Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-07-25

TELEGRApHIC BREVITIEs.

The large oakum factory of u. B. Wool
ford. In Baltimore, was almost totally de
stroyed by fire to-day.
The village OF Castleton, seven miles north
of Oolborne, Ont.. was almost Destroyed By
FIRE last night.
According to information received from
Mnrren, where Mr.. q. NJ. Stanley is stay.
Ing With his wife, the explorer has fractured
his left lower thigh bone by accidentally
slipping while mountain climbing.
Capt. Armlt, an Eugllshmsn, says he did
three months service In the Chilian navy
and claims that he was unable to get pay
ment for hls services aud that the ssilorF
who fsked for their pay were put In iron.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins-sesrles, wife of Ed
ward F. sesrles, the New York architect,
and widow OF the millionaire Marx HopkiuP,
OF the Pacific Coaet, died at Methuen. Mass
to-day of grip. Mra. searles' wealth Is esti-
mated at $40 900 600
The Gillian warshlp Pres!dsnte Pinto,
which ran aground while attempting to
leave the hafbor of Toulon, France, yester.
has not yet been Haated. She Ia said to be
In critical position. The Balmaoeda c,us
er. Preaidente E rszlriz has arrived at Lis
| bon.
L. il reported Ia London that as result
OF the repeated displays of mutnous con-
duct upon the part Of the Foot Guarda
TIA. all tloae expired men belonging TO the
! BATTALION OF Grenadisr Guards now on ite
asy bone from Bermuda will be discharged
and vii rot bs allowed to re snlist.
a Gfe broke out in B. Cowan s. Co.'S big
qaor h1use il Dallas. Tex, shortly after
Last midnight aud spread rapidly to ihe Ben
Bronx School furniture company's place, the
Brewers storage company warehouse, and
Wofe & Cos cotton gin. Five hundred bales
Of cotton in the gin vas destroyed. a rough
estimate of the less places 1t at 100000.
II ia said that Peof. Koch has not resix 1ed
his official positions Gu account of the fall
ure Of tuberou!ioe or KoonIsm, but because
he le upon the poiut of accepting 6 new of
/ acp tbst Of director OF the Institute OF To-
ieotioue D.sel SEE. which has been organized
l by the German government. Il Is also
ssia.ed that the Academic Senate will be-
stow an honorary ofdce upon Prof. Koch,
aud that this will permit him to lecture
whenever and wherever he plesses.
Capt. Alfred II -dberg, stationed at Fort Sher;.
dan, procured sail boat yesterday and taking
with him tw.lve.yesr old lad snd Private Ny :
er, OF his company, and started out op Lake Mich
igsn. When about hslt mile from shore the
boat cspsized. Tho military post wss quickly
alarmed with fully thousand persons, who could
aee the three persons clinging to the boat. Aid
vas cent and the captain and boy wss rescued
with difficulty. but tho private, who tried to swim
ashore, YVES drowned
| 1t is reported in Portland, Oregon, that Sarah
Be,nh lIdt has written letter in which she dis
closes the fact that her tIue name il King and
that she wAs born in America, her father Kingsley
| King being, of French and Jewish descent, and q
plAsterer living 10 Rochester, N. Y. The story is
that after her mother o death Sarah ran away from
home.
At 1240 this morning very destructive fire
broke out in J. B. Cowan's wholesale liquor house
on Commerce street, Dallas Tex, opposite the
Grand Windsor Hotel, wherein were stored about
| 7OJ barrels of whiskey. Many of the bsrrels ex-
! plo1ed and the flames spread to the adjoining
| buildings doing much dsmsge.
In South Portsmouth, Ky, yesterday. Captain
| John Killen, an old steamboat man, over 70 years
Of age, was struck down and fatally beaten by his
negro servant. whom he roproved for negligence.
The negro can hardly escape popular fury when
Killen dies.
The big railway deal going on between the
Canadian Pacific s. Grand Trunk B. B., will in.
cude the Boston & Maine 3. B. The deal, il con-
summstei, will form one Of the biggest railroad
combinations On the continent.
The mountain fire. that has boon raging near
Lck's Observatory, at San jose, Cal, has been
checked and no further danger to the observatory
is apprehended.
The annual convocatior OF the Grand Chapter
OF the Royal Arch Masons of Canada WAS hold in
Toronto, yesterday.