Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-09
TELri;, i BREFll'iES.

OF the Ohio river are closed owing "
the rise In the price of coal. Nine hum
dred men are thrown oui OF employ
ment.
Chicago is threatened with curtail.
mept of her milk supply in consequence
of the drought which has almost en-
tirely destroyed tie pastures OF the
surrounding country.
Robert Benton, who yesterday beat
his wife with club until she was insen-
sible and then fred two bullets into his
head, died 10 Newark, n. j., to-day.
His widow will recover.
Jacob Fisher, Dunkard preacher
from Mexico, Ind, hanged himself dur
ing fit of melancholy in livery stable
on north Meridian street, Indianapolis,
last pight, and his dead body was found
to-day.
The remains of former United States
Senator John R. Mcpherson, who died
in Jersey City last night, were sent to
Washington this afternoon by the Con-
gressional limited train Of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
AS a result Of his dissatisfaction over
Referee Green's decision in giving the
recent fight to Solly Smith, George
Dixon, has agreed to meet Smith III a
finish fight for the championship some
time next February.
General Horatio G. King has been
nominated for Congress by the Shepard
or Independent democracy of the Third
district of New York, where vacancy
exists in consequence of Francis b..
Wilson's resignation to accept the post
mastership of Brooklyn.
United States Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, made his first public appear
aDce before the Hawaiian people on the
evening of the SOth ult. at Kaiwaiaho
Church, Honolulu, on which occasion,
at the instance of several prominent
Hawaiians, be delivered sr address to
the natives upon the benefits of anne1a-
ton.
The run which began on the City
and District Savings Bank of Montreal
yesterday was resumed this morning.
Yesterday the bank paid out over
100000 but no large deposits were
withdrawn. The capital stock of the
bank is $2,O0O,000. Mayor Wilson has
offered to pay $500 for every $100-share
of the bank stock offered to him.
The Luetgert trial has inspired Chi
cago playwright to write play entitled
1.-THE Sausage Maker of Lake View"
It's premier production will be given at
Milwaukee avenue theatre on Sunday
night. The story of the play the author
has carefully shrouded in mystery, but
some startling and realistic scenic re-
presentations are to be expected.
The extensive chair manufacturing
plant of the Artemus Merriam Com.
pany, at Westminster, Mass, together
with other property, has been destroyed
by fire, causing loss of upwards OF
$4,000. Mr.. Merriam. the principal
owner, who Is critically i'll at his home,
Jaw his factory burn to the ground from
the window of his room. he is not e1
pected to live more than few hours.
Announcement is made that DR..
Thomas w. Evans, the American dent
list of Paris, whose wealth is variously
es mated at from $50, 600, 900 to $35,
100000; will spend part of that huge
fortune in founding and maintaining
educational institutions in different
ci les of this country-Philadelphia
Minneapolis and st. Paul and possibly
New York, Cincinnati and Chicago.
The expected decision in the South
G .rolinsl.dispensary case, involving the
charge made by Bluthenthal and Bick-
art, of Atlanta, that there was collision
between the South Carolina authorities
and the Southern Railway to prevent
transportation of whisky into the State,
was not rendered by United States
Judge Newman in Atlanta, Ga, to. day.
Ex.Judge Augustus M. Cunningham,
of New York, died suddenly from heart
failure at the Bungalow" his residence
in s.; nth Kingstowp, r. l., last even
ing. Judge Cunningham was associat
ed with General Roger A. Prior, in the
famous Tilton Beecher suit, and also
with General B. F. Butler in the Gov
ernor Sprsgue controversy in Rhode
Island. He was 45 years of age.
Four diamond rings worth 81 300,
lost by Mrs. Caldwell, a guest of the
Strathhaven Inn, Swathmore, Pa, have
been recovered. The gems were care
lessly left on stand in the bath room,
wrapped in tissue paper, which SER
want carelessly threw into the water
sink. The waste pipe emptying into a
creek was examined, and in section of
this pipe, only few yards from the
creek, the valuables were located.
Within few days contract will be
awarded to Delaware river shipbuild-
ers for the construction of two and pos
sibly four of the feetest cossting steam
ships flying the American flag. The
ships will be built to the order of the
bidders for the United States mail con-
tract between New York, Havana, Cuba,
and Tuxpam, Mexico, and an e1pepdi-
ture of 81 200, 900 will be involved. The
ships will be at least 1000 tons register
and about 4S feet beam, 2l4 feet deep
and from $40 to 400 feet long.
A sensational lawsuit involving the
names of several prominent business
men has been begun in the Supreme
Court, of New York, Robert Clarence
Dorsett suing bis former partner,
Thomas 8. Ormiston. the Corn Elk
change Bank, Lincoln G. Mccormack,
as executor of the estate of Fannie |
Mccormack and others. Dorsett asks
for an Injunction restraining the Corn
Exchange bank and others to whom he
transferred his property from disposiug
of it pending the trial of the suit and
also for dissolution of the partnership
of Ormiston & Dorsett.
There are decided Indications that the deal