Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ed divorce from her husband, Henry
Guy Carleton, on Saturday.
All Germany is exercised over the
military bill, by which the nunDer OF
recruits to be raised annually Will be
increased to 100000 men.
An electric railway is to be built be-
tween St. Louis and Chicago. Inc
line is to be absolutely straight, and
trains are to make one hundred miles
an hour.
J.H. Wilson, wealthy and refined
gentleman, registering from New YORK
city. committed suicide Saturday night
by asphyxation, at the Hotel Mammal
tan, Atlantic City.
The float of St. Plus Parish, which
was so generally admired in FRIDAY
nights parade III Baltimore, caught ire
and was burned. 1t was the largest
photograph in tho world.
Oliver Curtis Perry, the express rob
Der, made his escape from his cell at
Auburn. n. Y, Saturday by drilling a
hole through the wall, but was cap
tured in the prison on Sundar.
Fucius and Floyd, two Of the princl-
pals connected in the express robbery
ard murder at Monroe, last June, es-
capped from the Orange comfy jail at
Orlando, Florida, on Friday night.
On Saturday the Boston baseball club
won their fourth consecutive victory
from the Clevelands by the score of II
to Z, at Boston, in the series for the
baseball championship OF the world.
A band of smugglers on Saturday
captured the carabineers i'll charge OF 4
station for landing goods on the south
ern coast of Spain, and, after sacklng
the station, carried their prisoners Oil
to the mountains.
A new disease, contagious and fatal,
has reached the port of New York,
causing much alarm among the health
authorities at quarantine. The disease
is imported from Japan, where 1t IS
known as bari beri.
One Of the biz clks at the Philadelg hia
100 became ugly at the feeling hour
last night and so ferociously attacked
its keeper that he died that night. With
two broken ribs and 80 wounds on his
head and body, the mans suierlngs
were intense.
Mr.. Edward James Denning, the
senior partner of the great retail dry
goods firm of f. J. Denning Il CO.,
successors to A. r. Stewart X Co. in
New York, died suddenly in the bath
room of his residence, on Saturday
night, of paralysis.
With loaded revolvers in each hand, q
mailman occupied the pulpit Of Olivet
Congregational Church. i'll Springfield,
Mass, from early yesterday morning
until after > o'clock in the afternoon,
and kept the pastor, the church officials
and four policemen at bay till he went
TO sleep.
New has been received by the China
steamer of the execution at Manila OF
the Rodrigue brothers, the pirates who
seized the Tahiti kings yacht, and then
poisoned the seven members of the ma
tive crew and fed their bodies to the
sharks. Miss L. ]. Wyckofl. u medical
missionary of Singapore, brings the de-
tails.
A very important decision has been
rendered BY the New York Court of
Appeals in the case of Horace NJ. Low
er against Timothy J. Donovan. The
court holds that no court can be held
in New York State on election day,
and that consequently no judge of the
Supreme Court can hear applications
on that day for writs of mandamus
compelling election inspectors to accept
votes.
Frank Higel, aged %, of Florida,
shot his wife Addie in the head and
neck at the residence of his brother-n-
law iii Philadelphia on Saturday even
inc. He then fired at his wife's sister,
but she managed to get out OF his reach.
He Immediately afterwards fired Il bull
let into his right temple and died in
stantly. Mrs. Higel's condition is crit
ical and it is thought she cannot recov-
er. The husband had been drinking
heavily. Higel was the father of seven
children who are in Florida. Jealousy
was the cause.
Mrs Margaret J. Preston, the we'll
known southern authorizes and poet
ess. will make Baltimore her future
home and is living with DR.. George j..
Preston, her son. Mrs. Preston's hus-
band, who died about two years ago.
was professor in the Virginia Military
Institute, and for the past thirty-iive
years she has lived in Lexington, where
most of her literary work was done.
Mrs. Preston is getting old, and her
sons, who live in Baltimore, wished to
have her near them, and at their re-
quest she came to that city.