Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-28
NEWS OLE THE DAY.

at the Portsmouth navy-yard to-day
New complications are said to have
arisen in Venezuela which may lead to
continuation of the fighting.
The caravel Santa Maria, which is
reproduction of Columbus's vessel. was
successfully launched at Cadiz, yester-
day, in the presence of 10000 specta-
tors.
Three negroes were shot to death at
Spurges, Tex, Friday evening. They
had confessed to having assaulted Mrs.
Beasley and her daughter near that
place the night before.
1t is expected that democratic head
quarters will be opened in New York
about the middle of July, and that Mr..
Whitney will take charge and that Mr..
Harrity will be his first assistant.
Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell, OF New
York, claims to have found in the
Wards Island Insane Asylum the son
taken from her 20 years ago by her hus-
band, who eloped with a servant girl.
George Dixon, colored, of Boston,
Mass, last night defeated Frederick
johnson, of England, in the fourteenth
round of fight at Coney Island for the
feather-weight championship Of the
world.
Eugene McCaf1rey, of Tottenville. S.
l., yesterday put paris green in the cot
fee pot belonging to jeremiah Lyons,
supposing it was owned by Daniel Glea-
son. whose enemy is. Lyons drank he
it and is very low.
The jury in the case of Ed. Taylor
and Watt Gambrell, charged with con-
spiracy to force George Bennett, the
postmaster at Catharine, Ala, to resign
by force, threats and intimidation, dis
agreed yesterday and was dismissed.
The passage of the general deficiency
bill by the House yesterday morning
clears its calendar of the last of the APP
preparation bills, and the House is now
ready for an adjournment mt any time
that the Senate gets through with
the business.
Mr.. Felix NJ. Draney, the well-known
president Of the Washington Jockey
Club and proprietor of the Portland
stables, died yesterday: He was ma
tive of New Jersey and was head mas
ter of transportation at the busy station
of Giesboro' during the late war.
At Shelbyville, Tenn, yesterday, a
mob went to the jail and, forcibly Sc
curing the keys from the Sheriff, took
the wife murderer, w. NJ. Bates. OF
Rowesvillc, from his cell and hanged
him to tree in the court house yard.
Bates died protesting his innocence.
London detectives have discovered
that five girls have been poisoned, the
investigation being the result of the
charges against Thomas Neill of at
tempting to blackmail DIR. Joseph Har-
per by alleging that he possessed in
formation of the party who had poison
cd several of the girls.
Mr.. Balfour, the government leader
in the House of Commons, yesterday
addressed an oper-air meeting in Shelf
field, at which $4,000 persons were
present. Great disorder prevailed, the
crowd attempting several times to rush
upon the platform. The meeting ter
minated in the widest disorder.
The celebrated Mitchell case, III
which Alice Mitchell is to be tried I'M
der the plea of present insanity, which
she sets up as an excuse for killing
Freda Ward, was called in the criminal
court in Memphis yesterday and con-
tinued until July 18th on account of
the State failing to secure two VII
neSscs.
David Hinsley, slater, Yves thrown
from scahold and killed yesterday at
ternoon during the storm at the corner
of Twelfth and B. streets southeast
Washington. Hinsley was engaged in
stating house at the time, and becom-
ing alarmed at the rapidly approaching
storm, attempted to leave the roof and
get down on the scaffold, which gave
way, throwing him to the ground and
instantly killing him.
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