Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The assignment Of the firm of Pitts
Kimball and Lewis, of Boston, import
ers and retailers, is announced. The
firm is one of the largest in the city.
Mgr. Januarius De Concllo, pastor
of St. Michaels R. c. Church, Jersey
City, died at the rectory of the church
to-day. He was born in Italy and wa;
sixty years of age.
Lieutenant Kelly, of the board fol
the inspection of auxiliary cruisers, said
in New York to-day that the Morgan
line steamer Chalmett had been decid.
ed upon as repair chip in case she
should be required. The steamers to
be examined to-day, includes those Of
the Mallory, Morgan and Old Domin.
ion lines. The board this afternoon
examined the jamestown and the
Yorktown, of the Old Dominion Line
of steamships, the steamship Concha,
of the Mallory Line, and the Ell Sud,
of the Morgan Line.
As s result of the heavy rains in the Pitts.
burg, Pa, section during the past forty-eight
hours the rivers are rising rapidly and a
flood that will mandate the lowlaDds is pre-.
dicted before TO morrow morning Navigation
along the Monongahela river has been sus-
pended and the water is over the locks The
Beaver river is raging torrent and factories
on its banks have closed down. At neon the
marks indicated 21 feet and rising inches
an hour. The Allegheny and Ohio rivers are
also rising and from % to 25 feet of water is
expected at Pittsburg tonight.
Mrs. John Cox and one of her children
we're burned to death two miles east of St.
Louis several weeks ago. 1t was reported as
an accident in which Mrs. Cox had tainted
and fallen into the fireplace where the EN-.
bers set fire to her clothing and burned her
up. The flames were supposed to have also
ignited cradle and burned the baby. Now
as tho result of story told by an older child
of John Cox, the husband and father has been
arrested and is co. fined in Jail charged with
the murder of the woman and her child.
A terrific blizzard prevails throughout N O..
braska. The mercury has fallen forty de-
grees. The wind is rs miles per hour Zero
weather is announced for tonight. lie
storm is particularly hard on csttle and wit &.
ter wheat. The severe weather is general
throughout the West.
Mrs. Margaret Scott sister of Gov. Bradley
Of Kentucky, died to-day at Som9Iset. The
Governor will not change his plans for at
tending the launching of the bait eship Ken
lucky at Newport News, Va, on Thursday.
An explosion occurred at Manown coal
mine, near Monongahsla City, Pa to-day.
Two men were killed, five injured, and about
twenty were entombed in the mine, These
were subsequently rescued.
The venerable Truman P Handy, widely
known rs probably the oldest banker in active
sarvce in the United States, is critically i'll at
his homo in Cleveland, Ohio. He is over 81
years of age.
The sixth annual shooting tournament Of
the Interstate Association opened at Long
Branch, n. j., to-day with large attendance
of markmen and with discouraging down.
pour Of rain.
The New York Assembly to day passed a
bill authorizing the Governor TO appoint q
commission to inquire into the causes of the
decline of commerce in New York city.
Ed. Green, colored, wanted in Fairfax OH
the charge of gambling, and who was arrested
here yesterday, was this evening taken there
by an ofiic r who came here for him.
One man was killed and one injured to day
by the fall of q derrick used on the canal I'M
provemeDt work pear Medina, N. Y.
The case of Robert Hamilton, charged with
attempted train wrecking, is still in progress
in the Fairfax county court.
blizzard struck Denver Col, and vcini-
ty last night. The mercury fell from SO to
Ia at midnight.