Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Ponciano Diaz, the most famous
bull.iehter in Mexico, has been fatally
gored by bull at Cullican.
Ex-Congressman Richard Vsu1, who
has been i'll at his home in Philadelphia
with the grip, died this morning. he
was "a years of age.
Almost the entire business portion OF
the town of Fort William, west Or
.ario, was burned last evening. Six
teen buildings were destroyed.
At mass meeting, representing one
thousand Beaver Valley miners at New
Castle, Pa, yesterday, it was decided
that unless the old scale of wages was
restored a strike would be ordered
Saturday.
Mrs. Belle B. Trou', wife of q lead
ing merchant at Findlay, O., sued the
proprietors of the Cafe Royal for 81 ,OOo
lost at poker in that resort: The
Jury yesterday returned a verdict al
lowing her So, 5000.
The dressed meat companies of Kan
sas City and Chicago have been thrown
into great excitement over the intro
duction 10 the Minnesota Senate of a
bill to charge ten cents for the jnspec-
ton ofevery piece ofmeat brought into
the State.
VIM. c. Apologize, the Lexow COM
mittee green goods witness, was SEN
fenced in New York to-day to two
years and three months in State prison
by Judge Fitzgerald in general sessions
court. The offence alleged was the
theft of an overcoat.
The heaviest sale of grain, in vol
ume, ever made in the st. Louis mark
ct was consummated yesterday. 1t
consisted of 100000 bushels of No. 2
corn. The shipment is to be made
between now and April 5, and
goes by rail to the Atlantic seaboard
Miss Anna Boyd, the actress and
singer, now filing the title role In
aladdin. Jr," will, it is announced,
wed Mr.. Tunis F. Dean, the manager
of Harris's Academy of Music, in Balti,
more. The ceremony, it is said, will
take place early in the coming summer.
A special freight train comprising 29
cars, all loaded with Pepperell and La
coma mills cotton goods, consigned to
Shanghai, China, left Biddeford, Me-,
this morning. The train will run to
Vancouver without change. This is
one of the largest shipments ever made
from Biddeford mills.
In Detroit to-day, Mrs. Reading left
bucket of gasoline on her kitchen
table. Later her daughter, Mrs Ed.
wards, supposing the bucket contained
water, poured the oil into kettle on
stove. There was an explosion which
burned Mrs. Edwards and her little
son, the latter fatally.
DR.. Robert Buchanan, the wife muir
derer, whose conviction was confirmed
by the court of appeals some time ago.
was brought to New York from Sing
Sing prison this morning, and was taken
to the court of General Sessions for re-
sentence. Recorder Golf fixed the
week beginning Monday, April %. as
the date for the electrocution.
While one of the girls employed by
the Square Match Company, Chicago,
was pulling out crate of matches this
morning, one of the matches ignited,
setting fire to the boxes, and in a mo-
ment the factory was in flames. The
employees, most girls, became panic
stricken and a number of them jumped
from second story window. -Four
were injured in the crush or by jump.
ing. The fire was extinguised before
much damage was done.
The large O'Neill elevator, with about
| ~ 600 bushels of gain, aud the Northwest
ern Railroad depot, at st. Charles, Mimi,
were totally destroyed by fire this morning.