Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Secretary Carlisle says that Mr.. Will
son, of West Virginia, will be Chair
man of the House committee on Ways
and Means.
In the silver-mining regions where
the clamor for free coinage is loudest
contracts are drawn payable either in
gold coin or so many ounces of fine
gold.
Mgr Satoldi will arrive in New
York from Washington this evening on
visit to Archbishop Corrigan, and the
outcome of the conference is anXiously
awaited by Catholics.
1t is expected that at the meeting of
the Senate finance committee on Tues
day bill will be tayorably acted upon,
allowing national banks to issue notes
to the full amount of the bonds depos-
tied.
A cloudburst made havoc in the
Eperies district in Hungary Yesterday.
Fifty persons and many head OF cattle
were drowned, 100 houses and several
bridges were demolished and much OF
the harvested crops was destroyed.
a train on the Taft Vale railway run
ming to Cardiff from Ponty-Pridd, ran
off the track Saturday evening while
roing rapidly around curve, and rolled
over an embankment. Seventeen per-
sons were killed and forty were inlur-
ed.
Miss Jennie LOOMS, daughter of BP.
LOOMS, of Baltimore, shot herself in
the left breast Saturday, near Hartford,
Conn.,, because her father objected to
her receiving the attention of young
man. Her recovery is considered al
most impossible.
The Charleston, S. c., board of
health yesterday ordered quarantine
against Brunswick, Ga, where the
health officer of the city, Dr. J. w.
Beanham, has yellow fever. Savannah,
Ga, and Waycross and other towns
have also ordered quarantine.
Two more new cases of cholera were
sent to Swinburne Island yesterday.
The census of the hospital last night
shows! Cholera patients, IA; patients
not having cholera, 8; convalescent, l;
suspects on Hoffman Island, ,. Total,
20. All of the patients are improving.
The disease is mild in character.
A rowboat containing fishing party
of seven persons was cut down by the
market sloop Frolic in Rock Creek,
Anne Arundle county, Nd, yesterday
evening. James 3. Johnston and Mrs.
Kate Schuman were drowned. Capt.
Thomas Judd, master Of the sloop, was
put under arrest, and is held to await
the result of a coroner's inquest.
The Magnolia Club of Chattanooga,
Tenn, gave an excursion on the Ten
ncssee yesterday. While returning o
naphtha launch was run down and was
sunk while attempting to transfer pas
senger TO the barge. Mrs. Charles
Ref, Mrs. George Ref, Mrs. Wagner
and her child were drowned, and their
bodies have not been recovered.
The Brookside stock farm buildings,
near Troy, Pa, were all destroyed by
fire yesterday. Sixteen valuable horses
and one blooded bull were burned. The
house and four barns were burned.
The fire was probably incendiary. The
trotting stock was mostly saved. A
81, 900 sucking colt was lost. Total
loss $50, 900, partly covered by insur-
ance.
1t is reported that a brother and sis
ter, belonging to a highly respectable
family near Island Mills, Sullivan coun-
ty, Tenn, are guilty Of incest. The
dead body of an infant was found in
the river near their home some time
ago, and facts have been developed
which point to them as the parents.
The people of the neignborhood are
indignant, and will sit the matter
The names are withheld.
A fire. that started on Nicollet Is
land, Minneapolis, yesterday, destroy
ed two hundred houses, rendered fiji
teen hundred persons homeless, and
caused losses aggregating 100000 in
the lumber district of that city. The
fire was stopped last night, after burn
ING over nearly square mile of terri
tory. An unknown child was burned
to death and Thomas Fallon lost his
life from heart failure due to excite
ment.
Miss Dora Bishop, a respectable
young lady of Fayette county, Ga,
charges Walter Reeves and Jno. Price,
two we'll known young men of that
county, with assaulting her. She says
that Price made an engagement to take
her to church Sunday night and came
for her in buggy. They had travelled
some distance when Price stopped and
Reeves came up to the buggy out of a
deep wood. She was dragged from the
buggy by the men and forced to sub
nit under threats of death.
A recent series of mysterious muir
dars # women give rise to the fear that
Jack the Ripper is at work again, in
London. Three women have been
slaughtered in the open air of the sub
urbs by unknown assassins. In each
case the victim was silently and swiftly
killed by a knife, and the murderer
vanished without leaving trace of
himself. The discovery of the crime
followed within five minutes of each
time. The victims were not mutilated
as in the Whitechapel cases, but de-
lection would have been almost GER
tain had the murderer stopped for that.
In one case the woman was thoroughly
respectable and of good family.
The Silver Question.
The Senate finance committee, by a
majority of one on Saturday adopted,
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