Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Arlington Hotel at Montrose,
Col, was burned to the ground shortly
before midnight last night and one OF
the guests was fatally burned. Othe $
in the hotel escaped by jumping from
the second story windows.
A prominent officer of the Baltimore
and Oh O railroad denies that the CON-
pany has bought or is about 10 buy tie
St. Joseph Valley railroad in Indiana.
A similar report about the Elkhart and
Western was also contradicted.
General Joseph Cotton, of the South
ern army, died at his residence in New
Haven, Conn.,, yesterday. He was
born in West Springfield, Mass, in 1913.
He vas in Tennessee when the war
broke out and became aide.de.camp TO
General Pemberton.
Starter Ferguson, of the Hawthorne
race track at Chicago, yesterday said
that the foreign book at race tracks 10
doing racing q great injury and will
eventually kill it if persisted in. The
English system, he thinks, is bound to
be adopted in this country before long.
A Chicago meat train of thirty Gals
was flying down grade near Muncie,
Ind, yesterday, when the rails spread.
Eighteen cars were piled fifty feet high
and some of them were hurled far into
adjacent fields. Seven tramps were on
the train and one of them is under the
debris.
Grave anxiety is felt by members of
the Methodist Conference of British Co.
lumbia, now in session at Victoria, at
the non-arrival of the Fort Simpson dis
trict delegation, which left the north
for Victoria ten days days ago on the
missionary steamer Glad Tidings. The
little vessel was last seen at Bellabella
one week ago.
Bert Hall shot and killed Volney
Baird in Lexington, KY, at an early
hour this morning. Baird was Halls
clerk and his employer had suspected
him of intimacy with his wife. This
morning Hall pretended he was sick
and went home. He had not been
there long before Baird came and
fight ensued, resulting in the killing of
the clerk. Hall and his wife were ar
rested.
August Topper, aged 80 years, a married
man with wife and two children, this morn.
ing shot his paramount, Clara Arnholdt, aged
DC years, on the sidewalk in Philadelphia.
He then sent bullet through his own brain,
dying instantly. The woman died two hours
sfterward in a hospital
Advices from Havana say that General
Maxine Gomez has not only invaded Cana
guey but has won signal victory over the
Spin;sh forces at Guaymsro, which is inspir-
log the Cubans of that province and causing
them to flock to mis- standard.
Yesterday was the hottest day in WiscOn-
sin, Iowa and Illinois ever known at this time
Of the year. The thermometer ranged fIom
Sc 10 100 degrees in the shade from II
o'clock in the morning until o'clock p. m.
1t is currently reported that the plan Tor
the reorganization Of the Georgia Southern
aud Florida Railrosd is to be changed and
and modified go that they will issue four per
cent. bond instead of five per cent
Gov. NJ orton has signed the New York city
police magistrates bill which legislates the
New York police justices out Of office.
The Illinois Steel Company at South Cbica.
20 has discharged the 70 men who precipitat-
cd the riot Tuesday night
North Parma, N. Y, was nearly wiped out
by fire last night.