Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-07-11
Telegraphic Brevities.

80 luIHsCcc VI LILO Succtoue Lii AioS
o Compare, CT Lancaster, Pa have shut
dow, ewing to dullness of the market.
E. ,enat.r Thomas B. McCreery disd al
his he.ne near O8ensboro, Ky, yesterday
in the 753h year of his age. BE had been .
paralytic for years.
Agnes Baldwin, a notorious prostitute, Of
Devils Lake, N D., yesterday murdered
John Knueyat. cut off his head and leea
and buried the body in sack.
Chief of Police Albert W. Wsbb, of Rock
ford, Ills, shot himself through tbs head
last evening. He had forged the pane OF
friend to two notes amounting to 1915
A fight between Jas. Dryer, OF Elizabeth,
and Wm. Dunn, of Bayonne, N. j.. heavy
weights, took place near Sandy Hook at az
early hour this morning. and was won by
the latter in four rounds.
The opinion still prevails at Victoria, B..
G, that two feet sailing craft have been
armed and equipped and sent to Behring
Sea to aid the British sailing vessels to resist
capture by American revenue cutters.
at Ballyneale, Ireland, yesterday, q man
named John Hart murdered his mother and
then chopped her body to pieces. When
the crime was discovered Hart was found
lying beside the remains eating portion of
them.
There is prospect of rate war between
the Canadian Pacific R. r (, and the Pacific
Mail steamship lire. II the railroad per.
sis;s in its course, the Pacific mail steamers
will run to Vancouvre without touching at
San Francisco.
A gas generator exploded in New York
this morning instantly killing Christie Ac-
kert, the fireman and irjaring two of his
sons SO badly that one died shortly after
wards. The widow and mother became in.
sane over the occurrence.
L. Waterbury & Co.'s bagging mills, en-
ploying 500 girls, at Williamsburg, N. Y,
was destroyed by fire this morning. The
flames spread go rapidly that the fremen
had great difficulty In preventing the girls
from jumping from the windows.
The Signal Onics report shows that the
weather throughout the South Atlantic and
Middle States from Georgia northward to
Lake Erie and in portions Of New England,
last oieht, was one of the codest on the
record for this season of the year.
A dispatch from Ithaca, this morning
states disastrous fire ragged in that town
last night end that total of IS buildings
burned. Ithaca is the county seat of
Grstiot county, Mich, on the Toledo aud
Ann Arbor road with population OF 2 600
people.
a lad named Rag Hawk went into an old
escape shalt of q mice at What Cheer, Ia,
yesterday, was overcome by black damp and
fell 10 the bottom. A mlkman who went to
the rescue was also overcome. A man
named Baldwin who also tried to descend,
was overcome, but was rescued. All efforts
to resuscitate the others proved useless.
]. D. Aller. well know western brewer, is pre-
pairing to establish large distilling industry in
opposition to the whiskey trust. He is in Chca-
go for the purpose of sell cting machinery for a
distilling plant to cost nearly 100000.
Tho Henry Mellen brewery in Philadelphia
was damaged by re to-day to tho extent of $780,
600. Two men were hurt by falling wall. Over
100 men are thrown out of employment.
Ths deadlock in tie democratic convention in
the 18th Ohio district continues, and so far no
candidate has been named to rnn against Mr.. Nc
Kinley, republican.
The Pres lent to-day approved the legislative
judicial and exc,utivo appropriation bill