Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-07-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The West Virginia gubernatorial contest
committee have disposed of the contested
votes in several more counties. Fl, mining q
gain 30 far is 6S votes.
Mrs. Hogan has heard no news from her
husband, the aeronaut, and believes he has
met with death. She will leave jackson,
Mich, tonight for New York.
The Rev. Heinrich Paddenburg, who has
ton in Allegheny, Pa, for some time past,
has Just beeen received into the Catholic
church.
1t is said that both Reid ard Phelps will
resign their missions within year. Neither
wanted the mission he got, for both wanted
the mission to England; but neither could
decline very well.
TIE Board of Directors of the North Caro-
lima Insane Asylum Saturday acquitted Dr.
Eugene Grissop, superintendent OF the ssy-
lum, of charges of immortality, cruelty to
patients and Misrepresentation of supplies.
John L. Sullivan remains in seclusion in his
rooms in the Vanderbilt Hotel New York de.
MED to all except chosen friends. The slug
ger will 20 to Boston on Wednesday. None
of the stake money will be paid over until
his return. Mudoon is at Long Branch.
The Marseilles Boulangists have deter.
mined to nominate the General as canGl.
date In four cantops for the council general.
The National says the government proposes
to warn the electors that Gen. Boulanger IL
ineligible as candidate for the councils
general.
A fire in Moses WELLS stable and storage
place for carriages, on east Oae Hundred
and Tenth street, New York city, yesterday
morning, caused great excitement among
the tenements, resulted in the death of l25
horses and the destruction Of $50. 600 worth
of other property.
A firm in Chicago engaged in the manu-
facture of tin cans and iapaned ware has pat.
euted an invention which competent judges
say will revoutonizs the tin and steel in
dustry of the world. 1t Is q process by
which molten metal may be rolled into any
desired shape, thus saving all intermediate
processes.
Up. Sussmich and wife, of Rockford, ILL.,,
committed suicide together by drowning in
the Rock river Saturday night. They were
both past 70 years of age, in good clrcum'
stances, and the only reason for their CON
duct seems to have been their. fear that
death would come to one OF them first, leav
| Ing the 0tner on eartn.
The steamer st. Nicholas. with 500 color
ed excursionists on board, ran into the
closed drawbridge over st. Augustine creek,
four miles south OF Savannah, Ga, at nine
o'clock Saturday night, demolishing the Tor
| ward part of the steamer, killing two wo-
men and injuring twenty eight men and
women, some of whom will die.
Ed. Roe, young Englishman, while
swimming in the Cumberland sound with
fifteen other boys from Fernsndina, Fla.
was struck by shark on Saturday, which
bit off the calf of one leg. Roe WAS taken
into boat at once, but bled to death before
medical assistance could be procured. This
is the first instance known of shark at.
lacking a man In those waters.
Charlie Mitchell sailed from New York
for England Saturday by the steamship
E.ruria, and with him went the $3.50 that
Detective Norris, of Mississippi, has been
seeking. Mitchell said that he would be
glad when he got home, and that never,
with the help of God, would he come to the
"blarsted country" again. He was &C.
companied by his wife and Pony Moore.
Marx Lee. AZ years old, of Philadelphia,
shot and killed his wife, Laura, Saturday
night, and two other shots from his pistol
took effect in Samuel Talchinski and his
wife, who were endeavoring to shield her.
Lee quarrelsd with his wife over their eldest
daughter, girl Of 16. whom he thought was
leading bad life, and when his wife stood
up for her, be beat her and she left him.
This was week ago.
Two prisoners, aided by COME derates,
broke their way ont Of the county jail at
Gafn piUht and dur.
ing an exciting chase after them two men
were ahot. Oae, confederate, died, and
the other, deputy Sheriff, ia dying. The
men were William A. Smith, a thief. who
snatched tray of rings 10 Bfunner Bros.
iewery store. and was arrested in Chicago
swo weeks ago, and Richard Mansfied, G
horse thief.
The deputy sheri1j all returned from Mud
creek, Ala, Saturday afternoon. Scroggins,
who remained to guard the gin house at the
scene of the pson-Howton tragedy, yes
terday told the inmates they might go IN.
disturbed If they would let him 60 to take
care of Deputy Morgan, who was lying
wounded in the sun and pleading for water
at point covered by their guns. They
agreed and came out and went away.
When the deputies arrived they had four
teen hours start, and no pursuit was at
tempted. Morgan is still alive, though des-
perately wounded.
An estimate can hardly yet be formed OF
the great calamity that has swept over the
Little Kanawha Valley, but enough is
known to mark it as the most destructive in
life and property ever occurring in West
Virginia. The scene of the greatest disaster
was on Pond creek, Jackson county, and
Tucker creek, Writ county. The two
streams head together, and cloudburst
must have occurred near the water shed.
Pond creek rose % feet in an hour. The
water spread from hill to hill and carried all
before it. The loss to property is very heavy
aud it is feared that about Is persons are
drowned.
INVITED HIS WEE TO HIS WEDDING
Mrs. J.. Ritner Kemp, OF Youngstown, o.,
was shocked and surprised on Saturday
unnn receiyinp wedding cards announcing