Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREFITIES.

life imprisonment for the murder OF
his brother.
1t is reported that Mr.. Cleveland
has orce more changed his plans re-
garding Mr.. Lamont, and that he will
make him Secretary of War.
The steamer Bothnia, from New York
for Liverpool, caught fire yesterday,
but the fumes were extinguished before
much damage had been done.
At S o'clock this morning the mer-
curry was u below zero at Bear Gap
pumping station, near shamokin, Pa,
being the coolest record in the coal re-
gion since 1852. Many collieries are
unable to work.
A passenger train on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad ran into q freight train
at Latrobc, Pa, about three o'clock
this morning. Fireman Letzinger was
instantly killed and Engineer Cannon
was seriously injured.
During a fire this morningin cheap
lodging house, in Philadelphia, John
NIullough, a blind man, was burned to
death, James Kelly. lodger, was ia
tally Injured by jumping from a
third story window. and Edward Miles
was sersously hurt by also jumping
from the window. Several other
persons were slightly injured.
Never in the history of the Central
South has there been so much suffering
from cold weather as at present. In
tense suffering prevails amoung noun
taineers. The snow is from 10 inches
to feet deep in eastern Tennessee,
western North Carolina, and eastern
Kentucky, and ali kinds of labor has
been suspended.
Seven persons were baptized by I'M
marsion in the Little Constega creek,
in Mannheim township, Pa, yesterday
afternoon by Rev. Amos Hottenstein,
dunkard preacher, who stood in the
water up to his arm-pits over an hour.
The mercury was several degrees be-
low zero, and over five hundred per-
sons stood on the banks of the creek
and witnessed the ceremony.
John /. Sullivan, who has been
playing an engagement in Youngstown,
Ohio, in an interview said: MY
career so far as pugilism is concerned,
osed with my fight with Corbett. l
have retired from the ring and will
not under any circumstances enter ii
again. As for Goddard, when meet
him l will SHOW him that l am not a
third rate fighter, and there will be no
articles of agreement either.
The ice bridge at Niagara Falls is
one of the most ample and substantial
seen for years. The steady zero wealth
er Of the past week has filed the upper
river with ice which is pouring over
the falls in vast quantities and adding
each hour to the jam which is called
the bridge The present bridge is
one Of the largest ever recorded at the
falls, and will continue now to grow
until a long thaw breaks it up.
Fifty young women attending Kcnwood
Institute in Chicago were routed from their
beds at six o'clock this morning and forced to
hasten into the zero atmosphere clad only in
the scanty garments they could snatch in
their hasty flight An overheatcd tlue had 5 t
fire to the building which was almost totally
destroyed.
Presidcnt-ccct Cleveland left Lakewood,
n. J.. for New York this morning to keep an
appointment at his office in the Mills Build
ing. 1t is said that he had arranged to meet
some OF the democratic leaders for confer
encc regarding his cabinet.
4 conclusion has been reached in the Ne
br;sla legislature TO take preliminary vote
for e. S Senator in the two houses on Tues
day. the same as II they had been organized
without any hitch.
Kornel F. 10th was electrocuted at Dame
mora. n. Y, this morning for the murder of
OF Mr.. Eta Damacsck of the 18th of last June.
a slight shock of earthquake was felt in
Plainfed n J., at $50 O'Clock last night.
Chicago is threatened with 4 coal famine if
the present arctic rigor continues
To-day was the coolest ofthe season
in New York.
ARTHUR PADELFoRD's CHILD.-The
suit of Baby Valera Batthany Padel-
ford, recently brought in the county
here. says the Philadelphia Press, by
the grandfather, Gen. Albert Ordway,
of Washington, d. c.. against the
child's father, Arthur Padelford, and
Crawford Arnold, trustee of fund of
the Padelfords, was recalled on Fri
day when Trustee Arnold filed a de-
murer.
At the time the suit was brought
there was published an interesting story
of the courtship and marriage of the
beautiful Miss Ordway to Arthur Padel-
ford, aud its importance from the high
social standing of the couple in Wash
ington and Baltimore.
The demurrer alleges that the bill
does not show that the child is without
means or that her mother or grand
father, with whom she resides, cannot,