Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-27


The main stand and cottage At the
Louisville baseball park were destroyed
by fire about midnight last night.
George T. Comstock, formerly chief
justice of the New York Court Of APP
peals. died at Syracuse this morning.
VIM. Mayer, aged Is years, Of
Adamstown, Pa, while ont cunning
last evening with his father accidental
~ shot and killed himself.
Cardinal Gibbons will take part in
the unveiling of statue ofColumbus in
Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, on October
u and will make anaddrcss.
There will be no color line at the
University of Chicago, which is TO open
its doors for the first time on Saturday
Quite a number of colored persons Of
both sexes have applied for matricula
ton.
The body of Patrick sarsfeld Gil
more arrived at the Grand Central de
pot, New York, this morning. The re-
mains were taken directly to the resi-
dence of the late musician Mrs. Gill
more has agreed to military funeral,
which will take place tomorrow.
Commodore Miller one Of the most
notorious desperadoes in the southwest
of Texas, overpowered his guards yes
tcrday and arming himself with their
weapons, liberated y fellow-convicts,
who were with him working in the
quarries near Dallas, Texas, and made
his escape.
The scatiolding around the new
Broadway church building in Camden,
n. j., fell this morning carrying with it
/ three men, who fell about 40 feet on to
Il pile of stone. One was hurt so badly
that he died soon afterwards, another
is expected to die at any moment and
one may recover.
The Ophir farm mansion, near White
Plains, n. V, the country residence of
Whitelaw Reid. was the scene this
evening OF an interesting wedding, the
contracting parties being Miss Ella
Spencer Reid. niece of Whitelaw Reid,
and Judge Ralph Chandler Harrison,
of California. The bride is % years Of
,nc while The groom is SO.
T. r.. Vincent was killed at Kansas
City, Mo-, last Saturday, by what was
supposed to be accidental contact with
an electric wire. Yesterday it was
found that his death was caused by two
other employees playing a practical
joke upon the unfortunate man by at
taching the electric light wire to piece
of machinery which Vincent handled.
At the Ryan slate qnary, Moore
township, Pa, yesterday, George Sis
sler, ir., was instantly killed and Lucas
Smith badly burned about the face and
eyes by premature explosion. They
were engaged in removing powder from
hole which had failed to discharge
when the accident occurred. SISTERS
head was split in half and his body torn
to pieces.
-Four mail-wagon drivers were arrest
ed in Philadelphia late last night and
federal officers are seaching for a num-
Der OF others on the charge of robbing
the mails. The thieves have been sys-
tcnaticaliy abstracting valuable pack
ages of merchandise for a long time
from the vans which carry mail from
the postoflice to the railroad depots.
Large amounts have been lost in this
way.
The boiler of the locomotive on the
Tennessee coal and iron company's
branch line to its mines near Coalburg,
Tenn, exploded yesterday with fatal
results. Engineer John Elmore was
blown into fragments, some of which
were picked up 300 yards away. Fire
man Ben Garner, Conductor w. n.
Lambert and colored employee
named Sam Esth were seriously hurt.
1t is supposed low water in the boiler
caused the disaster
While in the act of writing Il bogus
check in the office of Atwood, Violet s.
Co., in New Orleans, w. R. Cossett, the
embezzling cashier of the Peoples Bank
at Hope, Ark, was arrested yesterday.
Cossett robbed the bank and made off
with the funds of the county school
board, of which he was treasurer.
A special from Howard, S. D., says a fire,
supposed to have been started by children has
swept the whole side of the business street,
causing loss estimated at 100000. R. b.
Aliens mother and wife, an old couple, lost
their lives while saving household goods.
A terrific wind and snow storm prevailed
on Mt. Washington last night, the wind reach
ing velocity of 100 miles per hour. Wire
communication with the Glen House and the
summit is cut off and trains cannot get down
the mountain on account of snow and ice.