The mothers of the
children were out walking. Upon their
return they found the charred bodies of
the children among the ashes of their
home.
Pamlico, one of the greatest race stall
lions on the grand circuit, died sud-
denly at Charter Oak Park, Hartford,
Conn.,, this morning. He was taken
i'll with congestive chills yesterday and
in spite ofevery effort to cave him he
died. Pamlico had record of 2:lO.
gained in winning race at Terre
Haute two weeks ago. Pamlico was
owned at the time of his death by f. d.
Spur, of Greendale, KY.
Councilman Doudoussat, of New Orleans
was arrested to-day for bribery. The marked
money which he had accepted was found on
his person.
The Tanner House, one of the largest no.
tells in tho western Catskills, burned to the
ground last night The guests all escaped.