Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Fire started in the Merchants Club
on Broadway, New York, early this
morning and before it was extinguish-
ed caused loss of $25, 900.
A City of Mexico special says that a
stock company has been formed to
inaugurate an international exposition
to be held in the City of Mexico during
the next year.
By vote of 80 to &c, after long
preliminary struggle, the question of
resubmission of the prohibitory amend
ment was defeated yesterday in the
North Dakota House.
Joseph Elliott, who had been con-
nected with the New York Herald
since it was founded in 1885, died last
night from pneumonia. He was pic
neer in the reporting of sporting news.
For the first time in many years snow
began falling at Houston, Tex, last
night and is still showing with no signs
Of abatement. 1t is over two feet deep.
ALI trolley cars have stopped running.
Many poor families are seriously incon-
venienced for lack OF fuel. People who
have lived there for forty years say that
they never saw anything like it before.
Mayor Strong of New York, to-day
created sensation by contradicting
Thomas c. Platt. The republican lead
err said last night that the mayor had
broken faith in appointing William
Brookfield as the commissioner of pub
lie works. To-day the mayor said he
had Lot given Mr.. Platt or anybody
else any promises as to whom he would
appoint or who he would not.
Nothing has yet been received from
the long overdue steamer City of ST.
Augustine, from Jacksonville, for New
York, which sailed from that port on
January 80 and was last seen on Feb.
5th, of the coast of North Carolina.
The Norwegian steamer Banan, and
the Neptune from West Indian ports,
arrived at New York this morning, but
saw nothing of the missing steamer.
The general executive board Of the
Knights of Labor, in secret session at
Philadelphia, Pa, yesterday, decided
to retain counsel and combat the bond
issue of President Cleveland anC Secre-
tary Carlisle as unauthorized and il.
legal. This action is in line with the
views of General Master Workman
Sovereign, who has been open in bis
denunciation of the bond issue from its
inception.
At to-day 3 session ofthe miners con-
ventiou at Columbus, Ohio, it transpir-
ed that John Mcbride had given Mark
Wild, District organizer of tho Ameri-
can Railway Union, six hundred dol
lars for preventing the miners of the
Hooking Valley from joining the A. R.
U. in another Strike against the Co.
lumbua, Hooking Valley and Tole-
do R. r. Co. Mcbride says the money
was given by an operator.
Charleston, S. O., and the truck farms
in theWicinity are once more frozen up.
The mercury at z o'clock yesterday
morning reached 18o above zero, this
being the fourth experience of the kind
there this winter, record that has no
precedent. Several deaths from cold
are reported. Snow began falling at
one o'clock this morning at Mobile,
Ala. The ground is now white. This
is the second snow fall this season.
At an early hour this morning a dy-
Mantle bomb loaded with slugs was
thrown into the Office of the Buckeye
Glass Company at Martins Ferry, o., |
that portion of the building.
Manager Humphrey and one of the |
men sleeping in an adjoin-
ing room narrowly escaped death.
The explosion shook the buildings
within a radius of half mile. The |
bomb throwing is ascribed to strikers.
President Seamon, of the works, when
ne learned of the attempt to wreck the
factory, announced his intention of
giving up trying to work and will
abandon the plant entirely. When
full nearly 300 hands were
.mnloued