Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is rumored that three cases Of
| cholera and one death have been re-
ported in Hamburg.
During the present session of Con-
gress but cighty.hve public measures
have been enacted into law.
Dolma Baghtche yesterday won the
great race for the prize of Paris: Match
box second. Mansour third.
Two churches and several houses at
! Altoona, Pa, were struck by lightning
Saturday, and several persons stunned.
The twenty-three Coxeyites arrest
ed in Fairfield, ILL.,, for tra~in-stealing,
were convicted on Saturday and semitic
Jail.
The report of the statistician of the
department of agriculture shows that
the peach crop will be small in most
states.
Hon. H. c. Simmons, considered the
most eloquent populist orator in Ala
bama, has abandoned that party and re-
turned to the democratic fold.
The steamships which sailed for Eu-
rope Saturday carried out more passen-
gers than had sailed on any previous
day this year.
More than seventeen hundred per-
SONS have persisted at Hong Kong of
the plague and SO, 900 of the inhabitants
have fled from the city.
Ex-Minister to Austria William
Walter Phelps died shortly before two
o'clock yesterday morning at his home,
at Tea Neck, n. Y, aged 80 years.
The United States Consul at Belfast,
ireland, has reported to the State De-
partment that the largest tobacco fac
tory in the world is now in process of
erection in that city.
The whole family of the Viceroy Liu
Kan Yih. of Marking, China, has been
massacred by members of the Kola-
Hwei society, in revenge for the Vice
roy's measures against that conspiracy.
OF the two hundred miners who lost
their lives in the firedamp explosion in
the Karwin coal mines in Silesia last
week one hundred were married men
and they leave four hundred orphans.
Rev. James F. Connolly, q Catholic
priest, who is now serving a twenty
year sentence in the Minnesota State
prison for criminal assault upon the
person Of Miss Harmon last June, has
been granted a new trial. The Gecis-
ion is a great surprise.
Matte Key. who lives near Ennis,
Texas, was called out to his gate and
shot dead Saturday night. He was the
husband of Liza Key, who was shot and
killed in Il wagon last Christmas by Ed.
Brown, who has been indicted, and is in
Ellis county Jail awaiting trial.
Nettie Coddington, nineteen years
old, committed suicidein Lincoln, Neb.,
because her lover refused to respond to
q message and come to see her. The
girl sent Il second message, and was
prepared to shoot him down if he came.
He did not come, and she swallowed
morphine.
There will be a heavy reduction in
the clerical force of the record and pen
sion Office, war department., between
now and the 1st of July. The compile
| ton of a portion of the work on which
ilt UlllCG DtS DCcl CHSaSCu uCCCoSlld-
ted a reduction of 800 clerks out of a
force of nearly SEQ.
Philip Moran, forty-five years old, q
plasterer, was shot and killed st an
carly hour in New York yesterday
morning at his house by Harvey Cur
lis, twenty-five years old, the ~fiancee of
Moran's Oldest daughter, Frances. Mo
ran was drunk when he was shot, and
held a revolver in his hand, which he
had aimed at his daughters head. Cur
It's was arrested.
A Washington paper this morning
published what is purported to be an
exposure of a plot. having for its object
the destruction of the Capitol and per-
haps other government buildings,
which had been slowly developing for
several weeks. The secret service and
police authorities, however, it is said
have been kept informed of the move
ments of the plotters, and would have
been enabled to thwart them had their
Vaccinations approached actual vio-
lence. Members of Coxey's army are
said to be implicated. General Coxey
was in Pittsburg, Pa, to-day and when
asked about the matter said he knew
nothing of the thing and that to his
mind it was a fake.