Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-19
TELEGRApHIC BREYITIES.

aO 4N0W OStSSy ASeADAAehA h~o~sS
convention met at Trenton today.
The Lake Superior miners strike is
over and the men are returning to work
at the offer made by the companies two
months ago.
The Duke of Marlborough will visit
the Atlantis Exposition in company
with Mrs. w. z. Vanderbilt and Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt the last of the
week.
There is strong presumption that
E. F. G. Woods, president Of the Dry
Goods Bulletin Publishing Co., at Chi.
cago, was either drowned or committed
suicide yesterday in the lake.
Reports from yesterdays cyclonic
storm which swept over various por-
tons of Michigan show that several
lives were lost and fully $50, 600 worth
of damage was done to crops and prop
erty.
A Dispatch from Rio Janeiro says the
Brazilian government has decided that
if England establishes q cable station
on the Island of Trinidad the British
minister at Rio Janeiro will receive his
passport.
Ross G. Van Bokelen, receiving teller
of the Merchants Loan and Trust Com
pany at Chicago, is missing with about
$50, 900 of the money belonging to the
institution. Mr.. Van Bokelen is sup
posed to be in Mexico.
Some of the buildings of the Milwau.
kee house of correction were complete
~ destroyed by fire last night. The
200 prisoners made frantic but ineftec
tive efforts to escape. A fireman was
buried under q falling wall and fatally
injured.
1t is reported that an immense guam
tity of rifles, ammunition and other
military stores intended for the Cuban
insurgents have been found on the
British Island of Andres, in the Ba-
hamas. These stores, it is said, were
secretly shipped from New York.
A defalcation of s19.8O0 on the part
of the receiving and paying tellers OF
the National Bank of Illinois, at Chi
cago, was admitted this morning by the
officers Of that institution. The names
of the defaulters were withheld. The
shortage has been made good.
The large saw mill of Frank Weekly,
located near Proctorville. Ohio, was
blown to atoms last evening by the
boiler exploding. The proprietor was
blown to pieces, some parts of his body
being found one hundred yards away.
Two employees were also killed and
several others slightly injured.
John L. Sullivan will begin fare
we'll tour of the principal cities of the
United States about September 80.
Paddy Ryan will probably be his spar
ring partner. Sullivan hopes to corn
m oney enough on this tour to pay all
of his debts and buy farm somewhere
in New England. He hos not touched
wine for several months.
One wall of the old Colonnade building fell
in Nashville. Tenn, this morning, barying
ak workmen under the debris. 1t was
thought at the time that they all had been
cru he'd to death, but after an hours work
they were all dug out alive. Come of them
were badly injured. The Colonnsde is q very
q u LIEU Wac uoiDe WALL oOUAs
A dispatch from Cuba says that great alarm
and excitement have been caused in Havana
BIZ wholesale arrests OF persons suspected OF
sympathy for the rebe ion. Already 10 per-
sops are incsrcerated in Moro Castle,
Freda Bordoman, nine years old, while try
ing to enter her homo In New York yesterday
evening by a FIRE escape, fell Ave stories and
struck the pavement, but escaped apparent
injury and was playing two hours later.
Tne Americas Cup Committee has replied
to Lord Dunraven's LAST letter, placing the re.
sponsibility on him for failing to sail the Val
kyrie over the course in the last cup race.
Miss Julia Stevenson, daughter of the Vice
President, has, it is said, broken her engage
ment with Mr. Wat Hardin, jr., of Danville,
KY, the cause assigned being i'll health.
Champion James J. Corbett yesterday be-
gan training at his quarters at Interlaken, NJ