Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Thirty-eight men, principally fremen
and machinists, have deserted from the
Argentine cruiser Neuve de Julio.
now lying off New York. They were
nearly all Englishmen.
The Worlds Fair directory say that
before determining to open the exposi.
ton, on Sunday they consulted the
ablest lawyers in the West, aud they
agreed that Attorney General 0lney
could do nothing in the case.
A man died in Philadelphia hos.
pital last evening from gun-shot
wound in the abdomen. The man is
supposed to be the burglar who was
shot on Friday night by the watchman
of a watch factory at Lancaster, Pa.
An oil train standing on the Bait.
more and Ohio bridge, near Johnstown,
Pa, last evening was run into by an
other train, derailing two oil cars. The
oil caught fire and the cars burned with
fearful heat, destroying the bridge.
The steamship James Brand, the
largest steel tanker atloat, arrived at
Philadelphia yesterday from Dart
mouth, Eng, after a passage of sixteen
days. The voyage demonstrated that
petroleum fuel for steamships can be
used.
The threatened strike of telegraphels
on the Chicago and Northern road oc-
Cured this morning, and as a result
disastrous wreck occurred, involving
many thousand dollars worth of prof.
erty and causing blockade OF the en-.
tire Milwaukee division of the road
Congressman Charles o'Neil, Of Phil,
adelphia, the father of the House of
Representatives, who was elected last
fall to Congress for the fifteenth sue
cessiye time, told a reporter to-day that
he expected to see the tariff completely
revised at the next session of Congress.
He does not believe, however, that the
Mckinley bill will be repealed in its
entirety.
The commissioners appointed by the
President to investigate the inner
workings of the New York custom
house met this morning in that city
and remained in executive session IN.
til noon organizing and laying outa
plan of campaign. Ex-Secretary Fair.
child, who is president OF the commits
sion, said that no open session would
be held to-day and that no witnesses
would be examined
With crash that startled hundreds Of poo
pie almost across the street from the City
Hal in Chicago 3 section OF the OnenIs
Building wall fell this morning The acct
dent happened just after large force Of men
had gone to work tearing down the building
TO make place for the new Stock Exchange
Five men were buried, one of whom was kill
ed and the others wounded.
fire OF incendiary origin partially de.
stroyed three three-story brick buildings IN
Manchester, Va, this morning occupied IS
stores and dwellings. One family of nine es'
capped in their night clothes losing all their
possessions The buildings were owned by
the Virginia Loan Association. Loss $500
Insured.
The Elma, n Y National Bank closed
its doors to-day Tho failure is the resaIt oi
financial troubles of Col D. C. Robinson. Mr..
Jackson Richardson. president OF the bank
says the depositors will be paid in full. The
deposits amount to 100000 Band eHami.
nes recently declared the bank perfectly
solvent.
Benjamin F. Carver, 20 years of age
guest at the Hotel Bristol. New York, plunged
from fourth-story window of that house
this morning and was almost killed.
Cigarette smoking In a stable caused the
destruction Of S3O, 900 worth of property 5;
Nashville, Tenn, yesterday