Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The clothing, shoe and queersware
store of A. E. Cox, at Huntington, w
Va, was burned this morning. Loss
$4,000.
G. w. Merritt, a railway postal
clerk of Mansfield, Ohio, was arrested
at Pittsburg this morning for robbing
the mails.
By the explosion of a "dinRy" en-.
CINE on the new street Car line at
TitusVille, Pa, this morning, four men
were seriously injured, two fatally.
A session of the Diocesan Convention
of the Episcopal Church of Arkansas.
held to-day for tie purpose of electing
coadjutor bishop for the diocese, result.
ed in the election of Archdean William
Montgomery Brown, of Cleveland, o.
The boiler in the engine room at the
Glenwood coal mine, near Des Moines.
Iowa, exploded yesterday. Twenty
men were in the engine room and not
one escaped injury. Three were fatal.
~ injured and eleven others were Sc.
riously burned and scalded.
An attempt to hold up and rob
passenger train on the Mexican Ma.
tional Railroad was made last night
near Monterey, Mex, by nine mask d
and well armed Mexicans. The pas.
sepgers made resistance and the out.
laws were unsuccessful. They are be.
ing pursued by soldiers and if captured
will be shot.
The marriage of Miss Marie Hitch.
daughter of Capt. E. V. Bitch, former
ly of New Orleans, to Mr.. Henry
George, jr., of New York, was cee.
brated to-day at the home of the brides
father in Chicago. The wedding was a
quiet one owing to the recent death of
Mr.. Georges father. After wedding
breakfast Mr.. and Mrs. George left fer
Washington.
The northern boundary of the Cripple
Creek gold district has been extended
three miles by the discovery on Copper
mountain of an immense blank vein OF
ore running from $1,000 to $500 per ton
in gold. The gold lies near the surface
and is mined with pillow and wheebar-
row. In the opinion of many mining
men Copper mountain is likely to prove
one of the richest hills in the camp.
Five robbers entered Miles & Hg-
bees bank at Milford, Ind, early TO-
day. They bound and gagged night
Waterman Milton Stiffler. DR.. Black
who was passing on his way home was
also seized and gagged. The robbers
then drilled hole in the safe and seven
charges of dynamite were exploded but
only dis6gured the safe without oper-
ing it. 10 their rage the robbers burn
ed 81, 900 of valuable securities and de.
parted, leaving no clew.
During a jollification last night in
th boarding house aud tailor shop con-
Quoted by Joseph Markwa and Mrs. J.
N. Solomon, in Wilkesbarre, Pa, John
Yuscavicz, a boarder, without apparent
provocation drew revolver and shot
Markwa in the neck and then turned
the weapon on Mrs. Solomon, shooting
her in the neck and side. The would
be murderer was arrested shortly after
the shooting. His victims are still alive
but the attending physicians say there
is but little hope. There had been con-
siderable drinking previous to the
shooting ARRAY and Yuscavicz's only
excuse was that Markwa and Mrs. Sol
ONION had been teasing him. All the
parties are Hungarians.
One masked robber last night attempted to
rob the passengers on st. LOUIS. KeokulS
and Northwestern train. A scuile followed
during which the man made his escape and
without securing any money.
Three men more or less directly connected
with the insurance business F. b. Genin, G.
81. Shade and c. W. Plyer, committed suicide
ia New York city to-day.
WANTS TO GO HoME.-A dispatch
from Whitehall, KY, says: Gen.
Cassius M. Clay is worried because he
cannot go to see his young wife Dora,
who is ill at Valley View. Yesterday