Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-05
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

mo Lew cases VI SEuhllpOA WoiS
ported in ST. Louis yesterday and it Is
believed that the disease has been got
ten under control.
Bill McDaniels, Is years old, SEN
fenced to hang for murder in Asheville,
N. c., March 18th, has been respited
by the Governor for 80 days.
1t is officially stated that General
Mateus has defeated the rebels near
Soata. Columbia A decisive engage
lnent is expected near Cuenta soon.
The Mexican warship La Lihertad,
so long overdue, and for which great
anxiety has been felt was towed to
Port Fades, below New Orleans, this
morning.
A special from Boise City, Idaho,
says combination has been effected
which, it is believed, will certainly re-
elect Senator Shoup before the close OF
the session.
II is said that the boycott placed on
the American Railway Union by the
General Managers Association during
the Debs strike of last July, will be de-
clared off April l and the old employees
reinstated.
Annie Bohan, 20 years of age, stem,
ographer, and her sister, Maria, aged
%, a dressmaker, were found dead in
bed in their rooms in Chicago this
morning, having been asphyxiated by
escaping gas from defective meter.
The New York board of health re-
fused this morning to record the Ger
tificate of the Castellane Gould mar
rage sent from St. Patrick's Cathedral
because it had no date. 1t was sent
back to the Cathedral for correction.
The five masted schooner Governor
Ames, the only vessel of its class in the
world, and respecting the safety of
which anxiety was felt, dropped anchor
in Hampton Roads this morning. She
had been driven out of her course by
heavy weather.
Five prisoners sawed through the
iron bars of a window in the city Jail at
Atchisop, Kan, at II o'clock last night
and escaped. Three negroes were re-
captured after o short fight, in which
one was fatally shot. Two white men
are still! at liberty.
The case of the Gutenberg race
tracks Big Four was put on the calen.
dar in the court of errors and appeals
in Trenton, N. j., to-day. TWAS, how
ever, put at the bottom of the list and
will not be reached for argument until
probably the last week of this month.
Roland Green Usher, ex-Mayor OF
Lynn and ex.warden of the Massachu-
sets State prison, died this morning
at his home in Lynn. During the war
he was paymaster of the division of the
Gulf, the division of Annapolis, the di-
vision of Virginia, and the division OF
North Carolina.
President Cleveland has immortal
lied himselfin Baltimore by the "pock
Ell veto" be placed ou the bill providing
for the free entry of foreign goods in
tended for exhibit at the Baltimore ex-
position in 1897. The general impress
sion there is that he used that method
to "get square" with Senator German
for holding up the nomination of Dis
trict Attorney Marbury and other
Maryland appointments.
About o'clock this morning fire was
discovered in a fve-story flat house in
New York. The tenants were panic
stricken and nearly all of them crowd
ed to the fire escape in order to get
away from the flames which were fast
making their way to the upper floors.
All escaped, with the exception of one
helpless old woman, Mrs. Kenetty,
sixty years of age, who in the excite
ment was forgotten, and, after the
flames had been extinguished, was
found burned to death.
Nine boys were badly injured in an
explosion of dynamite while attempt
ing to blast out a ground hog near
Uniontown, Pa, last evening. The
explosive had been inserted in the hole
aud a fuse attached. The blast was
not ignited and the boys began to drill
it out. An explosion followed and the
youthful hunters were blown some dis
lance. The drill was blown through
John MELONS arm and that member
nearly severed. His brothers eyes
were blown out and all the other boys
were painfully injured. The Mellon
| oys, it is said, are dangerously hurt.
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