Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-15
TELEGRAPHlC BREVIIIES.

The Iowa State republican conven-
tion met at Des Moines to-day.
Governor Matthews, of Indiana, will
be candidate for United States Sena-
tor before the next legislature.
Lieber's monster brewery at Indian
apolis, the largest in the State, was al
most completely destroyed by fire last
night. The loss will reach 100000.
The right OF a creditor to use pots
al card in making statement of in
debtedness came up before the United
States Commissioner at Chicago yes
terday and was upheld.
Salem, ILL.,, paid Der farewell to-day
to VIM. ]. Bryan in grand demon
stration that exceeded by far the pyro-
technic reception given him on his ar.
rival there Monday night.
The State bimetalic convention at
Des Moines, Iowa, has endorsed Bryan
and Sewall, and the State delegates
were instructed to vote for them at st.
Louis.
The Buffalo, n. y, Times, demo
cratic, announces to day that it will
support the Chicago platform and
ticket, and is opposed to the nomira-
tion of a third ticket by eastern demo-
Gratis.
Senator Villas has called & meeting of
the four Wisconsin delegates-at-large TO
the Chicago convention, at Milwaukee,
on Thursday, at which they will pre-.
sent plan of action for the gold stand
ard democrats.
A storm that struck Grand Haven,
Mich, last night was by far the worst
city alone it did $4,000 damage. The
wind blew ninety miles an hour. The
city was left in darkness, as the wires
and poles went down in al sections.
Mrs. B. F. Marshall, Mr.. Bryan's
aunt, at whose house in Salem, Ills,
the Jennings and Bryan family gather
ing was held yesterday, met with Sc
rious accident this morning. A porch
pillar against which she was leaning
gave way throwing her to the ground
five feet below. Mrs. Marshall landed
on her head and shoulders in pile of
rocks and received severe cash in the
head. She is suffering from the shock.
Despite her sixty years it is believed
she will recover, but she is by no means
out of danger.
Senator Hill, who registered to-day at the
Hotel Normandie, New York, said that he
and Chairman Hinckley, of the State commit.
tee, had an informal conference with VIM. c.
Whitney at the latters house last night.
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Their deliberations, the Senator added, were
in no sense determinative. They had dis
cussed the situation and considered the ad
visibility of calling formal conference of
democrats, and probably some such action
would be taken AT Mr.. Whitneys house the
same information was given; there had been
private, indecisve conference last night,
nothing more. Senator German, who is still
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, also said he had
not been at Mr.. Whitneys house: he
knew of no conference then or in prospect.
He had declared himself for the Chicago
nominees, and there was nothing more for
him 10 say.
The trial of Adoiph Berschkoph charged
with murder by means of arson, ended in the
Criminal Court in New York this morning
the jury rendering a verdict of murder in the
second degree When the verdict was an.
constantly at his side during the trial, which
lasted over three weeks, created scene by her
screams and lamentations. The prisoner,
however, received the verdict unmoved
Hcrschkoph was accused of engineering an
alleged gang of fire bugs that built numbers
Of fires in New York and Brooklyn in order
to collect the insurance money.
Henry Cook, saloon keeper, in Portland,
Ore, this morning shot Mrs. E. f. Mari,
lodging house keeper for whom he had de-
serted his wife and family, and then sent a
billet through his own brain.
William J. Oberlin, one of the best known
citizens of Massllon, Ohio, was found in bis
office yesterday with bullet hole through
his heart. Financial trouble prompted the
act.
The steamer Vigilance from Havana arriy-
ed at New York this morning. Among her
passenger was Gen. Bradley T. Johns,n, the
Havana correspondent of a New York paper
At the populist State convention to be held
at Grand Island, Neb., it seems beyond any
doubt that Bryan instructions will easily
carry.
The United States and Hayt Telegraph
and Cable Company was incorporated at Al
bany, N. Y, to-day with capital of 81 500
600.