Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The price of coal mining has been re-
duced in the Clearfeld district. and
there is talk of a strike.
Many thousands of people passed
through the st. Petersburgh Cathedral
yesterday to take last look at the
features of the late Gar
A gas explosion, believed to have
been an attempt to blow up the build.
ing, took place in tenament house in
New York Tuesday night.
Mr.. Bourke Cochran says the recent
democratic defeat meant the crushing
of populism. not the Reputation by the
people of democratic principles.
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Nelson in his annual report discusses
the ACCESSIBILITY of utilizing cable and
electric cars in the important cities for
the more rapid distribution and collec.
ton o. mails.
The republican national congressional
committee gives out q revised list of
the membership of the House of Rep.
resentatives of the next Congress. The
total gives the republicans 246 members.
democrats 104 and populists s.
At Sing Sing, n. Y, yesterday even.
ing boy fired gun into a keg of pow
der to prove it was unloaded. He was
killed, several were injured and several
buildings and stores were badly dan
aged.
Blake Robertson, aged eigteen wears
son of ex-Congressman Thomas A.
Robertson, was shot and kille,, at re-
publican jjollifcation in Elizabeth, Ky.
Tuesday night. The trouble arose over
white and black republicans marching
in the same procession.
After being frustrated in their at.
tempt to take Joseph Conrad, muir
derer, from officers and lynch him. an
angry mob of citizens ofZionsyille, Ind.
last night organized with the intention
of attacking the jail in Lebanon, which
is heavily guarded. Serious trouble is
expected.
Allen Prime attempted to kill his
wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Lehman,
at his home in Louisville, KY, yester-
day. The women saved their lives by
getting out of the way of the whisky
crazed man after he had fired several
shots, and he then shot his sister III
law, Miss Jennie Lehman, inhictng
serious wound.
The report received in London from
Constantinople on November T., that
5000 Armenians, including women and
children, had been mastered in the
Sassoun region. near Moosh, Turkish
Armenia, during a recent attack by
Kurds, is seemingly confirmed by a story
which has reached Varna that force OF
Bashi Bazouks raided number of Ar
menian villages and killed and wounded
5000 persons.
The six eenth annual meeting of the
Episcopal Church Congress is in session
in Boston. Several practical subjects
in connection with church activities
are being discussed. Sunday news
papers were discussed last night, Rev.
c. George Currie, D. d., of Baltimore,
and others speaking against them, and
Rev. DR.. Holland, of St. Louis, Rev. H.
p. Nichols, of Minneapolis, and others
in favor of them.
Marion Butler, the president of the
National Farmers Alliance, who is
slated to succeed Senator Ransom in
the United States Senate from North
Carolina after March next, is report
ed as having stated that he would vote
with the republicans in the organiza-
ton of the next Senate. If this is so,
the republicans can count on both of
North Cardinals votes in the organic
ing of the Senate, as the other Senator
to be elected in January by the legisla-
ture to succeed Jarvis will be republi-
can.