Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The wife of Chauncey Depew died at
her home i'll New York yesterday.
Ex-Congressmen William Ellis Nib
lack died in Indianapolis yesterday.
Lord Randolph Churchill predicts
that Parliament will be dissolved early
in 1894.
During last week the treasury situa-
ton improved considerably. The gold
reserve fund is now about 500, 100000.
A colored man was lynched near Co.
lumbia, S. c., on Saturday for assault
ing the wife CT q farmer.
Albert Sturtevant, chief OF the sta
tionery division, Treasury Department,
has resigned.
Rev. Thomas Sturgeon is expected
to assist at the great revival meetings
at Chicago, sailing from New Zealand
on May 20.
A dynamite bomb was exploded in
the quadrangle of the Four Courts,
Dublin, on Saturday. No damage was
done.
Sir James Anderson, who command
the steamship Great Eastern during
the laying of the Atlantic cable, died
in London yesterday.
Governor Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, has invited w. st. J. Jervey, OF
Charleston, to prosecute the Denmark
lynchers. Mr.. Jervey has declined.
Col. Ward H. Lamon died at his
home in Martinsburg last night at a few
minutes before midnight. He was
President Lincoln's private secretary.
A freight train was wrecked by cy-
clone near Gainesville, Tex, on Satur-
day, and one man killed and five in
iured. A number of houses were blown
down.
Secretary Lamont has accepted the
resignation of Lieutenant Robinson,
who attempted to commit suicide at
the Mt. Vernon Hotel in Baltimore re-
Gently.
There is good reason to believe that
this week a number of appointments O
all degrees of importance will be made
both at the White House and in the va
rious departments.
Preparations for the meeting of the
One Hundred and Fifth General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church O
the United States, which will begin il
Washington on the 18th instant, are
about complete.
Mr.. Gladstone has requested the
Irish members in the House of Com
mons to make as few proposals O
amendments to the home rule bill as
possible, and thus assist him in ex
pediting the final passage of the bill.
The engineer of Cleveland, Cincin
natl, Chicago and st. Louis train lost
control of it at Lafayette Ind, at l:3t
yesterday morning. The locomotive
and several cars left the track and were
in collision with the station shed. Six
persons were killed.
Senator Sherman called at the State
Department on Saturday and had G
short talk with Secretary Gresham
about the International Monetary Con
ference. It's the first time the Ohio
Senator has been there since the change
of the administration.
An unknown man enticed two little
girls into the woods. near Duluth
Mimi, on Saturday and criminally as
saulted them. A mob of miners cap
tured him, and ten minutes later he
was swinging from tree near the spol
where he committed the crime.
Saturday afternoon fierce wind anC
rain-storm prevailed, at Meridian, Miss.
the wind attaining velocity o. As
miles an hour. Trees were uprootec
throughout the city and the Sam Jone:
Tabernacle, erected a few years ago
with seating capacity of 5000 people
was blown down.
The holders of bonds were admitted
to the Exhibition grounds, in Chicago
on Sunday, while thousands of Others
who rendered their money for admis
sion, were refused. Charles klingman,
stakeholder iii the fair, will appeal to
the court to open the gates to the pub,
lie on Sunday.
A bad accident occurred on the Mis-
sissippi river at Wolf Island, twenty
four miles below Cairo, ILL.,, yesterday
morning. A rear end of one of the boil
ers of the steamer Ohio, a Cincinnati
and Memphis packet, blew out. Sew
eral of the deck hands and deck passen-
gers who were eating breakfast at the
time were literally cooked alive and a
large number received serious burns.
The New York Herd1d's regatta for
foreign men-of-war's boat crews on the
Hudson on Saturdaywas q great success.
The first race was won by the British
ship Australia, Etna second and Magi-
cienne third; the second race, by the
Russian ship General Admiral, Blake
second, Australia third; the third race,
by the Australia (both first and second
prizes, and Blake third.
Chancellor Caprivi has gone to Pots
dam to offer his resignation to the
Kaiser. The Kaiser has summoned
Count Botho Won Gutenberg, the Prus-
sian premier, to Potsdam, The report
is current thata Bismarck party is form
ing. The party will urge the Prince to
accept a seat in the Reichstag, and
under his name and with his authority
will organize a campaign throughout
the empire. The most important field
of agitation will be south Germany.
pprsIDEST CLEVELAND TIRED.-The fol