Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Peru's rebels have captured Cerro
Pasco and the port of Casma.
Miss Annie Blum was attacked ny a
| colored man as she was going home
| from st. Martins Church at Gainesville,
| Md, early yesterday morning, but was
rescued by Mr.. John Thomay. The
| colored man escaped.
There is much complaint in Chinese
| commercial centres over the manner ID
| which the war against japan Is being
conducted. Mail advices from Shang-
hal are to the effect that war news OBJ
timed from a Chinese source Is utterly
unreliable.
IT. Goodman, editor Of the Peoples
Voice, and B. a. Armstrong, editor OF
| the Star, both weekly papers published
at Galesville, Tex, killed each other in
a street fight with pistols on Saturday.
The fight grew out of a controversy
over the lynching of Edward Cash.
The home of Mrs. Friedling, at Ke-
vance, ILL.,, was destroyed by lire Sa.
turday night. Two children, aged
| three and six, were burned to death
and Mrs. Friedling was probably fatally
burned. The fire was caused by using
| oil to kindle a fire in the cook stove.
The match race between Domino and
| Henry of Navarro, at nine furlongs, on
| Gravesend track Saturday for a purse
of s., 900 resulted 10 a dead heat. The
| finish was under whip and spur. Tara
was on Domino and Doggett on Nav,
ARE. Riley Grammar, the bookmaker,
| stood to lose 100000 against Domino,
aud the division of the wagered money
brought him $4,000 clear.
The SEVENTEEN annual session of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge of the indie
pendent Order of Odd-Fellows, which
met in Chattanooga today, will be at
tended by probably 10000 people. Elk
tensive preparations have been made
for the entertainment of the delegates
and visitors. The meeting of the Soy.
ereign Grand Lodge will probably occu
Ply ten days.
At Kenton, O., Saturday night Fred
Miller, aged 70 years, attempted to XII
his aged wife. He struck her severa
blows on the head and body with
Ratchet and inserted several stabs with
a lightning rod point. Mrs. Samue;
Magley, residing next door, witnessed
the assault and rushing out threw 6
club at Miller. The latter then rar
and jumped into his well. Efforts were
made to rescue him, but be was deac
when taken out.
Just at the close of the ceremonie:
over the laying of the corner stone o
the new St. Augustine Roman Catholic
Church, New York, yesterday after
noon. the temporary floor of the vesti
hule gave way, throwing about twenty
FIVE persons into the basement and bad
" injuring several of them. Archbishop
Corrigan, accompanied by members o
the clergy. had just passed over tn
vestibule floor when the accident oc
Cured.
Without any known motive, Samue
A. Fitzpatrick, aged forty years, sho
his wife, Mary, twice in the abdomen
early yesterday morning in Philadel
phia. The woman died. He also sho
and seriously wounded q young ma
named Price. The shooting occurre,
while a dance was in progress. XII
patrick then ran from the dwelling
pursued by the guests, and landed /
the arms of q policeman. The murdere
is in Jail.
A twelve-year-old white girl, daugh
ter of Martin Butler, living nea
brownsville, Ga, yesterday went to
spring to get water, and not returning
her mother started in search, and foun'
that she had been assaulted and he
throat cut. The girl was not dead, an
lisped out the name of her assailan'
Dave Gooseby, a negro, living in tn
neiehborhood. The little sufferer Bile
TO death. Sheriff Doss has capture
the brute and eluded the lynchers.
Edward Whittemore, a farmer
seventy years old his wife aged fifty
five, and his daughter, a pretty girl
fifteen, were the victims of a murderou
assault by Mrs. Whittemore's nephew
Leonard Blodgett, Saturday night, nea
Glens Falls, n. Y, in which Mr.:
Whittemore was fatally shot and tn
others dangerously wounded. Blodgett
who is fifty.eight years old, has live
at the Wittemores' house for the pas
wear. There is no doubt that his pul
pose was to kill Mr.. and Mrs. White
more, and with them out of the way as
sault their daughter. Several hundre
men are searching for him, and
caught he will be lynched.