Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Bagot's Sons, dealers in ladies' wear.
ing apparel, in New York, assigned
to-day.
Henry Mac Millans packing box
factory, in Philadelphia, was destroyed
! by fire last night.
The report of the Oregon railroad
commission shows that not a road in the
State has paid dividends for four years
or more.
The woman suffrage amendment in
Idaho received 5000 votes more than
those cast against it and is an accom-
plished fact.
The new Ellison hoist, at Deadwood,
| S. D., which was in course of construc
ton, was burned last evening. The
building was to have been the largest
and most complete hoist in the world.
Ella Hicks, a woman with several
aliases, was arrested early this morn
ing in st. Louis resort charged with
completely in the murder OF Edward
Mutter, at Fort Scott, Ark, in March
last.
Hale, the Welshman, continues to
lead in the six days bicycle race at
Madison Square Garden, New York.
At l o'clock to-day he bad made 1,S05
miles, leading his nearest competitor.
Rice, by 81 miles. The race closes at
10 o'clock tonight.
DR.. Leonard ]. Sanford, one of the
oldest professors of Yale College, died
this morning He was stricken with
cardiac prostration last week. DIR.
Sanford was a member of the Amer
lean Medical Association and of the
American Academy of Medicine.
Samuel P. Putnam and Miss May
L. Collins were found dead this morn
ing in fiat in Boston, which had been
occupied for week past by Miss Col
Inns. The deaths were due to asphyx
iation from Illuminating gas and the
police think were caused by accident.
MIR. Putnam, who was Sc years old,
and Miss Collins, 20 years old, and free
thinkers, have been travelling together
on lecturing tour. On table in the
room was a bottle of whisky, partly
filled.
At four o'clock this morning the
power house of the new incline railroad
company on Lookout Mountain, near
Chattanooga, Tennessee, was burned.
A car at the top of the incline caught
fire and was released from the cables
and went whizzing down the track at
lightning speed. About quarter of a
mile down the car jumped the tracks
and went smashing down to the gorge
below. No one was injured. The orr
gin of the fire is unknown.
At Brookline, n. H., three children
of EDWARD Farnsworth went to school
Yesterday. Not returning home last
night, search was instituted. The ice
was found broken in a nearby pond,
but darkness prevented further search.
The search was continued this morn
ing, when the bodies of the three were
found in the pond. They were boy
and two girls, of the ages of Z, S and II
years. The mother is crazed with grief
and the father has gone into the woods
and it is feared that he will commit
suicide.
A verdict for $137, 010 was rendered by
jury in the common pleas court of Phi'adel-
phia, before Judge McMichael this morning in
favor Of Filbert, Porter & Co., and against the
city of Philadelphia The plaintiffs built the
Queen Lake reservoir, and they brought suit
for the recovery Of ten per cent. of the con-
tract price (S122, 000) which was withheld by
the city. 1t was alleged that the reservoir
was imperfectly constructed. Tbs verdict
represents the full amount claimed with in
terest. The case has been on trial for two
weeks.
The faculty and students of Holy Cross Col
lege at Worcester, Mass, next Monday even
ing, will give Rev. rr Conaty a reception st
the college which the surviving members of
the class of 80, of which DR. Conaty was q
member, will be invited to attend. Later in
the month the citizens of Worcester will give
Dr.. Conaty farewell banquet DR.. Conaty
will preach his farewell sermon as pastor of
the Church of the Sacred Heart on Sunday,
January 10, and will leave for Washington
the following week.
Elk cars of coal train on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad were wrecked near Collins sra.
ton, near Lancaster, Pa this morning.
Archibald Borrower, of Harrisburg, one of
the brakemen. wa, caught in the wreck and
instantly killed.
Rev Dr.. James A. McCauly, one of the best
known clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and for IS years President of Dick- |
inson College at Carlisle. Pa, is very i'll in |
Baltimore and is not expected to live many
hours
The big dry goods houses OF Dunbar, Buck
lev 4 Co., and of E. j. Jetfries & Co., New
York, will be consolidated next week.
NJ. Won Roller & Co., of New York, jobbers
in 1yoolens, assigned to-day; liabilities $780,
900.