Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-26
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTlES.
Vice Chancellor Van Fleet died at
Newark. n. j., early this morning..
A mirage showing Sarnia and the
Canadian shore was seen at Port Huron,
Mich, yesterday morning.
Ruius A. Packard, IA well-known bank
president of Greenville, Mass, died
suddenly in that town this morning.
The famous Cliff House on the ocean
beach below San Francisco caught fire
this morning and was entirely de-
stroyed.
Doctors differ as to the character of
the disease alleged to be cholera which
has broken out in Rosario, Brazil.
Deaths from it have been few.
Ex.Police Capt. Stephenson, of New
York, convicted of accepting brides,
has been sentenced to three years and
nine months imprisonment and to pay
q fine of $1,000. A motion for new
trial was denied.
Maggie Mcclure, 12-year-old girl,
living in Kingman county, Kas., was
thrown from pony yesterday and
dragged to DEATH. The unfortunate
girls foot caught in the stirrups and
she was dead when the runaway was
caught.
The steamer Columbia, which left
San Francisco yesterday morning for
n.r.land with large list OF passengers,
j: hitting or sailing past Point Reyes
and is blowing her whistle constantly.
Tugs have gone to the assistance of the
Columbia.
Peter G. Hollis, president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce of Philadel-
pbia, and who was identified with the
management of numerous railroad and
other corporations, died at his home in
West Philadelphia to-day. He was II
years of age.
S. J. Temple, guard at the Colum-
bus, Ohio, penitentiary, was seriously
wounded during a mutiny among the
prisoners this morning. A convict
named O'Day, who had assaulted Tenn
pie, was shot and instantly killed by
one of the guards.
1t is said that the attorneys for Mad
cline Pollard contemplate following
Congressman Breckenridge on his lee
turing tour throughout the country in
an effort to attach the receipts in pay
ment of Miss Pollard's verdict for
breach of promise.
TIE ordinance which was passed re-
emily prohibiting boxing in Jackson
v lie, Fla, has ruined the calculations
OF the projectors of the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons contest. The deaths which
have occurred recently in the ring have
impaired the chances of the battle.
d. c. Logan, one of Lexingtons
(Ky.) most prominent business men,
was found in the back yard of his
home, on Fourth street, at an early
hour this morning with bullet hole in
his head and revolver with two cham
bers empty lying by his side. Foul
play is expected.
This mornings report of the condi-
ton of the seven hydrophobia patients
from Salem, N. j., who are now under
going treatment at the Pasteur Insti-
tute, in New York, is favorable, and
the physicians say there is every hope
of their escaping the disease. This is
the fourth day since their innoculation.
Foxes have been bothering farmers
in the neighborhood of Sewickly and
Overmoon and Crescent townships Pa,
all the fall and winter and yesterday
the biggest and most successful fox
hunt in local history was organized and
carried out. Most of the Ohio valley
that lies in Allegheny county was
travelled over. The result of the huut |
was ten foxes.
Tae January disbursements for inter-
est and dividends at New York are es-
timated at nearly 5000, 900, at Phila-
delphia at nearly s10,OOO,OO0 and at
Boston about s9,000000 Interest ma
lures also on large proportion of the |
national debt and the government will
pay the quarterly interest on the 4s.
about 1886, 900, and also 81 ,93S. 705
semi-annual interest on the currency Gs
or Pacific railroad bonds.
As a result of a collision between two
passenger trains one mile west of Wax
ahacbie. Tex, at six o'clock last night,
seventeen persons were badly injured.
The passengers and seats in one car
were piled in mass in the forward
part OF the car. An instant later the
car caught fire from an overturned
stove. A line of hose was hurriedly
stretched from the Texas Central loco
motive to the burning coach and the
flames were extinguished before any
person wis badly burned. Two per.
sons were fatally. aud fifteen seriously
injured. 1t seems almost miraculous
that no one was killed outright, as the
coach was crushed like an egg shell.
The poiyglct petition of the W. C. T. q. in
regard to the sale of liquor, opium and the
egslizaiion of the social vice, Will be presented
10 the U. 8. government at Washington, Feb
r,sry 10 The same petit on will be present.
!, to the British government in June, 1895,