Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-01
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

A water spout near Hillsboro, Tex.
Thursday night washed away portions
of the railroad tracks, and drowned
one man and several hundred cattle.
A sweeping police change went into
effect at Chicago to-day, by which hun,
dreds of official heads fell under the
republican axe. The Office of inspector
and chief of detectives is abolished.
James McAIullep, who murdered bis
wife with Ratchet on last New Years
Day and then attempted suicide by
cutting his throat, was this morning, at
Pittsburg, Pa, sentenced to be hanged.
lis feared that the great downpouI
of rain and snow in Colorado the last
two DAYS may result in disastrous
floods in the rivers like thoss of year
ago. At Leadville and many Other
places in the mountains the snow
which was over two feet deep is melt
ing rapidly.
At the convention of telephone
apparatus manufacturers in Chicago
Yesterday, national organization was
formed, the chief mission of which will
be to fight the Bell Telephone Com
pany. S3OO0O,OO0 invested in tele-
phone manufacturing was represented
in the convention.
Samuel Burr, the wife-murderer, was
captured in the woods near Browns
Mills last night, and is now occupy :
ing cell in the Jail at Mount Holly,
N T. He struggled fercely with his
captors, but was soon overpowered as
he was weak from want of food, hav-
ing eaten nothing since Thursday.
He has made no confession and says
he has none to make.
At2 o'clock this morning crowd OF
200 persons was surrounding the Jail at
Covington, Ind, listening to infamma-
tory speeches urging the lynching OF
Alvey Booze, under arrest for commit
ling an assault on Nina Newman, an s
year.old child. After many threats and
deputizing several Covington men, the
sheriff succeeded in dispensing the
mob. He announced that there were
% we'll armed deputies inside the jail
and any attempt to force an entrance
would he met by shower of bullets.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, at an early hour
this morning, Mrs. Martha Elias shot and
killed her daughter with pistol and then
committed suicide. The mo hor is supposed
to have been insane. They lived alone and
were employed in laundry. A later dis.
patch says that the murder was committed
hy son of Mrs. Elias. who was recently re-
leased from an asylum.
A call has been issued for silver conven-
ton to meet in New Orleans on Monday, June
10. and elect delegates to the Memphis bi.
mt tallist convention of June 10Th and 18th.
The call is addressed to all those who favor
the use of silver and free coinage, regardless
of politics. Nearly all of the signers are
democrats.
George F. Woods, a we'll known farmer in
Rutland, Mass, shot and instantly killed his
son-ia-law, John Adams this morning and
then shot himself. he died within few
minutes. Adams WAS older than his father.
in-lsw. They qusriolled about horse.
While at work in his garden at Charleston,
ILL.,, yesterday, Gen. G. n. Mitchell fell to the
ground and died in few minutes. His aged
wife was so overcome with grief that she died
three hours later.
The Carnegie Steel Company has volun.
'arily increased the wages of sill tonnage. day
and turn men in its various mills, 10 per
emit About 10000 men participate in the
increase.