Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Andrew Malinak, the self confessed
murderer of Mrs. Michael Kmetz, made
an attempt in New York to-day to
smother himself in his cell. He crept
between the mattresses of bis bed and
tried to pull them tight over his head.
He was discovered before he succeeded
in sufocating himself.
DR.. J. Bruce Chittenden, who is in
structor of mathematics in Columbia
College, New York. and philatelist OF
note, has been robbed of collection
OF stamps which he values at IS, 600.
The stamps, which were mounted and
bound in an album, disappeared week
ago from the doctors desk in his resi-
dence.
& notice has been posted at the Nau-
makeag cotton mills at Salem, Mass /,
to day announcing that the entire plant
will close on Monday, August 2, for two
weeks. The mills have been running
on four days time for the past few
months. The shut GOWN will throw
1900 hands out of work.
By decision handed down to-day by
Judge Brown, in the United States dis
trict court at New York, the interna-
tional Navigat on Company must pay
$3.50, 600 to the Merritt Wrecking Com
pany, the Chapman Derrick Company
and the Insurance Company of North
America for saving the American Line
steamship st. Paul, which went ashore
at north Long Branch on January "a,
1896.
AID employe ofthe Lake Shore boiler
shops made a sensational discovery
this morning when cleaning the ashes
out of pit where boiler plate is heat.
ed. Undr two feet of ashes be fonnd
Is 50-calibre cartridges, l $50 calibre
cartridge, nearly six inches long, and
bomb filled with dynamite and powder.
BY some it is thought the explosives
were placed in the pit for the purpose
of injuring the men who teok the
places of the striking boiler makers.
Charlotte Smith, of Washington, has had
memorial to Congress prepared and will have
it presented by Congressman Simpson, pray
ing that law be enacted compelling men to
marry She gays there are 1000, 600 wo.
men who are unable to obtain husbands or
remunerative employment.
Jenison Park Hotel, summer resort on
Mattawa I axe, Mich. was burned early this
morning There was hundred guests in the
building. There were several narrow es-
capes and few clothes were saved. Loss on
building $25 900. Mrs. Frank Dean Of Gin
cinnati lost several thousand dollars worth Of
jewelry.
g. Koztoski and s. Wittkowski, two well
dressed Polsnders, were struck and instantly
killed by fast freight train at Burlington,
n j., this morning. They attempted to cross
the track in order to go around train stand.
ing OH siding, and in so doing, stepped in
front OF the fast freight.
There is q movement on foot among the
democrats of Rhode Island in case the resg-
nation of Prof. Andrews, of Brown Universi.
ty, is accepted, to make him the democratic
candidate for q. s. Senator.
n big British flag which hung lsst night
across Cleveland street, Brooklyn, WAS found
this morning to have been torn and cut in
piecee, besides Being bespsttered with mud.
E1-United States Senator Doolittle, Of Wis
consin, who is i'll with Bright's disease, is
very weak and his death may be expected at
any moment
Lillian Russell has gone to North Dakota,
where she will institute suit for divorce from
her third husband, Sgnor Perugini.