Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-05
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A fire this morning at Jersey City,
destroyed George Smiths iron foundry,
causing loss of $4,000; insured.
A bill to prevent prize fighting was
passed by the California Senate yester-
day and now goes to the assembly for
action.
New York Central Office detectives
arrested Andrew Mauro to day for q
900 diamond robbery committed in
New Orleans on Dec. I'd last.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
it is positively learned that Judge Nc
Kenna has been offered and has accept
ed position the cabinet of President
elect Mckinley. The information is
authentic.
A special from Durango, Mexico, says
two bars of refined silver, valued at
SIC, 1000, were stolen yesterday from the
Office of the Wells Fargo and Company
express Office in that city. Employees
claim that they were stolen while the
office was closed. There is no clue to
the robbers.
Dan Stuart, the promoter of the Cor
bett-Fitzsimmons fight, left Denison
for Nevada to-day to arrange for the
coming fight. Before leaving Stuart
said 1.-THE battle will either take
place at Reno or Carson City. l shall
erect an amphitheatre to seat $4,000
people and expect it to be full.
Nicholas Schaffer of Burlington, NJ,
shot himself on the street there o.day.
Schafier and his wife had been separat-
ed for three months and ne had fitted
up house with the intention of start
ing anew. He accosted his wife as she
was returning from work and asked
her to return to his home. On her re-
fusing he began shooting.
Tom Allen, the retired champion
pugilist of st. Louis, announces his
willingness to back Denver Ed'
Smith, who has just returned from South
Africa, against Peter Maher, or Joe
Choyinski, for 50, 500 side and purse
offered by Dan Stuart, the fight to take
place in Nevada the same week of the
Corbett- Fitzsimmons battle.
The special legislative committee APP
pointed to investigate the subject of
trusts met in New York to day. Theo-
dore A. Havemeyer, one of the heads
of the American Sugar Refinery Com
pany and connected with the Woolston
Spice and Coffee Company in Ohio,
was one of the witnesses. In the course
of his testimony he denied that the
companies undertook to regulate prices,
and said rates were lower now than
previous to the formation of the COM
pauies.
A special from Kissmec, Fla says that the
extensive ST. Cloud sugar plantation, near
that place, has been purchased by a syndicate
of Cubans, that the capacity OF the sugar mill
will be doubled at once, and 1000 acres of
cane will be planted this fall. The St. Cloud
plantation WAS established by the late Ham,
ilton Disston, of Philadelphia. who under
took the development of sugar growing in
Florida on large scale. He invested quar-
tor of million dollars in sugar mill.
Judge Cole in Washington yesterday issued
rule. returnabe tomorrow, for Mr.. E. B.
Hay to show cause why he should not be
punished for contempt of court. This is the
sequel to the game OF hide-and seek which
the actor Mansfield played with the deputy
marshals whom he was last in Washington.
Omcrod Heyworth cotton broker, was
found hanging by the neck, dead, in his Of
flee in Galveston, Tex at an early hour this
morning. Financial difficulties is supposed
to have been the cause He was a native of
England and his family there is one of wealth
and prominence
While excavating the foundation for
house at Smithville, Pa. to-day, John Leke-
tur, who was tapping charge of giant pow
der, had his head blown of by premature
explosion. Two other workmen were badly
injured.
fire this morning in the Ha'ght Build
ing at Nos. 1876 and 15S Broadway, New
York, destroyed the fifth and sixth floors of
the building and damaged number of offices
on other floors The tjtal damage is estimat.
ed at SOS, 900.
Prince Bismark says he is tired, not sick;
his complaint is uneasiness of life in which
he no longer has an object; he feels lonely,
having lost his wife and his sons having their
own business to attend to-
The Cuban insurgents are meeting with
further defeat.