Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Major Calhoun @. Buckner, of Rae.
coon Ford, Culpeper county, has sold
800 pounds of his fine hams to- Del
monico, of New York, for 25 cents 9
pound.
The condition of those Injured in
yesterdays Van Buren, street fire, in
Chicago, was 80 favorable this morning
that the physicians at the county hos
pital state all will recover.
A deputy collector of the port at
Lewes, Del, this morning, boarded
the schooner Joseph w. Foster in
Delaware bay and placed two govern
ment agents in charge of the vessel.
The Foster ia suspected Of having s
party of Cuban filibusters and quan-
tity of arms on board.
City Engineer Horace L. Eaton, Of
Somerville, Mass, committed suicide
this morning by shooting himself at his
home in Boston. Mr.. Eaton's manage
ment of the Office of city engineer was
under investigation. Evidence already
submitted was of 8 nature to indicate
that Engineer Eaton's men had done
work for private parties while being
paid for it by the city.
Grant Keller, the desperate, who
yesterday. at Bslvidere, N. j.. while
being conveyed to the States prison,
assaulted Judge Morrow, and endeav-
ored to throw him under the wheels of
a starting train. and who swore that he
had determined to kill the judge, had
his sentence reconsidered this morniog
and was given ten years at hard labor.
Keller was taken to Trenton to-day.
DR.. w. F. Hammer, pastor of st.
Paul's M. E. Church South, Baltimore,
has been notified by Bishop R. K.
Hargrove that he has been transferred
to the Memphis conference, and sta
toned at Central Church, the leading
Methodist church at Memphis, Tenn.
DR.. Hammer will be succeeded at St.
Paul's by Rev. DR.. II. M. Whaling, of
Waco, Tex.
Mrs. Mary T. Mcmillan, the counter.
feiter of two-cent postage stamps, was
taken from Auburn, N. Y, to Buffalo
this morning to commence her eighteen
months term of imprisonment. Pre-.
viously to her departure she was taken
to local photographer, where there
was struggle to obtain negative of
her features. The deputy marshals
succeeded by means of throttling her
and binding her arms in keeping her
quiet, but they were unable to obtain q
good likeness as the woman persisted
In twisting her features out of all hu-
man semblance.
Brooklyn Day was celebrated at the At
anita exposition to day. Brooklyn's Mayor
and Msyor-elect and about five hundred of
her leading citizens were present. and the ad-
vance guard of New Workers helped to swell
the crowd from the North. In the absence of
Mayor Strong. of New York, Troop A turned
cut and acted as escort for Mayor Schieren
and his party from their hotel TO the grounds
George W. Newhouse and wife. of Bush
county, Ind, met with fatal accident last
night While driving home their horse back.
ed off high embankment. The buggy and
its occupants fell on to the rocks below.
Newhouse and his wife were instantly killed
and their bodies terribly manglsd.
Roland Desvarrennes, q French nohlemap,
who was on trip around the world ON a
wager, and left Chicago last August for Den.
yer, has mysteriously disappeared.
Henry Widmer, leader of the orchestra Of
Days theatre, died of heat trouble in q cab
at the door of his residence in New York at
one o'clock this morning.
dispatch from Corunna, Spain, says that
niue bodies have been washed ashore at Cste
Finisterre and it is feared that lnrge vessel
has been wrecked.
Managua, Nicaragua, advices state that the
government has withdrawn the Nicsaguan
minister 10 the United States Senior Don
Horacio Guzman.
Massachusetts has been awarded the gold
metal for the best exhibit at the Atlanta EA.
position.