Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

lGuEURaI ulO DleGI 1AA0o'
Harriet Jay, the author and actress,
sister-in-law of Robert Buchanan, the
playwright and author, has been de.
clared bankrupt in London.
TIE delegates composing the Massil-
lon, Ohio, district miners convention
decided last night to maintain the sus.
pension until sixty cents is granted
throughout the State.
The New York assembly has defeated
motion to insert the referendum in
the greater New York bill by vote OF
ayes 43, noes SO. The bill was then
passed without amendment.
Two sections of a freight train came
together with terrific force neal
Walkerton, Ind, last night, piling uE
fifteen cars in mass of debris and bury
ing four men under the wreckage.
A tube in one of the boilers Of the
steamer Unique on Lake st. Clair
Mich, blew out yesterday, killing a
coal passer and fatally injuring 8 fire.
man. The engineer was knocked over
board and drowned.
A terrible accident occurred this
morning at West Bingham, Pa, in
which five men were killed and three
fatally injured by the blowing up of an
so horse power boiler. The cause OF
the accident is unknown.
Webster Mott, the seventeen year old
son of State Senator Mott, and Alex
ander Middleton, jr., nineteen years
old, were drowned last evening while
boating on the Mississippi river off the
southern portion of St. Louis.
This morning the towboat Rescue ex-
ploded her boilers just after leaving
lock No. on the Monongshela river.
The engineer and fireman were badly,
but, it is thought, not fatally injured.
Debris was scattered in all directions
and the interior of the boat badly
wrecked.
A veritable Dakota blizzard ragged in
the fruit belt of Antrim county, Mich,
nearly all day yesterday, ten inches OF
snow having fallen. The mercury
dropped to % last night but SO much
snow lay on the fruit blossoms that
comparatively little damage has, it is
believed, been done.
Tie International Bell Telephone
Company, limited, of New York, to.
day filed with the Secretary of State Of
New York a certificate of the reduc-
ton of its capital stock from 81, 100000
to $1,OO0,O00. OF the stock to be can
celled S402,S00 worth was held in the
treasury of the company.
Wesley McCracken, prominsnt cit
izen of Oneida township, Pa, shot and
instantly killed George M. Hawn,
ueghbor, early this morning. They
had been at odds on a dividing line Of
fence between their properties, and one
or the other had been moving the fence
after night on the others property.
An official telegram from Slippery
Rock State normal school, located
near Butler, Pa, states positively that
no lives were lost by yesterday morn
ing's fire which totally destroyed the
dormitory in which $50 boys were
sleeping. There were many thrilling
adventures and narrow escapes, and
many blistered hands from sliding
down rope fire escapes, but no one was
seriously injured.
Miss Julia Phelps committed suicide
at her residence in Brooklyn, New
York, this morning by jumping
from the window of her room on
the third floor to the sidewalk. Miss
Phelps was about 40 years of age and
daughter of the late George NJ. Phelps,
the electrical inventor. Within year
Miss Phelps had also lost brother aud
two other relatives by death and it is
supposed she became temporarily in
sane from grief
Orville F. Roberts, of Baltimore,
until recently student in the Hopkins
Grammar School, in New Haven,
Conn, was before the city court this
morning for stealing bicycle from Le-
roy McKim, Yale sophomore. The
evidence against Roberts was conclu-
sive of his guilt. Judge Cable contin-
ued the case till Saturday in order that
the young mans parents could be mott
fed. Roberts was recently expelled
from the grammer school for alleged
crooked doings.