Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIgS

during the night at his home in Plain.
field, N. ]. He was man OF wealth
Sugar established a new high reco,d
in the afternoon trading on Wall stres,
to day, advancing to l47 on enormon.
purchases.
Chief OF Police Peter Conlin Of Nam
York has returned from a brief vacs "
ton in the Adirondack Mountains D.
denies that he has any intention Of -
signing from the head OF the police d.
partment.
W. B. P. Perham, grand secrets,r
and treasurer of the Order of RaIwa!
Telegraphers of America, has been -:
rested at Peoria, Ill.,, on a charge Of Vi
olating the federal statutes forbiddin,
the importation of alien labor upds,
contract.
Hon. John II. Reagan, who several
years ago resigned his seat in the L 8
Senate to become one of the railroad
commissioners of Texas, has announced
his candidacy for the seat in the Sensls
occupied by Roger Q. Mills who's
term will expire in 1898.
Two masked men tried to rob NJ.
Theodore YosG in Railway, n. J. la,t
night, as she and her daughter wcrs
going tovisit friend. The cries of H.
women frightened of the woula.b-
highwaymen, one of whom knocked
John McCue senseless for irving 10 in.
tercept him.
Grain for export is beginning to A..
rive in Galveston in lively style. One
hundred and sixty.fve cars have
come in during the past n hour
Three vessels with engagements Of
10000 bushels will leave there before
Saturday night a.. large amount Of
grain Is due to arrive within the neI,
six weeks.
President Mckinley, Mrs. Mckinley
Vice President Hobart and the rest Of
the presidential party left Hotel Cham.
plain at 1890 this morning aud embark.
ed on the steamer Maquamar for Bu,.
lington, VT, just across the lake, to
visit Fort Ethan Allen, where an FL.
cellent cavalry drill had been arranged
Alexander L. James, who claims to
be g vaudeville actor, and Z. J. Curtis,
a cabman, fought duel with revolver;
at short range in Wabash avenue, Chi.
cago early this morning. James re.
ceived shot in the forehead and Cur.
tis was severely wounded in the side.
The trouble was the outcome OF quar-.
rel over a woman. Neither Of the
duelists was seriously injured although
dozen shots were exchanged before
the police arrived.
Two hundred women and girls eu.
ployed at the Fulton Bag and Cotton
mills in Atlanta, Ga, struck this morn.
ing because Of the employment Of negro
help by the management. At noon lhe
four hundred men employed in the mil;
walked out in sympathy with the strik.
ing female operatives. This forced the
closing down of the factory. Striker
gathered in angry groups about The
mills and for time it looked as Il
there might be riot.
One hundred women employed SO
Wrappers in the Rhenauis Silk Nllll:&
College Point, L. l., made demand To-
day for an increase of wages and forth.
unemployment of the men who struck
two months ago in consequence ofar'
duction in their wages. The propns
tor refused to grant the increase 10 tie
women, neither would he re-engsgs
the old weavers. The women there.
upon held meeting and passed resoll'
tons to strike. Proprietor Funke :sy;
that before he gives in, he will clOs
down the works for an indefinite period.
A German farmer named John MOu-
lik, with his wife and six children ms
wagon, attempted to drive scross Holly
woods highway crossing of the Ontario
and Western Railroad. near Rocklard
(N. " station, yesterday, ahead Of 80
observation engine. The pilot Of the
engine caught the hind wheel OF The
wagon, lifting the vehicle in the all aud
hurting it with its load Of human freight
down the embankment to the bed Of
rocks in the Willowemoc river, d.
lance of fifty feet below. One girl va:
almost INSTANTLY killed, another diedo
her injuries shortly after, and soothetk
believed to be fatally injured. ID;
others were more or less bruised $40
hurt. The officials assisted IL ft'
cuing the party.
The Hawaiian government, decided Ial
% to issue no more six months reside1s
permits to Chinese. 1t is also sisted iAN
there is in contemplation plsu FOR sio.k.s
the islands with colored lsboreTs from *
cane plantations OF the United States
A cloudburst has occurred ST Castle boz.
Col, causing the most serious 1ood eve
known in that county. In feT minutes -
less than 8 hundred bridges or Plum GT''
and its tributaries were washed away
All records were broken by t1e 'e@F
yesterday at the San Frsncisco mint S-s-
SO, $50, 900 in gold was deposited ioF o'I'.i
It is said that this far exceeds any snse Jay
deposits st any one mint.