Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-26
TELEGRAPHIC BRETilIES

1t was stated in New York TO-DAY
that police Inspector VIM. McI.augi.
lin will be placed on trial on Monday.
News comes fom Lincoln county
o. T., of an immense silver strike on
the Evans claim. A four-loo. vein Of
silver, bearing 300 ounces to The ton.
was struck in a drill well at one hun.
bred feet.
Five buildings were destroyed by fire
at South Chicago early this morning.
In one of the buildings was located
hall where a great amount of reealia
of secret societies was kept. Tie oss
was $4,000.
Counterfeit bills have appeared in
Omaha showing the sharpers are ia.
miliar with some chemical that removes
the ink from the paper without deac.
ing the bill. Then they put in other
figures, raising the amount ten-fold.
Friends and relatives of the late ex.
Senator Fair denounce as nonsensicaI
the story oil Phoebe Couzins that he
came to his death by poison. Miss
Couzins's assertion that she was belroth.
ed to Fair is also declared to be false.
William S. Kimball, of Rochester. y.
Y, died this morning at Virginia
Beach, Va, where he had gone for bis
health. Mr.. Kimball was at the head
of the American Tobacco Trust in
Rochester, q millionaire, and known
all over the country.
Catholic circles at Sioux City, Iowa.
are greatly stirred up over the acion
of Archbishop Hennessy, Of Dubuque
in summarily ordering the church DIST
Jean Baptise, Sioux City, to be closed
and it has been determined to take the
matter at once to Mgr. Satolli.
Twenty Cuban residents of Boston,
who are in sympathy with the struggle
with Spain for independence, met last
night for organization. 1t was voted to
call the body "The Independents of
Boston," Each member will contribute
sum weekly, the total to be used as
seems best to further the fight for indie
pendence.
Barry Mines, the former confidential
clerk of J. Pierrepont Morgan * Co,
who was arrested on Wednesday foral-
legged embezzlement of $4,000 from
that house, pleaded guilty to the in
dictment of grand larceny before JUS
tice Fitzgerald in New York this
morning and was sentenced to three
years imprisonment.
Fire at Richmond, Me, to-day des.
troyed over 1000 worth of property.
The Western Union Telegraph aud the
New England Telephone offices were
badly damaged. The Richmond
library will be an entire loss, aad
cannot be replaced. After the fire was
extinguished it was discovered that The
postoflice safe had been blown open
and about $3.50 in money taken. The
burglars without doubt caused the ire.
The house of the Misses Eliza and
Martha Brown, who live alone in tie
country near Bridgeton, n. j., was en-
tered by two masked burglars last
night, who demanded money. l..Ha
was terribly beaten about the head with
a revolver because she screamed aud
resisted. Both were forced to give up
their pocket-books containing five dol
lars, and were covered by revolver
by one of the burglars while the otbfr
searched the house for money. The
women are Frustrated by fright to-day.
Eliza's condition is serious.
smash-up occurred on the Northern Rail
road of New Jersey at Tyler Park this NOM
ing. Word was sent to jersey City for lll'
balances and several went to tho scene oi tie
accident. The Northern Railroad OF New
Jersey is n branch of the Erie road.
A dispatch from Havana says tina. on last
Tuesday, at Santiago de Cuba, the English
steamer Lorenta was fired on by the Spanish
coast guard foi failure to heave 10 when Or
dered. but no official report has yet been made
regarding the affair.
Thirty cases of smallpox have been di-eov'
cred in Pike county, Ohio, and the grel;est
excitement prevails. Business there is pH.;'
tically suspended.
The annual report of the Bell Telephone
Company shows that 5S2,506 instruments
were under rental at the close Of last yea.
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