Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-09-13
NEWS OF TIE DaI.


In the city of Valencia, Spain, there were
80 deaths from cholera yesterday.
MIR. Charles T. Maddox, at one time post
master of Baltimore, died in that city yes
terday.
The Southampton ,Eoglapd ,dockmen have
decided to return to work, but the sailors
and fremen are still holding out.
An explosion occurred In the Stssefurth
coal pit at Loederburg, Germany, yesterday.
Twenty persons are entombsd in the mine
An undisguised mob yesterday took two
negroes copfaed in the Armory, MISS, jail
for committing assaults on white women,
and hung them.
The revolt In the canton of Ticino.,
Switzerland, which, 1t was feared would lead
TO serious troubles, collapsed as soon as the
federal troops appeared In the district.
GEORGE r. Colt, the senior member of the
law firm OF Colt s. Rhodes, of Baltimore,
has lef5 for parts unknown, leaving behind
debts estimated all the way from $S0 0Oo 10
500 000.
Continuous heavy rains have caused some
of the rivers in PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio, New
York and Texas to overflow and mucn Dam,
are has been done. Four inches of snow fell
ir North Dakota yesterday.
Capt. W. ]. Bohannsn who was In charge
of the steamer Virginia when in collision
with the Louise in the Baltimore hsrbor re-
Gently, has mad his license restored. He
took the Virginia to Norfolk. yesterday.
The cruiser Baltimore arrived at Stock
holm. Sweden, yesterday morning.. with
the body OF inventor Ericsson on board.
after having made the run from New York
to Go tepburg in II days, the fastest time
On record for man-ot-War.
| Mrs. Adam Wuchter, of the village of
White Hail, Pa. has not tasted morsel OF
sclid food for 161 days and not drop OF
liquid food for 1872 days. Since the begin
ming of her fast Mrs. Wuchter has been crit
ioally ill and has suffered intense pain.
The rain of Thursday night caused the
death Of millions of slewives in the docks OF
Baltimore. The health department detail
ed body of men with dip nets to clean out
the dead fish and cart them away to the
city garbage barges. Many thousands yet
remain to be removed.
Mrs. Horn, the aged mother of Laura
Horn, who committed suicide In jersey City
a few DAYS ago, also attempted her life yes
terday. The old lady 10 almost craZad With
grief. Frederick Horn. the father of young
woman, who when he discovered his dead
daughters body, SHOT himself, Ia still alive,
and may recover.
A German tourist and two guides fa9e
recently been blown over precipice on the
Matterhorn. The Mstterhorn is noun
tain of the Pennine Alps, between the Va
lais la Swi.z.r land and the Val d'Aosta In
Piedmont, Italy forty miles northeast CT
Mont Blanc and twelve miles northwest OF
Mont Rosa II has an elevation of ii III
feet.
An explosion occurred yesterday after
noon in the South Wilkesbsrre shaft of the
Lsbigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company, at
WiIkesbarre, Pa, killing George Ford and
iuuriug Isaac Jones' a gang OF men were
at work 10 the mine clearing up the wreck
of the fire OF last March and searching for
the bodies of the eight men who were killed
In an explosion at that time.
A recentiou YVES given at St. Patrick's
cathedral, New York, yesterday by the
Catholic clergy and laity to Archbishop
Corrigan, who recently returned from a
visit to Rome. As to the religious affair at
Rome between Church and State, the Arcn-
bishop characterized 1t as war to the kDite
and ssid that the time may come when
America will send missionaries to Rome.
Senator Carlisle says Ut the republl-
cans Insist upon epactiug into law the
Aldrich amendment providing that all mer-
ohandise which has been imported into this
country since August and held In bond must
be withdrawn from bond by October /, 1t
will be an act of the gros5est Injustice to the
merchants. and will undoubtedly create vio-
lent disturbances 10 the money market"
At the meeting of the Mississippi con-
| stitutional oonvenlioD yesterday Mr. Wither-
spoop. attacked the commi,tess suffrage re-
port as Inadequate TO meet the emergency.
| He vas in favor of s;raighout educational
and property qualification added to reetrict-
ed women suffrage. Mr.. Campbell advc-
Gated his fathers plural voting, allowing.
persons owning a certain amount OF prop
erty an additional vote.
The particulars of the killing of Gene raj
Barrupdia by Gustems!an officers, while the
Acapulco lay 10 the harbor of San jose,
have been received. 1t appears that when
| the officers went aboard the vessel to arrest
Barrundia the latter retreated TO his room
for his reyolvers and making the remark
VERY good" fired. The ball just missed
Captain Pitts of the steamer, who, together
with the commanGante, ran to bis room,
locked the door and bid under the bed,
leaving the manhunting to the special
off ,srs. Barrundia was short sighted
man, and being very nervous, was unable 10
do any damage, though he chased them In
and cut Of the saloon, firing wildly. At last
the officers dropped him from different
points, riddled with shot, on the hurricane
deck.
To PREVENT GERRYMANDRRING.-Repre'