Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Pope Leo has sent his blessing to
Mayor Latrobe, Of Baltimore.
The national negro democratic as
ISOLATION met in Washington yesterday,
The British House of Lords expects
to take up the home rule bill on Sept
ember 9Th,
1t Is said the demands OF the French
envoy at Siam exceed the terms of the
ultimatum.
Henry Talbot, of Illinois, has been
appointed clerk Of the House commit
tee on rivers and harbors.
A rejected lover in Hazleton, Pa,
yesterday threw himself in front OF
train and was badly hurt.
An unknown man was found dead
yesterday in the streets of Philadel-
phia, having been poisoned and robbed.
Secretary Hoke Smith says there is
no negro problem; both races are work
ing content edly according to his obser-
vations.
VIM. Whitney, colored, aged nine
teen years, was stabbed near mis- heart
yesterday by his sister at Princess
Anne, Md.
William Andrews aud John Hador
were struck by train at Penn Haven
Junction yesterday and both were in
stantly killed.
The values of the bottles lost by
firms engaged in the bottling business
in Maryland aggregate, it is said, over
ZOO annually.
Two girls were fatally scalded, and a
number of others badly injured by the
explosion OF a steam mangle in a New
York laundry yesterday.
Scientists are now telling US the color
of the sun is blue. The theory that
the moon is composed of green cheese
may have more advocates in the future.
A lightning bolt, at Thackersville, |.
T., yesterday, struck a >wagon, killed
young woman named Pharr and both
horses. Several other persons riding
in the wagon were badly injured.
Abraham Fetters, of Upper UwchlaD,
the owner of six fine farms, and a di-
rector o. the Ph1nixville Pennsyl-
vania Na.ional Bank, hanged himself in
his barn Yesterday. Insomnia was the
cause.
At crossing between Lexington and
West Alexandria, on the Cincinnati,
Jackson and Mackinac Railroad yes
terday Mrs. William Hapner and her
daughter, aged seventeen, We're struck
by a train and instantly killed. 4 lit
tie girl, aged three, was also seriously
injured.
Anna Stone became alarmed at the
signs of the times day or two ago and
drew from a Norristown, Pa, bank
1856, and farmer Rapp, who also lost
faith in such institutions, demanded
and obtained $500 Wednesday night
thieves broke into the houses of both
and stole their capital.
A man carried load of cotton from
an adjoining county, to Raleigh, n. c.,
yesterday, and openly said he had join
ed the populists' party because the othe 7
parties had tried to kill silver. He,
however, declined to sell his cotton I'M
til he was assured that he would not be
forced to take silver for it.
Fernando Hougentogler, employed
in the Columbia Iron Company's rolling
mill in Lancaster county, Pa, was
struck in the face by a stream of molten
cinders while at work Wednesday even
ing. Both of his eyes were burned out
and his right arm was burned to q
crisp. He is not expected to recover.
Levi Smith and William Jones, color
ed, convicted in West Chester, Pa, OF
assault on little girls, were sentenced
by Judge Waddell to 800 fine each,
tho cost of prosecution, and five years
each in the penitentiary. Rev. A. r.
Wilson, Baptist minister of the same
place convicted for embezzlement, was
sentenced to q years imprisonment.
The steamer Eggleston Abbey,
which arrived at New York yesterday
from Cardiff bound to Delaware break
water, brought George H. Upton, one
of the crew of the fishing schooner
Mary Lizzie, Of Portland, Me-, which
toundered on August q, he having
been in the water thirty-three hours.
The remainder of the crew, six in num-
Der, one of whom was his brother, had
persisted.
The conference of American rabbis
at Chicago yesterday completed the
revision of the first part of the new
prayer-book, containing the ritual for
week days. The second part. the holy
and rituals, will not be revised until
January. Later the conference busted
itself with the compilation of hymn
book and committee report on the
programme of the Jewish congress to
be held next week.
After the storm in New York on
Wednesday night the walks and lawns
Of City Hall Park were almost carpeted
by dead sparrows. Thirty Italians
piled them in great heaps, which they
afterwards removed in baskets. There
were many hundreds of dead birds re-
moved in this way. The Italians sold
them to the proprietors Of cheap restau-
rants in Mott and Mulberry streets,
who made soup and pot pie of them.
James Cloonan, of Hancock, n. Y,
earned $50 haying and spent the money
in drink. He soon imagined he was in
a den of snakes with the reptiles wind
ing themselves about his body. One
big fellow, he thought, had wound it
self around his throat and was strang-
ling him. To free himself he drew a
sharp knife and attempted to cut the
imaginary snake to pieces. He severed
his windpipe. A doctor tried to stop
the flow Of blood, but the wound prov