Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-23
TELEGRAPIIlC BRETITIES.

TELEGRAPIliC BREllIIES.
Baeder's hotel, near Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, was destroyed by fire early
this morning.
Hon. Charles Richardson Miles, q
prominent South Carolinian, died at
Charleston to-day.
Officers of the Gillian navy will give
a ball at Valparaiso Saturday night in
honor of the visit of the American
squadron.
President-elect Cleveland denies that
he ever offered the office Of the Chief of
the Secret Service Bureau to Superin-
tendent Byrnes.
]. NJ. Fisk, director of the Ameri-
can Exchange Bank, died suddenly at
the Office of the president of that in
stitution, in New York, this morning.
A bill is to be introduced in the Mich
igan legislature the object of which is
the unseating Of the democratic presi-
Dental electors who have been officially
declared chosen.
In an old feud over the location of q
county road near Snowhomish, Wash,
resulted yesterday afternoon in the
murder of two well-to-do farmers by
two boys, fourteen and fifteen years of
age.
James Houseman, whiteman, was
found guilty in Henrico County Court,
Va, this morning, Of Il criminal as
sault on his y year old daughter, and
was sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentiary.
The British schooner Chautauquan,
from Dcmarara for Halifax with cargo
of molasses and rum, was dismasted in
a fierce gale yesterday, forty miles
north of Kitty Hawk. She is now of
shore signalling for a tug to assist her.
Nearly four hundred railroad en-
ployccs of South Carolina met last night
and decided to organize the industrial
Union OF South Carolina" to fight the
present State administration. All la
boring men in the State will be invoked
to join the union.
Burglors broke into the house Of
Warden Louis d. Pilsbury, on Black
wells Island, n. Y, Wednesday morn
ing, and stole big cedar chest con-
tanning $1,000 worth of silverware
and got away. Mr.. Pilbury slept in
a room about ten feet from the treas
ure chest.
Fire broke out in the village of Mag
nolia, near, Dover, Del, at 9 o'clock
this morning and came near destroying
the entire town. The fire started in
the postollice and general store of Will
liam Grace, destroying that property
and other buildings. Loss about $212,-
900. All of the mail matter in the
post-oilce was destroyed.
The Chicago express train on the
Santa Fc road, was wrecked at Prinn
station, at two o'clock this morning.
Several cars left the track and plunged
down an embankment fifty feet, piling
up the cars in heap. Fire broke out
almost Immediately and added horror
to the scene. Two passengers were
fatally and five others serious injured.
Frank Mclean, metal worker, has been
arrested in West Superior, Wis, 1t is said he
is 4 member of an active and dangerous gang
of countcrfciters. A large quantity Of coun-
terfcit coins dies and metal was captured.
Other arrests will be made. Six months ago
silver countorfcits of all values from dimes
to dollars, appeared in nearly every promi-
ncnt city in the country and the West was
literally flooded with the bogus coins, which
were of a particularly dangerous character.
A serious wreck occurred on the c. H. {; D.
railroad about 1 o'clock CHS morning, between
Deshler and Bellevue, Ohio, resulting in the
death of Robert Demming of Lima, and the
smashing of about thirty cars, The trains
which came together were two freights. The
cngnemen saved themselves by jumping.
The wreck is one of the worst the c. II. & D.
ever had.
The announcement was made in Chicago
this morning that the last big opponent of the
Edison General Electric Company has sur
rcndered-thc Westinghouse Company hav
ing turned its Worlds Fair lighting contracts
over to the Trust. Mr.. George Westinghouse
wi a is in New York denies the report.
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