Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

by an electric bolt during storm near
Frankfort, KY, yesterday.
Archbishop Satolli has reopened the
st. Trinity church in Chicago, which
had been practically closed for seven
teen years.
II is estimated that the trial of Rev.
DR.. Briggs from beginning to end cost
the Presbyterian General Assembly
about $4,000.
An attempt of socialists to start an
agitation at Metz in favor OF severlng
Aisace- Lorraine from Germany has
been promptly suppressed.
President Cleveland announced last
night that he would call an extra SEES
sion of Congress not later than the Ill
teenth nor earlier than the first OF sep
TENDER to consider the financial sltua-
ton Of the country.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm II. sank at her wharf
at Genoa yesterday, q break in the cir
culating pump permitting the water to
rush in and fill the ship. Only part
of the cargo can be saved.
A terrific electric storm passed over
Laurel, Md, Sunday evening. The
DYNAMO in the street electric light
power house was burned out, several
buildings were struck by lighting and
considerable fencing was blown down.
Scarcity of servants has become
serious matter in New York city.
Many homes have been closed for the
want of domestic help, which employ
ment agencies are unable to supply, be-
cause the girls are aocking to Chicago
or the country.
A cloudbust literally flooded the face
of the country about Sutton, Neb., sat
ur,lay. 1t was accompanied by hail four
feet deep and wind that destroyed the
crops, breaking glass in the farmhouses
and leyeling windmills. A son of Mrs.
Henry Hull and two horses were in
stantly killed by lightning.
Two men came suddenly upon col
ored man in q clump of bushes in How
ard county, Md, yesterday. When dis
covered he took to his heels and ran
until beyond pursuit. 1t is thought
he was VIM. Pinkney, the condemned
murderer who escaped from Prince
Georges county Jail.
The Madison Square Garden di-
rectors who were arranging to
give a bull fight on a modified
plan in the Garden, in New
York, were informed by the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
that should it take place they would
be prosecuted to the extent OF the law.
Yesterday was "blue Monday" for
Chicago. The indications are that
many other "blue" days will succeed
it. With banks and business houses
failing all around, confidence shaken
and money scarce or so tied up or hid
den that it is out of active circulation,
the situation is most unpleasant one
to face. What the business community
is most afraid of now is this lack ofcon-
fidence.
Notwithstanding the many asser-
tons that the Rev. DR.. Edward Nc
Glynn has sailed for Rome, it is known
by his closest friends that he is in re-
treat in the Trappist Monastery, near
Lexington, KY, and that he will stay
there some time, probably all the sum
mer, doing penance. After the retreat
he will have been purged and then he
may 90 to Rome, not as apenitent seek,
ing forgiveness, but as priest with all
his rights.
The next statue of Importance to be
unveiled in New York is that of Ros-
coe Conkling, the work ]. Q. A. Ward.
This is the statue eX-Nice President
Morton wished to be placed in Union
Square, where stand those Of Washing,
ton and Lincoln, but the Park Board
decided against him, and the statue Will
be placed in Madison Square instead
This is an excellent likeness OF MI.
Conkling, representing him in the at
titude of deliveriDga speech.
The price of wheat in the Philadel-
phia market yesterday declined &c. per
bushel, and reached the lowest quota
ton on record. 1t closed at 69a cents
per bushel, as againft 7l9 cents on Sat
urday. The previous lowest price was
II cents which was touched on October
1929, and November of last year. In
Chicago yesterday the price fell mo-
mentarily to 635, and closed at 64S-the
lowest figures being q cents below the
lowest recorded on any crop at any
period of the year.