Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Iron ore has been discovered in Mid
land county, Mich.
Information has been received that q
revolution has broken out in the interior
of Venezuela.
Melbourne, Australia, enters the lis,
"a the probable scene of the battle be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons.
The marriage of Mary Augusta
Brady to Commander Robert Mallory
Berry. o. s. N, was celebrated at De-
troit, Mich, to day.
The wedding of Bessie Balm Dent,
daughter of the late Louis Dent, Mrs
Ulysses S. Grants youngest brother,
to Lieut.. Gerrish Smith, q. S. N, took
place in New York to-day.
Cholera in Honolulu appears to be
substantially at an end. An interval
of eight days from September 10 to 81
passed without fresh case and the
cholera hospital was emptied.
1t is reported that the Cuban il sur
gent leader Roloff has died from putrid
fever. The report of the wounding OF
the rebel General Antonio Maceo in
the battle of September 26 is confirmed.
A number OF arrests have been made
of officers and employees of the depart
ment of public works of Buffalo, N. Y /,
ON the charge of larceny, they having
padded the pay-rolls with dummy
names.
Gentlemen in Vancouver, B. c., of
sporting proclivities have wired Cor
belts managers offering the use of q
small island on that province within a
few miles of Vancouver for the Corbett.
Fitzsimmons fight.
The postofice at Hadley, Mass, was
entered last night, the safe blown open
and all the mail in the Office was rifed.
Oae hundred and forty eight dollars in
postage stamps and $4S in cash was Sc.
cured. No clue to the burglars.
Western roads are beginning to look
forward an1iously to the inevitable car
famine when the movement of grain
begins. 1t is expected that between
January / and the opening of naviga.
ton the demand for cars will be unpre-
cedented.
The report that earthquakes had &C.
Cured in New Foundland yesterday is
untrue. A heavy rain storm which has
been prevailing caused q landslide,
blocking railroads and destroying few
bridges. This fact probably gave rise
to the report of seismic disturbances.
The Chickasaw legislature passed q
resolution yesterday, without dissent
ing vote, declaring that under no con-
sideration can the fight between Coz
hett and Fitzsimmons be pulled off in
thu Chi K SAW nation. The Governor
ully concurred with the resolution.
A special from Ocala, Fla, says ::
Kirby Griner, postmaster at Dunnel-
top, Fla, disappeared several days ago
and the postal authorities at Washing
ton have ordered an examination of his
accounts, which are said to be short
$500. 1t is believed he has joined the
Cuban insurgents.
VIM. L. Eaton, prominent commits
sion and brokerage man of San
Francisco, is suing his wife for absolute
divorce on the ground of infidelity.
Duncan B. Harrison, playwright,
actor and manager, is named as princi-
pal correspondent, though Elliott Stan
ford, man about town, also figures in
the case.
Fire started in the Missouri peniten-
tiary at Jefferson City. Mo, at 10
o'clock This morning in the Strauss
Saddlery Company's building. The
saddlery building is an entire
loss at a cost of $4,000. The
State loses $4,000. The flames are
still raging and may extend to the en-
tire building.
Nine damage suits, aggregating $780,
900 brought at Peoria, ILL.,, by ex-Presi-
dent Greenhut of the whisky trust
aga INST the members of the trust reor-
ganization committee, were dismissed
esterday. This action was taken by
agreement, as the differences between
the old and the new management were
amicably settled a few days ago.
The little hamlet of Greenfield Cen
tire, about six miles from Saratoga, n.
Y, suffered last night from the work
of systematic gang of robbers who
raided the place. The offices of the
own clerk and the postoffice were Wis
tied and the safes in each place were
rifed. Several stores and private resi-
dences were also robbed. The raiders
succeeded in geetting out of the place
without being discovered.
DR.. Henry E. Myers, who is serving
q life sentence in Sing Sing, has been
detected in plot to carry out murder
scheme similar to the one for which he
is now being punished. Myers, it will
be remembered, poisoned Carl Brandt
for the purpose of obtaining insurance
on his life. Myers, it seems, has been
writing letters to his wife planning
another murder in order to obtain in
surance.
Joseph Brooks, manager of VIM. 81.
Crane, and Harry Minor, of New York,
and ]. Fl. McVicker. of Chicago, are
plans for forming theatri-
cal trust. The Fifth Avenue Theatre
in New York and McVicker's in Chi
csgo are to be the main places of the
combine for production. The combipa-
ton ia to manage stars with their own
and also stars who make
short tours, and furnish companies in
The cities 10 which they are to be
played.
At the annual meeting of stockhold-
srs of the Western Union Telegraph
Company in New York to-day the pres
snt board of directors was reelected