Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES


A big railroad deal is contemplated
by the extension of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad to Omaha.
One new case of yellow fever, colored
was reported at Brunswick, Ca, to-day
Weather slightly warmer.
The funeral of Congressman Charles
O'Neill took place in Philadelphia to,
day and was largely attended.
The road congress met at the exposi,
ton in Augusta, Ca, to-day with full
attendance. Resolutions were drafted
memorializing the legislature to employ
State convicts in making roads as fast
as the terms of the lease expire.
A destructive fire that broke out in Oil
City, Pa, early this morning destroyed
number of business houses. Mrs. H.
Shields aud three small children, a
servant girl and two male boarders are
missing and supposed to have persisted
in the flames.
A dispatch from Cumberland Gap,
Tenn, says $50 miners went out on a
strike yesterday. The failure of the
company to pay of Saturday is given
as the cause. The company says that
the men must go back at reduced
wages, if at all.
Miss Villa Dick, of Indianapolis,
Ind, niece of Archbishop Purcell, of
Cincinnati, has been quietly married to
Lawrence Kip, a well-known attorney
of San Francisco, and grandson of the
lite Bishop Kip, who was first Episco-
pal bishop of California.
1t has been learned that the steamer
Australia which sailed from San Fran
cisco for Honolulu last Saturday car
ried among her cargo, FIVE cases of
arms and ammunition. The schooner
Annie Johnson has just cleared for
Honolulu with fifty cases Of dyna-
mite billed as giant powder on board.
The Legislature of South Carolina
met at noon to-day. The message of
Gov. Benjamin B. Tillman was read.
He discusses with vigorous language
and at great length the decisions of the
United States Supreme Court and the
Circuit Court on the conflict of juris-
diction in regard to q seizure made by
o State constable upon a railroad
which was in the hands of United
States receiver appointed by the court.
A four masted schooner is ashore of
Fire Island, N. Y. She has a crew of
nine men and one woman. The life
saving people have tried to reach her,
but have failed owing to their life lines
not reaching; and the surf is SO heavy
that they are unable to go OH in boat.
They are now going to try the large
rocket. The vessel is four feet under
water and the crew and woman are in
the rigging. The mild weather, it is
thought, will render it possible for the
people in the rigging to hold out until
assistance can reach them. The schoon-
er is the Louise H. Randall, Captain
Hathorn, from Boston.
At the office of the sprcckels' Sugar Rein
ing Company in Philadelphia, it was stated
to-day that the reduction of a quarter Of n
cent in the duty on refined sugar would not
result in an increase Of importations Of for
eign- refined sugar. The American Sugar Re-
flaing Company will reduce the price of sugar
so as to keep out the foreign sugars and re-
tain the American market for itself. Prices
are now maintained at just the point which
shuts oct foreign sugar.
Sheriff Barrett notified Mayor Jackson, OF
Gloucester City, N. j., that unless all the sa-
looms and gambling places are closed here
after on Sunday, he will take measures in his
own hands as the peace officer of the county
and close the saloons and gambling dens |
which have been in full and open operation |
on Sundays same as any other day He also
says he will close the race track if continued |
after Thursday, November 80.
At Livingston, Ala, on Sunday sparks from
a locomotive set fire to 1000 bales of cotton.
The Waterman ran to church near by and
gave the alarm. The preacher quit his ser.
mon, and he and the congregation hurried to
the fire, and, forming themselves in fire
brigade, saved the warehouse.
Some of the data collected during the re-
cent trial of the U. S. Cruiser Columbia show
that if the speed Of the ship is to judged by
.he English standard, she made the remark
able speed OF 24.34 knots or little over %
miles per hour, making her the fastest ship in
The world.
Harry Hill, the fugitive Atlanta Ga, forger,
was arrested at two o'clock this morning in a
Cincinnati saloon.
FEoM BRAzIL.-The London Times
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