Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-05
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

caught beneath many tons of falling
coal and crushed to death.
Two sailors got into fight last night
in the forcastle of the ship Kambira, at
New York, and one now lies in the
hospital, his body pierced with fourteen
stab wounds while the other is under
arrest.
a dispatch from Asheville, N. c., says
the condition of Miss Mary Stevenson,
daughter of the Vice President, is al
most as low as it can be, and her death
may be expected at almost any hour
during the day.
An epidemic of robbery is raging in
Sandusky, o. Police protection is en-
tirely inadequate and the tramps rule,
and do as they please about the rail-
road yards and suburbs. They rob
whole trains at will.
The seven victims of a mad dog in
Salem, n. j., who were bitten on Dec.
20, and have since been undergoing
treatment for hydrophobia in the Pas
teur Institute, in New York, were dis
charged from that Institution to-day
cured.
1t is generally understood about the
district attorneys office, New York,
that when the case of Police Captain
Scbmittberger will be called on Mon
day an adjournment will be asked for
and granted and that the case will ulti
matey be quashed.
A bold attemI was made at l O'clock
his morning to blow open the safe in
the office of Seiberling, Miller & Co., at
Doylestown, Ohio. The night watch
man was bound and gagg ID. The noise
of the explosives aroused the neighbOrs,
who frightened the burglars away.
Johr Burns, the English labor leader,
sailed from New York to-day for Liver
POOL. Mr.. Burns said the laboring
masses here, while in some cases they
suffer greatly, are better off financially
than their brethren abroad, There is
a future, he says, for the American
workmen.
Frank l.. Palmer, pos office clerk
at station A, New York, was arrested
this morning, charged with robbing the
mails. When Palmer was arrested he
had fifty letters in his possession, all
addressed to John Lynn and Company
and containing remittances. Palmer
confessed his guilt.
VIM Spalding, a car bumper at the
Oliver mines, Uniontowp, Pa, yester-
day, plunged headlong into No. 3
,haft which is Ais feet deep. His body
was crushed to pulp. A strange ia
tality has followed the Spalding family.
Within Is months five members have
died violent deaths.
Senator Murphy and other senators
believe that Mr.. Hill has accepted the
Presidents overtures for peace and
that reconciliation has been effected
for future political purposes. One sen
or says it means combination OF
New York democrats to end Germans
presidential aspirations.
In battle on the ice at Detroit,
Mich, last evening between party of
81 aters and several ice cutters, one of
the latter shot into the crowd OF
skaters with a shot gun seriously
wounding two persons. In rough
and tumble fight which followed fully
dozen persons were badly bruised.
A fast freight train on the Fall Brook
Railway was wrecked near Middlebury.
Pa, early this morning. The engine
was thrown upon its side. The en-
er, David McQuaid, had his legs
pinn d under ID. engine and lay there
Q I'VE hours before being taken out.
/ /, lin BIS were literally cooked by the
cam and his body was frozen. He is
st Il alive, but cannot recover.
Mrs. Lucinda Bobbs, of Banning
Mills, Pa, died this morning of hydro
phobia, having suffered terrible agony
since Wednesday. She was bitten by
mad dog over five weeks before she
showed signs of the disease. The same
dog bit several other people. All save
Mrs. Bobbs took treatment and so far
have escaped serious effects. A num-
Der of farm animals that were bitten
went mad and were killed.
A serious wreck occurred on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad at 8 o'clock
this morning at White Haven, Pa. A
drover was instantly killed, another
was fatally injured and brakeman
seriously injured. A car of sheep and
another of dressed beef were thrown
over an embankment and about sixty
head of sheep were killed. The freight
train had stopped at the end of the sid
ing when another freight train crashed
into it. The wreck took fire but the
flames were soon extinguished.
An explosion of powder occurred yes
terday near Uniontown, Pa, at the
Meyer works of the w. J. Rainey Coke
Company. John Yinski was torn limb
from limb and died soon after. Six
others were badly injured and four of
them are believed to be fatally hurt.
The men were congregated in one OF
the company's houses after their work
for the day was ended. One of them
was carelessly handling key ofmining
powder when it exploded. The build
ing was wrecked and the occupants
blown TO great distance.
A we'll dressed, handsome woman of ma
ture years, was arrested in New York to-day
for stealing necktie in a dry goods store
valued at ?Z oO, ana pair OF KID gloves
worth So. She gave her name as Josephine
Durand, but is said TO be named Hicks; that
she was the wife Of wealthy doctor in Wash
iugton. Mrs. Hicks's sister was Mrs. Langley
who for years was leading lady for Lester
Wallack.
The Supreme Court of Michigan has grant
ed a new trial for Mrs. C,tharine ]. Ketchum,
a local w. c. T. o. worker, who was convict
ed some months ago Of sitting for nude pic
lures.
Announcement was made on the New York
Cotton Exchange this morning of the death