Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

the West on Saturday.
1t is reported in London that an en-
tente between Russia aud the Vatican
has been formed on the nomination OF
Bishops of Poland.
Mrs. George W. Boyd, wife of the
general passenger agent of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, died in Philadelphia on
Sunday, aged SO years.
A thief entered the room of Richard
McGovern, in Tacoma, Wash, Saturday
night, while Mr.. and Mrs McGoyern
were at the theatre, ana took 81 900 out
of a trunk.
In Washington on Saturday verdict
for IS, 416 was awarded Mrs. Mary Will
cox, a niece of General Cadmus Will
cox, in her suit against the District for
the death of the general, who fell into
an excavation.
Governor Fishback, of Arkansas, has
written to the President that the Indian
Territory has become resort for crimi-
nails and that most of the bank and
train robberies in the Mississippi Valley
originate in that territory.
Calvin Thomas, colored, was shot by
a mob in Jail at Whigham, Ga, yester-
day for an assault upon Mrs. Sellers,
wife of Baptist minister. The mob
left him for dead but he revived. His
wounds are believed to be fatal.
There is said to be some opposition
among democratic members of the
ways and means committee to the pro-
posed increase in the tax on whisky,
for fear that the revenue derived under
it may effect the necessity for general
income tax.
The State Department has received
an intimation from Z. S. Minister
Thompson, at Rio Janeiro, that the
cause of Admiral Mello is growing
stronger and that success will most
probably crown his efforts in the Bra
lillian struggle.
A letter received at Port Townsend,
Wash, from resident of President
Dole's army, says that republic is soon
to be proclaimed, with a general cleo
ton, to be participated in only by
those paying taxes upon at least 81, 500
worth of property.
Joseph DOMAIN, the crank who has
been sending threatening letters to
Vice President Stevenson, Secretary
Lamont, Senator Mills, and other prom
inent public men, was arrested in Wash
ington yesterday evening by Detective
McDevitt, and locked up.
The report ofthe republican minori-
ty of the ways and means committee OF
the House of Representatives against
the Wilson tariff bill is, it appears, an
open bid for the votes Of the democratic
Representatives who are opposing vari-
Gus schedules Of the measure.
The Baltimore and Washington Turn
pike and Tramway Company, which is
TO build a line of electric railway from
Baltimore to Washington, is about
TO begin the work of construction, and
will do so as soon as some few minor
points as to rights of way are settled
satisfactorily to the company.
Receivers were appointed for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail
road on Saturday at Little Rock, Ark.
Joseph w. Reinhart, president, and
John J. McCook, counsel of the com.
pany, were named as receivers, along
with Joseph c. Wilson, of Topeka
Kan, who is not connected with the
road
Gen. and ex-Congressman n. P
Banks has apparently gone insane. He
was found wandering aimlessly about
Swampscott, Mass, on Friday night
not knowing where he was going. He
left his home that noon, eluded an at
tendant, secretly hired by the family t.
watch him, and went to Boston. Wher
he reached Swampscott he had two
companions, whose identity and inten
tons are unknown. The police brought
him back to his home in Waltham, and
he is now failing rapidly.
w. B. Rosser, an old and well-to-dc
planter of Rosser station, two miles
south of Howell, Ark, was yesterda.
attacked by William and John Mclean
two brothers, who had sworn to Kill
him. William Mclean advanced with
dirkknife, when Rosser shot him
through the heart, killing him in
stantly. He then turned upon Johr
Mclean and fired one shot, which tore
off the side of his face. John ran and
Rosser left, and is supposed to be with
friends and will give himselfup.
Lewis E. Masters, upon the verdict
of the coroner's jury, is held for the
murder of his wife, Elizabeth Virginia,
who was found dead in her bed in Bal.
timore on Sunday morning in their
home in that city. Masters was drink.
ing heavily on Saturday night and
went to sleep in chair in the dining.
room after his wife and child went up
stairs to bed. He claims that when he
awoke about 3. M, his face was wet
with blood that he called to his wife
to come down, but getting no reply he
went to her room and found her dead.
Neither the sister oftne murdered wo.
man. nor Masters brother, who slept
on the same floor, heard unusual
noises. Masters claims that the mo.
tive was robbery. A blood-besmeared
axe was beside the chair in which Mas.
tiers went to sleep. Masters is fore.
man in the brass boundary of the Mary.
land Steel Company at Sparrow's Point
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SIX THOUSAND ToRPEDoEs ExPLoD.
ED.-Six thousand torpedoes were e1,
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