Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The devil was burned at the Salvation
Army headquarters in New York yes
terday in spite of the protests OF the
fire department.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that the Sultan has liberated the last
twenty of the 3SS Armenian prisoners
in Constsntinople.
WE. Parker, cashier for Buford and
George Manufacturing Company, is in
Jail at Kansas City, Mo-, self-con-
fessed embezz'er of 5000.
The handsome residence of Christie
pher c.. Harris, near st. Louis, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. The house
and contents were valued at $50, 900.
The Brighton elevator, at New
Brighton, suburb of Minneapolis, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. The loss
on building and contents is 100000.
A burglar, detected in breaking into
the rooms of Mrs. S. Abrahams, in New
York yesterday, politely excused him
SELF and walking down stairs escaped.
Mrs. James Garden, an actress, who
was better known as Miss Marston
Leigh and who was stricken with pa
ralysis on Thursday last, at her home,
in Philadelphia, died last night.
The paint mandatory of Schroeder,
Smith and Schroeder, of Lancaster, Pa,
was completely destroyed by fire early
this morning. The loss is estimated
at $50, 900. The National Manufacture
Company, in the same building, was
also completely burned out,
Mr.. William Jennings Bryan arrived
at Chicago from Omaha, shortly after
eight o'clock this morning. He was in
good health and spirits. He was met
by committee of democrats and es-
corted to the fremont House. He will
speak tonight at the Bryan Club
banquet.
The United States Court of Appeals
of Chicago handed down an important
decision to-day in the Whisky Trust
case. The court decided that the leases
made by the old Whisky Trust cannot
be enforced and are void This rids
the American Spirits Manufacturing
Company of about fifty leases running
for about twenty years and involving
something like 81 100000.
Two lives were snuffed out in tie Al
leghan, Pa, General Hospital last
night. One was that of an IS year-old
girl, named Beale, of Somerset county,
said to have been betrayed and the vic
tim of criminal malpractice, the auth ors
of which she did not divulge. The
other was Edward Kamphaus. of New
Kensington, who died while under an
operation for removal of JUNIOR.
A FIRE in the Daily F>edon;n. building in
New Brunswick, n. T., this morning Quilted
the press rooms sAd caused panic among
the g'rl employees. The fire cut of escape by
the stairway and some of the girls were res
cuei by me freneD, who took them from the
window stills, where they had taken refuge,
and carried them down ladders to the street.
The fire was caused by the explosion of BEN
zine. The loss is estimated at $4,000
Fireman Conrad Sillinger fell and sustained
internal injuries that may result in his death
Senator John NJ. Palmer was taken sud-
deuly i'll last night and is confined to his bed
in Springfield. Ill. His physician has for
hidden him to leave his room and says he is
threatened with pneumonia. Senator Palmer
delivered an address upon the late Hon. Ly.
lnHu IIumDuli before the ll!lDolS supreme
Court yesterday and was to appear before the
Saugamon Circuit Court to defend the Balti.
more and Ohio Southwestern Railway in two
damage suits to-day.
The schooner C. c. I ane, Norfolk for New
Haven, with pig iron, stranded on Barnegat
Shoals at 6 a. m to day Crews from Barnc.
gat, Loveladies Island and FOrked river life
stations assisted in discbarging 120 tons of
cargo and the schooner was noated at 10 a. III.
Henry Oehm, Of New York, is bereft Of his
children. His lovely daughter has run away
and married. and his son eopcd with milk
maid on the same day his sister ran OFT
Rev. DR.. Lyman Jewett well known Bap-
fist missionary, died to day in Fitchburg,
Mas, aged So years.
The Commercial Bank Of Eau Claire, Wis,
capital $50, 900, closed to-day