Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-29
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Professor Behring, in IN interview in
Paris. said that owing to the serum
treatment diphtheria as dangerous
disease no longer exists.
The thermometer registered sos de-
grees below zero at Pit 'sburg, Pa, this
morning. This is the lowest tempera-
ture since 1856. AT Saratoga, N. Y,
the thermometer marked from 20 to 80
degrees below zero at Ballston Spa 81
degrees below and at North Creek 80
degrees below.
When Bellevue Hospital, New York,
doctor, yesterday undertook to treat
John Scanlon for what they thought
was broken arm, they pulled out from
under the muscles eleven feet of lead
wire one-eighth of an inch in diameter.
1t had been forced there, unknown to
Scanlon, by the explosion of machine
by which lead is made into wire.
Before the Le1ow committee in New
York yesterday Police Inspector Alex
ander S. Williams admitted having re-
ceived $4,000 as gift from President
Fliess, of the Hollywood Whisky Com
pany. Commissioner James j. Martin
admitted that he had had policemen
transferred from one precinct to an
other at the request of political district
leaders.
According to official records to-day is
the coolest December Goth that has
ever been known in New York. The
lowest point reached by the thermom-
eter was z degrees above zero at 5
o'clock this morning. The only place
in the United States where the official
thermometer stood above the freezing
point was Key West Fla. The coolest
place was Mortified, VT, where the
thermometer indicated 16 degrees be-
low zero.
DIR. Alexander of Wyandot, Ohio,
was summoned in great haste last night
to the bedside of a dying woman at Nor.
raj He drove near the house ard
started to walk across field. In do
ing SO he stepped into an uncovered
we'll and was only saved from drown
ing by catching hold of an Offset just
above the water. He was kept priso-
ner in the well until morning when
searching party found him. In the
meanwhile the woman had died.
The fire which broke out on west
Main street, Louisville, KY, in the four
story building occupied by Stuckey,
Brent & Co., early this morning, was
not under control until o'clock, and
100000 worth of property was de
stroyed. About o'clock Major Hughes,
chief of the fire department, fell in the
middle OF the street from exhaustion
and exposure, but he refused to leave
his post. At last his men carried him
to Seelbach's Hotel and placed him I'M
der Doctors care. A number of fire.
men were hurt, but none seriously.
Fourteen workmen were rescued
from burning mine at Olyphant, Pa,
Sais morning after having been i'm
prisoned all night. The men were en-
p'oyed in putting in brattice work
an the Lackawanna Coal Company's
colliery last evening when fire
arted in an engine room at the
foot of an air shaft. The men all rush
ed for the air shaft to make their es-
clpe, but they found it a raging furn-
ace. The men piled culm and boards
in the gangway until they had erected
barricade which kept the smoke from
reaching them.
George J Gould, owner of the cup defender
yacht Vigilant, has been nominated for COM
mrdore of the Atlantic Yacht Club for 1895
and has consented to serve If elected. The
nomination was made last night by Commo-
d,re Parks at dinner to Mr.. Gould given by
tol David E. Austen, secretary of the club.
RE dinner was at the Democratic club in New
York. A number of prominent yachtsmen
we're present