Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.


It is intimated that the Kentucky
mob lynched the wrong man last
week.
Senator Teller declares that the sill
yer men are confident OF winning the
coming fight.
Socialists made great public demon
stration in Vienna yesterday IN favor OF
universal suffrage.
The Duke of Schleswig- Holstein aud
Prince Henry, brother of the German
Emperor, will visit the Worlds fair.
In addition to the great number OF
lives lost in the Iowa cyclone, the est,
mated damage 10 property exceeded
100000.
A deluge of water such as was never
before seen in that vicinity fel! SatuT-
day night in. Baraboo. Wis, flooding al
most the entire city.
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
situation is much involved. Caprlvl Is
between two fires and that Count Her.
bert Bismarck is coming into proml-
nence.
During the reception of the Amerl-
can minister at Rome on Saturday the
Pope said that America would soon
have patron saint, as Columbus would
be beatified shortly.
A portion of the platform of the ele-
waited railway on Coney Island gave
way Saturday, and 10 persons were in
jured. There were 500 persons on the
platform at the time.
Storms prevailed to a greater or less
extent on Saturday evening from Chi
cago to New York. and as far south as
Virginia. Telegraph wires were pros
trated in every direction.
The first step toward building the
new Corcoran Art Gallery, at the cor
ner of New York avenue and 18th
street, Washington, has been made and
ground is now being broken for the
foundation.
Albert Bomberger, farm hand, MUIR
dered Mr.. Krieder, his wife and four Of
his children and criminally assaulted
Miss Anna Krieder, at their home near
Canda, N. d., on Saturday. The MUIR
derer has been captured.
A windstorm of terrific force, follow
ed by heavy downpour of rain, passed
over the Chicago fair grounds a few
minutes before 6 o'clock yesterday
evening, doing considerable damage to
the different buildings and to the eX-
hibits stored therein.
Father Thomas NJ. Killeen, pastor OF
the Church of St. Mary's Star of the
Sea, Bayonne, n. j., had balloting yes
terday at all masses on the question
whether he should stay or leave. A
turbulent mass meeting was also held
on the same suject. The pastor was
victorious.
At New Haven, Conn.,, on Saturday
night lightning set fire to and destroyed
rs cars, Sc Of which were loaded with
cartridges. The explosions of the cart
ridges made it lively and dangerous for
the tiremen. The flames from the cars
set fire to freight shed 600 feet long
and destroyed that also ; loss $4,000.
DR.. Burtsell says he believes Mgr.
Satolli's judgment in the matter of the
petition for his restoration to the
Epiphany Church, New York city, is
likely to influence the propaganda and
the Pope to urge upon Archbishop Cor
rigan more ready compliance with
the apostolic delegates authoritative
wishes.
The discussion over the army bill in
the Reichstag will last longer than at
first anticipated. The centrsts are try
ing to make deal, and will raise the
question of readmission of the Jesuits,
and make demand that the govern
ment cover the increase in eXpendi-
lures by a progressive imperial tax on
incomes.
The greatest fight on the Home Rule
bill will take place on clause 9, which
provides for the retention of SO out OF
the 103 Irish members il the House OF
Commons, and the liberals are so divid-
ed on it that the government is afraid
to assume determined attitude, al
though closure will be applied as on the
first sections of the bill.
Argument before the Behring sea tri-
bunal, in Paris, was concluded on Sat
urday, Mr.. E. J. Phelps ending with
plea for the prohibition of pelagic
sealing over the entire course followed
by the seals in their migrations. If
the arbitrator, he said, did not recog-
nize that the United States had prop
erty rights in the herd, concurrent regu-
lations would consequently be neces-
sary.
Thirty persons are believed to have
been drowned during frightful storm
which swept over Chicago and Lake
Michigan yesterday afternoon at five
o'clock. Many small boats were cap
sized, their occupants being thrown
into the water and many of them
drowned. A black sloop yacht in
which ten boys were enjoying a sail was
reported missing, but made port before
the storm began. Among the thousands
of visitors on the Worlds fair grounds
there was panic, but no one was in
juerd.