Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.


Wm. T. Master YVES to-day iuaupu.
rated mayor of Baltimore.
A mob last night raided the toll gates
in the vicinity of Nicholasville, XIV
Eight gates on FIVE of the pixies were
destroyed.
The supreme court of New Jersey to.
day denied the application for a re.
count of the votes on the anti-gambling
amendment to the State constitution.
The twin daughters of Christopber
Cross, of Toronto, Ont, were as.
phyxiated by coal gas last night. The
gas escaped from the stove. The child.
rem were about 10 years of age.
The advance sale of seats for the
University of Pennsylvania. Harvard
football game, which takes place on
Saturday has been unprecedented. The
indications are that over 25, 900 persons
will witness the great struggle.
In Topeka. Kas. to-day ex-senator
W. A. PETER sold his paper, the Adyo.
cate, to Col. T. W. Harrison, ex. Mayor
of Topeka. The Advocate is weekly
and the official paper of the State. Col.
Harrison says the paper will not be con.
tinued as a populist paper but will be
independent.
A passenger train on the Cleveland
Canton and Southern Railway was
wrecked this morning at the approach
to bridge over the Pettibone brook
Two of the passenger coaches rolled
over the embankment into the ditch
Sixty persons were aboard, but only
three were injured.
Relatives of the late John B
Ketcham, of Chicago, will contest his
will, if such an instrument is in ex.
istence, on the ground that he was not
only of unsound mind at the time he
may have signed, but for ten months
previous. Ketcham's two brothers and
sisters will also deny that their brother
was legally married to Minnie Wallace
Walkup.
Mrs. Tillie Dabp, aged IS years, was
shot in the hip at her residence in Phil.
adelphia to-day by man named r lex
wart, who boarded with the family.
The latter then put a bullet through
his own head and died shortly after bis
admission to ST. Joseph's Hospital,
where he was taken Immediately after
the shooting. No cause is known for
the shooting.
Ex-President Cleveland said in
Princeton, N. j., to-day to representa-.
tive of the Associated Press: 1.-The
number and heartiness of the congrat.
ulations we have received on the birth
of our son are so gratefully appreciated
that wish you would convey through
the Associated Press our thanks to all
the kind people who have thus given
proof of their friendliness.n
Reports have reached Cincinnati of fight
which took place nine miles from Barbours.
vile, Ky, at the edge of Knox and Clay
counties, between John Smith and Fred
Harkler over debt owed Hsrkler by Smith.
both parties drawing revolvers at the same
time. Smith was shot nesr the heart anu
Hsrkler Was shot twice, both dying in an
hour after the quarrel occurred. George
Frankler. while trying 10 part the two, re-
ceived q very serious wound in the arm close
to his shoulder.
Senator Perkins of California declares that
he is opposed to the granting of territorial
form of government to Alaska at present.
When Congress convenes he prop ses TO in
troduce a joint resolution providing for the
appointment of commission to prepare civil
and criminal codes for the government OF
Alaska. The Senator favors the plan of Louis
Sloss to divide Alaska into convenient dis.
tricts, each to have u 8. commissioner em.
powered to enforce the laws
Ella and agnes Frensdorf, two handsome
little girls, were sent over from Germany to
live with an uncle in this country but he re-
fused to take them, and they made a enc at
the New York barge Office yester ay They
will probably have 10 go back. Their moth
or is dead and their father blind.
At the session of the Knights of Labor at
Louisville, Ky, yesterday the assembly pass
Cd resolutions expressing a strong sentiment
against the formulation of An arbitration
treaty between the United States and Eng.
land
The coal operators of northern Illinois have
refused to arbitrate their differences with the
striking mixers, and the mi ers will hold
at Streator on Friday to consider
what further action shall be taken
e. E. Adler, of New York. makes re.
statement about snother man hay-
lrg contracted marriage in his name in Ne.
braska BE says his wife obtained divorce
fr IN him for this reason.
Heavy rains and floods prevail in the south
Of Frauce and all railroad communication be.
tween Spain and France has been cut of
The damage cannot be repaired for several
lays
TbeJapanese government has demanded the
sum of 100000 in gold from Hawaii. by
way of indemnify in connec ion wit the
affair.
A catboat manned by three men was upset
n s9uai in ehinnecok Bay. Long ISL d,
asst night and all OF the crew were drowned
Bob Isom. the we'll known light weight col
,red jockey, died in San Francisco last night
You can't afford to risk your life by allow
ng cold to develop into pneumonia or con-