Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-14
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

NEWS OF TIE DAY.
No cardinals will be nominatcd by the
Pope at the next c%onsistory.
The ''rosebugn is doing great dam
age to fruit trees on The Eastern Shore
of Maryland.
Mrs. Levi NJ. Villas, mother Of Sena-
tor Villas, died suddenly i'll Madison,
Wis, yesterday.
The House yesterday after passing a
number of District of Columbia bills,
took up the ratification appropriation
bill.
To-day is the anniversary of the
adoption of the stars and stripes as the
national flag ofthc United States. This
event took place June II, HI.
Mrs. Alice Stone, ofKingston, Ny,
who committed suicide by shooting her
self, left a letter, in Which she stated
that her fathcr-in-law had ruined her.
The scarcity of silver coin in Italy is
causing the government much uneasi-
ness. and strict orders have been issued
to prevent the expectation of the coin.
An unsuccessful attempt vas made
Sunday night to hold up the New York
and Philadelphia express on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, between Lay
ton Station and Connellsvillc, Pa,
a dispatch from Albany says: ut is
learned from reliable sources that David
Il Hill has decided not to 90 to Chi
cago, but will remain i'll Washington or
New York city during the convention"
The canvas roof of the building in
which the national democratic conven-
ton is to be held in Chicago next week
was demolished by a windstorm yes
terday, and Il wooden roof will be
erected.
Dispatches from Calcutta say that
the cholera is raging with increased
mortality in Afghanistan. There is no
hope of stopping its PROCESS, as the
sanitary condition of the country is the
worst possible.
A new national ticket suggested at
Omaha for the peoples party is United
States Senator William NJ. Stewart, of
Nevada, for President, and Thomas +.
Watson, Representative in Congress
from Georgia, for Vice President.
The Prcsbytcry of New York met
Yesterday. The new trial Of DR.. Briggs
on the charge of heresy was decided to
be impracticable during the summer,
but it will receive the attention of the
prcsbytery when it reassemblcs in the
fall.
The trial has opened at St. Poltcn,
Lower Austria. Of woman accused of
lcvying blackmail on sixteen residents
of the town whom she charged with
having immoral relations with her
daughter, aged thirteen years. Eleven
divorce cases have already arisen out of
the proceeding.
The river yesterday morning reached
the highest point known at New Orle-
ans for the past 45 years, and i'll consc
qucnce that city is an island. Crcvasses
above, crevasses below, the raging river
in front and the rapidly rising Lake
pontchartrain in the rear have hemmcd
the city in, and traffic on three roads
has been suspended.
Fourteen petty officers and seamen
Of the United States cruiser Boston
were killed at Mare Island navy-yard,
San Francisco, yesterday, by an eX,
plosion III the filling-house, where the
are charged. None engaged in
work were left alive to tell the story.
The force of the explosion was SO great
that most people in Vallejo believed it
was an earthquake.
The last order issued by Lieut.. Gen.
f. Kirby Smith, of the Confederate
army, has just been sent to Aldrich's
collection of curios at the Iowa State
house. 1t was dated at Galveston,
and ordered one of General
Smiths aides to proceed to New Or
leans and turn over $1,000 to General
f. r. Candy, the federal commander
there, afterward killed in the Modoc
war.
A miner named Havelka has confess
ed that he caused the fire in the famous
silver mine at Birkenberg, near Przi-
BRAN, Bohemia, which, according to an
official statement, caused the death of
four hundred miners, His two BROTH
ers were among the dead. He says
that he intended to keep his secret, but
his resolution began to fail him after
he saw the scores ofdead bodies brought
up from the pit.
Frank Wiems, colored, pleaded
in court at Chattanooga, Tenn,
to an Indictment charging
him with assault on a white woman,
and was sentenced to 81 years
in the p~enitentiary, Several attempts
had been made to lynch him, but he
removed from county to county.
u public meeting of law abid-
ing citizens resolved to assist the sheriff
and see that the man had q fair trial.
A posse of them was in court.
A man supposed to be one James NJ.
Green, is in custody Mt Marshall, Mo-,
for an assault ON Sister Mary Ida, m
of the instructors of st. Xavier's Acad-
cmy. The sister was at the rear of the
premises, and was alone when the man
appeared, and, catching hold of her
violently choked her. She man.
aged TO scream. Some parties on the
heard her, and seeing Green
leaving the premises, hurried after and
arrested him. Green denied having
the assault.