Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-03-29
fELEGkApHlC BREVITIES.

A cottage al Eist Providence, r. /.
owned by JOAN Bu sill, farm lsborer
wac burned yesterday and three of bis
little children persisted in the hdmes.
The Carpenter Steel Company o!
Reading, Ps., will within q short time
begin the erection OF sn armor-plate
mill double the size of the present plant.
One man dead, four seriously Injured
one perhaps fatally, and q portion OF
the building wrecked are the results OF
an explosion last evening in q big pa
per mill, at Erie, Pa.
The New York grand jury has drop
ped the investigation of the affairs OF
the Tiird Avenue railroad. The
charges of fraud 10 the wrecking of the
road, it developed, were based on here
say.
The Electri, Engine and Power
Company of New York, with capital
Of 1000 600, and the Advanced
Grocery Company OF New York. with
capital of $50, 000, 900, have been iucor.
porated at Pnenix, Ariz.
II is understood from European die
patches that the Boer commissioners
are coming to this country on a diplo
matte mission and bring q proposition
probably concerning war settlement
from the Boer presidents to President
Mckinley.
Miss Julia Cortelyon, aged rs, died al
New Brunswick, n. J. this morning.
She had been sffl cted with elephantss-
sis for years. she weighs 400 pouudr
aud measured seventy inches arouLd
the body, q inches around the ankle
and 20 inches around the arm. She had
not been out of bed 10 nine years.
Mrs. Emma Sutton, of Netcong, N.
j.. is in the Morrlstown Jail on suspicion
OF having poisoned her husband, Chas.
sutton, who died recently. Mrs. Sui
ton stOutly maintains her innocence,
out her neighbors in NetcoDg have all
turned against her and believe her
guilty. II il charged that she killed
ner husband TO obtain his life insurance
money.
A restaurant conducted las Christ
would cOnduc. an eating house" is in
successful operation in Chicago. The
walls are decorated with quotations
from the scriptures. Gospel meetings
are held ia the restaurant every Salur.
day evening, and it is closed on Sp.-
day. Persons whose appearance Ut-
tokens poverty are not allowed to pay
for tht ir meals.
Pbiletus Sawyer, ex.U. 5. Senator and
millionaire lumb .rman, died az his home in
Oshkosh, Wis., today. He was born in Vel
mont In 1916, Was brought up on a farm and
began life as a sawmill hand, He emis rated
to Wisconsin in 1S47, having at the time
capital of ab jut $4,000. He engaged IN the
lumber business and N lde millions.
At Bed Beach, Ne, today, Fred. Beynolis.
while insane, killed his wife and a seven.
year e6 son with an axe. AID severely in.
)ured younger son. de then get Dire To his
house which " tDrned to the g'ound. After
the doeds, he ran down tee street
che bloody axe and was captured.
The New York Senate has passed the ILL
which prohibits boxing or sparr,ug matches
In New York. The ill which affects tele-
graph companies by making it misde mesnor
to furnish information for beitiDg purposes,
passed the assembly today
In the U. S. Senate In executive sessio |
yesterday tho d. moorat. broke 8 quorum and |
prevented the conf nation of the nomination |
II VIM -. ByDum to be member OF Board |
II General Appraisers of New York