Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-06

TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIES.

A movement is on foot in Philadel-
phia to prevent the liberty bell from
being exhibited at the Atlanta exposi-
ton.
Fire Marshal Michel, of New York,
was asked this morning by the fire
commissioners to resign his position.
He was also given until Monday to de-
eide.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg an
nounces that the convention between
Russia and China respecting the forth
coming Chinese loan will be signed
to-day.
At $50 o'clock to-day Frederick La
Fontaine and his wife Herminie, of
New York, turned on four gas jets and
lay down to die. When found one
hour later by the police La Fontaine
was dead and his wife unconscious.
1t was reported in New York this
morning from Chicago that SIS, 600, 600
had been offered for q controlling in
terest in the Postal Telegraph Compa-
ny, that the wires of the corporation
may be used in competition with the
Bell Telephone.
The Bayou at Jefferson. Tex, began to rise
rapidly Thursday evening and yesterday
there was food, and the water continues to
rise at a rapid rate, or six inches an hour.
The bottom land farms are entirely submerg-
cd and great damage will be done. Many
families have had to abandon their homes
and 20 to the uplsnds. The lower part of the
city is under water.
About $50 o'clock this morning steam
condenser in the zinc works of Naming &
Sqnires, at the Newark Meadows, west Of
Hackensack, N. j., blew up injuring five men.
The men were cleaning out condensers,
arranged in sets of six each, when
eighteen of them blew up. The iron plates
were tossed UP 800 feet. The shock was felt
| half mile away.
Acyclone which struck Ba1ter's Springs,
Kan, LAST night killed five people outright
and injured two others 80 badly that they are
not expected to live. A dozen people were
seriously injured. A dry goods store was de-
stroyed the Methodist, Christian and Colored
Methodist Churches were blown down and q
dozen residences and as many barns were
totally wrecked.
Four hundred Cuban insurgents, under
| Amador Guerra, were defeated in two battles
| in Palma Saltas Cuba. Their leader and
three lieutenants were killed, together with
sixty men. The loss Of the government
troops was seventeen killed and about the
same number wounded.
Sheriff Hansen, of New York, this morning
dismissed Warden Raabe of the Ludlow street
| JAIL claiming that he was responsible for the
escape of Killoran, Allen and Russell, the
alleged postoffice robbers, on July 4. The
men are still at large.
| A bomb was thrown on the porch of the
residence of Jerry P. Bliss and another into 6
church adjoining at Columbus o. lasi night
| The church was only partly wrecked and the
residence slightly damaged.
| Captain Paul Webb, whose back was broken
while riding down chute into Lake Couer
d'Alene, Wash, is Ptill alive and says he will
live to make other rides. The doctors have
no hopes.
A series of outrages and murders of little
girls Of ages ranging from to Z years ha!
created great excitement among the working
classes in the district of Walthamstow, neal
London.
Eight race horses valued at $4,000 were
stolen from the st. Louis, Mo, fair grounds
last evening during the progress of the com.
pettive drills on the parade grounds.
Fire in Oswego, N. Y, this morning de-
stroyed property valued at $153,0OO. As.
distance was asked from other cities. One
woman was burned to death.
The Spanish steamer Ida, from Pensacola
Fla, with cargo of cotton and lumber fol
Liverpool, put in at Savannah this morning
on fire.
Sir Henry Irving, the actor, has declined
to become candidate for seat in Parliment
from one of the London districts.
Morrisey's old club house, in Saratoga, N
Y, was closed last night and public gambling
was stopped in that village.