Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Galatea are manifested.
Hailstones as large as hens eggs fell dur.
inp the storm in st. Thomas, Mimi, Satur'
day.
Col. W. Fl. Bolton, Of the Chicago postof-
fee, has been arrested, charged with en-
beZZlemcnt.
Pittsburg and Allegheny were flooded by
a rain and hail storm yesterday. The dam
age, it is said, will amount to $3.50 600.
A double force Of police has been station
ed on the Brooklyn bridge to prevent imi-
tators of Brode from jumping into East
river.
Public Printer Rounds, it is said, has
placed his resignation lin the Presidents
hands, to take effect in the latter part Of
August.
Sauanaru Fushiui, one of the four heredi-
tary princes of Japan, who rank after the
Mikado, is expected shortly to arrive in
Washington.
A dispatch from Mexico says tho trouble
over the arrest of editor Cutting has been
amicably settled, and Cuttings liberation
has been ordered.
Lightning struck an electric wire leading
into Albaugh's theatre, Washington, last
night. No damage was done, but great ex-
element prevailed.
Gen. Van Allen, the son Of ]. I. Van AL
len, the rich New York merchant, jumped
from the steamship Umbria in mid.ocean
last Wednesday and was drowned.
During scullle over an umbrella in Goat
alley, Washington, yesterday, between Jas.
Holmes and Thos. Carter, the former wac
80 seriously cut by the latter that he died
shortly afterward.
A druggist in Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday
sold Mrs. Adrebarriolio, an Italian woman,
arsenic for sugar of milk. Last night the
mother was dead, and three children are not
expected to recover. The druggist is crazy
with grief.
Excitement at franklin, Ohio, concerning
the mutilation and murder of Mamie Hol-
weger last Thursday grows more intense.
The county commissioners have authorized
reward of 81 900 for the arrest and con.
vction of the murderer.
The neighborhood of Martinsburg, w.
| Va, was visited by violent storm yester-
day afternoon, and for six hours rain pour
ed in torrents, causing all the streams to
overflow their banks. Great damage has
been done to crops, roads and bridges.
The coroner's jury yesterday rendered o
verdict that Lock wood, who murdered Mat
tie Randall at Morris, Conn, committed sui.
eide. While this verdict was expected, the
impression that he was lynched is still as
strong az ever in the minds of many people
Simon Hancock shot and killed Mrs. Jas.
Bass and her unborn babe near Gresham,
XIV, Friday. Hancock and JAS Bass were
fighting when the wife interfered and took
her husband away. AS they started into the
house Hancock fired at Bass. but killed his
wife.
| In the Senate yesterday the general de-
| fciency bill was passed. The surplus reso-
luton went over. The House refused to
concur in the Senate amendments to the
legislative, executive and judicial appropri.
alton bill, the main point OF disagreement
being on clerks to Senators.
At Leechburg, Pa, yesterday during a
thunder storm Porter Purveance, aged IL
years, sought shelter from the storm under
a large tree, which was shattered by bolt
lightning, and young Puryeance was killed.
A lady was struck by lightning and killed
at Beaver Falls, Pa, during the same storm.
On Sunday morning last while DR.. John
Cordell who resides near Grimes Station,
near Hagerstown, Md, was, examining a
revolver it was accidentally discharged,
The ball striking his three-year old son, who
was standing in front of him, in the abdo-
men. At last accounts tho Child was IN q
critical condition.
Mrs. Kate Chase arrived in Washington
Yesterday. She returned from Europe last
week, and the object OF her visit to Wash.
ington ut this time is to make arrangements
| for the removal of the remains of her iIther,
the luto Chief Juatice Chase, Of Ohio. The
remains OF the late chisf Justice have rested
at Oak Hill Cemetery since his death.
Sanford Lott, aged fourteen years, was
killed Yesterday morning in the carCiag de-
| partment of the Mount Ida cotton mil,
Troy, N. Y. In attempting to adjust belt
his clothing caught in the machinery, and
he was Whirled round shaft going at the
rate of one hundred and fifty revolutions a
| minute for four minutes before the machiue'
ry could be stopped.
A sensation has been created near New
| Windsor, Md, by the news that Nathan b.
| Dehl, thrifty young farmer, had deserted
his wife and children and eloped with Il
| Young servant girl named Maggie Gushing.
| Diehl owned fine farm and had $4,000 in
bank. A year ago the Dehls hired Maggie
as domestic and Nathan became fasci-
mated with the girl, and, notwithstanding
the en,reaties of his wife, persisted in max.
ing love to her, which finally eliminated in
| the elopement. The pair have gone West.
A dispatch from Niagara Falls says c. d.
| Graham, the man who went through the
| rapids in barrel, has begun his expert
ments for going over the Horseshoe Falls,
and has about finished plans for the barrel
It will be built Of twoinGh slaves, with a
cork covering two inches thick. The ham
mock inside will be shaped moro like ball,
and will be more elastic and stronger than
the other hammock. Graham proposes to
get into his barrel and be showed off one of
the bridges across the gorge before going
over the falls.
Thomas Richardson, of Bonneville, r. l.,
became angered because his sweetheart, Sa.
rah A. Bishop, of Fall River, discarded him.
Sunday night, at the "Groye," in Fall Riv
er, where Miss Bishop was cnt walking
with VIM. K. Russell, he shot the girl in
the left wrist, Russell in the left hand and
neck fatally, and Jesse Siddous, who inter-
fered, in the head. He then attempted to