Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Henry Bollen, ex-city treasurer Of
Omaha, Neb., has been convicted of en-.
bezzliDg the sum of Sl05,50O of public
funds.
The Emerson parchment bag and "a.
per factory has now over 80 hands at
work and is filling large orders most
satisfactorily.
Gov. Buckley, of Connecticut. has
come out for Mckinley for President
and says that the Connecticut delesa.
ton was never for Reed.
Mrs. Heinsnit, Of Fowler. Ind. who
two years ago gave birth to tripets
list night astouuded her husband by
giving birth to six children.
Battalion Chief VIM. Shaw. of the
New York fire department, who fell
from ladder into an elevator shaft
early last night, died this morning.
DR.. w. Johnson, colored, bishop of
the Kansas district of the Mount
Zion Church, was arrested yesterday on
an Indictment charging him with max
ing false pension afIidavits.
On the eve of the launching of the
new steel steamer Sir Henry Bessemer.
at Cleveland, o., to-day, two hundred
iron and steel shipbuilders helpers
struck at Globe Shipbuilding Co.'S yard
for higher wages. They have taken
steps to guard the yard so that no men
can take their places and launch the
Bessemer.
Governor W. Y. Atkinson, Of Geor.
eia, is in New York to dispase of $40.
600 worth of state bonds. He said that
Georgia was perfectly solvent, and be
anticipated no trouble in selling the
bonds. He says: Georgia is for free
silver and will so declare in the state
platform. The gold standard men are
in the minority"
G. B. Smiths feed aud hay storage es-
Enlistment at Newark, n. j., was
burned this morning. Fourteen horses
and two mules were burned to DEATH
Engine No. II collided with tele.
graph pole in going to the fire, and
Driver Fred Young and Engineer Nj.
chael CafIrey were thrawn TO the
ground and severely injured The en-.
CINE was wrecked.
Judge Garrison this morning called
the Camden, N. j., grand iurys atten-
ton to irregularities in the office Of the
city treasurer and gave, practically, in
structions to find an Indictment against
Frank F. Michellon fer embezzlement
and malfeasance in office. He also
instructed them to inquire into the
work of the comptrollers and pracil'
cally instructed them to irdict such
comptrollers whose terms were covered
by the treasurer's alleged irregularities,
Annie Anderson, a servant girl, en-
ployed by Chas. l. Baumgartner dry
goods merchant of Trenton, Nj, was
shot and killed this morning in the
dining room OF his residence. Her
slayer, man unknown to the family,
shot himself at the same time and died
in a few minutes. Annie Anderson
halls from Freehold, N. j., and had
been receiving attention from 8 man
belonging there. The murderer has
been identified as Joseph Graham, a
carpenter. 1t is surmised that he knew
she was being courted by some one else
and that jealousy melted him to EilI
her.
Interviews of the american with tho leli'
ing clcrgymcn of Waterbury, Conn, on iAe
question as to whether bicycling on sunday
is vice or not result i'll unanimous recon-
incubation of Sunday wheeling proH1'hE
church is not neglected, and the outing IS o'
an orderly character.
Charles r. Deacon, press agent ofihe Fhi's,,
delphia and Reading railroad and secretary u
the Glover Club, Philadelphia, died to.dsy q,
his residence in Ovcrbrook, suburb q
Philadelphia. He was fifty years OF age
Tho extensive cotton mills of Samuel KID;
dies Sons, ut Glen Riddle, Pa, were buFhel
to day; loss $4,000. Four hundred HANDS
have been thrown out of employment
The new government cruiser Brook yn . Ell
Cramps ship yard, Philadelphia. to-day 10,
her bliIders' private trial. On Monday 'N'
will have her trial at sea.
The five story building OF the Ledwg ~
yer Manufacturing Company in PhlIade'p"D't
was damaged by fire today to the extent g
$4,000.