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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. While 8 crew of the battleship Maine, now off Charleston were loading a onepound gun of the secondary battery with a one-pound calibre cartridge yesterday, the cartridge exploded injuring First Sergeant Wagner on the right hand, tearing the flesh from the bones. Part of the shell struck seaman Hardin in the leg and has not yet been extracted. The men are painfully rather than seriously hurt. Another man was injured about the face. Fire at 2:30 o'clock this morning destroyed a small frame cottage in Springwells, Mich., occupied by the family of Stephen Rogulski. A two-year old child was burned to death, and Mary Rogulski, aged 11 years, was so badly burned that she will die. Five other members of the family were also seriously burned. The fire is thought to have been the work of an incondiary. Rogulski was under arrest three months ago under suspicion of having attempted to kill a family named Konczal by trying to blow up their house with dynamite. Alexander Terrell, the negro who outraged Mrs. Jackson, a white lady, in the outskirts of Galveston, Tex., last December, pleaded guilty to the charge this morning and was sentenced to death. The Pennsylvania Railroad Directors today elected John P. Green. first vice president; Charles E. Pugh second vice president; S.M. Prevost, third vice president, and J. B. Hutchins, general manager. The Pimlico Driving Club, near Baltimore, has concluded arrangements for the spring meeting and claimed dates for the fall meeting. The spring meeting will be held the first week in June. Wheelmen from all sections of the country were present at Albany, N. Y., to day at the opening session of the annual assembly of the National League of American Wheelmen. The safe in the postoffice at Clearfield, Pa., was blown open shortly before 4 o'clock this morning by two men, and $400 in cash and $1,000 in stamps taken. In the British House of Commons to-day the bill providing for the closing of public houses on Sundays was rejected by a vote of 209 to 149. The Bankers' Exchange Bank of Minneapolis, Mich., closed its doors this morning. It suspended some weeks ago, but resumed in a few days. The Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Freeport I!I., practically went into liquidation yesterday. The depositors will be paid in full. W.F. Stowell, one of the best known young business men in Washington, died at Garfield Hospital yesterday morning. The ice gorge in the Ohio broke last night and navigation has been resumed in the lower river. P. H. Knox, of Pittsburg. is being taked of as Attorney-General in Major McKinley's Cabinet.