Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-31
TELEGRAPlIIC BREVITIES.

There Is not much DOUBT that the
National Guard of Pennsylvania will
encamp at Chicago during the worlds
fair.
Commander Whiting, of the United
States navy, admits that the report Of
his engagement to Miss Ah Fong, of
Honolulu, is correct
Complaints of very dry weather come
from all parts of Cuba and many ami
mails are dying on the island from the
scarcity of water.
Pigeons are to be used in connection
with the naval review at Hampton
Roads next month to show their practi-
cability as messengers from sea.
The story brought from San Domingo
yesterday by some passengers on the
steamer Saginaw, to the effect that the
President of San Domingo had broken
into the safe of the French Bank, is not
generally credited in New York.
James F. Morsell, a well-to-do re-
tired business man who had been an
helpless invalid for some years, killed
himself by shooting himself sometime
during last night in the st. Dennis
Hotel, New York, where he had lived
for some years.
This morning the McKeesport, Pa.
Electric Light Company's plant caught
fire and was totally destroyed. The
loss will be from $4,000 to 100000.
The city public highways will be left in
darkness tonight and the two electric
railways are left without power.
S. l.. Jenkins, convict guard at
Wetumpka, Ala, has been fatally
wounded by Tyler Goodwin, editor Of
the 4Adrocafe. Goodwin published a
card rejecting upon Jenkins. Good
wyn refused to retract and both men
pulled pistols and exchanged shots.
Benjamin Mordecai died at his home,
in New York, last night. At the be-
ginning of the civil war he was the
wealthiest merchant in Charleston, S.
C. He was an ardent supporter of the
southern cause, and was the first to
make a contribution to the Confeder-
acy.
A big steal among engineers and fire
men on the Missouri Pacific railroad
was brought to light in Sedalia, Mo-,
to-day and an investigation resulted in
the discharge Of time-keeper, nine
engineers and six lircmen. The COM
pany's loss will reach into the thou
sands.
The fve-story buildings in Philadel-
phia, owned and occupied by the Wei
KEEL and Smith Spice Company, were
partially destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss $4,000. Nightwatchman John
Trip, who discovered the fire, was Sc
vcrely burned while trying to extin-
guish it.
Among the witnesses in attendance
upon the Hillsboro', Tex, court yester
day was John Bennett. The juror
recognized Bennett as an old school
mate, and also as man wanted for
murder, committed in Tennessee in
1888. Bennett was arrested and ac-
knowledged his guilt.
The chief of the fire department of
Wilmington, Del, this morning receiv-
ed word that the town of Galena. about
eight hundred Inhabitants, near Ches-
tertown, Nd, was on fire and request
ing assistance. A latter dispatch was
received saying that the town had been
wiped out. The loss cannot at present
be ascertained.
Dancing girls from the the Sultan of
Sole, huge ourang-outang yelling and
bowling in fear in his wooden prison,
and five carloads of terrified Javanese,
together with the building material and
Java's exhibits for the Worlds Fair,
were in a railroad collision at Moingona,
Iowa, last night. The Javanese were
hurled over their seats and straighten-
ed upon their backs, but nobody was
seriously injured
Mrs. DR.. Tom Van, who was indicted
some time ago for manslaughter in hav-
ing caused the death of Miss Helen
Wilson, handsome young girl, whose
parents are well known and respecta-
BILE residents of Portland, Oregon, was
found guilty last night. Mrs. Van
made strong effort to show that the
crime was committed by Charles A.
Bowkcr, the girls alleged seducer, but
in doing so failed TO exoncrate herself
Bowker will be tried next Friday.
The appearance of several cases Of genuine
spotted fever in Elwocd, Ind, has given great
alarm lest it should become epidemic. The
city is in an awful sanitary condition arising
from the fact that with 5000 inhabitants
there is no garbage furnace where the accu-
INFLATED filth can be destroyed
Peter Bloom, aged 80 years, who made a |
fortuAe in the Bradford, Pa, oil fields during
the oil excitement committed suicide yester-
day by shooting. Bloom was injured about
the head several months ago and has since
been subject to fits of insanity.
Dennis Geoghegan, the Brooklyn wife muir
derer, who was to be executed at Sing SIM,
n. Y, on April 10, was served with stay