Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1883-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Major David Power Conynham, LID,
editor of the New York Tablet, died from
pneumonia Saturday night.
The firm of r. & c. Degener, shipping
and commission merchants at New York,
suspended Saturday.
Miss Mary Conkling, maiden sister of
Roscoe Conkling is quite i'll at the city
hospital in Rochester, n. Y.
Hattie Turner was shot and killed by
a drunken man at Pilot Point, Texas, who
was shooting recklessly last week.
Charles Tilghman, who cut his wife's
| throat near Hecktown, Northampton
county, Pennsylvania, on Thursday last, has
been arrested.
A. j. Ferrar, prominent citizen of Erie,
Pa: committed suicide on Friday by shoot
ing himself. No cause is assigned for the
act.
Victor Goldberg, young Russian Jew,
was received into the German Evangelical
Church, Baltimore, yesterday, having re-
Gently renowned the faith of his fathers.
\ Starkvile Miss special reports a
severe hail storm there Friday night, blow
ing down gin houses, fences, &c, and do
ing great damagein hesurrounding country.
\ man was found with his throat cut at
Twenty-eighth street and Eleventh avenue,
New York, Saturday evening, and it is De-
lieved that he was murdered
Bishop-elect Nicholson, of St. Mark 5
Church, Philadelphia, has written to Rev.
DR.. Wakefield, president Of the standing
committee, declining tho episcopate Of In
diana.
A man in Bradford, Pa, has made pre-
dlctlon to the effect that great storm of
wind, rain and lightning will pass over the
oil section Oh April 7th. He has advised
owners of oil wells to tie down their der
ricks and houses with cables.
james B. Gillian, aged about Is years, and
well-known citizen of Chambersburg, Pa,
com United suicide by hanging in a wash
house attached to his residence on Friday
night. Financial matters are supposed to be
| the cause.
At half.past two o'clock Saturday after
noon the tow-boat Polar Star, bound up the
Ohio, with three barges in tow, exploded
her boilers when just above the wharf at
Columbus, KY, and was completely wreck
ed. Six, and probably eight, lives We're
| lost.
The New York Catholic Reriew is inform
1
that the holy See has appointed Rev. Joseph
Rademacher, of the diocese of Fort Wayne,
Ind, to the See of Nashville Tenn. made
| vacant by the promotion of Archbishop Fee
han to Chicago.
A poor family living in house formerly
occupied by an old man named Jack Hank
ey, near Matthew's station, \. c., found in
an old cupboard which had been left in the
nv hn tnt pftl ,,n
box containing 81 200 in gold, of which they
at once informed the proper parties.
An experimental test Of the new cable
motor on the Columbia avenue branch of
the Union Line Railway, Philadelphia, was
made Saturday, with successful results. The
cars moved along smoothly and steadily ut
the rate of six miles an hour The road
will go into active operation in few days
a dozen Yale students entered the New
Haven Athennum about midnight OH Sat
urday, while the fair of the Thespian Club
was i'll progress, and created 4 disturbance
They were roughly handled by the town
| boys several of whom carried home college
canes US trophies. No arrests were made.
Four boys jumped from coal train at
the mouth of the tunnel on the Eastern
and Amboy Railroad near Pattenhurg, n.
j., yesterday, and were struck by locomo.
tive coming in an opposite direction War
rem Barrigan, aged seventeen wears was
cut in two, and another hoy Was seriously
injured.
a special from Bloomington, Ill.,. saws
Rooln T. Dunn attempted Saturday to kill
his family. He first shot and probably IA
tally wounded his wife. He next fired at.
| but missed, his son, young man, and then
attacked his daughter with a knife, but was
overpowered by his sou before he inflicted
an injury upon her.
| Saturday night about 1890 o'clock as
Mrs. Henry Engel was returning from
store to the residence of her brother on
Mount street, just north of Lanvale, Balti-
more, a man waylaid her and maltreated
her so brutally that her death is expected
at any moment. 1t was subsequently, ascer-
tanned that the lady's husband was her as
| sailant.
A fatal atilay occurred at ward meeting
at kayvllle, La, on Saturday, in width l..
a. Jones, prominent citizen and merchant,
and \. l.. Collins, Deputy Sheriff. were
both killed. The trouble between the parties
grew out of the selection of candidate for
Clerk of the District Court. Collins shot
Jones dead with a pistol and some un-
known party then shot Collins, killing him
instantly.
Colbert Strahl and Jesse Mulholland were
waylaid and shot Friday night near Oak
field, Audubon county, Iowa, by an unknown
man who stepped from behind tree and
Tired upon them. Strahl died at midnight
and Mulholand was shot in the head
fatally. This is one outgrowth of reign of
terror in the vicinity inaugurated and sus.
tanned by Strahl and his confederates known
as the Crooked Creek Crowd.
John O'Day, white boy, aged fifteen
years, was throwing snow last night in
Washington, and accidentally struck John
W. Brown, colored, aged nineteen, who was
passing, with SNOWFALL. The latter rushed
at O'Day with knife in his hand. when
two men seized him. As they caught hold
of him O'Day threw stone, striking Brown
on the head and producing conclusion of
the brain, which will probably prove fatal.
A DEADLY EASTER GIFT.-At Indianapo.
lis, Ind, Wednesday night, Willie Ferger,
a son of Mrs. William Deschler, divorced
woman, found a package hanging upon the
knob ola rear door of their home which who