Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-28

lutte habits and i'll treatment.
At the meeting of the western dis
tributors of whisky and spirits yester-
day a committee was appointed to pre-
par a set of resolutions to the trust
favoring an advance and a change in
the rebate system.
Flames started in Kings Hotel, at
Elizabethport, N. j., at 2:3O o'clock this
morning. The entire structure to-
gether with a large boarding house and
o tenement house were totally destroy
ed.
Advices from Salvador say that yell
low fever is epidemic throughout the
republic and that the mortality is very
great. The disease is particularly IA
tai to foreigners, taking them off in
side of "a hours.
Charles R. Defieest, secretary of the
New York democratic State conven-
ton in pursuance OF a resolution adopt
ed by the convention, to-day appointed
a committee to inform the democratic
candidates of their nomination.
James G.. Paul, who is charged with
committing the murderous assault up
on Eleanor Whitfield, in a shed in Ash
mont, near Boston, last week, surrend-
cred himself to the police this morning.
The only statement Paul would make
was SIT was a wrestling match and
the shooting was accidental"
The lives of two miners and two la
borers were, without warning, crushed
out in the Northwest colliery at Simp-
son, near Carbondale, Pa, late yester-
day afternoon. Their mangled remains
lie beneath a fall of rock.
The boarding house of Evan Kavan,
at Miners Mills, Pa, was broken into
last night by four masked robbers.
Kavau was aroused by the noise and
Jumped out of bed to defend his home
w%hereupon he was shot dead. Inc
murderers escaped.
In the New York constitutional con-
vention at Albany this morning the new
constitution, as revised by the conven-
ton, was adopted by a vote of 95 to as,
a strict party vote, except that three
republicans voted with the democrats
in the negative.
The six hundred foot Illinois Central
Railroad bridge across the Iowa river,
at Iowa Falls, Ia, burned this morning.
The bridge was built in 1868 and was
seventy-6ve feet high. The accident
will interrupt traffic of the road for two
weeks. The origin of the fire is
thought to be incendiary.
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford has filed in the
probate court in San Francisco her first
annual account as e~xecutrix of the es-
tate of the late Senator Stanford. The
account covers the period from June,
1898, to September, 1894, during which
time Mrs. Stanford has handled money
from the estate to the amount of ST.
Z 5000, and has disbursed during the
same period $1,371,O0 O
The republican delegates to the New
York constitutional convention, in eau
Gus at Albany to-day, determined that
the constitutional amendments shall be
submitted to a vote of the people this
fall as follows: The new apportionment
will be submitted separately. The ca
nal improvement amendment will be
submitted separately. The other
amendments passed will be submitted
as whole.
Captain Henry W.. Howgate was
taken before Judge Benedict, Of
the United States District Court.
in New York this morning, and
admitted his identity. Judge Benz
dict signed an order for his removal to
Washington Tor trial. Howgate did
not seem depressed by his arrest. He
was Joined shortly before II o'clock by
the woman who is known as Mrs. Viii
liams. He shook hands with her and
they entered into q whispered CONVEX
sation. The woman gave Howgate
some money from a well-6lled pocket
book. Howgate will probably be taken
to Washington on the afternoon train.
Later Howgate was taken back to Lud-
low jail. The delay in taking him
to Washington, Deputy Marshal Ken
uedy said, is caused by the preparation
of the necessary papers.
John Haney, bar-keeper at the Allen House,
Grafton, Ohio, returned from the fair at
at 2:30 o'clock this morning. He
vent to the barroom and surprised two burg
lars. He was shot twice and del in fifteen
minutes.
The Japanese are reported to have
attacked the Chinese at two points IN