Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

held in Fall River, Mass, this morning,
voted almost unanimously to declare
the strike off.
Forest fires are raging in the vicinity
of Corinth, Miss. Several cotton fields
and valuable timber have been destroy
ed-in the outlying districts.
Forest fires are spreading ruin in
eastern Tennessee. The long drought
has made the timber and grass as dry
as finder, and the flames spread rapidly.
Judge Dallas, in the United States
Circuit Court in Philadelphia, to-day
delivered an opinion ratifying the
Olcott-Earle plan of reorganization of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad.
Japanese residents of the Pacific
coast have recently RENTED to the war
department at Toxic $4,000 to be used
in the present campaign against China.
Another SIC, 900 will be sent next week
and periodical remittances will be sent
as long as the war lasts.
Charles Morganfeld, the alleged train
robber, now in Cincinnati, is making
fight against the Adams Express Com
pany to recover the money taken from
him at the time he was arrested. 1t is
claimed that the express company can
not identify the money as ever having
belonged to them.
Will ]. Miller, of Lancaster, o., drove
into the country last evening, to make
social call, and at o'clock this morn
ing the rig came back alone. Search
ing parties picked up young Miller's
hat, whip and robe in the road five
miles from town an hour later, but
Miller himself cannot be found. Crime
is feared.
Lundberg's variety theatre in St.
Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by fire at 4
o'clock this morning. The flames
spread to an adjoining boarding house
and this was also burned. In the board
ing house over a dozen persons were
asleep. One man was killed by jump
ing from a window and several other
persons were injured.
D. D. Roe, of Dayton, Newton coun-
ty, Mo-, fired four shots at Ed. McAles
ter at Webb City, No., last night,
slightly wounding him. Roe then shot
and killed himself. He was to have
been married to Miss Martha Ford
to-day, but became insanely jealous of
McAlester. The shooting took place in
the presence of Miss Ford, who is pros
trated.
Vice President Adlai Stevenson was
given an enthusiastic reception to-day
at Pontiac, Mich. Whistles were blown,
banners displayed and a crowd escort
ed him to the hotel where an impromp.
tn reception was held. Special trains
were run on all roads centering there
and the city was thronged with out-of-
town visitors. Mr.. Stevenson spoke
from wagon in front of the Hotel
Hodges. He left at lilo for Jackson.
The appeal in the case of the people
against John Y. McKane, appellant,
who was indicted jointly with John w.
Murphy, Morton Morris and John II.
Brownhill, was argued to-day in the
New York Court of Appeals at Albany.
This is an appeal from judgment of
the general term affirming a judgment
of conviction for felony rendered in the
Court of Oyer and Terminer of Kings
county. The briefs on each side are
voluminous and recite at length the ac-
lions of John Y. McKane and his fol-
lowers preceding the election of last
fall, with reference to the case under
appeal.
Tug Battler, from Norfolk, Va, with
barges General Mcclellan and d.
Crockett, in tow, loaded with coal for
New York, met the gale yesterday of
the Delaware coast. The barge Nc
Clellan was anchored near Fenwick
Island lightship. Barge Crockett sprung
q leak and the tug lowed her in the
capes last night for a harbor at the
Brown Shoal where she sank in the
channel. The tug Battler was half |
full of water when she came in the
capes and came near sinking. She pro.
ceeded to Philadelphia this morning.
A tug went to the assistance of the
barge Mcclellan this morning. No
lives were lost.
Jones Hendricks, colored school teacher,
was shot and killed by some unknown person
at his home in Goodlettsville, Tenn, last
night. Three hundred men are hunting for
the assassin, and if found he will be lyncbed.
The body of Henry c. Phillips, a civil en-
sineer, was found Saturday on the public
road near Las Vacas, Mex. 1t was evident
that he had been ambushed by brigands and
shot and then robbed.
A heavy snow began falling in northwest
ern Nebraska yesterday morning and con-
tinued with little Interruption during the
day.