Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-09
TELEGRApHIC BREVlTlES.

Fire in Detroit last night destroyed
$lOO, 900 worth of property. The Decker
Cash Register Company, is one OF the
principal losers.
The match by telegraph between the
Manhattan Chess Club. of New YORK,
and the British Chess Club, OF LONDON
was begun this afternoon.
Z Mrs. Lilly Chantler, wife of rail-
road man, committed suicide last nleh'
at Buffalo, n. Y, by nearly severing
her head from her body witha carving
knife. 1t is supposed she was de-
mented.
Fifteen tramps took possession of q
rail mill near Boone, Iowa, to day ana
in the attempt to dispossess them the
police killed one, fatally shot second,
manned a third and arrested the remain
ing twelve.
A dispatch from Norfolk says moth
ing has been heard there relative to
the reported accident to the President.
The Albemarle and Chesapeake have
heard nothing whatever from the Pres
ident this morning.
The court-martial sitting at TORN,
Mexico has passed sentence of death
upon Lieutenant Colonel Joaquin Vas
ollez, late of the Fourteenth infantry.
The officer was condemned for his uu-
soldierly conduct in the face of the en-
envy in March of last year.
Wilson Belknap, farmer living
near South Butler, n. Y, is to have
his funeral observed tomorrow, yet his
family refuse to acknowledge that he
is dead and no interment will follow
the rites. Rigor mortis has failed to
set in, though three doctors have pro-
nounced him dead.
Gotlieb Walbaum, one of the Cutter
burg, "Big Four" who were all found
guilty of maintaining "disorderly
house" in permitting betting on the
Guttenburg race track, was this morn
ing, in Jersey City, sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary and to pay
fine of $780, An appeal was taken.
Walbaum was in Europe when the
others were sentenced.
The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore fast freight train which
left Baltimore last night at s o'clock
FIR Philadelphia was boarded by
gang of fifty armed tramps at Bay
V ew junction, Del. For mOrethan two
hours the marauders held possession
of the train, the crew being powerless.
At Chase station all the trainmen were
driven from the tops of the cars, but
after the tramps had secured possession
of the train they began quarrelling
among themselves and were finally
driven off.
The boiler of the locomotive on the Pacific
Express, west bound. on the Pennsylvania
railroad, which left Harrisburg, Pa. at BIO
this mornin-, exploded while the train was
running at the usual rate of speed, eleven
miles west of Harrisburg. The mail and bag.
gage cars were deiailed. The fireman was
blown fifty feet in the air and died few min
uscs later The engineer was seriously hurt
ut will recover.
Fourteen horses were burned to death this
morning in fire in the stables of the Ma
y k Fireman VIM. Alter was severe y
bruis. about the legs while preventing the
team MI Oh d to tender f'om running away.
is not definitely known how many lives
were lost by the sinking of the steamer Long
fellow yesterday morning Only six of the
twcaty laborers who were aboard are account
ID for The body of the lady found has been
Identified as that of Mrs. Aull of Dayton, Ohio.
This morning the engine ON the Georgia
railroad freight train from Atlanta to Au.
gusta broke loose from the tender just be-
rond Barnett, and Walter Hackney, the fire.
nan, fell and the entire train passed over
him. killing him Instantly.
Richard Lelp, who killed his deformcd
wife and orn child wilhoutapparent cause
last October, plead guilty to murder in the
50 oud degree in ST Louis this morning and
wss sentenced to 80 years in the penitentiary
by Judge Edmunds.
party of six people were crossing the Tug
ivcr about forty miles south of Huntington,
wa. last evening when the skif was up
SIT and Mrs Emma Blackenship and her ten
y.a-. old daughter were drowned. The others
were rescued.
Gen. raj Nodzu as reported to the Japan
q Minister =. Trkio that in the capture Of
Wing Kao he has taken every measure to pro-
t.ct foreigners, and in some cases has placed
t. i sionaries under the care of the army.