Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

lELEthAfalC bkEYIIlENs
The business portion of the village of
Manchester, n. Y, was wiped out by
fire early this morning.
Two carloads of negroes arrived at
Sharon, Pa, from Pittsburg on Sunday
to take the places of the strikers at the
iron works there.
Wages in the wooden and worsted
industry all over the State of Rhode
Island will be increased during the
present month from y to - per cent.
By the caving in of ditch which
workmen were digging for a water
pipe, in st. Louis, this morning, two
men were killed and three fatally in
jured.
Rochester, N. Y, will be the centre
of attraction this week for the Jews in
this country and their friends, as the
annual central conference of American
rabbis will be held there.
Prof. Edmund Murdaugh, of Vir-
ginia, was deposad as professor of the
Oklahoma College,at Guthrie, Satur-
day, and Prof D. L. Morrow, of Cam
paign, ILL.,, was elected to the Office.
Mrs. Maria Moran, homeless vag-
rant, was caught in the act of choking
her infant child to death while being
transferred to station house in the
pt lea wagon in New York yesterday.
The excise law was enforced fairly
we'll in New York city yesterday. The
hotel men abandoned their special Sun
day bills of fare. Many New Workers
went to Hoboken and Brooklyn for
drinks.
Four of IS heirs of Lord Antrim, who
live in Indiana, are prepa ring to make
contest for their share of the SIS, 000,-
600, taken in charge by the English
government because there were no d.
rect heirs in the old country.
Frederick w. Haas. for many years
editor of the Folks Freund, of Lancas-
ter, Pa, and prominent in German
medical circles throughout that State,
died very suddenly this morning from
heart disease, aged 50 years.
The steamer Bellarden, which arriv-
ed at New York yesterday from San
tos, rescued Joseph Dallas, his wife
and two children, who we're starving
10 sloop that had been blown five
hundred miles off Bermuda.
The outlaws Bud Smiley, Frank
Harvey and Archie Patterson of Fayette
county, Pa, were to day convicted ut
Kingwood, w. Va, of shooting and
wounding Sheriff Shaw, of King wood.
Their sentence has not been passed.
Moneah Metz, bank director and
one of the wealthiest residents Of
Smithsburg, Md, was arrested to day
on the charge of assaulting the ten
year.old daughter of John Weller. He
gave bail for his appearance at q hear
Ing there on Wednesday. The alleged
crime was committed week ago.
Near Apalachicola, Fla, on satur-
day lightning struck George Long,
Marvin Long, Glenn Eldridge and
Misses Carrie Johnson and Emma
Futon. George, Eldridge and Miss EN-
ma Futon will probably die. All were
stricken by the same bolt, though the
boys and girls were half a mile apart.
George Longs foot was almost torn OFT.
While playing ball at Albion, Mich,
Sunday, two boys, Gustaye Nauss, aged
IL, and Ernest Kussroe, aged 10, be-
came involved in q quarrel. Kussroe
had picket in his hand which he
had been using as bat and he struck
Nauss on the head with it and rup-
tured one of the large blood vessels at
the base of the brain, causing instant
death.
Archbishop Kain, Of the Roman
Catholic diocese of st. Louis. has made
q decision that removes the ban placed
by some priests on Grand Army funer-
ais. Under his ruling members of the
G.. A. r. attending funerals may enter
the church wearing their uniforms and
insignia, and may conduct services in
accordance with their ritual in Catho-
lie cemeteries.
On the afternoon of the 18th of June
George Susanka, aged 8 years, was
playing in Lafayette park, st. Louis,
with several other children. That was
the last that was seen of him though
continuous search has been made since
that time for the lost boy, and the lake
in the park was dragged and adjacent
sewers searched. The theory is that
the boy has been kidnapped and Is be-
ing held for ransom.
Mrs. Matte Chambers, widow, living at
Centralis, Wash, has received an internal
machine containing dynamite through the
mails 1t is claimed that it was sent to her
by Rev. B. F. Fuller, q rejected suitor. Fuller
is now in Raleigh. N. G.
Judge George Clark, of Waco, the abiest
lawyer in Texas an ex-Supreme Judge and
ex-Attorpey General of the State, says thore
is no prohibitive law upon the statute book to
prevent the Corhett-F itzsimmons fight in that
State.
Recorder Golf, in New York, this morning
sentenced Vincenzo, the wife murderer, to be
electrocuted some time during the week be-
ginning Monday, August -, at Sing Sing.
The United States grand jury in New York
has been summoned 10 meet on Wednesday
to investigate the escape of the three post
office thieves from the Ludlow street Jail.
SEVERE SToRMs.-Seventeen lives
were lost in Missouri and Kansas by
storms and floods on Friday night.
The towns of Winona, Mo-, and Baxter