Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

CnaS. LOnSIellOW, son OF the pOet,
died yesterday in Boston after lingel-
ing illness.
King Humbert yesterday paid a
formal visit to Queen Victoria at the
Villa Pslmieri, near Florence.
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix has declined to
permit the use of his name in connec-.
ton with the nomination for bishop OF
Massachusetts.
The barn of Charles Reed, a promi-
nent horseman near Gallatin, Tenn,
was struck by lightning yesterday and
% brood mares were killed.
A terrible fire occurred recently in
Kawagoyecho, near Toxic, over 1000
houses being destroyed and several
people killed and many injured.
Of the $50 seats in the next House
of Representative the democrats will
have 22O, the republicans 127 and the
populists s, one seat is contested.
Bricon, the French anarchist, was
yesterday convicted of participating in
the explosion at the Very Cafe. He
was sentenced. to twenty years penal
servitude.
J.R. Wisenbaker, planter of Val
dosia, Ca, was yesterday shot and in
stantly killed by tramp who was sur
prised by the owner in attempting to
burglarize the house.
Pat Flaherty was yesterday shot and
fatally wounded in Denver by his step
son, NJ. Sweeny, aged 16. Flaherty
was beating his wife when young Swee-
ny picked up rifle and fired.
The bill to repeal the local liquor op-
ton law, killed in the Wisconsin Legis-
lature Wednesday afternoon, was re-
viyed Wednesday night, and recommit-
ted to the judiciary committee.
The Chinese land Geographic line has
at last been joined with the Russian
system. Messages may now be sent
throughout the world from China by
Chinese lines. Messages to Europe
cost Is per cent. less than by cable.
Maddened by a religious supersti-
ton, a mob attacked the Hebrew citi-
zens of Kolin, town on the river Elbe,
near Prague, yesterday. The rioters
were suppressed by the military, after
they had destroyed considerable prop
erty.
The Japanese government is taking
determined measures to stop the emil
grafton of women for immoral purposes.
A number of them who were intended
for brothol in San Francisco, were ar
rested Just before the sailing OF the
steamer Empress of Japan.
Farnham Post, of New York, We'd
nesday night decided that it would
stick to its resolution in opposition to
the indiscriminate granting of pensions
even if it was formally cast out of the
ranks of the Grand Army. George
Washington Post has adopted similar
resolutions.
Pinkney and Barber, the colored men
charged with the murder of MIR. Francis
NJ. Bowie, in Prince Georges county,
were arraigned at Upper Marlboro, Md,
yesterday. Robert Roddy, Baltimore
lawyer, was present as counsel for Pink
ney, but failed to bring proper creden-
tials with him, and could not be admit
ted to the bar.
A dispatch from Panama says that
furious battle was fought few days
ago near Oruro, between the Indians of
Guancaroma and Quelcata. The battle
lasted five days. Thirty were killed
and a greater number injured. The
authorities finally compelled the In
dams to lay down their arms.
The A. S. Holmes oil refinery, COW
oring twelve acres of ground on Sene
ca street, Buffalo, N. Y, was yesterday
destroyed by fire, together with TWEEN
ty freight cars and a train of oil cars.
Thirty thousand barrels of oil were
also burned. The fire was started by
an engine dropping Goals in some oil
which was running on the top OF the
water in little ditch.
At tenement house fire in Williams
burgh, N. Y, yesterday evening a
mother and two of her children were
burned to death and two of her other
children were injured. While the ten
ement was in a blaze they ran from
room to room and from floor to floor
only to find every avenue of escape cut
off. The air became hotter and hot
ter, until finally the place was like
bakers oven. Then the unfortunate
family gave up the fight and lay down
to die, while hundreds of persons in
the streets and in surrounding houses
cried to the mother, directing how to
save herself and her children.