Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-17
TELEGRApHIC BREVITlES.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.
The hotel Anglesea, on the New Jer-
sey coast, was burned to the ground
early this morning.
"Baby" Mckee is quarantined with
scarlet fever in mild form at the
Mccall cottage, in Saratoga, N. Y.
An explosion of dynamite occurred
at lao p. M, to-day at the Worlds
Fair Grounds, Chicago. One man was
killed and six injured. Some of them
fatally.
a. B. Plough. vice-president and
general manager of the st. Paul and
Duluth railroad, has been rendered the
position of general manager of the
Central Railroad of Georgia.
| Alvin Proctor, who is suspected of
being implicated in the great train rob-
hery on the Lake Shore railroad at
Kessler Siding, Mich two years ago,
has been arrested in Nebraska.
1t is reported that the North German
Lloyd Steamship Company has ordered
the construction of two steamers at
Govan, Scotland, which are to be larger
than the Lncania and the Campania.
James Dixon, one of the prisoners
locked up in the jail at Buffalo, N. Y,
on account of the tragedy at Ton
AMANDA, in which Captain Phillips and
his son were murdered. hung himself
in his cell about o'clock this morning
A bronze figure of Moses, six feet
and six inches high, modelled by c. N.
Niebaus, was cast at the Gorbam
Manufacturing Company's works. at
Providence, R. l., yesterday. The figure
is for the rotunda of the new Congress
ional Library building at Washington.
In Boston to-day the grand jury rem.
dered true bill against Rev. Frank
Hyatt Smith, of the North avenue
Congregational Church, Cambridge,
for the alleged sending of scurrilous
and defamatory postal cards through
the mails. Mr.. Smith is now in Den
yer, Col.
The wife of J. l.. Waller, colored ex-
U. s. consul at Madagascar, who is now
confined in French prison, arrived at
New York to-day and will proceed 10
Washington to ask the government to
interfere in her husbands behalf. She
8 .ys Ambassador Eustis did all he could
in their behalf.
Ida Block, six year old girl, was
crushed to death beneath the wheels
of a Fifth avenue cable car in Pittsburg
this morning. For time it looked as
if the conductor and motorman wonld
meet with rough treatment at the
hands of the excited people that had
witnessed the horrible mutilialion of
the little girl.
A terrific explosion of dynamite &C.
Cured on the Gorge Railroad excava-
ton at Niagara Falls, N. Y, this
morning, by which two men were
badly injured. A laborer was thawing
out some dynamite in a pail of hot
water when it became overheated and
exploded, demolishing frame boiler
house and throwing several men q
distance of so feet.
The Yale students from the Hawaiian
Islands, who were detained at San
Francisco owing to the CHOLERA scare
from Hawaii, have just arrived at col
lege. They said that during the prev.
alence of cholera in the islands the en-
tire population, royaIists and republi-
cans, turned out to fight the disease.
The scare cost the government ter
rife amount. The students brought to
this country microscope germs prepar-
ed by DR.. Day, of the board of health
in Hawaii, which will be examined at
Yale and by New York specialists to
determine whether the disease was
cholera or fish poison.
VIM. Van Horn. living near Pulaski, who
yesterday drew his pension, while sitting up
asleep by his sick wife's bedside last night,
was attacked by thieves who robbed him of q
small amount of money and then threw him
on bit stove. He secured pistol and ran
them of.
Attorney General Dickinson has decided
10 proceed with the Durrsnt trial at San Frau
cisco on Monday without the aid of the Mr..
Dsuprey, if he remains indisposed at that
time.
Pope Leo will shortly issue decree to the
Archbishops in this country forbidding Catho-
les from taking part in religious congresses.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has de-
Jared the usual quarterly dividend Of 50 per
hare, payable November IS.
It is announced that 1900 troops will
art from Spain for Cusa on October 22nd.