Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

1t is reported that serious accident
has occurred at the experimental STA,
ton at Oden, n. j., by which several
persons were killed.
Chase's big grain elevator nj eth
street and 11th avenue, New York,
caught fire at lao this afternoon. Three
alarms were sounded.
The Southern Manufacturers Lum-
Der Association in session at Kansas
City yesterday adopted price list on
yellow pine slightly in advance ofthe
schedule established in Memphis last
May.
supt. Byrnes, of New York, said Ibis
morning that he knew nothing regard
ing the information contained in the
dispatch from Pittsburg which says that
an anarchist named Aaronstaun had
left New York for Pittsburg a couple Of
days ago with the avowed intention Of
killing II. C. Frick. Supt. Byncs
places little faith in the story that such
a person has gone to Pittsburg to kill
Mr.. Prick.
A severe Thunderstorm prevailed in
the vicinity of Buzzard's Bay, Mass,
this morning. AT Monument Beach
the Keith and Dunbar cottage, occupied
by George Alden, shoe manufacture
of Brockton, his wife and two children
was struck by lightning. Mrs. Alden
was instantly killed. A house a few
feet away, occupied by Rev. S. $. Sew
ard, of New York, was also struck, in
stantly killing the cook.
Miss Katie Smuck, of New York
city, who was bathing in Lake Keuka
near Hammondsport, N. Y, Wednes-
day, was lying on the shore with her
feet near the water, when large white
fish, rarely seen in the lake, weighing
over 4 pounds, jumped out of the water
and caught one of Miss Smucll's great
toes in his mouth, biting it quite Sc
verely. The fish was caught by a
young man named Bradley with his
hands and taken home and cooked for
supper.
Thomas Morgan, well-known young
man of Carmichaels, Pa, fatally shot
his father and sister yesterday after
noon. The trouble leading TO the affair
was opposition to the prospective mar
riage of John Morgan, the father. Yes
terday young Morgan protested
with his father against the mar
rage, but the latter was obdurate.
This incensed the son, who drew re-
volver and fred, but instead of hitting
his father, he shot his sister Callie. The
father then fed, but the young man
followed him to a vacant house where
he shot him six times. Young Morgan
has not yet been arrested, having shut
himself up in his fathers house. His
friends believe that he will.kill himself.
A west bound Big Four passenger train col
lided with an east bound local freight at SD
ney, Ohio, last evening, wrecking both ell
gines. A mail car was whirled down the
embankment against dwelling house. The
fireman of the passenger train was fatally IN
jured, and the engineer slightly.
Jas. G. Patterson, of Hartford who blnt
Connecticut's great marble capitol building
and now has the granite contract for the -
100000 National Library building in WASH
ington, says the granite cutters in New Eng
land have lost in wages by their strike about
$2,Soo,O0o.
The work of inspecting the tenement house
districts in New York in search of smallpox
was begun to-day. Up to noon but one c''''
was discovered.
Gov. John Young Brown, of Kentucky, de-
nounces as forgery his signature to any Pc
tition to commute the sentence of Col. A'nS'