Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

An explosion OF gasoline caused the
destruction of four houses in Philadel-
phia, yesterday.
Rev. Charles Hill, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died at. Salisbury,
Md, yesterday, aged seventy years.
The widow of Jefferson Davis and
the widow of Gen. Grant are both stop
ping at the same hotelat West Point.
Ravachol, the anarchist, was yester-
day found guilty at the Monthrisson As
sizes, France, of murder, and was con-
demned to death.
Charles S. Martin, of Kansas, chief
clerk of the last House, was yesterday
appointed reading clerk of the Senate,
after competitive examination.
Police Justice Grady, of New York,
has decided that Rev. Thomas Dixon
must stand trial in New York for libel
ling Excise Commissioner Koch.
At the professional boxing tourna-
ment in New York last night Jack Nc
Aulifie disposed of Billy Frazier in the
fourth round. John l.. Sullivan refer
eed the bout.
Some tramps who had been refused
free rides yesterday ''held up train
of the New York Central Railroad,
near the outskirts of New York city
for revenge, not for plumber.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
saws Government gunboats commenced
bombarding Porte Allegro, III Rio
Grande do Sui on Sunday last. No de-
tails of the bombardmcnt have been re-
ceived.
Dispatches from Caracas, Venezuela,
say that Palacio, since he was deposed,
has tried to leave the city, but the
guards have kept too close watch to
leave him an opportunity TO escape.
He is in hiding with friends, and Is in
constant fear of his life.
1t is rumorcd that should Sir. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew accept the position OF
Secretary of State, Mr.. w L. ingalls,,
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.
will succeed him as president of the
New York Central road, which pays
Mr.. Depew salary of $4,000.
Mr.. Gladstone is so hopeful of such q
solid majority in the approaching gen
eral elections in Great Britain that he
has no fear for the Parnelite vote in
Parliament. Leaders of the Mccarthy
ite wing of the Irish parliamentary par
ty have issued an appeal to Irish-Amer-
leans for funds to defray election eX-
penses.
Representative Otis Farmers al
liance). of Kansas introduced three
bills in the House yesterday. The first
of which places lumber on the free list,
the second is to limit the compensation
of government officials 10 not exceed
5000 per annum and the third to
abolish the office of postmaster-gencral
and create that of secretary of trans
portation.
Edwin J. Ryan, trusted clerk of the
United States Express Company, de
camped from Washington Tuesday
night, taking with him three packages
of United States bank notes, amount
ing in all about $4,000. The theft was
not discovered until yesterday, when
the expected packages failed TO arrive
at their destination There is not the
slightest clew to the whereabouts OF
Ryan.
ECable advices received yesterday from
London state that Taruna, the princi-
pal and only seaport town of Sanger
island, Dutch East Indies. had been
swallowed by an earthquake. What
remains of the island is now barren
waste. Is is feared that the shipping OF
all nations has suffered, as at this par
ticular season many vessels arc loading
sugar there for Philadelphia and New
York as well as the European markets.
A Russian Pole named Anan Moleas-
XII committed most brutal outrage
upon little Polish girl named Lena
Kuligosski, aged s years, near Mitchell
Vile, Prince Georges county, Nd, last
Tuesday evening. The child, when
found, was unconscious, and she is now
living at the point of death. Last sun
day Moleaski enticed the child from her
home during the absence of the parents
into an adjoining woods, and there
shamefully treated her. AIoleaski was
captured and held while brother OF
the girl beat him severely with stout
hickory cudgel He was then allowed
to escape, but Tuesday he was arrested
and lodged in the jail at Upper MARI
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