Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Three carloads of colored miners ar
rived at Connelsville, Pa, Saturday.
Mr.. Charles Ridgely Goodwin, who
was recently appointed surveyor OF the
mort of Baltimore, died on Saturday.
Frost and ice were reported in Mis-
souri,, Iowa and Kansas Friday night.
There was good sleighing at Alpena,
Mich, Saturday.
Nearly 700 employees Of the govern
ment printing Office, in Washington,
about one-half of whom are married,
were discharged on Saturday.
Twenty-eisht lives are known to
have been lost, and enty-eight vessels
wrecked in the storm which swept over
the lakes on Thursday night and Friday.
Everett Winslow, 16-ycar-old ne
gro, attempted to assault Mrs. Maggie
Northridge in the Smithsonian Park,
Washington, about ) o'clock last even
ing.
In a collision between freight train
and a work train in Standing Rock tun-
mel, near Princeton, KY, on Saturday
seven workmen were killed and others
injured.
A Berlin man claims to have discov-
cred hat Doves bullet-proof coat con-
tains steel plates, protected by an oak
um stulhng to deaden the impact OF the
bullet.
The Coxeyites have once more
moved their camping grounds. They
have gone about two miles from Hy-
attsville and about one mile from their
last camp.
Stage robbers held up coach on the
way to Stockton, Cal, Saturday. One
of them was killed by the express mes
senger, and the second robber then shot
two Of the passengers.
Advices from the State of Rio Grande
10 Sui are to the effect that Brazilian
insurgents continue to enroll themselves
under Gen Sarriva, who is still conduct
ing operations against the government.
The Paris Figaro charges that En-
peror William has selected number OF
officers TO visit France as spies and Ger
man newspapers have warned intended
travellers to France TO exercise great
caution.
Striking miners at the Keystone col
liery, Pa, were detected Saturday in a
conspiracy 10 explode nine kegs OF
gunpowder under the houses of two
unpopular mine bosses while the in
mates slept.
SIR William Harcourt has informed
he McCarthyite leaders that the gen.
eral election will be held in July, and
it is announced that the reform of the
House of Lords will be prominent
feature in the new liberal programme.
The Senate adopted an amended joint
resolution declaring Massachusetts ave-
nue. extension through the naval OBJ
servatory grounds public street, and
passed the bill to amend the act estab-
fishing Court of Appeals in the Dis
trict.
Mr.. Powderly, ex-general master
Wright. ex-member of the general ex'
ecutive board, and Mr.. Quinn, master
workman of district assembly 80, have
been unceremoniously expelled from
the order.
Though no formal demand has yet
been made by the Maryland soft coal
miners on strike, it is understood they
want an increase Of 10 cents ton. The
strikers are persistent in their efforts to
bring about total suspension in order
to force this advance. Some trouble
occurred at Vale Summit Saturday and
three strikers were arrested.
The Spanish council ofwar confirmed
the sentences of death imposed upon
the five anarchists who were convicted
of completely in the plot to murder
Captain General Martinez Campos and
in the Liceo Theater bomb outrage. 1t
is expected that the comdemed men
will be shot in front of the citadel OF
Mont Juich, Barcelona, Saturday.
In the Senate on Saturday amend
ments to the tariff bill increasing the
rates on plain, cut and window glass
were agreed to. Senator Vest, Of Mis-
souri,, left the Senate chamber in an
angry mood, declaring that he would
no longer oppose the efforts of the dem
ocratic conservative" to make the
tariff bill a high protective measure
President Carnot having refused to
rcprieve Emile Henry, the anarchist
and author of the explosion in the cafe
of the Hotel Terminus was guillotined
at Ala o'clock this morning at the Place
de Ia Roquette. AS Henry emerged
from the prison gates he shouted give
ranarchie," which he repeated just be-
fore he was seized and thrown on the
guillotine. There was no disorder.