Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.


held to-day.
The G. A. R. met in Pittsburg, Pa,
to-day and there was big parade.
Admiral Ting, commander of the
Chinese Pei Yang squadron, has been
degraded in rank for COW ardice.
Mrs. Leah Bernard, wife of a wealth y
New York merchant, was arrested yes.
terday and locked up on charge OF
adultery.
Representative LATE Pence, of Colo
RADIO, has finally accepted the renomin-
alton of the populist convention though
under protest.
Muley Mohammed, eldest son OF the
the late Sultan of Morocco, has been
proclaimed Sultan Of the rebellious
tribes of the south.
Richard Smith, member of the old
type foundry firm of MacKeller, Smith
| & Jordan, of Philadelphia, died in Paris
on Saturday, aged 70 years.
Little Estelle Wingate Roots hair
was cut off by thief, who choked her
| into silence in the basement of her
home in New York yesterday.
The report that Monsiguor satolli
will return to Rome at the end of the
wear was confirmed Saturday night by
Rev. DR.. Papi, his private secretary.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows will hold its seventeenth an
nual session at Lookout Mountain,
Tenn, beginning Monday, September
18th.
Emperor William has sanctioned
Count Won Eulenberg's bill TO repress
anarchy by restricting the right OF pub
lie assemblage and also restricting the
rights of the Prussian press.
In Dresden, yesterday, Master Tailor
Roth threw his three children from q
fourth-story window and then jumped
after them. All four were killed on
the spot or died soon afterward.
Rev. Walter C. Clapp, formerly as:
sistant rector of Mt. Calvary Episcopal
Church, Baltimore, has become Cath
Ole and Joined the Church of the Paul
ist Fathers in New York yesterday.
Governor Foster, of Louisiana, has
declared himself strongly against the
bolt of the sugar planters, and an
nounces himself as democrat who
will act with the national democratic
party.
Professor Herman Won Helmholtz
the distinguished German scientist, in
yentor of the optholmascope and au.
thor of 1.-The Conservation of Force, .
died at Berlin on Saturday, aged seven
ty-seven years.
Link Waggoner, a noted desperate
of North Louisiana and Eastern Texas
was shot 10 death in his cell in the par
ish jail by mob Saturday night. Wag
goner was a perfect type of beauty anc
as brave as lion.
The announcement of Chauncey NJ
Depew's candidacy for the republican
pubernatorial nomination in New YorE
has made stir among the politicians
1t is said all the candidates will com
bine against Mr.. Morton.
An unknown woman committed sui
eide at the Bridge entrance of the Fiftl
Avenue Brooklyn Elevated Railroad
Yesterday by throwing herself in from
of an engine in the presence of number
of spectators. She was instantly killed
James ]. Corbett will leave New
York for Washington to-day. Corbet
is very much chagrined over Jackson
refusal to sign the articles. He say
that it is practical admission tina
) Peter does not want to fight him again
) Forest fires are again raging in Min
nesota in the vicinity of the countr.
devastated a week ago and yesterda..
there was a general scare at half
dozen towns on the line of the st Pau
and Duluth, and Eastern Minnesot
roads.
, French Royalists in their message
of sympathy to the Countess of Pari
on the death of her husband expires
their homage for the counts Oldest son
the Duke of Orleans, to whom the.
now pay allegiance as the head OF tn
royal house.
A bolt of lightning. which strucl
John Zelinka's house at Winfield, l.. l.
Saturday night, restored the hearing
3 and voice of Mary Fisher, l5 years old
who had been deaf and dumb over eigh
, years. The bolt passed between tn
girl and her mother.
The day express from Paris for Co
logne was derailed between Noyan'
and Chauny yesterday and twelv
persons were killed and sixty other
wounded. One young girl who wa
saved insisted upon searching tn
wrecked train for her father, who's
, head was found to have been severed
from his body.
: Letters around Marengo, Wis, hav
caused the arrest of Mike Roepler. wht
is charged with having set the fr
which swept over that region weel
ago, destroying that town and Agnew
with eight lives. The prisoner wa
hustled to Ashland and placed in tn
county Jail for safe keeping, as the feel
J ing against him among the homestead
ers is very bitter.
Surgeon General Wyman yesterda.
at Washington received Telegram
from the assistant surgeon at Cap
Henry, Va, stating that the American
bark Alice had arrived there from Hav
} ana, Cuba, with three cases of yellow
J fever on board. Surgeon General Wy
J man announced that DR.. Gedding's in
j vestigation of the death of the immi
grant Walther at Cumberland shows b.
: did not die of cholera.
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma, ii
passing upon an appealed divorce cas-
from Payne county on Saturday, decid
ed that under the present statutes o