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Show DIPHTHERIAIM MEW YORK Its Ravages as Bad as Smallpox, and Puzzling the Doctors. - Yanderbilt Ties Up His Property So That Ilis Boys Can't Squander It. Captain Conch Makes a Report as to the Cattle on the Indian -Reservations; A Nero Murderer Jerked. NbwObieaks, December 11. John Alexander Alex-ander (colored) convicted of the nrarder of his wife last February, was hanged to-day in the Parish prison in the presence of fifteen witnesses. Alexander killed his wife with an axe, oat her to , pieces, put her in a sack and buried her in a ditch, where the remains were found several days afterward, leading to the discovery of the murder and the conviction con-viction of the murderer. Alexander professed pro-fessed to nave" been converted to religion andjtoutly maintained his innocence to the last, insisting that another man had killed the woman. The drop fell at 12:51 and he died without a struggle. |