Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.
Five men and a woman we're arres

Five men and woman were ares :
ed in New York last night by U. s. Sc
cret service officers for counterfeiting.
Rev. DIR. McAnally, editor of the
ST. Louis, No., Christian Aduocate, and
ene of the most prominent men in the
Methodist Church South, died at his
residence in st. Louis last night.
Two young men living near Balm
ger, Tex, we're hunting wild bees yes-
terday and had blasted lot of rocks
out of a bluff when lot of loose rock
fell, crushing their bodies into shape
less mass.
The condition of those injured in
Wednesday nights disaster at the
Elks' social gathering at the Inlet
Casino, at Atlantic City, is very favor
able with the exception of Frederick
K. Klaproth and Mrs. Frances Japha.
A deluge of rain visited the section
about Denison, Tex, and continued
nearly all of yesterday. There was a
rainfall of nearly nine inches. The
water courses have overfowed their
banks, doing immense damage to farm
er5 in the loWlands.
This is the 18th of July, the anniver-
sary of the famous and oft-fought battle
of the Boyne, in which the Orangemen
defeated the allied monarchs William
and James in 1890. The day was cele-
brated in the United States and the
British possessions. No disturbances
occurred.
The upper part of the lower PENN
sula of Michigan was dotted last night
with forest fires. Already the lumber
towns of Wallin and Cleary have been
levelled to the ground, several people
having been badly burned, and no one
knows how far the damage has ex-
tended.
The wife of Richard II. Mcdonald,
sr., now in Jail at San Francisco, await
ing trial for forgery and enlightenment
in connection with the wrecking of the
Pacific Bank, has fled with about
800, 900, with which her husband had
entrusted her to provide for his legal
defense.
Miss Agnes G. Mcclure, a niece OF
Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, and
Mr.. Marshall Ferguson, son o wealthy
land owner. were quietly married in St.
Louis Wednesday. The families of the
young people objected to the match, as
the young lady is o Catholic and her
husband Protestant.
Winthrop Cone and Harry Tobey
had fight with four armed burglars in
Norfolk, Conn, last night. The burg
lars had entered the store and postof-
fee kept by Cone and had blown open
the safe. They escaped with the booty
after exchanging shots with Cone and
Tobey who found them in passage
way.
Shortly before midnight last night Chung
Woy was fatally shot while closing the shut.
tiers of his store in San Francisco. The
Chinaman who did the shooting is under ar
rest, but the organization to which Chung Woy
belonged will have satisfaction by killing
some members of the rival organization.
The remains of man found half-eaten by
ulzsrds in q cornfeld, near MscGregor, Tex /,
are those of Captain Steven Bake, who WIS
exiled from Cuba for writing letter init
mating that fllibustering psrty might be
successful. His death WAS the result of starva-
ton and exposure.
The business section of Williams, Arizona,
was burned yesterday and during the pro-
g,ess of the flames bullets were flying, por-
ton of the population was rioting, and thugs,
gamblers and opium Aends had organized TO
t, rob the city.
Chris Held and Peter Moro, two rival fish
peddlers, fought with pistols on the highway
Yesterday. near San Andrea, Cal, and as a
result both of the combatants will die.