Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1903-02-20
TELEGRAPHrC BREyITIEs.

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The roundhouse and ten locomotives
Of the Bangor and Arostook Railroad at
Houlton, Me-, we're burned this morn
ing.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie today added
1925, 900 to the endowment fund of the
Carnegie Laboratory of Engineering at
Stevens Institute Of Technology.
Fire started at 2:20 this morning the
basement OIL. Miller's department store,
three story frame building Houghton,
Mich, and threatened the business por-
ton of the town. The Miller stock is
valued at $50, 900 and probably will be
total loss.
Andreas Martineau, civil servant in
the militia department at Ottawa, has
yictimized the country to the extent OF
$40, 900 according to discoveries made in
search of his accounts. When arrested
in Ottawa he was ready for fight, having
s12, 400 in his pocket. The charge
against him will be forgery and embezzle-
ment.
A large sanitarium building, formerly
the McMullen residence, about three
miles northwest from Coscob, Conn.,,
narrowly escaped total destruction by
fire this morning. AS it was the GYM
nasium barn and carriage house were
totally destroyed. There are a number
of inmates in the sanitarium but there
was no panic among the patients. The
main building was not damaged
Fire that threatened the entire bust
ness portion of Marion, Ills, broke out
at seven O'Clock last night and was not
brought under control until several hours
later. Five or more families were left
homeless. The burned district includes
the brick block on THE northeast corner
of the square from the City Hall to the
New Goodal, House. The loss is vari-
ously estimated at 5000, 600 to $3.50, 600.
The Collins and Dodge blocks, two
large three story brick structures, in
Gloversville, N. Y, were Quilted by
fire which started in saloon in the
Collins block early this morning The
upper floors were occupied by families
and many persons we're rescued by the
firemen. Ten degrees below zero
weather made the work of fighting the
flames extremely difficulty. Loss
| $4,000.
A negro desperate held the entire police
force of New Orleans at bay today. He barri-
caded himself in room on Rampant street
armed with a revolver and two pistols he
captured from the police who attempted to
; arrest him befor he fortified himself. After
a siege which lasted from 2 O'Clock this morn.
ing until daylight, the police set fire to the
house in which the negro desperate had bar
ricaded himself and as he attempted to escape
shot him to pieces The scene Of the tragedy
was a negro boarding house.
jesse Pennypacker, a distant relative OF
Governor PenDypacker, of Pennsylvania
walked into the Reading National Union
Bank this morning and thrust dagger foot
long through the window at Cashier Wanner,
lie demanded money and said he intended tc
kill some of his neighbors. Pennypacker was
disarmed and taken TO Jail where he will be
confined pending an examination into his
condition.
John Barber. on trial at Akron, O., for the
murder of his wife, committed suicide las
evening. Barber had just been taken iron
the Court room and had been allowed to 81
in the sheriff's Office for few minutes. Barbe
found a revolver in the sheriff's desk ano
placing the muzzle Of the weapon to his hear
cred and killed himself.
George II. Pell, society man, scion of ;
wealthy family, and one time leader in Wall
street circles, was sentenced to three years ant
six months in Sing sing this morning, on hi
J plea of guilty, TO a charge Of the larceny o
$3, 900 from Theodore A Sharp, a note broker
Friends and relatives of the McIlhenny:
are said to be the authority for a rumor cur
rent in Dallas, Tex, in social circles that
Miss Alice Roosevelt, now visiting in New
Orleans, is engaged to John MeIlhenny, one
of the Trough Riders"
The typhoid fever epidemic at Ithaca, n
, Y, continues to claim victims. Five hundred
persons are now i'll, or one person in every q
in the city.