Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-22
TELEGRApHIC BREVITIES.

Mr.. David Caster Worth, of the firm
of Worth and Worth, Wholesale gro.
GERS of Wilmington, N. C., died there
late last night.
DIR. Michael O'Toole, the distinguish.
ed surgeon and oculist, died at San
Francisco late last night. The cause
of death wss pneumonia.
schuylkill Colliery, familiar Land.
mark of the Mabaroy, Pennsylvania,
Valley, which has been in operation
since 1868, has been abandoned.
Mrs. O'Reilly, widow of the late John
Boyle O'Reilly, the patriot, poet and
editor, died at her home at Boston.
Mass, to-day of pneumonia
The department store of Dives,
Pomeroy aud Stewart, in Harrisburg,
Pa, was robbed last night of So, 500 in
money and silks to the value of $500.
Carl q. Johnson, superintendent of
the noted Geyser Mining Co., OF Bos.
ton, which has expended 100000 in
developing property at Silver Cliff.
Colo, is dead at Denver, Colo, aged 63
years.
The belief that the British ship Tay-
mount has been lost at sea is strongly
confirmed by the fact that she Was not
sighted by any one of the sixteen deep.
water vessels which have arrived at
San Francisco within the past "a hours.
What promises to be disastrous FIRE
broke out at o'clock in the large
furniture establishment of William h.
Scott, better known as "Great Scott"
at Nos. 313, 3l7 and S19 North Howard
street, Baltimore, Md. At 8 O'Clock it
is burning fiercely.
Mr.. John Ryan, ST., pioneer citizen
of Atlanta, Ga, and one OF the richest
and most widely known men in the
South, died at his home in that city
this morning after protracted illness
caused by paralysis. Mr.. Ryan was
born in Dublin, Ireland, about II years
ago.
An outbreak seems imminent at the
Atlantic niue, near Houghton, Mich.
The company has IS Italians from the
Franklin mine on the ground ready to
take the places of the striking Fins aud
the latter announce that bloodshed will
ensue at the first attempt to set the
Italians to work.
A dispatch from Cape Henry, Va,
says: "The British steamer Straits OF
Magellan went ashore about three
miles north of Little Island and halfa
mile off shore. She went ashore about
4 q. m. but was hoated at So and con-
tinued her trip from Cork to Baltimore
unaided."
The second trial of the alleged wife
murderer Luetgert was to have begun
in Chicago to day before Judge Hor-
ton, but at the request of the defense,
the case went over until tomorrow.
Luetgert's attorney announced that he
would asked for change of venue from
Judge Horton.
A dispatch from Williamsport, Pa,
says the American Wood orking Machi.
merry Co. has just been organized there
and will control fourteen concerns
manufacturing seven ights of the wood.
working machinery produced in the
United States. The capital of the or.
ganization is SIS, 100000
In Chicago to-day DIR. Noel submitted
to the coroner report on the examina-
ton of the stomach and liver of John
B. Ketcham, the wealthy club man
whose sndden death under mysterious
circumstances caused sensation. The
report states that death was caused
from alcoholism and hardening of the
liver. The result exonerates Mrs.
Wallace from suspected culpabilily in
Mr.. Ketcham's death.
The National Congress of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church, which begsn in Pittsburg
yesterday, was continued to-day. Between
300 and 400 prominent representatives of
the church from all parts of the country were
in attendance The gathering is the first of
its kind ever held by the n. E. Church.
Bishop Vincent presided.
The 35th annual meeting OF the stockholi.
ers OF the Southern Express company WAS
held in savonnah, Ca, to-day. The old d.
rectors were re elected.
The steamer Saratoga, from Havana, hay.
ing on board the released members Of the
Competitor flibusterihg expedition, reached
New York to-day.