Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The training ship Monongahela with
the naval cadets on board arrived in
Hampton Roads from Madeira last
night.
1t is rumored that the injuries sus-
tanned by the yacht Defender yester-
day were not the rigging but that the
hull of the yacht was strained.
In the "wet" and "dryn election
held at Abingdon, Va, yesterday, the
"wets" won by majority Of 140.
The town and district has heretofore
been carried by the drys successfully
for six years until their defeat yester-
day.
Secretary of State Olney, Minister
Deputy de LONE and Mr.. Mora have
signed memorandum, and the Mora
claim will be paid without interest.
Force was to be used in Selling Ha-
vana, it is reported, had Spain refused
settlement.
The st. George Commandery of Bev-
erly, Mass, will entertain Old Domin-
ion Commandery of this city, and AS
cension Commandery Of Joplin, Mo-,
during the conclave in Boston. The
entertainment in Beverly will include
parade, banquet, reception, and excur-
sion down the harbor on the steamer
s. E. Spring.
Inquiry at the State Department in
Washington fails to discover that any
one from Vir, inia has yet put in an ap-
plication for the solicitorship soon to
be vacant by the resignation of Mr..
Walter D. Dabney. of Charlottesville.
If there are any aspirants from Virginia
their claims are being handled very
quietly. The chances are the appoint
ment will go elsewhere.
Martin Beam. prosperous farmer OF
Napoleon, O., fell from an apple tree
yesterday and met death in most hor-
rible manner. In falling he struck the
stump of broken limb. The Jagged
wood entered his back and came out
through his abdomen, and when found
by his family he was a most pitible
sight. Henry Ludern,an was also
killed in the same locality by being hit
on the head by the handle of his grind
stone, which was worked by windmill
power.
Four additional bodies were taken
out of the hotel ruins at Denver, COL,
this morning making 10 dead thus far
recovered. Two of the bodies are
women and are supposed to be the lost
chambermaids, but are so charred as to
be unacceptable. The body of Peter
Gumry, the hotel proprietor, was one
of the bodies recovered to-day. The
body of General Adams has not yet
been recovered. Coroner Martin de-
c!ared this morning that there are at
least dozen other bodies yet in the
ruins.
Mrs. Mary Vogel is newly discov-
cred witness in the Durrant case in
San Francisco. She states that she saw
Durrant pacing up and down in front
eft the Normal School from two to three
o'clock on the afternoon of April 8.
and as she thought him a suspicious
character she took particular notice Of
his appearance. At 8 o'clock che saw
him speak to one OF the girls coming
out of the school and afterwards board
the dummy of o Powell street car.
New witnesses are said to have been
discovered in the Williams case. The
prosecution will not disclose their iden-
tity.
The steel steamship Commanche will be
launched at Cramps ship yard, Philadelphia,
tomorrow. The Commanche is in every re-
spect the highest class steamship ever built
for the coastiug trade, in which she is to ply
between New York and Jacksonville. She
is 325 feet long, 46 feet beam and 80 feet
moulded depth and is owned by William p.
Clyde.
The body of man found on the track
of the West Shore railroad at Little Ferry
N. j., early this morning, was identified IS
that of Rev. Geo. Hebbarb of New York. He
was pastor Of st. Luke's Protestant Church.
1t is not known whether Mr.. Hebbard was
walking on the trEck and was struck or that
he had fsl!on off a passenger train.
The President to-day issued an order ex-'
tending the civil service rules to include all
printers and pressmen in the executive de-
partments.
The strike Of the garment workers of Boz
ton is on in full force to-day. Upwards of
5000 Of the workers quilted work this morn.
ing