Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-10-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Rev. @. e. Morrison was hanged TO-
dsv at V,r"on, Texas. for wife murde- Z.
The suspension of Captain q. A.,
Watkins, OF the steamship Paris, has
been reduced from two years to Elk
months.
Mamie Peart, laundry girl in Smith
& McNell's hotel, New York, fell five
stories down an elevator shaft this
morning, and was instantly killed.
Piano manufacturers of Chicago are
threatened with q strike of their work.
mep, who demand recognition OF the
union. If strike is ordered $500 men
will be affected.
Rear Admiral Sampson paid visit
IN his old home, Palmyra, n. Y, today.
He was accorded royal reception.
He was accom- panied by bis wife, who
was also the recipient OF many honore.
By the explosion OF a lamp last night,
at their home in McKeesporf, Pa Mrs.
Susan Henry and her daughter Cora
were so severely burned that they may
die. This makes the fourth lamp ex.
plosion iu McKeesport within two
weeks and a total of five victims. all
women. The first three are dead.
Miller, Bull & KnowltoD, agents in
New York for the New York and Por-
to Rico Steam ship Company, whose
new steamship Ponce was reported
overdue on her maiden voyage to Porto
Rico. received word this morning that
he vessel was passing in at Tybee
Roads. Savannah, Ga, flying signals OF
distress.
Officers reached Knoxville, Tenn,
last night with Albert Brown, recently
sentenced in Macon county for Is years
for criminal assault. eThe people are
not satisfied with the verdict and made
an effort at lynching. The officers es-
capped by circuitous route one bun.
dred miles through the mountains and
eluded the furious pursuers.
Charles Coe, of the 18th volunteers,
en- route to Manila, writes under a
Honolulu date to his wife at Asheville,
n. c., that just before the transport
entered Honolulu harbor, a waiter be-
came i'll and refused medical attention.
Finally attention was forced and an
examination disclosed q woman in
mans attire. She was reporter for
an American newspaper. She was left
in hospital at Honolulu.
Maurice Anderson and Gudmau Thomas, of
the slipwrecked Norwegian bark Drot, who
are charged with killing shipmate Max Hof-
man AID drinking his blood, have been re-
J., r6a ~ ha Not
"he men will be deported to their homes in
N ,rwsy when sufficiently recovered TO travel.
hey have been in the Charleston, s. c., hos
pi.4l since last August when they were taken
here. having been picked of raft off the
Florida coast. They have recovered their
senses bat a still weak
Charles Elliott, white boy, age1 IS and
John T thompson, colored, aged IT, escaped
from thu jamestown, N. J Reform School
last night, but were pursued. Elliott was
! captured. When Thompson realized that the
pursuers were closing in on him and that cap
t IRE was inevitable he jumped into Manalapsn
C eek and was drowned. 1t is evident that
the boy preferred suicide to being captured.
John Walsh, aged so. appeared at the Tam
many ratification meeting in New York last
night and hrandishing long iron bar cried {:
Where is Richard Croker? l want to Kill
him. am his cast.otf brother" The police
decided that Walsh was crank and arrested
him.
The city of Maiden, Mass, which cele
brated its 250th birthday anniversary this
year, last night adopted curfew law requir.
ing children under 16 years of age to be at
home by 8 o'clock, or they will be arrested
and fined So each.
awrence Lewis was accidentally shot and
Ii led by his step brother, George Abbott
today near Millvew. Fla, while Just about to
start on hunting trip The charge from
shotgun blew away the entire side OF Lewis's
face
Edward Slater is dying today from a pistol
shot wound inflicted by Martin Regan, his
brothcr.in-aw, In New York early this morn
ing. The men qusreled over young woman,
Sadie Raymond, whom both loved.
Forest fires continue to rage in central
Pennsylvania. The public schools at Blairs
vile have closed down on account of the
smoke choking the scholars and preventing
their studies.