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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Thirty-eight men, principally firemen and machinists, have deserted from the Argentine cruiser Neuve de Julio, now lying off New York. They were nearly all Englishmen. The World's Fair directory say that before determining to open the exposition on Sunday they consulted the ablest lawyers in the West, and they agreed that Attorney General Olney could do nothing in the case. A man died in a Philadelphia hospital last evening from a gun-shot wound in the abdomen. The man is supposed to be the burglar who was shot on Friday night by the watchman of a watch factory at Lancaster, Pa. An oil train standing on the Baltimore and Ohio bridge, near Johnstown, Pa., last evening was run into by another train, derailing two oil cars. The oil caught fire and the cars burned with a fearful heat, destroying the bridge. The steamship James Brand, the largest steel tanker afloat, arrived at Philadelphia yesterday from Dartmouth, Eng., after a passage of sixteen days. The voyage demonstrated that petroleum fuel for steamships can be used. The threatened strike of telegraphers on the Chicago and Northern road occurred this morning, and as a result a disastrous wreck occurred, involving many thousand dollars' worth of prop. erty and causing a blockade of the entire Milwaukee division of the road. Congressman Charles O'Neil, of Philadelphia, the father of the House of Representatives, who was elected last fall to Congress for the fifteenth successive time, told a reporter to-day that he expected to see the tariff completely revised at the next session of Congress. He does not believe, however, that the McKinley bill will be repealed in its entirety. The commissioners appointed by the President to investigate the inner workings of the New York custom house met this morning in that city and remained in executive session until noon organizing and laying out a plan of campaign. Ex-Secretary Fairchild, who is president of the commission, said that no open session would be held to-day and that no witnesses would be examined. With a crash that startled hundreds of people almost across the street from the City Hall in Chicago, 3. section of the Oriental Building wall fell this morning The accident happened just after a large force of men had gone to work tearing down the building to make a place for the new Stock Exchange Five men were buried, one of whom was kill. ed and the others wounded. A fire of incendiary origin partially destroyed three three-story brick buildings in as stores and esManchester, dwellings. Va., this One morning family occupied of nine in their night clothes losing all their were by possessions. caped The buildings owned the Virginia Loan Association. Loss $7,500 insured. The Elmira, N. Y., National Bank closed its doors to-day. The failure is the result of financial troubles of Col. D.C. Robinson. Mr. Jackson Richardson, president of the bank, says the depositors will be paid in full. The deposits amount to $200,000. Band examiners recently declared the bank perfectly solvent. Benjamin F. Carver, 70 years of age, a guest at the Hotel Bristol, New York, plunged from & fourth-story window of that house this morning and was almost killed. Cigarette smoking In a stable caused the destruction of $30,000 worth of property at Nashville, Tenn., yesterday.
