Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-03-17
TELEGRApHIo BREvITIEs.

A cyclone passed over Neyland, Texas,
and vicinity last night which caused
much damage.
Dispatches from indianapolis are to
the effect that about three-ifths Of the
miners voted against strike.
Louis Mary Fink, Roman Catholic
Bishop of the diocese of Levenworth,
Ks, died today, aged 70, of pneumonia.
A report reached Boston today of the
shooting OF three Jewish political pris-
oners in Siberia for asking for more to
eat.
P. F. Raynor, a Consolidated Ex-
change member, announced his failure
in New York this morning The failure
is small one.
Charles Brown, prisoner, hanged
himself in the State prison at Trenton,
N. j., today, and fight occurred there
between two runners.
The anthracite mining districts of
Pennsylvania are anticipating big rush
market after the first of April when the
price of coal will be reduced 80 cents
ton.
Ex-President Cleveland last night
denies the report that he is to become a
Freemason He says he never had the
slightest intention of applying for men,
bership.
Fire is raging in the oil fields at Bat
son Prairie, Tex. Several large oil
tanks exploaded, spreading the flames
with great rapidity. The loss is thus far
estimated at 81, 900, 900.
The Minnesota republican State con-
yention at Minneapolis today was sol
idly for Roosevelt Resolutions endOrs-
ing him and urging the delegates to vote
for his denomination were adopted.
Henry T. Thurber, private secretary
to President Cleveland, during his sc =
ond term, died in Detroit, Michie an,
today. Mr.. Thurber was operated upon
for appendicitis two weeks ago. He was
SO years old.
The residence of George Cayer, one
of the jurors in the trial of the Chicago
car barn murderers, was last night set
afre by supposed incendiary, who has
written Mr.. Cayer threatening letters
for voting to convict the bandits
Michael Kinney, fifty years old, an in
mate Of the Buffalo, n. Y, aims
house, is dead, aged lO4 years. After
spending the early part of his life
wandering about the globe, Kinney was
penniless 10 1853 and went to the aims
house.
In state of collapse and with his
reason tottering because of illness, Harry
|. McAlpin, aged 80, of Allegheny, Pa,
fired three bullets into his wife, Anna,
and cut his own throat with piece Of
glass. Before cutting himself he swal-
lowed bichloride of mercury tablets. He
died at $50 this morning. His wife
will live.
rhe Iowa Supreme Court has render
ed an opinion in favor of Andrew Me-
Clurg, deacon of the Methodist Church
of Valley Junction, and against the
mayor and the chief Of police of Des
Moines, whom he sued for damages be-
cause they burst into his house at night
and arrested him on the theory that he
was a chicken thief, because bloodhounds
had followed a trail from a hen roOst to
the deacon's residence.
While the French line steamer La
Bretagne was proceeding to sea this
morning, she ran into and sank big
Baltimore and Ohio car float, laden with
ten cars, off Liberty Island, New York.
The cars were loaded mostly with ma
chinery and sank at once. The float
was in tow of the tug Narragansett and
the men in charge OF it escaped by board
ing the tug. The La Bretagne sustained
only slight damage to her bow and pro
| ceeded on her VOYAGE to Havre