Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-15
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BRETITIES.
Peter Wagner, a driver in Brooklyn,
this morning, in jealous rage, shot
his wife and then killed himself.
Eli Perkins has sent letter to Chair
man Carter, of the republican national
committee, stating that he has deserted
Harrison and Is coming out for Cleve-
land.
it is reported negotiations are nearly
completed for the absorption of the
Postal Telegraph Co. by the Western
Union. Officers Of both companies deny
the report.
Henry Watterson has been selected
to oficiate as chief orator at the Worlds
Fair dedicatory exercises next week
in place of Representative w. c. r..
Breckenridge.
At Columbia. s. c., to day, Col. Jas.
H. Morrow, the well-known horseman,
was convicted of procuring an abortion
on Collie Fowler and sentenced to six
years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Ressler, son and two daughters
tried to board a train at East Cone
maugh Furnace, Pa, this morning,
when another train came along and
struck the two daughters, Sadie and
Ida, killing both.
DENTON, Tex, was visited last night
by severe electrical storm. Several
houses were wrecked by lightning. A
boat on Red river was struck and sunk.
This was the first rain that has fallen
there since August.
The whalehack steamer Joseph r.
Colby came up Delaware bay to-day
bearing the first cargo of iron ore from
the new mines at Sigua, Cuba, which
are being worked by company of
Philadelphia capitalists.
A mountain of carbonate of zinc has
been discovered near Hillsboro, New
Mexico, the ore of which is worth
about $35 per ton in the market of st.
Louis and Joplin. Missouri. For years
the ore was thought to be lead.
The Broadway Railroad Company, of
Brooklyn, which for the last 25 years
has been owned by Edwin Breers and a
few friends, has passed into the hands
of Drexel, Morgan & Co. Mr.. Samuel
Spencer has been elected president.
BY the arrest of Francis C. Hewitt,
the city wcighcr of Wall street, New
York, it has been discovered that Hew-
lit cheated the United States out of
$4,000. There were 950,O pounds of
sugar admitted free of duty by under
valuation.
An attempt was made this morning
to burn the five story tenement, No.
1870 Attorney street. New York, but the
plot miscarried owing to the vigilance
of a policeman, whose prompt action
averted what might have proven to be
a terrible disaster.
The souvenir testimonial of solid gold
presented by the Gillian refugees to
Hon. Patrick Egan, U. S. minister TO
Chill, in testimony of their gratitude
for his aflording them an asylum dur
ing the late revolution, has been COM
pleted and is now on exhibition in New
York.
The Chicago suburb of Glencoe is ex-
cited over the discovery of gas and oil
in the vicinity. An artesian well at a
depth of $50 feet disclosed oil which
shot up 10 a height of thirty feet above
the surface. When the flow subsidized
gas was emitted which burned for two
days and nights.
A fire this morning destroyed the
finest block in West Point, Miss. loss
$4,000. The Masonic Hall, Y. N. C.
A. gymnasium, a livery stable, includ-
ing large amount ofstock. the Metho-
dist Church, Knights of Honor hall,
Knights of Pythias building and sew
eral newspaper offices were burned.
BY the breaking ofthe cable CARRYING
a large mud bucket in the Ninth street
sewer excavation at Altoona, Pa, this
morning, John Young's head was
crushed and he died on the way to the
hospital. Last evening at supper he