Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Two men skated from Baltimore 20
yesterday
The ice in the Baltimore harbor and
bay is breaking up and navigation IS
easier.
The necessity of another marriage
ceremony between Milan and Natalie
is eng discussed.
Mrs. Padelford, known on the stage
as Bettina Gerard, is said to be dying
in New York hospital of cancer.
Bishop Dwenger, Catholic Bishop Of
Fort Wayne, Ind, is dead. The Bishop
was bornin st. Johns, Ohio, in 1887.
Archbishop Corrisan has issued a let
ter to his clergy appointing collection
f,r the Pope on February 9, his golden
jubilee.
Cardinal Glib ons preached the ser
mon yesterday in st. Matthews
Church, Washington. There was a
very large congregation.
James Francis Egan, convicted of
participation in 1854 in the Irish dyna-
mite plot, has been released from pri-
son on account of i'll health.
All of the electoral certificates have
not yet been presented to the Pres ident
of the Senate, and many have not been
delivered in the manner prescribed by
the law.
Fire yesterday destroyed the Caron-
delet elevator, at St. Louis, together
with large quantity of grain and two
transfer boats. Loss, two hundred
thousand dollars.
The Memorial Church of the United
Brethren in Christ, in Washington, was
solemnly dedicated by Bishop Jonathan
Weaver, D. d., of Dayton, o., at l p.
m., yesterday.
In conflict yesterday between gen.
darmes and peasants at Termini, sea-
port town of Sicily, growing out of the
seizure of lands by the peasants, eight
of the latter were killed and twenty
hurt.
A mob of masked men broke into the
parish Jail at st. James. La, Satur-
day evening and took out Robert Lon
dry and Tick George, negroes, charged
with garrotting and murder, and lynch
ed them.
Senator Kenna's death left his widow
a poor woman, ana tie We" Vest Virginia Virginia
congressional delegation Joined in pc,
ton, asking President-elect Cleveland
to appoint her postmistress Of Charles
ton, w. Va.
The mother of Carlyle w. Harris,
who was convicted of the murder OF
Helen Potts. in New York, has made
public q plea for II new trial for her
son, urging mismanagement in the de-
fence and additional evidence in her
sons favor.
Dynamite explosions yesterday dam
aged hotel and other property III
Rome, but nobody was hurt. The pro-
prietor of the hotel says be is convinced
that the explosions were caused by
a man whom he discharged recently
from his service.
The relative merits of the Baltimore
and Philadelphia style of cooking ter
rapin were decided in favor of Baltimore
by a party of connoisseurs who met
Saturday night at 'AIeadowbrook, the
country seat of Postmaster General
John Wanamaker, near Philadelphia.
Henry Lempke, man about fifty
years Of age, was shot in the neck at
Troy. n. Y, yesterday, by William
Kramer youth Of twenty-three, be-
cause Lempke refused to marry kra-
mer's sister, whom Lempke was
charged with seducing. The woman IS
thirty years of age.
Dr. Helen Dnsmore, of London, made
serious accusations against the judge
and jury before whom Mrs. Maybrick
was tried. Her views were expressed
at meeting of women at which
the "Nyomcn's International Bureau
of Justice" was organized, the object OF
which will be to obtain Mrs. Maybrick's
release.
Sixteen persons were killed and near
~ Il hundred more or less injured in the
railroad accident and an explosion ut
Alton Junction, H., on Saturday, men,
ton of which was made i'll the GAZETTE
of that day. The blazing oil was scat
tered in every direction, and the people
upon whom it was spurted were fright
fully burned.
The telegram sent out from Radford
last week relative to one Fillie mis-
treating his wife, and that he was in
Jail heavily guarded, to prevent lynch
ing, turns out to be falsehood of the
North Carolina lynching type. There
are no such parties living there, and no
such occurrence of the kind whatever,
and nothing to warrant the least init
nation of such an affair.
Mrs. Vena d'Heirry, wife of Assis-
tant Attorney General Paul d Henry,
of Seattle, Wash, eloped with her mu-
sic teacher, Edward G.. Morse, who de-
serted his wife, andwent to New York,
bringing with her her daughter. The
husbands pursuit across the continent
ended on Thursday, when he found
his child and her mother in an east
side lodging house. in New York.
In the House of Representatives on
Saturday the bill TO abolish post trader
ships was passed. Mr.: Rayner intro
duced the quarantine bill in speech.
Mr.. Stump's seven days quarantine
amendment was defeated. and Mr..
Cockran's amendmt Mt providing against
interference with existing State regula-
tions was adopted. The measure then
went over until to-day, the House tax
ing recess instead of adjourning.
THE New WEBsTEE's DIcTIoNARY.-The
Authentic Unabridged compromising the
issuses of 1861, 10 and "a, (all still copy
righted) has been thoroughly revised and
greatly enlarged under the supervision of
Noah Porter, ex-Prcsident Of Yale Univer-
rit,- aud rs n distinnuishinu title hears the