Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Business shows gradual and steady
Improvement in Baltimore financial cir
Giles and confidence is returning.
More than $1,000 workmen in and
around Pittsburg who were recently
thrown out of employment are to be
put to work again.
England is suffering from torrid
wave, and in consequence of the great
number of persons at the seashore and
in the country there were over nun
dred persons accidentally drowned in
q week.
William T. Phillips, of Cambridge,
Nd, was shot and killed by George L.
Austin, son of State Senator George E.
Austin, near st. Johns Camp ground,
Dorchester county, yesterday. Mr..
Austin surrendered.
Three Arabs at the Chicago fair ex-
ecuted vengeance on another Saturday
by tying his heels to horse. A fight
followed in which sabres and bayonets
were used. The victims skull was
fractured and his conditional is critical.
The relations between France
and Italy are said to be sub
ject of anxiety in view of the popular
demonstrations against the French and
Italian cities since the massacre at
Argues Mortes. Police are guarding
ing the French embassy at Rome.
The parliamentary elections in
France yesterday were exceptionally
free from disorder. All the cabinet
ministers were reelected. Returns up
to o'clock this morning show repub-
lican gain OF five seats. Re-ballots will
be necessary in sixty light district.
4 serious riot broke out at Manning
ton, w. Va. Saturday evening. grow
ing out of row in the bar-room Of the
Dallas House. Several men were SER
iously wounded. The authorities SEEM
cd powerless to quell the disturbance,
and enlisted the service of citizens TO
make arrests.
Advices from commercial centres
show that Russia is feeling the pinch of
the tariff war severely. Throughout
southern Russia the prices of all grains
are falling. The chief provincial treas
urers have been summoned to confer
with the directors of the Imperial Bank
of Russia on measures to assist distress
ed landowners and farmers.
The demands upon Speaker Crisp
for recognition in the pending silver
debate have grown to such an extent
that in order to accommodate even q
large proportion, not to say all, who
desire to speak on the subject night
sessions will be a necessity, and they
will, it is now understood, be held, be-
ginning at o'clock tonight.
Capt. Chris Paulsen, who intends to
cross the Atlantic in sixteen-foot Nor
wegian skif, started on his periIous
trip Thursday from Railway, n. J.
Provisions for only two weeks can be
slowed away, owing to the smallness of
the craft. He will depend upon meet
ing the transatlantic steamers to re-
plenish his store of provisions and wa
ter.
The team belonging to Mr.. Lorenzo
J. Bovee, who lives about three miles
north of Leroy, n. Y, was struck yes
terday by the Lehigh flyer, east bound,
while he was driving to attend the SER
vice in the Presbyterian Church, and
all the occupants were instantly killed,
together with the horses. The party
included Mr.. and Mrs. Bovee and three
young women.
Walter Geiser, young Altoona, Pa,
druggist, paid q social call upon
daughter of Joseph Reed, of Holidays
burg, Saturday night. AS he was de-
parting from the house he was struck
in the breast by pistol bullet fired by
person in the outer darkness. The
would-be murderer, who is supposed to
be some discarded lover of the girl, es-
capped. Geiser's wound may prove ia
tai.
Herman J. Schultheis, who was
member of the immigration commits
sion sent to Europe by the United
States government two years ago, says
the movement inaugurated in st. Louis
urging all the unemployed men of the
West to move on to Washington and
force Congress by means OF demon
stration to provide relief for the needy
classes, is the direct result of the agi-
tation of men who are strenuously en-
deavoring to create trouble.
The Fort Wayne mail and express
train, No. 7, carrying S250,000 in gold
coin consigned to Chicago, was wreck
ed at Whiting, Ind, Friday. The car,
which contained the coin, was burst
open and the treasure partly thrown
out and scattered in the middle of the
highway. The wreck caught fire from
the engine, and but for the prompt
action of the fire department the train,
with its precious load, would have been
consumed.
From each of twenty-five members
of the Red Cross Society, of Spring
field, O., small piece of cuticle will be
taken to-day to heal the wounds of
Minnie Yeager, a member who was Sc
riously burned two weeks ago by gas
oline explosion. Her lower limbs from
the waist down are entirely raw, the
skin having peeled off. The operation
of skin grating will be performed, the
Red Cross members having volunteer
ed to furnish the necessary material.
A terrible wind storm swept over
Somerset county, n. j., early Satur-
day evening Gardens and crops were
completely ruined, buildings unroofed
and vast amount of damage done.
The rain fell in torrents and the light
ming flashed necessarily. Hailstones
fell ip great numbers. The trains were
delayed, and in several instances the
widows on the northwest side were
nomD1eta1y demolished No ona &.yao