Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-02
T~ELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

At Ishpeming, Mich, to-day the
steam shovels were put to work under
military protection.
Labor Day was celebrated today in
many of the cities throughout the coun-
try. There were parades, excursions,
speeches, &c.
On Saturday night the Chattanooga
Stove Company shut down its plant,
telling its employees that it would
have no further work for them to do
until the price of stoves went up.
The steamer North Land, on which
we're Mgr. Satolli, Bishop Keane and
other Catholic dignitaries, grounded
near Sault Ste Marie, Mich, this morn
ing, where she remained for some time.
The fishing schooner John E. Nc
Kenzie, from Greenland, which arriv-
ed at ST. Johns, N. F., this morning, re-
ports that the Peary expedition steam
er Kite was at Holstonborg on July Is.
All on board are well.
Dissension marred the celebration of
Labor Day in Chicago, and two rival
organizations of labor marched in sep.
crate parades. This was the result of
the long pending dispute between the
labor congress and the trade and labor
assembly.
Between midnight and daybreak this
morning, Will Butcher, q negro, was
taken from the Hickman, KY, lookup
and shot to pisces by whitecsps. Sun
day night he got into a quarrel with a
crowd of negroes. The police tried to
arrest him, but he resisted and threw a
brick, striking q prominent white citi-
zen. He was finally put behind the
bars. This morning the door of the
lookup was found open and the prisoner
gone. Later Butcher was found dead
on the river bank, with his body riddled
with bullet holes.
This morning at Edwardsville, Pa,
Fred Chapman, a miner, came home
intoxicated and while in this condition
began abusing his wife. A boarder
named William Davis, attracted by the
disturbance, entered the apartment.
The persistence with which Chapman
continued to abuse his wife enraged
Davis, who attacked Chapman. The
latter secured q shot gun and Davis in
attempting to take the weapon froGa
him was shot and his injuries will be
fatal. Chapman is q young about 80
years of age. He was arrested.
This is the first Labor Day that has
not witnessed a general parade of all
the trades in New York city. This fact
is considered significant in labor
circles of the general condition this
year of New York working people.
With but a few exceptions there
are no questions to be agitated
and no victories to be celebrated.
The various labor organizations decid-
ID therefore, some time ago, that q pa
rade was not necessary, and that the
various unions should spend the day as
the individual members saw fit. AS a
result there was to-day a sudden exc.
dus from the city in every direction.
The letter carriers paraded before going
to Philadelphia.
Forest fires burned a huge tree which fell
across the railroad track yesterday, seventeen
miles from Seattle, WASH, wrecking the in.
coming train. The engineer was caught be.
tween the tender and cab, sustaining fatal in.
juries.
The story of Minnie Williams, Holiness al
legged victim, being at Montreal, in the con-
vent of the Hotel Dieu, which was telegraph.
ed to the United States, is pronounced untrue
by all connected with the institution there.
The games played this morning resulted as
follows: Baltimore 6. st. Louis O; New
York 4, Cleveland 3 Brooklyn II, Chicago
3: Cincinnati 4, Boston 3; Louisville -.
Washington 6.
CLAIMS amounting to $44,Ooo.OO0 have
been filed under the Indian depreciation act of
Congress. Texas heads the list with New
Mexico a good second.
A dispatch from Kuttawa, KY, announces
the desth there this morning Of Ex-Governor
Charles Anderson Of that State.