Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITlES.

TELEGRAFHlC BREFlIlES.
Edward King, a wellknown author
and correspcn lent, died in Brooklyn
this morning.
One of the worst snow storms ever
seen in the vicinity of Quebec ragged all
yesterday and last night.
At P ttsbnrg, Pa, early this morning
Mrs. F. E. Dorning, wife of city EN-.
ployee, was horribly burned by her
clothes taking fire at the kitchen stove
and died q few minutes after.
That part of Waterbury, Conn,
known as the lumber section. and the
freight yards of the New England Rail
road Company were burned this morn
log. The loss will be fully 100000.
Captain w. II. Williams, a wealthy
,, 1-Ksnsan, died suddenly at Perry,
Okla, yesterday and physicians state
tuat he was doubtless poisoned. Rob
berry is supposed to have been the
motive.
The skeleton found near the town Of
Twohig, Tex, has been recognized as
the remains of Stanley c. Rogers, Of
Cleveland, o. 1t is believed that the
young man was decoyed to the remote
locality and murdered.
Henry Mason, who says he is Pitts
burg journalist, became violently in
sane on a Wabash train, near Fort
Wayne, to day, and the passengers
were panic stricken at the mans de-
moDiacal doings.
Thomas A. Edison has bought from
the New Jersey receiver of the North
American Phono graph Company all of
the rights to his invention-the phono-
graph-and is going to see what he can
do for himself with the novelty. He
has perfected and is going to put on
the market q cheap spring motor
photograph.
The Philadelphia Board ofTrade yes
terisy adopted resolution urging upon
the Individual delegates and the ma
t.onal conventions of the two great poit-
ical 7 arties to place clear and emphatic
utterances in their respective platforms
in favor of the existing gold stand and
against the free and unlimited coinage
of silver.
Every man, about 1000, at Wheeler
s. Co.'s shipyard at Bay City, Mich,
went on strike this morning as pro.
test against the firm paying them in
checks instead of cash as formerly. The
firm says it does not wish to carry
$4,000 in cash between the bank and
the Office every two weeks, owing to
ths attending danger.
The home of Jacob RUM at Spring
Valley, MIMI, was burned at midnight.
J Inn, a fourteen year-old son, and Cbas.
Osberin, a farmland, were burned 10
death. Mrs. RUM was so badly burned
that she may die and another son was
badly hurt in getting through window
which there was no time to raise
Lightning was the cause of the fire.
AT San Francisco about s O'Clock this
morning Philip Raper, negro cook,
cut the throat of a fourteen-year.old
girl named Meyers, the daughter OF re-
spectacle people, and then cut his own
throat, dying instantly. The girl died
few hours later. Raner, some time
ago, robbed a saloon owned by the
girls father and served three months
Imprisonment for the crime.
At three o'clock this morning fer1a
Brothers grocery, at st. Paul, was COM
pletely Quilted by fire in less than TWEEN
ty minutes. The fire started on tire
fifth floor, where several occupants, IN
Guiding U. S. soldiers, were asleep
They were brought down on ladders
one woman unconscious and Others sur
fering from smoke Inhalation. a ire
man severely injured, but not fatally
Nahum ]. Baldwin, widely known s.
Grandsire" Baldwin, died in Boston yesief'
day. aged ~ years. he was q familiar ~,
urc in the opce popular "Old Folks Concerts
Nicenah Burvee, the ten.year old .daugA'S'
of George Burvee, who lives near virgil ~
Y, was lost in the storm of THURSDAY n,sa'
and was found dead in snow drift yesieruai'
Mrs. Ferdinand Siegel and her son "eIo
killed at Toledo, Chic, yesterday by 81 , e1,
press train crashing into the buggy Il. "h''H
they were seated.
James Whitcomb Riley. the poet, IS d'use''
ously i'll at Indianapolis, Ind.
The total estimated population OF Gie''''
New York is 3, 1876 .O59.