Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-01
TELEGRArHIC BREVITlE.,s

Uso IS!bO, once celebrated tenor
ami the leading man for Patti, died last
night ct the detention hospitaliu Stock
ton, Cal. He was well connected in
England.
There will be no police interference
with the Sharkey-Jeffries fight in New
York Friday night The police ar
rangements will be very similar to those
paevailiog at the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
contest.
In the village of Williamson, n. Y,
Yesterday, the relatives of Mrs. Vashti
Futile gathered to celebrate her Tooth
birthday, some coming hundreds of
miles to be present. Mrs. futile was
Us active and clipper as could be.
1t is stated today that robbers looted
an express train in Denison, Texas, last
night and mortally wounded Messenger
w. F. Concannon and secured $4,000.
No one has been found who saw any
one enter or leave the coach and no
noise was heard by trainmen or others.
Concannon has not regained conscious.
ness.
A peculiar attempt at suicide took
place on Baltimore & Ohio train this
morning, while running over the trestle
across the meadows near Elizabeth, N.
J. A man giving his name as Lafayette
Iugraham of Wilmington, Del, leaped
from car and plunged head first into
Inc marsh. He was taken to hospi-
tai. He will die. EIe gave no reason
for his action.
Methodist ministers in Chicago as
sert that President Mckinley has vio-
lated the vows of the Methodist Church,
of which he is a member, in drinking
various liquors at the banquet given in
his honor at the Auditorium during the
fall festival. They declare be should
he disciplined for the violation OF these
VOWS. 1t is said that the matter will be
acted upon at the Chicago Methodist
Minister'S meeting next Monday.
"Dr.n John Alexander Dove, who had
been kept q prisoner in the Oak Park
Church in Chicago by mob since 1880
last night, Was rescued today by SER
geant and twenty policemen. DR."
Doves meeting was one OF the most
tumultuous be has ever held. His
ZION Guards" were pelted with eggs
and stones, windows in the building
were broken and one of his followers
was severely beaten by the crowd.
Roland Burnham Molineux will 20 to trial
for the murder of Mrs Kate ]. Adams, on
November ID. before Justice Furstman in
the criminal branch OF the supreme Court OF
New York The date OF the trial was dch-
nitely fixed by Justice Furstman this morn
irg upon tho application OF Assistant District
Attorney John +. Mcintyre.
Red ants stung to death four.year-old
child at Millhem, Tex, yesterday: Tho ant
hill On which the child was standing, caved
in and before the child could be rescued, the
insects lad stung it so severely that death re-
suited in few hours
Emil schif. q years of ago, the son OF
Theodore Schtf, a New York multi-million-
afro, will serve four years In Texas peni-
Tertiary for forging checks. His father re-
fused to assist him.
Thieves entered tho general store at TIu.
tnansburg, N. Y, last night and carried OF
$500 worth of goods before they were DIS
covered by the man who slept on the prem
Uses.
! Vice President Hobart passed comfortable
night, slept fairly we'll and took little
nourishment this morning. There Is little or
no change in his condition since yesterday.
By tho explosion OF boiler in the stee
works at Sheffield, Eng, today four mer
werc killed and "a Injured.