Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-05-16

ION Yesterday in improved health.
A band of delvishcs recently raided
Sierra, in Egypt, and mastered 81 ma
tives.
Twenty-one of the miners supposed
TO have been drowned in the mines near
Fauenfirchen, Austria, have been res
cued.
Fred. C. Pillsbury, member of the
great milling firm of Pillsbury & Co.,
Minneapolis, Mimi, died yesterday
morning in Minneapolis of malignant
diphtheria.
There was very heavy rainstorm in
Baltimore yesterday, which caught
thousands OF people mprepared. Many
new clothes were ruined The storm
was accompanied by thunder and light
Ming.
A small house in Milton, Pa, occu-
pied bv George Nose, was sold by his
creditors Saturday. The buyers did not
enter the building, but ncighbor look
inc in shortly after found that Nose had
blown of his head with revolver be-
fore the sale occurred.
The "cannon-ball" special on the
Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago and st.
Louis Railroad was in collision with q
freight train at Clevcs, Ohio, yesterday
in terrific storm. Not one person on
either train escaped unhurt. Five bod
les were taken from the wreck.
The will of Deeming, the condemned
wiie-murdcrer, bequeaths his goods and
biography TO his counsel, Mr.. Lyle, eX-
cepting one-tcnth of his proceeds,
which goes to Miss Rounsewell, to
whom Decming was engaged when az
rested.
General Casanas, chief commander Of
the Venezuelan government iorces' has
withdrawn from Palacio's service and
will leave the country. Mattos, the
Minister of Finance, has resigned. The
rebels have captured the city of Boil
var.
Charles w. Gardner, who has lately
assisted the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst i'll col
lectine evidence in disorderly houses
was married Friday afternoon in thu
head of the Statue Of Liberty on Bed
Ices Island, New York. The bride
was Miss Florence A. Collins.
VIM. Briefly. carpenter, aged 5;
years. who had been missing from hi:
home in Wilmington, Del, since las
Thursday, was found dead Saturday il
the loft of his workshop, where he hat
hanged himself, His dog was found by
his side almost furnished from hunger
A train on the Shenandoah Valley
branch ofthe Norfolk and Western roat
was wrecked near Hagerstown at ont
O'Clock yesterday morning. The con
ductor. VIM. Hays, was hurled from
the platform and killed. Several pas
sengers were severely and one fatally
hurt
Stage robbers shot and killed an eX
press messenger on the Redding and
| Shasta stage, California, on Saturday
and wounded a passenger and the
driver, They secured an express box
containing s.. 900. The messenger fired
at the robbers when they stopped the
stage.
The Pittsburg Dispatch announces
that the Carnegie iron and steel inter.
ests about Pittsburg will he consolidate
ed under the management of Henry Z,
Prick. The combined capital will be
about 500, 100000 and $1,000 to 14,ON
hands will be employed. Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie will continue the largest
stakeholder.
There was another fire at Upper
Marlboro, Md, at an early hour yester-
day morning, and an entire block OF
houses on Main street, including the
Prince Georges Hotel, was destroyed.
The fire is believed to have been the
work of an incendiary. like that of last
Thursday, and vigilance committee
has been formed.
The President, Mrs. Harrison and
others left Washington Saturday even
ING on the lighthouse tender Jessamine
for Fortress Monroe. The President
will return either Wednesday or Thurs
dav. Mrs. Harrison will remain in
Tidcwatcr Virginia until she fully re-
covers her strength, which has been
greatly impaired by her long illness.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the
Russia police, acting on q warning from
the police of Paris, have discovered a
number of mines under the Gatschina
palace. The populace of st. Peters
burg are terrorizcd, believing that the
recent explosions at the Nicolai bridge
and the death of General Gresscr are
connected with plot against the Car.
Rev. VIM. F. Spcallc, pastor of the
Fourth Street Methodist Church, Wash
ington, died suddenly of heart failure
Yesterday, aged sixty years. He had
Just finished talking to the Sunday
school children, when he was taken ill.
He was helped into the parsonage adj
Joining the church, where death came
before medical aid could be summoned.
The deceased was formerly presiding
elder of the East Baltimore Confer
ence.