Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-18
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTIES.

Z. ". Curry, chairman Of the Iowa
democratic State committee. DIED 81
De= Moine= to-day.
4 bomb wrapped in oilcloth vas
found at the main terminus Of the
Grand Central Station in New YORK
last night.
The rebel brigadier general Sota,
former president OF Costa Rica, mas
been killed in zkirmish with Spanish
guerrillas On the Havana border.
It Is reported on good authority that
Governor Bradley, OF Kentucky. mas
decided that the extra session OF the
legislature shall begin between January
l and January Is. The governor eI-
poets 10 be elected United States Sena-
tor at this session.
Last night James Piper, a colored
steel worker, employed in the Car
negie Steel Works. 81 Homestead, Pa,
fatally shot his sweetheart, Fannie
Bell, colored girl, and escaped. Piper
had heard stories rejecting upon the
character Of the girl.
Near Clay's Ky.,a farmer named Fer
~, walked into the residence OF James
Irskine, neighbor, and finding his
wife there shot Irskine, inficting fatal
wounds. Ferry had suspected that MS
wife was having clandesEine meetings
with Irskine, VINO was former sweet
heart.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her daugh-
ter. Miss Winnie Davis, arrived il St.
Louis last evening from the south.
They were met by a committee OF dis
tinguished citizens and escorted TO the
Planters Hotel, where they were en-
tertained by the Daughters OF the Con-
federacy.
The twenty.eight annual reunion OF
the Society of the Army OF Tennessee,
began il st. Louis TO day. Many Of
the visitors called upon Mrs. Jefferson
Davis and her daughter, Winnie, VINO
are in the city, to attend the annual
ball Of the Daughters OF Confederacy
here tomorrow night.
Mira. Mary B. Stevens, Of Yale, Ills,
chaplain OF the Grand Lodge Daugh-
tiers OF Rebekah, Of Illinois, while con-
Quoting the devotional exercises OF the
Grand Lodge in the Senate Chamber,
at Springfield, H.. this morning, was
stricken with heart trouble and died 10
ten minutes. She was sixty years old.
In q collision between a helper en-
CINE and the west bound Norfolk and
Chattanooga train on the mountain d.
vision of the Western North Carolina
Railroad near Round Knob this morn
ing, Fireman Howard on the vesti
buled train was killed, and Engineer
Will James so badly injured that he
will die.
The jury brought in sealed verdict
OF not guilty in the Easterlin murder
case this morning in Charleston, 5. c.
Easterlin was accused Of the murder OF
his own two-year- old child, the daugh-
ter of Miss Rose Steinmeyer, young
woman % years OF age, Of excellent
parentage The defence claimed that
the child was poisoned by paregoric
given it by its mother, and that it was
thrown into the water by the mother
or grandmother.
A. E. Alvey who was recently reappointed
secretary of the school board at Tahlequah
I. T., yesterday shot and killed the city mar
shall, Buf Wiley, and Wiley's brother shot and
killed Alvey. The trouble was an outcome |
Of hard feeling caused by the appointment Of
the new board of education.
The dead bodies Of James Ware and Mrs
Ella Ricketts,, wife OF Albert Ricketts,, were
found on the viaduct in Bloomington, Ills,
last night The man had evidently shot the
woman and turned the weapon upon himself.
James Bannahord, who was the defeated
democratic nominee for county clerk at
Pcora, H., committed suicide yesterday by
shooting himself. He had been respondent
since the election.
The executive officers of the railway broth
erhoo1s of the country are to hold a meeting |
in Chicago on Friday 10 determine what meas
nrcs they want to push before the coming
session Of Congress.