Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-08
TELEGRA IL, BREVITIES.


The s.ables OF DR.. w. T. Frady, near
Marietta, Ind., were destroyed by fire
last night with all their contents, in.
Guiding 81 horses. The total loss is
s25, 900.
Hon. Hoke Smith, former Secretary
of the Interior, has been elected presi-
dent of the Board Of Education of At
lanta, Ca, to succeed Judge Howard
Van Epps, resigned.
Forest fires are raging in the timber
southwest of Estes Park, Col. linn ense
volumes of smoke are darkening the
sky. Unless there is storm the de-
struction will be enormous.
At meeting in Columbus, O., last
night, an organization of all the glass
works in the country was formed which
Is ssid to be as formidable as the Stand
ard Oil Company. The object is to
stop cutting prices in order that all
can make reasonable prices.
On the steamer Venezuela, which ar
rived at New York to day from Vene-
zuelan ports, was Gov. q. S. Pingree,
of Michigan, who suddenly disappeared
from home few weeks ago. He said
it was his first vacation in nine years
and he had enjoy ed the trip immensely.
George Morgan was hanged at
Omaha, Neb., to-day for the murder of
Ida Gaskill, in November, 1895. Nor
gan died protesting his innocence. His
victim was but IL years old and had
been outraged and choked &c death.
Evidence against Morgan was mainly
iroumstantial, but was very conclu.
sive.
Comptroller Fitch's expert account
ants who have been at work Investigate
ing the records and accounts on Brook
lyn, preparatory to consolidation, have
found discrepancies in accounts
amounting to 100000. Officials OF
Brooklyn deny that there is or has
b. on any malfeasance, and allege that
the discrepancies reported by Comp
troller Fitch's experts are due in large
part to the defective system of book
keeping followed in the towns which
were recently annexed to Brooklyn.
GustaYe Hardness, an aged hermit,
who lives in an old hut along the
Schuylkill river, short distance above
Pottstown, Pa, last night found the
body of an unknown woman lying in
the bushes. The woman had evident.
ly been murdered. Her clothing was
torn and disarranged, and from ap.
pearance, she had been choked, as her
tongue was portruding from her mouth.
The bushes indicated a fierce struggle.
She was about twenty years of age. 1t
is the supposition that the woman was
choked to death and then laid in the
bushes.
At meeting in Philadelphia, Pa,
to. day of the representatives Of twelve
breweries located in the central eastern
part of the State, practically the an
thracte coal mining region, an agree
ment was signed for the consolidation
of the twelve concerns into one corpo-
ration to be known as the Central
Pennsylvania Brewing Company. The
company will have e capital of $40, 900,
OO0 A member of one of the firms in
terested said to-day that his firm had
5een forced to this action by the de-
preston in business caused by the
sharp competition which has resulted
in several beer wars.
Emmett @. Gibson, alias George a.
Sheriu, was arranged in the New York
police court to-day on the complaint of
81. P. Stimson, auditor of the imperial
hotel. Sti,nson charges Gibson with
passing fraudulent check for $S40 on
the hotel. besides swindling them out
of 1855 for board. His swindles, it is
alleged, amount to about $4OO, OOO.
Gibson is lawyer by profession and is
SO year old. AS a promoter he con-
solidated the Akron, Ohio, street rail-
way companies and at present is said
to be the vice present of the corpora.
ton. Gibson was held in $1,000 bail
and his examination fixed for October
IL. He declared that he was entirely
innocent of the charge.
Lying in q clump of tall weeds with
revolver by her side and bullet hole
in the left temple, the body of a young
woman supposed to be Jennie Oates,
20 years old, was found by Officer
Schmaudt, of Chicago police station.
to-day. The body was still warm. In
one of the pockets of the woman's dress
was found a note which leads the police
to believe the young woman committed
suicide as the result of q lovers quarrel.
The note was addressed to ]. Foil, 719
Bishop street, and in it the writer staten
that she was tired of living and in facl
tired of everything, The note was
signed Jennie Oates and bore the ad
dress of $50 Francis street. She bad
lived at this place two weeks, but
nothing mora ia known of her.