Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-16
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIEs.

The General Assembly ofthe knight.
of Labor, in session at Louisville, Kv
this morning selected Chicago as the
next place of meeting.
The steamer Belgenland, which ar.
rived at Philadelphia this Afternoon
from Liverpool, is reported to have on
board the crew of the Boston schooner
Theodore Dean. 1t is said Captain
Hodgdon. of the schooner, was lost.
The argument for recount of the
rejected ballots of the special election
held in New Jersey in September for
amendments to the constitution was
concluded al Trenton to day. The
court took the papers and reserved de.
cision.
LA. Wipstandley and c. ]. Freder.
ick, president and cashier respectively
of the defunct New Albany, Ind, Bank.
ing Co., were arrested in New ALBANY
this morning and taken to Jefferson.
vile to answer indictments charging
perjury.
President Fetterolf, of Girard Gel.
lege at Philadelphia, has issued an edict
against football, and henceforth the
students of the institution must keen
off the gridiron. The ban Oh football
was the result of boy having his leg
broken last Saturday during practice
game.
Representatives of Sharky and God.
dard have selected Bob Macarthur. a
we'll known devotee of boxing aud
prominent member of the Olympic
Club, to referee their contest on next
Thursday night at San Francisco Cal.
The Knickerbocker CLUB has matched
Dial Hawkins .4nd Eddie Connolly to
fight twenty rounds at 1870 .pounds
December 16.
After a prolonged session the drec.
tors of the Delta County Bank, at Del.
ta, Colo., to day concluded to suspend
business and place the institution in
the hands of an assignee. The bank
has been regarded as one of the sound
est on the western slope. The capital
stock OF the bank is $4,000 and the de.
posts at this time, as near as can be
learned are $4,000.
L. D. Spickler, q farmer, living near
Gushing, Ia, yesterday shot and killed
his wife and blew out bis own brains.
The wife was shot in the breast and did
not die fer several hours. Four children
are made orphans by the tragedy. They
were the children of the woman BY
former husband. Spickler separated
from his wife over year ago on &C.
count of family troubles.
The company officials have notified
the striking TRAINERS of the Atlantic
mine, at Houghton, Mich. that unless
they return to work to-day new men
will be employed in their places. Agent
Stanton says that the company cannot
grant raise in wages nor dismissal of
the boss trammer, as demanded.
Trouble is predicted when the company
begins filling the strikers places.
AL Hayman has decided to dispose of
bis theatrical interests in San Fran
cisco. Action has been taken to dis
solve the corporation which be organ
lied in 1891 and which has since con.
trolled the Baldwin and Columbia
Theatres. It is believed that the
leases of these two places OF amuse.
ment will pass into the hands of Fried.
lander, Gottlieb & Co., as Mr.. Hay
mans associates do not care to retain
them.
Or. ]. B. Webber and selden Weber, Of
Warsaw, Ind have fallen heir to en- Cd
Dutch estate which will net hem $4,000
each The founder of the estate, which sg.
gregstes S45 100000, was wealthy Ant
werp merchant, who disinherited his son and
entailed his fortune to the third generation
of his descendants. The Dutch government,
as trustee of the estate, has just identified the
heirs
The coroner's jury at Pas,aic, N. ] render
ed verdict to-day, holding Thomas Welsh
and George Cameron responsible for the death
of George Nixon. Of Garfield, N. J who was
killed in brawl at McCabe's Hotel last Sum
day week. The row arose out Of the hiding
of Nixon's bicycle which he had left in rack
at the hotel door while ne went inside for re.
freshments.
Lindsey Neighbert. who shot Mrs. John
Henry OF CINCINNATI, o., on November >,
wounding her severely and who himself was
shot either by his pursuers or by himself,
Jumped from the wind ow of the hospital last
night snd was killed by the fall.
The store house of the Woolsey Paint Works
il J-rsey City fell to-day Twenty-Five peo-
pie who had been employed in the structure
had sufficient warning TO enable tsem to ea.
cape, and no one was hurt The loss to tho
company will be about $4,000.
]. F. Herman, for years prominent st-
torney of Olathe, Kans.. who was to have
been tried in Lawrence on tho cqarge Of OBJ
tanning money under false pretences, killed
himself last night by taking carboic acid.
dispatch from Chatham. N B., that the
schooner Janet A. wss lost Tuesday night q
las. week, of Fox Island. The bodies OF
three men and two women who were aboard
were washed ashore.