Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The Moosic Knitting Company's mill
at Moosic, Pa, was burned to-day.
The Indiana republican State conyen.
ton will meet at Indianapolis to.mor.
row.
Jos. J. Martin, who was city treasu.
rer of Philadelphia from 1879 to 1883
died to-day.
So far eleven bodies have been 70.
covered from the building which was
wrecked by an explosion in Cincinnati
on Monday night. Sixteen are miss.
ing.
Cardinal Gibbons will leave Balt.
more for st. Louis tomorrow to confer
the psllium upon Archbishop J. J
Kahn. The ceremony will take place
in the old cathedral at st. Louis next
Sunday.
The Maryland democratic State cen.
tral committee to-day decided to hold
the State convention in Baltimore June
10 to select delegates to the national
convention at Chicago. Senator Cor.
man was present.
II. 81. Holmes, who will be banged
in the county prison, Philadelphia, to.
morrow for the murder Of Benjamin F.
Pitezel, will, it is said, make state.
ment before going to the gallOws,
which will be in the form OF COMES.
sion and an expression of his repent
ance.
The advance guard of the Southern
Baptist convention arrived in Chatta.
nooga this morning and this afternoon
the Southern Baptist Editorial AssOcia.
ton, anauxiliary body, convened at the
First Baptist Church. Rev. c. A.
Stakely, of Washington, will deliver
the opening sermon Friday morning.
John Potulny and A. Purski, two
well-known saloonkeepers. were found
dead from asphyxiation at the Hotel
Crystal, Chicago, at $50 O'Clock this
morning. The two men came to the
city yesterday afternoon and retired TO
their room about midnight considerably
under the influence of liquor 1t is
supposed one of the men turned ou.the
gas and accidentally turned ii on again.
The claim of Ada Richmond, the &C.
tress. that she married John Stetson,
the Boston theatrical manager and mil.
lionaire, in 1871 in Providence, RI
has no official record there TO support
it. The names of Richmond and John
Stetson do not appear among the mar
riages from '6S to IA neither was there
a clergyman ofthe name OF Ransome IN
this city or anywhere else IN Rhode
Island during those years.
The story is current at Pttsblr- Pa. 70.
day that an additional shortage OF S2VVoU
has been discovered in the accounts OF el'
City Attorney Moreand. This makes the
known shortage up to date OF over quarter
of a million dollars.
A dispatch from Duluth. Mimi says ihai
vast beds Of anthracite coal, which age sala 70
rival in richness and extent those in Penn
sylvania, have been discovered IN the HoT'D'
ern part Of that State.
Samuel Foster, colored, and John Smith
who murdered Bertram Atwatcr %. ChNasl'
near st. Louis on the night OF January -
were yesterday sentenced to he hanged OF
June IS.
Four hundred of the 1900 striking St'
penters at Newark, n. j., returned TO WoIS
to-day. The State board of arbitration WIZ
try to bring the strike to an cnd ihIs week.
The business portion of the village Of NO.
desto, forty miles south OF Springfield Us,
was destroyed by fire last night Los
$4,000.
Frank NJ. Hutchins, n wellknown arl1
on the staff of Puck, died at private ho'iiN'
in Philadelphia last night.
Sky. blue will probably be the color Of 'l'
B, & o. r. z. cars in the near iliure-