Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-11-04
TELEGRAPHIC BREvrrIEs.

Tho rnn 90 ths Eve Cen. Savings Bank
10 Boston continues this afternoon. The
banking room il crowded, mostly With won.
en-. Il is said tae bank is sound.
Extra guards have been placed on duty at
tho prisons at Tracy City and Iomsu, Tenn.
where there ara $40 convicts, 1t having been
rumored that the mob intendad attacking
the prisons aud liberating the prisoners.
TIE golden Jubilee OF tho BIT. Rev. MGR.
Nicholas Cantwell, vicar.genera! Of the Re-
man Catholic archdiocese Of Philadelphia,
was celebrated this mo:uiog 10 81. Philip de
Nsris church, that city, .! which the ven-
cradle priest has bsen recfor for the past
fifty yes-e. a poD,ifical nigh mass was eel.
ebrated by the r.. Rev. Bishop NcGoyern,
OF Harrisburg, assisted By Archbishop Ryan.
The sermon WAS delivered by Bishop
O'aaro, OF Scranton.
The steamer Empress OF Japan arrived ct Vic
toris, B. G, last night She brings the latest
news from China. The most important news is
of fre 81 Hsnkow which de ,troyed 500 houses.
Over two hundred women and children periahed
in the COZ Il .gration. The fire gave rise to &C.
rlous riot which, however, was soon quellcd,
thanks to thu presence of the sunbosts in the
river.
The New York Prestysery which is to try Pro-
feato. Charles s.. Briggs. OF Union Theological
Seminary, for heresy met this morning in the
Scotch Presbyterian Clurch IN New York with
largo attendance. Professor Briggs Was present
and will plead his own .cass. One of the chief
harges against -. Brisks ihas no disputes the
onerrancy of tho Bible.
The Moors desk works one OF tho largest manu-
featuring concerns in indianapolis, along with
2 0,000 feet Of oak lumber sud three buildings
adjoining the main structure, were destroyed by
fire this morning The loss is $4,000. About
eighty employees ere thrown out of work.
Dispatches from Waterford, lrel,n4, where the
convention of the National Federation ia being
held say hat groa: ex,i cat prevails there. The
streets crowded with upso9Iious mObl of pee
pie ready 70 any hind of disturbance
This morning John Kr mar, janitor in Now
York, ahot his wis with a revolver, causing
fatal wound. Kramer, after the shooting went
to the roof o: housc ard committed suicide By
n9nSlDR ulmeCII III lue uuulDWaiLcT
VIM. Cox and hia OF Wsppela, H., while
yesterday attempting to make deeper an old well,
were ,ufocated by gas and fell to tho bottom.
Their bodies are still In thu well, no Que having
dared to go down af,ey them.
Horace E. Aleo, y prominent oitizan at Bing.
hamton. New York, committed suici'o in the
gray of this morning By drowning himself in
mill race near his residence. Alien wss promi.
nens Mason.
Frank T. Pumner yesterday afternoon found
james Sheridan with his (Plummor's) wife in
Boston, AMI stsbb HIN several times in the alb.
doneo p,obsbly fatally.
The car stsble OF tho Rapid Transit line, of
Newark, N. J.. wero burned down at o'clock
this morning Tbs loss is ABOUT $50 900.
Tony Hart died this mornic al thu Worcester,
Mass Lunatic Hospital, whore be hsd been con-
fined for many month
Elk Governor Albert $. MARKS, OF Tenness o,
died suddenly in Nashville this morning.