Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Scarlet fever is epidemic in London.
There were landed in Baltimore dur
ing the fiscal year ended yesterday
So, PA immigrants.
The police census of the District of
Columbia, just completed, makes the
population 257 1913.
A protracted struggle between the
Senate and House on the appropriation
bills is anticipated.
The town council of Munich has re-
.jected a proposal to confer the freedom
of the city upon Prince Bismarck.
In the glove contest in San Francisco
last night between Joe Goddard, of Aus
tralia, and Joe McAuli1e, of San Fran
cisco, Goddard won in the fifteenth
round.
The indictment recently found against
Rev. Thomas Dixon, jr., for criminal IL
bel upon Excise Commissioner Joseph
Koch, was dismissed in New York yes
terday.
A rowboat containing eight persons,
who were out on the river at Cologne
yesterday for pleasure, sprang aleak
and sank. Five girls and one man were
drowned.
John Canduskey, ofShenandoah, Pa,
while at work in breast at Kelley run
colliery yesterday, was completely COW
cred by fall of top coal, and was alive
when found.
Gov Brown, of Maryland, has ap-
pointed ex-Gov. Henry Lloyd associate
Judge of the first judicial circuit to fill
the unexpired term of the late Judge
Goldsborough.
By the upsetting of skiff in the Del
ogny crevasse, near New Orleans, La,
last evening, four persons were drown
ed, brother and sister of DR.. Himel,
aged respectively ii and 16 years, and
Miss Hamlie and Angelo Lambert,
nieces Off. A. Landery, of New Orleans.
Mrs. Charles Z. Berry tried to end
her life in Richmond yesterday by tax
ing laudanum. For several days she
visited the house of the widow of Jack
Wren, where her husband had been
staying. and tried TO induce him to come
home. Finally, failing in this, she
gained an entrance to the house, and
after an Intellectual appeal to Mrs. Wren
to end her relations with her husband,
she drank the laudanum in the house.
YESTERDAYS SToRM.-The heavy
storm of wind, rain, thunder and light
lining which passed over this section YES
terday evening resulted in no damage
Whereabouts. but lowered the tempera-
| ture considerably, so that existence in
doors was pleasant last night. In 9th
er places, however, the storm proved
destructive and alarming, killing peo-
pie, unroofing houses. uprooting trees
and causing much damage to crops, &c.
In Baltimore, as stated yesterday
the storm was very severe, the north
ern section as usual, iaring worse sew
EN- houses on Calvert street had their
tops blown of and freight car was
carried into the river. During the
storm Hopkins Hospital was struck by
lightning. A feature of the storm was
the sharp lightning and heavy thunder,
far exceeding, in the line of meteorologi-
cal pyrotcchnics, anything attempted by
Jupiter Pluvius this year. Large sized
hail stones fell during the evening. The
country adjacent to Baltimore suffered
considerably from the storm.
At Gloucester, n. j., the storm was
especially severe, and two men were
killed and three others seriously in
! iurcd by the collapse of building a
black flnnel-shaped cloud had formed
before the temrast burst upon the
place The path of the e...iiccllSSHe was
about three hundred feet wide. Many
narrow escapes are reported, some per-
sons who were in the water at the
beach diving for safety as the cloud
passed over.
In Philadelphia the storm did con-
siderable damage to houses and trees,
and killed one man and injured several
others Three men were Frustrated by
lightning, but were not seriously in
jured.
The tobacco crop in the neighbor-
hood of Winsted, Conn, was seriously
damaged by hail. In Torrinton, Conn,
100000 damage was done by hail
storm The storm extended along the
New Jersey coast and did considerable
damage at the seaside resorts.