Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-15
TELEGRATHIC BRETITIES.

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Yazoo City Miss, is added to the list
of infected cities. Two cases were an.
nounced there yesterday. Jackson has
Is new cases; Taylor, l; Oxford; Madi-
son, 6; Poplarville, u; Hattiesburg, 3;
Waveland, 2. Natchez partially raised
the quarantine yesterday.
The sale Of the Ohio Southern rail-
road was made at Lima, o., to-day.
Only one bid was made, and that was
by Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, who
bid for W. A. Read, New York chair
man of the first mortgage bondholders
committee, aud presented the deposit
demanded. He bid 100000.
This afternoon the second army corps
at Camp Meade passed in review before
Major General Graham, 1t was a
practice review and was witnessed by
thousands of visitors. General Graham
will make selection to-day Of the regi-
ments and battalions which are to rep
resent the corps at tne Philadelphia
peace jubilee.
Leighton Lee, prominent engineer
of Philadelphia, while attempting to
board an elevated train in Chicago yes
terday missed his footing and fell head.
long through the tresslework, landing
on a picket fence % feet below. He
sustained fracture of the left leg, 8
similar injury to the right arm, wound
over the right eye, and internal Injuries.
Fifty seven negroes who were on the
train attacked by the striking miners
at Virden, ILL.,, Wednesday, arrived at
st. Louis last night. They were sent
from Springfield yesterday, they claim,
with the understanding that they would
be taken back to their former homes at
Birmingham, Ala. On being unloaded
they found themselves stranded. They
left Springfield with the understanding
that they were being sent away by the
Governor of Illinois. Six of the guards
wounded at Virden also arrived in st.
Louis last night.
Official courtesies between General
SKATER and General Miles during their
stay at Omaha, Neb., were confined to
the two passing each other in the Mil
lard Hotel corridor few minutes after
the formers arrival in Omaha. Gen.
Shafter said "Sent my card to your
rooms q few minutes ago. and you
were out" Gen. Miles replied: "Sor-
ry; wont you come up?" Gen. Shafter
replied: "Sorry, too, but the commit:
tee is waiting for me. Hope we shall
meet again." Gen. Shafter stayed
away from Gen. Miles's celebration,
and Gen. Miles stayed away from Gen.
Skaters celebration.
The schooner Churchill sunk in Lake Mich
igan, 20 miles off Waukegsn, Yesterday dur
ing fierce storm. The captain and mate
were drowned and four members of the crew,
woman, were picked up by the
steamer Majestic. Shipping suffered heavily
during the storm, which began Thursday
Dispatches from Michigan last night stated
that passenger steamer supposed tc be the
City of Grand Rapids, was ashore near New
Buffalo.
D. 81. Fulton, President of the Fulton Coal
Company, was held up in Chicago last even
ing by three negroes, beaten into insensibility
and robbed of $400 The robbers then threw
him into closet and locked him in. he
was found late in the evening. He was badly
hurt Fulton is the republican candidate for
the legislature in the Fourth district.
Charles E. Cornelius one of the best known
members of the Allegheny county bar, and a
prominent Mason, was instantly killed by be.
ing struck by train at Sewickley, Pa early
this morning. The body was horribly mutt
lated and the head discovered.
Private A. D. Wood, Second West Virginia
regiment, died suddenly at the hospital at
Carlisle, Pa. yesterday from typhoid fever.
The deceased was 81 years old and son of
David Wood, of Char ,estown, w. Va.
Denver" Ed. Smith, the pugilist, who was
reported dead by a western sporting man now
in Chicago, is alive aud we'll in Dawson CITY.
He conducted sporting resort in Victoria, B.
G., for some time.
During the celebration OF peace jubilee in
Altoona, Pa yesterday afternoon, eight men
were seriously wounded in q sham battle.
One had an arm torn Off and another hand
shattered.
Levi Letter, the Chicago millionaire, has
arranged TO purchase the magnificent man
sion at No. 1 Carlton House Terrace. London.
for his daughter, Lady Curxon the Vicereinc
Of India.
There are no new developments to-day in
the mining troubles in Illinois The train
load OF negroes expected to arrive in Virden
failed to appear More soldiers are on the
scene.
The steamer Cambria, OF the Bangor and
Bar Harbor line, went ashore at Bass Harbor
and will be a total loss. Her pas
sengers and freight have been taken of.
Mrs. Louise B. McVey. who shipped as a
stowsway from Seattle for the Klondike in
August year ago. has returned to San Fran.
cisco worth more than 100000.
Cyrus q. and Harold F. Mccormick, of
Chicago have offered to give $4,000 to the
100000 endowment fund for Car.
-oll College, Wsukeshs.
A statue of Rufus Choste was unveiled to-
lay in the Suffolk county courthouse IL Bos-
on with considerable ceremony.
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