Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

| Frank G. Ives has accepted the offer
of Vignaux to play 5000 point match
game at IA inch balk line billiards for
$4,000 side.
Seven persons were injured in troll
ley car collision in Brooklyn, n. Y,
last evening and it is thought two of
The victims will be crippled for life.
At q joint session of the republican
members of the Colorado Legislature
held last night U. S. Senator E. 0. VOL
colt was by unanimous vote nomi-
mated to succeed himself.
Franks Knitting Works at Herndon
Stand, Belmont avenue, Ch;"ago, are on
fire. A large number OF girls employed
in the factory became panic-stricken
and rush resulted. Five of the girls
ere reported fatally injured.
Sacramento, CAL, is wildly excited
over regular epidemic of crime, and
IL looks as though vigilance commit
tee would be formed as this means of
clearing the city of desperate criminals
is favored by prominent citizens.
The police of Cleveland, o., have in
custody two men whom they believe 10
be the murderers of VIM. II. Price, the
well-known printing press manufactur-
or, who was shot down in his own home
b. burglars about three weeks ago.
Joe Roundtree,. "a negro, at Indianola,
Miss, last night cruelty beat his wife
and burned his house down on her to
complete his murderous attempt. Elk
element among the negroes is almost
uncomfortable, and lynching is feared.
Charles II. Kohler, a well-known
and wealthy citizen of San Francisco,
president of the Kohler and Frohleing
Wine Company of that city, committed
suicide at midnight last night, by taking
morphine. He carried very heavy in
surance on his life, said to be $4,000.
Fireman Charles Snyder was crushed
IN death in wreck on the Ohio
So ltIern road near B inbridge, Ohio,
last night. The operator at Greenfield
did not stop the south-bound train for
orders and it crashed into the north
bound train. Engineers Summers and
Crawford, and Brakemen Davis and
Mendanhall were injured, but not seri-
ously.
Fred. Roehm, a Is year old boy, has
made confession concerning the part
taken by him in the Severson
murder at Medora, n. d. He says
Wadsworth promised him 5000 to shoot
Severson. He told him when to pull
the trigger and the deed was done.
Wadsworth is partially paralyzed and
the boy says the old man could not
pull the trigger himself
The Chicago grand jury investigating
the States Attorneys m ethods of doing
business reported to Judge Tuley this
morning generating States Attorney
Kern from all criminal wrong doing,
and declaring that he had done no more
and no less than his predecessors in the
Office. The report recommends, how
ever, that the system of collections and
bail forfeiture be reformed.
A remarkable gold story comes from
Marvellous, Mich. Four miles south
Of that town there is an elevation OF
and called Patterson's Hill. A month
ago an alleged clairvoyant went there
from Decatur. He said he had receiv
ed certain signs and began digging for
gold. The earth was found to be quite
Itch with mineral, and it is claimed that
the dirt yielded 500 to the ton.
Paul Cassard, the six-year-old boy
from Arlington, Md, and the seven
patients from Salem, N. j., who are
under treatment for hydrophobia in
tn Pasteur Institute in New York, are
reported to be doing well. DR.. Gibier
said this morning that the patients
from Salem will be discharged on Sat
urday. Paul Cassard, who was inocu
lated on Sunday last, will remain at
the institute until January 49,.
Judge Lacombe, in the United States
circuit court in New York to-day hand
ed down an opinion in the case of the
Chinaman Lee Yuen, who, it was claim
ed, was illegally admitted into the
country. Judge Lacombe dismissed the
writ OF habeas corpus obtained in be-
half of Lee Yuen by exJudge Curtis
and sustains the finding of U. S. Com
missioner Shields which was that Lee
Yuen must be returned to China. Judge
Curtis will carry the case to the United
States Supreme Court in Washington.
a cutter containing Mrs. Robert Hughes
/: nd Mrs. Owen Larkin and driven by son
of Mrs. Hughes. was struck by passenger
tain near ithaca, n. Y, yesterday. All three
occupants of the cutter were instantly killed.
The husband of Mrs Hughes had been in the
cutter and being cold, had got out, and was
walking short distance behind the cutter
when the accident occurred.
The village of Perryville, Ohio, was visited
by a most disastrous conhagration this morn
ing. Eight business places, including the
leading stores and postofice, we're consumed
John Bergamin so years old, and his
wife Kate, 70 years old, were found dead this
morning at their home in New York, sutio- |
Gated by escaping gas.
THRAsHED HER HUsBAND.-JacobI
Craig, jr., wealthy old butcher of
Pittsburg, Pa, was cowhided about 3 |
o'clock Saturday morning at his stand |