Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-25
Telegraphio Brevities.

The selling price Of glass is to be advanc
ed by the window giaa= manufacturers as
ISOLATION.
Jeremiah Masuise, ex.Speaker ofthe New
York Assembly, dad at 4 O'CLOCK this morn
Ing at EImira.
In New York today, oil jumped up FROM
1881, tbs opening, to 1861, the highest figure
reached 10 q long time.
In Brooklyn this morning sentence of
death was passed upon Charles McElvaine.
under the new law which provides death
by electricity.
The vessel ashore at Cape Henry Ia the
steamer Baltimore. She Is resting easy bow
on, elk bundled yards below low water marx.
A wrscking steamer ia on hand.
George sabourin, eyed 81, a workman on
the new Congregational Church at New.
port Vt, fell eighty feet from the spire
this morning, aud was fatally injured.
The barn of Darius Ciagett, residing in
Montgomery county, Nd, was burned early
this morning. Two years ago his house
and barn were burned by iucendiaries.
Dipatches from the City of Mexico sag {:
Earthquake shocks were felt over large
part Of the country Wednesday evening"
but no damage or loss OF lie is reported.
Fire at Jersey City ibis morning in the
packing house OF Hirs!er Brothers, in the
rear of their pork house, SO Washington
street, destroyed the building and contents.
The loss is estimated ct SIS 5000
Ike Weir, the belfast Spider" who has
been matched by the California Athletic
Club to fight Billy Murphy, the Australian
feather weight champion, arrived at San
Francisco late last night.
! Mr.. Walker Blaine stated this morning
that go far az The reoords of the State De.
partment show the charge of Ramon Argue,
ex-interpreter q. the U. s. Consulate, in
Tangier, against Consul Lewis of withhold
| ing his pay as interpreters unfouudsd.
Much of the business portion of Port
Lsyden, Lewis county, N. Y, was destroy
ed by fire this morning. The Douglass
House, Opera House, eight stores, postofice
and several dwellings were destroyed. Fif-
teen families Lost their homes and much of
their possessions.
The explosion on board the Cunard
Steamer Cepneionia shortly after her de-
parture from Liverpool for Boston, yester
| day has resulted more seriously that was at
frst expected Three of the men who were
| injured have died, and it is believed that
one of the other men who was hurt will not
recover.
Mr.. Michael Davitt resumed bis address
before the Parnel Commission in London,
day. He sad the landlord system in Ire
| land should be- abolished and the land be
vested in the State Eight tenths of the
money which came from America for the
| Irish cause, he declared, came from irish
working men and working women.
1t is said that prisoner who was in the Jail at
Winnipeg with Burke has told his lawyer that
Burke admitted being in the Carlston cottage on
the night of the Cronin murder and said he wit
messed tho commission Of the crime. Another
paisoner says that Burke told him who ordered
the execution, who were present when it was COM
| mtted, and, in fact, everything that relates 10
| the affair.
fire broke out in the steamship Harrogato at
| Savannah, Ga last night and before it was got
ten under control her cargo Of 400 bales of COT
| ton was damaged to the amount of $40, 900.
The extensive buildings of tho Cooperative
Flint Glass Association at Beaver Falls, Pa, woro
! burned last night. Loss between $4,000 and
$4,000.
| The q. S. ship Galena. with q number of rioters
from Navassa on board, has arrived in Chesapeake
bay.