Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Showers of fish and ants-fell during q
hurricane in Sonora, Mexico, yesterday.
General stevenson paid his first visit
to democratic headquarters saturday
and expressed his satisfaction with the
conduct of the campaign.
Peru is excited over the protocol be-
tween Chill and France. There is talk
of a combination between Peru and Ar
gentina and trouble is feared.
Tie New Yorl, republican State con :
mittee is anxious to induce Mr.. Harrison
to make ''rear platform" tour of the
State during the first week of Septem-
Der.
George Kitteras yesterday shot at
Mary Flowers at Lancaster, Pa, for re-
fusing his proposal of marriage, but the
buckle in the girls belt detected the
bullet and saved her life.
The Southern Passenger Association
has declared boycott against the Ma
rietta and North Georgia r. r. because
that road has given low excursion rates
on several recent occasions.
Emperor William's rejection of Chan
cellor Won Caprivi's proposal for two
wear military service is taken to indi-
cate that no great army bill will be
placed before the Reichstag at this ses-
sion.
Farmers who claim that backwater
caused by the dam across the Neosho
river at Oswego, \. Y, ruins their
farms, have blown the Objectionable
Instructions up with dynamite. The
dam was the finest in the State.
Saturday night at 10 o'clock William
Butler. of Richmond, Va, walked into
Mayor Mahood's Office at Benwood, w.
Va, drew knife from his pocket and
deliberately cut his throat, severing the
windpipe. He cannot recover.
Nancy Hanks failed to lower her
own worlds record of 2:07i at Chicago
on Saturday, but trottcd a mile in 2:091,
the laster quarter being in SOB seconds.
Jay Eye See paced to beat his record OF
2:10 and did the mile in 2:0S3, the fast
est ever paced by gclding.
Queen Victoria, while driving near
Osborne House, Isle Of Wight, Satur-
day, was approached by man making
violent gestures and saying that he was
foreign count, and had sworn to kill
her unless she resigned. She saw at
once that the mans mind was unbal-
anced, and looked him steadily in the
face while one Of her attendants quietly
removed him.
Capt. r. II. Marshall died at his home
near Piscataway, in Prince Georges
co., Md, Saturday, of dysentery, aged
about sixty years. He was the former
owner of the Marshall Hall property
and other landed estates. During the
late war he raised and equipped q COM
pany Tor the Confederate service, but
was arrested and imprisoned. lie was
made to suffer greatly on account Of his
southern sympathies.
Mrs. Mary R. Bandell and Mrs. Jane
Courts, of Baltimore, and an unknown
colored woman were killed and twenty
one persons injured by an accident on
the Annapolis and Baltimore Short
Line at Cliflord's Station, Md, on Sat
urday evening. A door fell from a
freight car and lodging under the
wheels of the passenger car, derailed it
and threw it over trestle. The color
ed woman was picking coal near the
track when the accident occurred, and
her husband, who was standing near by,
were badly crushed.
President Harrison has issued his
proclamation retaliating on Canada for
imposing tolls of 20 cents. q ton on yes
sells and cargoes passing through the
Welland canal bound for the United
States. There has also been filed at
the Department Of State a memoran-
dunn giving the history of the negotia-
lions seeking to have the discrimination
in favor of Canadian bound shipments
removed. Canada refused to accede to
the request until the end of the season
and the result was the issuance of the
proclamation Saturday. 1t is under
stood that if Canada removes the re-
strictions on shipments for the United
States the retaliatory proceedings will
be withdrawn.
Z. C. Wall, of Wisconsin, and Benja-
min r. Cable, of Illinois, members of
the national democratic campaign COM
mittee, started from New York on sat
urday for Chicago, where they will
open branch headquarters. Ex-Post-
master General Don NJ. Dickinson,
who is chairman of the campaign COM
mittce and who has by resolution of the
committee been assigned to take charge
of the doubtful northwestern States,
did not accompany them, but he will
follow later and bid adieu to New
York. 1t is not the desire of the COM
mittee to make the reassignment of the
chairman of the campaign committee
to an obscure branch headquarters in
the West appear to be sort of Danish
ment, but Mr.. Dickinson will have very
little to do with the campaign as it is
conducted from New York, and the
committee will feel more comfortable.
Expressive of the welcome which
Kansas City extends to the Knights of
Pythias and visitors profuse decorations
greet each comer's eye. Nearly every
building in town is gaily decorated with
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