Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-26
TELEGRApHIC BREVlTIES.

There is no truth in the report sent
out yesterday that q. S. Senator
Stephen B. E kins of West Virginia
severely injured his ankle by falling
from bicycle.
A sensation has been caused in local
labor circles by the arrest at Bridge
port, Ohio, to day, of John Edwards,
secretary of the local miners union,
charged with embezzlement of the
funds of the miners union.
Fire broke out in the Chamber of
Commerce building, Minneapolis, MINI,
this morning and completely Quilted
the two upper floors. The loss will
not exceed $4,000. The cause of the
fire is supposed to be electric wires.
The bowsprit of the United States
naval vessel Alert, was broken by
accidental collision with the British
steamer Condor, at Guayaquie, Equa-
dor, yesterday. Considerable damage
to the forepart of the Alert was done.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt says that
Marble House. at Newport, R. l., will
be closed for the season Friday and
that she and Miss Copsuelo will leave
for their New York home TO remain
there until after the wedding in No
vember.
Charles Cooper, who accidentally
shot and killed his mother at Har-
wood. Pa, few days ago and was re-
leased from Jail subsequently, was ar
rested again yesterday upon the advice
of the district attorney. Cooper will
now to stand trial.
The delegates to the Irish national
convention at Chicago re-assembled
this morning, but the report of the
committee on resolutions not being
ready recess was taken until noon.
In the meanwhile nearly thousand of
those present signed petitions to Con-
gross in favor of recognizing the Cuban
patriots as belligerents.
To save the life of her baby boy,
tot of three years, Mrs. VIM. Dickin-
9 N, of Neenah, Wis, suffered herselfto
be trampled to death by runaway
team of horses yesterday. The child
had been left in the wagon while the
parents did some shopping and the
team, becoming frightened, broke loose
and dashed down the street. Mrs.
Dickinson attempted to stop them and
was kicked and stamped to death. The
baby was taken from the wagon I'M
hurt.
At daylight this morning workmen
| found the dead bodies of a young man
and woman lying in a pool of blood
near the eastern entrance gate to Tow
er Grove Park, st. Louis, Mo-, with
bullets through their right temples. A
note pinned to the clothing of the man
read Goodbye to all. She shot her.
self and I shot myself" The bodies
were identified as those of Della Bowan
and Joseph Renisch. The police are
inclined to the belief that Renisch kill
cd the girl and himself as the result of
lovers quarrel.
At Wilkesbarre Pa. to-day the case against
Our men and one woman who are charged
with blowing up Hungarian shanty on the
Wilkesharre mountain, in October last, with
dynamite and killing four of the occupants.
was given TO the jury. Judge Woodward
characterized the crime as the most fendish
in the criminal history Of the State and in
structed the jury to find verdict of murder
in the first degree or acquittal.
Alfred L. Avery, bookkeeper and conf
Dental man of Mersmore Gannett & Co., grain
commission men, at St Louis, No, has disap.
peared and his balances are said to be short
$4,000 Avery is also short 81 700 which
he held as secretary of secret order.
The barkentine Retriever has arrived at
Port Townsend, Wash, from Hopolulu, hav-
ing OH board seaman with what is suspected
by the quarantine officers to be case of
cholera.