Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-15

Yesterday.
Judge Walter @. Gresham denies the
report Chat he has agreed to take the
stump for the peoples party.
1t is said that the Lutherans OF the
Northwest, and particularly of Wiscon,
sin and Illinois, will vote the national
democratic ticket.
Orders have been sent from Rio dc
.Janeiro 10 the government leaders IN
Matte Crosse to shoot the leaders ofthe
late revolution.
During fight in Baltimore Saturday
night Daniel W. Banks bit off the low
er lip and part of the chin of Geo. W.
Davis. Both are colored.
At meeting of democratic associa-
tons in Rome yesterday resolutions
were adopted requiring the abolition
of Catholicism as The religion of state.
1t is announced in New York that
Senator Hill will take the stump and
that Tamnany will organize thorough
ly and give the democrats great ma
jority.
John G.. Warwick, democrat, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the sixteenth
district Of Ohio, diod in Washington last
night. lie was serving his first term in
Congress as the successG of Mr.. Nc
Kinley.
General ]. B. Gordoy 1l.se Confed-
crate Veterans, has RUGGls cont
mittee to prepare l=1'!3H sss.Hfs,ftory of the
war. Prof. ]. n. Stubs, Woods Cross
Roads, Gloucester county, Va, is on the
committee.
1t is an open secret in police circles
at Fall River, Mass, that the State Of
ficers believe that Miss Borden was in
sane at the time OF the murders OF her
father and step-mother, if she commit
ted them.
At NIirow, near Strelitz, Germany,
Yesterday, shoemaker named Trauhee
murdered another shoemaker named
Klager, and also slew the latter's wife
and three children. Trade jealousy led
to the fearful crime.
At a Canadian cabinet-meeting held
in Ottawa on Saturday, it was decide.
to withdraw the rebate on canals, and
make an effort to have a conference to
adjust differences between the Domin-
ion and the United States.
An unknown man was found yester-
dav afternoon on the outskirts ofPhila-
deiphia in a nude condition and acting
in an insane manner. He imagined he
WAS telephoning to people il the planet
Mars. He was locked up.
A box filled with gun-cotton placed
in the center of mass of petroleum,
and burning fuse attached, was
found Yesterday in the basement of the
law courts in Grenoble, France. The
discovery was made just in time to pre-
vent an explosion.
The Arabs are reported to have an
initiated the Congo State forces at
Benakamba, and to have beheadcd
Commander Hodister. 1t is said that
the Arab rising in the Congo state is in
obedience to the proclamation of a
'holy war" from Mecca.
Owing to the change of government
in Great Britain, it has not been posi-
sible as yet to agree upon the time and
place of holding the proposed interna-
tional monetary conference. 1t Is eX-
pected that this matter will receive the
early attention of the incoming British
ministry.
AT Snithyille, no, on Saturday, a
son of Peter McCauley learned that his
father had been intoxicated and ar
rested for disorderly conduct. Pur-
chasing a revolver he started for the
prison. but met his father on the street
with an officer Without word he
shot his father dead and then put a bull
let in his own brain.
The democrats will renominate Gov
ernor Russell, of Massachusetts, and he
will take the stump and speak every
night of the campaign. 1t is said that
Mr.. Cleveland has personally request
ed Gov. Russell to head the demo-
cratic State ticket, in the hope that his
personal popularity will greatly help
the national ticket.
The entire town Of Red Mountain. n
lively mining camp short distance
distance from Silverton, Col, was wiped
out by fire yesterday. Sixty build
ings were destroyed, including stamp
mills. ore and shaft houses of n number
of mines in the place, all the business
houses and many residences. The total
loss is estimated at $4,000.
President Griscom. of the Inman
Line. has arrived in Philadelphia, and
announces that he has secured from the
British Admiralty the release of its con-
tract for the use in case Of hostilities of
the City of Paris and City of New York.
| The owners of the Inman Line, he said,
are prepared to place their vessels I'M
der the American flag, and also to build
two large additional vessels for their
fleet, provided that they obtain the gov
eminent mail contract for Great Britain
and the Continent.
Emperor William has decisively
squelched the proposed Berlin interna-
tional exhibition. 1t is said that the
Emperor, acting on a report from Chan
cellor Won aprivi has withdrawn all oifi-
cial support from the scheme. The Chan
cellor's report declares, it is said, that
the reasonsfor the approving ofthe hold
inc OF the exhibition are that only q
small section of the German industrial
societies held that an exhibition was
desirable, and that a majority of the
federal governments denied that it
was necessary on economic grounds.
The Huntingdon, Pa, reformatory
and the adjoining three-story building,
used as a carpenter shop, was entirely
destroyed by fire last night. The re-
servoir supplying water to the reforma-
tory was entirely empty, and the Hunt
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