Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-30
T~ELEGRApHIC BREYITIES.

LIZ ID SAID tnaG Japan w agreed 10
accept 10000, 900 taels as extra indem-
nifty for the evacuation Of Liao-Tong.
1t is said that Senator Quay of Phils-
delphis has his eye, upon the govern
or's chair and will be a candidate for
that place in 1895.
A special from the City Of Mexico
snys that lightning struck a house near
Crox yesterday killing five persons
and seriously injuring four others.
Henry Freeman shot and killed Boyd
Arnett yesterday ut White Oak, Ky.
The trouble arose over some Don
shine whisky. Freeman gave him.
self up and was lodged in jail to pre-
vent lynehing.
By q collision of two street cars in a
dense fog on the electric car line
between Peru, Ills, and La Sale this
morning, Joseph Ross, a resident of
La Sale, was instantly killed and sew
eral others were slightly injured.
The steamers Nico and Newago,
both with consorts, and the steam
barge Churchill came into collision in
the Niagara river off Germsnia park,
Buffalo, this morning, and it is report
ed that n of them was sunk.
An attempt to kill Sherlffserviss and
possibly blow up the Middlese1, N. j.,
county Jail, was made at noon to-day.
The sheriff received @ brass cylinder In
8 jewelry box to-day which proved to
be a dynamite bomb of crude construc.
ton.
A train on the Manhattan Beach
Railroad, bound for Long Island City,
crashed into a truck of the Brooklyn
fire department last night. The engine
cut the truck in two, smashed an ex-
tension ladder, and scattered the fire
men on both sides of the track, injuring
five of them.
After an inquest lasting nine days
Coroner Fitzpatrick's jury of experts in
New York brought In yesterday q ver-
dict declaring that the fall ofthe Ireland
building, in West Broadway, was due
to insufficient foundations, and declar-
ing the architect and contractor and
their immediate assistants and the
building inspectors In charge to be re.
sponsible for the fifteen lives sacrificed
in the collapse.
The list of those supposed to be dead
in the two mines at Central City, COL,
numbers sixteen. William Prisk was
reached alive. Ten men are known
to be dead under two hundred feet of
water. -Four are possibly in the tun-
mel. 1t is comparatively dry, but the
water having cut off ventilation the
gases will kill the imprisoned men.
Volunteers this morning we're trying
to force their way to where the en-.
tombed miners are supposed to be.
Ajury this morning at Lancaster, Pa, rem
dered q verdict for 1854 in favor Of
Frank Musser, Of that city, against the Lam
caster Street Railway Company. Musser lost
his right ann by the breaking Of q cable used
by the company to steady its cars in running
q. I'm q steep hill. Tho evidence showed that
the cable was insecure.
Counsel for leila Nicolaus, at Jersey City,
+ to-day applied to Judge Lippincott for per.
mission to amend the original complaint of
his client for assault and battery against
George j. Gould by adding that Mr. Gould
did in April, 1893, in New York city, wrench
and assault leila. The court granted the
permission and q separate suit for $4,000
for assault will be brought sgainst Mr.. Gould.
The report telegraphed from Birmingham,
Ala yesterday that the Carnegie Steel Com.
pany had purchased $4,000 tons OF southern
pig iron for use in the basic open hearth steel
plant is untrue.
The Macon and Northern Railroad Com
pany will soon become q part Of the system to
be known as the Central (of Georgia. Railway
Company.
Patrick O'Day, who killed his wife because
of jealousy in Pswtucket, 3. l., last week,
suicide in the State prison last
night.