Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-31
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

Sam Keyes, the widely known vet
eran turfman, died at his home in Fits
burg to-day in his SEVENTEEN year.
Amadea Chattele, the murderer Of
Jessie Keith, was hanged in the Jail at
Stratford, Ont, at SOB o'clock this
orning.
It is rumored that Lord Sholto Doug.
las and Miss Loretta Adkins, the &c.
tress, were married yesterday in Oak,
land, Cal.
None of the Halls and Royce lynch
ers will be prosecuted. The grand
Jury at Danville, ILL.,, has adjourned
without returning single indictment
against them.
There was collision this morning a
few miles north of Es canada, Mich,
between an ore train and Lemon BrotL-
ers' circus, in which FIVE of the circus
men were badly injured, a valuable
horse killed and several cars badly
wrecked.
Miss Elsie Colman, daughter of the
lite VIM. T. Colman, a wealthy banker
of DuDkirk, N. Y, committed suicide
last night by shooting. Miss Colman
was about 20 years of age and sur
rounded with all the Injuries that
wealth could provide. Her friends
are at a loss to determine why she
should have taken her own life.
At ST. Louis this morning Emma
Moore, called at the residence of Mrs.
Richardson, in response to note stat
ing that the latter wished to employ her
rs q domestic. She was met at the door
by William Ashe, former lover, who
drew dagger and stabbed her in the
back, inficting a wound which will
c,use her death. 1t is believed he
wrote the note and stabbed her as the
result of jealousy.
Molle Wade, aged nineteen years,
C lored teacher in the Dumas School in
ST. Louis, was found dead on cot in a
stable this morning with two bullet
wounds-one in the left side of the
head and the other in the left breast.
Suspicion points to Charles Webb. a
half breed Mexican and Indian, as the
perpetrator of the crime. He was the
last person seen in the dead woman's
company and slept in the stable where
the boiy was found.
A cloudburst is reported near Ozona,
Crockett county, Tex, Monday, in
which a number Of lives were lost.
The remains of five Mexicans have
been recovered. The DEVILS river and
Johnson Draws became raging noun
tain torrents and number of large
ranches are yet surrounded by, if not
covered, with water and fears are felt
for the lives of the many inhabitants in
those localities. Sheep are reported to
have been drowned in large punches
and miles of fencing washed away.
The steamers Norman and Jack were
in collision in dense fog near Middle
Island, Lake Huron, last night. The
Jack struck the Norman amidships,
tearing huge hole in her side and
causing her to sink almost instantly. All
of her crew, with the exception of Mrs.
Reynolds, the stewards wife, Watch
man Bernstein and deck hand, named
TONY" succeeded in escaping in the
steamers small boats before she went
down. These three unfortunate mem.
hers Of the crew could not be reused in
tlme. The Jack was loaded with tim
Der.
Telegraphic advices from over fifty
points in southern Iowa, eastern Kan
sas, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Terri
tory and northern Texas state that
heavy rain has fallen in those sections
during the past "a hours. In some
places it was the first rainfall in over 6
weeks and has been of incalculable
benefit to crops of all kinds. In south
ern Illinois and Indiana the drought
remains unbroken and q scorching hot
wind has done great damage to wheat,
oats and corn. Unless rain falls soon
the crops in these portions of the
States of Indiana and Illinois will be
'tal failure.
Gov. Morton returned to Albany from New
York this morning He said he was feeling
well and ihlt he experienced no ill effects
from his fain.ing spell yesterday.
Mrs Catherine Gicque, SO years old, wife
of Battalion Chief Gicquel of the New York
fire department., was found dead at Long
Branch, n. j this morning.