Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-01-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Porto Allegro, capital Of Rio Grande
do Sui, Brazil, has fallen into the hands
of the insurgents.
The bicycle contest in Madison
Square Garden, New York, ended Sat
urday night, with Albert Shock winner,
he having made | SOB miles and laps
in six days and nights.
Trinity Church chimes in New York
failed to ring in the New Year. A band
of small boys protested and derided
Rector Dix. Crowds blew tin horns in
Broadway and there were number of
arrests.
While of the Newfoundland Banks a
few days since, the steamship Rhynland
ran into hurricane and was struck by
monster wave, which broke the legs
of three of the crew, injured seven 9TH
ers and badly damaged the ship sweep
ing her decks from stem to stern.
Representative Wheeler. of Alabama,
says Il call for the caucus of the demo-
ocratic members of the House to dis
cuss the tariff bill will probably be is
sued Wednesday next. Chairman Will
son is opposed to caucus because it is,
he thinks, utterly impossible to evolve
a logical measure in such a meeting.
Louis Snyder shot and killed Mrs.
Olive Cloud at midnight Saturday at
her home in indianapolis, Ind, firing
four Shots, each OF which took effect.
For two years Snyder has been endeav-
ing to induce Mrs. Cloud to marry him,
but she has refused because OF his dissi-
pated habits. Her refusal caused the
tragedy.
Maximillan, the &&33-ycar-old son of
Prince George, brother of the King of
SaXony, was ordained n Catholic priest
on Friday. He was educated rs a sol
der, but, it is said, gave up his military
commission on account of q deep and
hopeless love for Princess Fedora, of
Schleswig-lIolstein, youngest sister OF
Germany Protestant Empress.
While suffering from insanity due TO
an attack of the grip Swithin c. Short
ldge, principal Of Shortlidge's Acade-
my for Young Men, at Media, Pa. yes
terday morning shot ard killed his
wife Instantly while walking with her
in country road near the school.
Prof Shorllidee has been arrested and
is now raving in cell Of the county
Jail.
Miss Lucy Ware Lewis, second
daughter of Mr.. Edward Parke Gusts
Lewis, and granddaughter of Mrs, Ed
win A. Stevens, of Castle Point, Hobo
ken, was married to Mr.. Charles Tread
we'll Ayres Mccormick, Of West Nir-
ginia, on Saturday at noon in Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church, lIoboken.
The Rev. DR.. G.. c. Houghton, rector of
che church oiliciated.
Yesterday Thomas Parker Marley,
aged sixty-four years his wife, Caro-
line +. Marley, aged sixty-nine years,
and their grandson, Robert Parker
Narlcy- Myers, aged thirteen years,
were killed instantly Saturday by 4
train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad at Patuxent, a
station on the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad, about twenty miles from Bal
timore.
John Cummings, his wife and three
year old child, and Mrs. Margaret Fox,
mother of Mrs Cummings, were burn
ed to death in fire that slightly dam
aged the cottage of Cummings at Oma-
ha, Neb., yesterday morning. Thomas
Fox, a grandson of Mrs. Fox, said Cum
mings overturned coal oil lamp and
prevented the escagc of the others by
shutting and holding the door. 1t is
thought Cummings was suffering from
delirium tremens.