Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-04-02
Foreign News.

HAMBURG, April 2-This morning q
warehouse az the head OF tbs Ksisss quay
caught FIRE aad the flames spread with
alarming rapidly. Largs quantities OF cot
ton and coffee were stored on the upper
A,ors OF the building while she cellars were
filed With casks md barrels OF oils and
spirits which made an intensely lot ire.
TIE building was completely destroyed and
thu damage amounts to several million
marks.
BERLIN, April PA dwelling house In
Possn caught fire last night and before all
tho occupants could get out the stslrcasas
were burned away. On the 4th story OF the
burning house we're woman and 5 children.
The crowd on the street procured q blanket
which wss held In position by number OF
men. The woman jamped frat. She struck
che blanket With such force that it was torn
from the grasp Of the men and shs was dash
ed to the stone pavement and instantly
killed. Oae of the children jumped and
met the same fate. The other children also
jumped bus each OF them received itiariea
that will prove fatal.
BERLIN, April 2.-At midalght lest night q
man who vas passing the barracks In this city
stopped IS he arrived opposite sentinel,
and. drawing knife. made mott desperate
assault upon the soldier. The latter st.
tempted to arrest his sssailant, but the man
fed. He had run bus q short distance when
the soldier raised his rifs and fired. The
fleeing msn threw mp his hsnds, staggered
few feet ard fell upon his face moitally
wounded. The ball went completely through
the body OF the man and itfoted severe
wound upon ant ther man who was walking
along ahead OF the man first hit.
DUBLIN. April 2.-The grand jury of Dub
lin county to-day returned g true bill OF
msnslaughtsr against Annie NJ. Montagu
for killing her three.yssr.old daughter
Helen. 1t alec rsturned q trua bill charging
her with wilially ill-:reatiDg her three sons,
ali of whom are under the age OF IA yeaIs.
Helen Montagu committed some trivial
wrong for which che was punished by hav-
ing her hands tied behind her back; che
was then fastened to a ring In the wall OF
dark room. Afterwards when the mother |
vent to rslease her she found that the |
stacking with which the lite girl wac
bound had gos fastened in soma way about
her neck and choked her to deata.
ED1NBURe, April "A large paper mill
at Dunbar, 80 miles northeast Of this city,
was burned to-day, The loss on building,
stock and machinery amounts to 100000.
RANGooN, April a-The damage, caused
by three fres that occurred at Mandslay |
the past few daya. amounts to E1,0OO,0C0.
Another fire broke cut 10 day between the
Z,gyoe Bazaar in that city and the river
bank and Ia still burning. The frequency
OF the fires give strength TO the belief enter.
tanned in many quarters that they are Of IL
cendisry origin.
PARIS, April 2 The government. has re-
Csived alarming news regarding the situa-
ton In the French possessions in The Blight
of Benin caused by the attacks made upon
the French by the soldlers of The King Of
Dahomey, and Is about to dispatch rein
foroements to Kotonou and Porto Novo to
defend those places against the further at.
lacks it expects the Dahomeyans will make
upon then.
PARIS, april 2-One hundred Internal
machines ard several dynamite cartridges
which have been found In various parts of
Paris, evidently having been hastily thrown
away, show that the anarchists Of this
,lty have become greatly alarmed at the
rigorous domiciliary inspections which are
osing made by the police.
PARIS, April IA dispatch from Buenos
Ayres says state OF siege hae been proclaim.
ID By the government In consequence OF
The threatening state Of affairs growing out
II the political eituation.
BERLIN, April 2-Ths greet chemical
Vorks at Hoohspsyer, In Rhensh Bavaria.
have been burning since last night and it
9 feared that the extensive bulldogs and
III their valuable contsnts will be a total
oss. The railway !s situated close to the
works and the hest from the burning chem.
Gals is go intense that it has been found
necessary to divert the trains from the main
Inc and run them past the confagratlon on
. loop line.
The Western Storm.
KANSAS CITY Aprll FIFTY killed.