Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The ten-round bout between Jack
McAuliffe and Jimmy Carroll has been
fixed to take place at San Francisco
November 20.
The boiler of Bakers mill, in Perry
county, KY, exploded yesterday, kill
ing Frederick Baker and Jack Francis,
and badly injuring several others.
Elk. Chief Justice W. E. Miller died at
his home, in Des Moines, Iowa, yester-
day, at the age of 70. He was mem
Der OF the Supreme Court from 1870 to
1876.
The sixteenth annual session of the
Farmers National Congress began IN
Indianapolis this morning with about
500 delegates in attendance. The body
is non-political organization.
The BODY of Joseph Komorowski
was found in corn field bordering on
the drainage canal near Chicago last
night. He had been missing from his
home since October S and the police be-
lieve that be was murdered.
The authorities of Northwestern
University, at Evanston, ILL.,, are con-
siderng the ACCESSIBILITY of abolishing
football. The trouble is caused by bet
ting on the game which has become al
most universal among the students.
The battleship Iowa, the last of the
big U. S. iron-clads built under former
contracts by the Cramps, is so far COM
pleted as to be ready for preliminary
trial at sea, and she started from Phil
adelphia shipyard for that purpose this
afternoon.
DR.. Jared D. Wetmore, who has been
in jail at Grand Haven, Mich, for the
past three months. charged with COM
picity in the murder of Enos Lawrence.
at Holland, for which Roy Coates is
serving life Imprisonment and Mrs.
Lawrence twenty.year sentence, was
discharged to-day, Mrs. Lawrence,
who charged DR.. Wetmore with aiding
in the murder, having admitted per-
jury.
The funeral service over the remains
of the late Mrs. VIM. II. Vanderbilt
took place this morning in St. Bartholo-
news Church, New York. The services
were conducted by Bishop Potter, Rev.
David H. Greer, pastor of the church,
and Rev. Robert Booth. The pall-bear
ers were Chauncy M. Depew, G. A.
Crocker, John Sloane, S. F. Barger,
D. 0. Mills, and J. Abercrombie Bur-
den.
The cotton mills at Hampden, in the
outskirts of Baltimore, are about to start
up on full time. Hampden is the seat
of the largest cotton duck mills in
the world. A meeting of the stock
holders of the Baltimore Sugar Re-
fining Company will he held on
Thursday at which the question Of
re-opening the big plant at Curtis
Bay may be decided. The refinery has
been idle since it was burned more
than year ago.
Torpedo boat No. 4 was launched at
the Columbian Iron Works at Balti-
more this morning. As the boat start
ed down the ways Miss Elise Agnus,
daughter of General Agnus, baptized
her with bottle of champagne. About
1000 persons saw the launching. The
vessel was the second of its class
launched by the Columbian company,
No. 8 having glided into the waters a
few weeks ago. Another is under con.
struction at the Columbian works.
John Rodgers shot and instantly
killed William Smith mt farm house
near White Plains, N. Y, at an early
hour this morning. He subsequently,
met Henry Weiss, another employee
on the farm, and chased him for the
purpose of committing double muir.
der. Rodgers stumbled and fell over
water tub, which caused his gun to
discharge its load, which took effect in
the murderer's side, causing instant
death. Some suggest that Rodgers had
become suddenly deranged.
Ex.Chief Justice Horton, of Kansas, has
discovered that the alien land law, under
which the recent action for receiver of the
Santa Fe was brought, was never passed by
the Kansas legislature and its publication in
the statutes was an error.