Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-12-27
TELEGRArHIC BREVITIES.

Andrew 4. Bonner died this morning
OF pneumonia at his lone in New
York. He was the eldest son of Robert
Boaner, and was associated in the pub
LEGATION of the New York Ledger,
which was started by his father. Mr..
Bonner was AZ years old.
l is again reported in New York
that Miss Virginia Fair is betrothed to
young William Z. Vanderbilt, son of
MIR. VIM. <. Vanderbilt. Miss Fair is
one OF the richest and most charming
girls in New York society. Young
Vanderbilt is at Yale and will graduate
in 1900.
Charles Green shot Alonzo Stout
last night in Spencer. Ind, the ball en-
tering the abdomen and resulting in
death this afternoon. Green had driven
over from Bloomington, in company
with the divorced wife Of Stout. Stout
followed them to their meeting and led
in the shooting. Green is in jail. All
implicated reside in Bloomington.
Burglars tackled the county jail at
Brunswick, n. j., last night and re.
lieyed the sleeping sheriff, George Lit
terst, of 500 in cash. The money had
been taken from the sheritf's trousers
which had been laid on chair. The
burglars had entered the sheriff's resi- :.
dence which is part of the Jail build
ing, by a window over the front en-
trance.
In New York to-day W. A. E. Moore,
convicted last week of robbing Martin
Mahon, proprietor Of the New Amster
dam Hotel was sentenced to 10 years
in the State prison, by Recorder Golf.
Moore was convicted ten days ago of
robbery in the first degree, being
charged with working badger game
on Martin Mahon in hotel there last
month. In the trial of his wife Fayne
Strahan Moore for completely in the
robbery, the jury disagreed Sunday.
Colonel Bryan was in Chicago for short
time last night, leaving for Lincoln st ten
o'clock He was guarded in his views on
expansion, but talked freely on the silver
stronger now than it vas two years ago, and
there is no reason, SO far as 1 can see, why
the United States Senate might not be
Louis Lesoime, 12-year-old boy, who was
sleeping IN his uncie's grocery store in New
York, was brutality beaten early this morning
by burglar who, after finding but 50, re-
turned to the boy and asked him where there
was more money. When he said he did not
know the burglar beat him until unconscious.
Physicians believe the boys skull is frac.
iured.
Chas Eagans, of Bridgeport, chagrined at
being detected in robbing money drawer in
a hotel ct Conshoh0cken, Pa, on Saturday
evening of sos. cut an artery in his wrist
and would have bled TO death had he not
called for help. He and Harry Savage, an
accomplice, were subsequently committed to
Jail.
Edward Sparkman while between two
houses on the river front in Decatur, Ala,
last night was passed by two unknown men,
one of whom turned and struck q dirk knife
into Sparkmsn's throat He died before
medical aid could reach him.
Christmas frolic yesterday afternoon in
cclorsd dance ball at Macon. Ga, resulted in
a free-for all fight among soldiers. One man
is dead and two others were fatally shot The
tragedy is supposed to have resulted from
quarrel over woman.
A plainly dressed man, supposed to be
Peter Gupfnger, of Brooklyn, went up into |
the observatory on the dome of the Pulitzer !
Building in New York this morning and COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head and in the breast.
W. a. Feltus, a bicycle lider from Chicago,
lies in St Louis hospital suffering from the
amputation of both feet necessitated By their
freezing while riding wheel from Chicago
to ST. Louis on wager during the cold snap.
The South American general electric sup.
ply company of Schenectady, N. Y, was in
corpOrated at Albany to-day, with capital
Of $780, o1 to deal in electrical apparatus and
devices in South America.
Burglars forced Henry Wis ell & Sons safe
in Baltimore some time Monday night and
secured about 81 900. Dynamite was used.
There is no clue but the work was that of
experts.
The most disastrous confagration which
has boen seen in Newark, N. Y, in years was
witnessed this morning, when the Sherman
Opera House block was destroyed. The loss
will reach 10000.