Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-02-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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The Coroners jury on. the New Hamburg
disaster have returned verdict that the victims
came to then death on the 9th of February, at
New Hamburg, in consequence OF collision
between the Pacific express train and car load
ed with crude petroleum. The jury believe the
oil train could not have been stopped soon
enough to have prevented the accident; that
the employees on the oil train used all the means
at their command to signal the coming express
train; that the signal men did their duty; that
the express train was half mile from the OBJ
struction when first signalled, and could have
been stopped provided all the appliances had
been effective; that from some reason unknown
to the jury, the patent brakes were not effective
" applied. =.
William, alias Bill Mills, and his brother
John Mills were arrested in Cincinnati yester-
day by operatives of Colonel Whtney's Secret
Service Division They are charged with be-
ing dealers in counterfeit National bank notes,
legal tenders and fractional currency. The for
mer is said to be one Of the largest counterfeit
ers in the country. Both have been running Il
long time without being caught Bill Mills is
son-n-law to Miss Roberts, the notorious
''coney' woman of the West, ~.
On Monday evening couple were married at
the house of Mordecai Kelly, near Monroe, Wis.
After they had retired, a party, mostly relatives
of the bride, assembled for a charivari- MIR,
Kelly, hearing the confusion, took an old unused
gun and snapped it at the crowd The charge
Satan brother Of the bride, and seriously
wounded two Others Kelly gave himself up,
claiming he did not know the gun was loaded.
A trghtful accident occurred yesterday at the
BrookGeld Coal Bank, in Ohio. Fifteen men
were defending the slope in two cars. Throug II
carelcssness, the man whose duty it was to attach
the chain failed to do So The cars decended at
fearful rate, with nothing to check them.
One man was killed and five others so badly H.
iured they connot recover. All the rest, with
one exception, were more or less injured
The official dispatch from the British Foreign
Office regarding the appointment Of the High
Commission was submitted to the Canadian
Legislature yesterday. Judging from what is
said by Earl Kimberly, the question OF the pay
nent of damages for the Fenan raids will be
enforced upon the notice of the members repre-
senting the United States in the Commission.
Louis Bernard, the French miser who died at
St. Vincent Hospital, i'll New York, on Mon
day. beoueaths 100000 to the American Soci-
ETY. for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The Society has also received three other be-
quests. amounting to 5000, 900, which with
100000 pledged by Henry Bergh places the
Society on firm basis
A dispatch from Kingston, jamaica says tina t
the Chinese in many parts Of the Island are be-
coming troublesome. Three who were arrested
for having committed series of murders have
escaped The laborers on the Peeryn planta-
ton are in instruction and burned some build
ings on Sunday night.
A State convention of colored people Of
Tennessee is in session at Nashville, to obtain
information rs to the mental, moral and pecuni-
airy condition Of the colored people Of the
State.
Iii reported that 35 Republican members of
the Indiana House have resigned or will resign
tomorrow, and that Republican Senators will
also resign.