Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-26
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

! lneTc were 100 ueaIns lIoiu ehoiSi' IA
that city yesterday.
The Queen City bank of Buffalo, n.
Y, and the New England bank of
Minneapolis, Mimi, suspended to-day.
John Fitzthum was electrocuted at
Auburn. N. Y, this morning for the
murder of Peter Roehrl on April 4,
1892.
Judge Blatchford, who is at New
port, Il. l., is reported to be in the
same condition as for the last three or
four days.
Samuel S. Dreher, judge of the court
of Monroe and Carbon counties, Pa,
died suddenly of govt this morning,
aged SO years.
There is much excitement by the ac-
cidental discovery on Saturday of an
apparently rich deposit of coal in the
centre of Danbury, Conn.
Charles P. Palmer, son of the late
CORTLAND Palmer, ST., died yesterday
at Bellport, L. l., of peritonitis, follow
ing an operation for appendix.
Lord Houghton, Lord Lieutenant Of
Ireland, is making tour of the west
of Ireland He has been heartily well
coined at every place he has visited.
Five more of The crew Of the steamer
Widdrington, which arrived at Wallet
ia, Malta, Thursday night from St.
Louis, France, have been attacked with
cholera.
Lightning struck F. r. Bunker's
house at Atlanta at midnight last night.
The building was burned to the ground
and cottage on each side was also de-
stroyed. No one was injured.
Fire which broke out at Deadwood,
s. D., Saturday afternoon in pile OF
cordwood, containing 100000 cords,
caused a loss of 100000 One thous-
and men are fighting the flames.
Yesterday morning the bodies of Mrs.
P. T. Harris, and daughter, 10 years OF
age. were discovered in the Rio Grande
river, six miles west Of Del Norte, Col.
The mother and daughter were drown
ed while crossing the river.
The first national convention of the
Christian Endeavor Union of the Meth
odist Protestant Church of the United
States, which has been in session at
Tillin, Ohio, since last Friday after
noon, adjourned last night.
A fight occurred on Sunday on an ex-
cursion train near Columbus, Ga, be-
tween whites and negroes, during
which one man had his scalp split open
and another had his throat cut, almost
severing his head from his body.
Monsignor Satolli conducted mass at
st. Joseph's academy at St. Paul yes,
terday. In his prayer he said: "Bless
this school, bless all schools" and then
turning his eyes toward Archbishop
Ireland, he added: "And the Fair
bault and Saltwater schools particular
ly."
The Virginia headquarters at the
Worlds Fair, the Mt. Vernon mansion,
receives more attention from curiosity
seekers than any the State buildings.
1t is packed during all the hours when
it is open to the public. The Virginia
flag was hoisted on the mansion the
other day by B. Bransom, of Staunton,
Va, who is the lineal descendant OF
George Washington's brother.
A terrible accident occurred to-day in
Rohig's iron works at Magdebu-g, Sax
ony. The workmeni were engaged in
making heavy casting and were pour
ing the molten metal into the mould.
Without moments warning there oc-
Cured a terrific explosion, the liquid
iron flying in every direction and COW
ering the workmen. Six men were
killed outright, while seven others were
terribly burned.
The sealing steamer Falcon, which
will take Lieut. Peary's expedition to
northern Greenland, will leave Phila-
delphia tomorrow morning for New
York. A departure will be the taking
of eight Rocky Mountain burros. They
will be taught to walk on snow
shoes and Lieutenant Peary ex-
poets them to be of valuable aid.
The burros and five EsquimauX dogs,
the latter having been brought from the
arctic regions by Lieut.. Peary last year,
were put aboard the boat this after
noon. A cote of carrier pigeons will be
taken to the far north for the first time.
The Georgia Central railroad litigation
opened at Savannah, Ga, this morning on de-
murer to the bill of Brown & Sons, holding
the Central responsible for the endorsement
on the Macon and Northern and Savannah
and Western and C.. K. and C bonds. Justice
Jackson decided the Central washable for all
bonds of these roads upon which it had placed
its guarantee. The question of jurisdiction
was then taken up.
kilograms received to-day from Calcutta
BIZ the Anglo-Indian banks in London, state
that the India government has STOPPED the
coinage of silver for private account at the
India minis.