Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

physicians yesterday show that there
has been no change in the patients
condition.
The handsome residence of J. S.
Coxey, at Coxana, four miles north OF
MassiIlon, O., burned to the ground Sat
urday night
ASA H. Tucker was convicted of MUIR
der in the second degree in the Yer
million case at Upper Marlboro, Md,
on Saturday.
Elk Mayor Grant has written letter
in which he accepts the Tammany
nomination for Mayor OF New York
city, and defends the local admiDistra-
ton.
a dispatch from Paris says that the
Kaiser is suffering from an acute at
tack of his ear trouble and that this has
had much to do with the sudden fall OF
Chancellor Won Caprivi.
Capt. V. E. McBee has been appoint
ed general superintendent of transpor-
tation of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
road system, with headquarters in At
lanta. He was formerly superinten-
dent of the Richmond and Danville
lines in North and South Carolina.
Atan early hour yesterday morning
large Hungarian boarding house at
Laurel Run, Pa, was blown up by dyn.
amite, placed under the house by un-
known parties, and three men were kill
ed and ten injured. The motive was rob
berry. There was over fifty people in
the house at the time.
David NJ. Vance, a son of the late
Senator Vance, died Thursday night at
the asylum for the insane at Morgan
tca, y. c., where he had been a pa
/ tient nearly two years. MIR. Vance was
born in Asheville about sc years ago.
He was educated for the law, but chose
journalism as his vocation.
The Agricultural Department has
given out bulletin oE the cost of
bread, by which it is shown that the
present cost offlour in pound Thread
| is about one aud one-half cents. Allow
ing one-half cent for the shortening and
salt, which is certainly very liberal.
the material for a pound of bread
would cost not more than two cents.
Hon. w. Y. Atkinson was inaugural
ed Governor of Georgia on Saturday.
On that day motion to take up a
resolution in the House declaring it to
be the sense of the Legislature that
Congress should enact law for the
free and unlimited coinage ofsilver and
condemning the Representatives in
Congress who voted for the repeal of
the Sherman act was defeated yesterday
by GO votes.
The village of Brooklyn, Anne Arun.
del county, Md, was thrown into o
state of excitement Saturday night by
crowd of 200 men and boys gathering
about the Jail, with the intention Of
lynching negro confined therein and
accused of an attempted felonious as
sault. The negro's intended victim was
a white girl, who was quite village
belle, and who was going home under
the negroes protection. The fend was
hastily taken to Baltimore.
The earthquake throughout the AR
gentine Republic on Saturday was mos
severe in the provinces OF San Juan de
La Frontera and Rioja. Many
churches, theaters, and private house:
were destroyed. Twenty persons ar,
known to have persisted. The inhabi
tants are in state of panic, fearing {
repetition of the shock. The govern
ment is sending aid to those who have
lost their homes, and everything pos
sible will be done to alleviate the sui
fering. Though the shock was felt il
other parts of the country it was less
severe than in the two provinces above
mentioned.
MIR. ]. Polk Scott, well-known citi
zen of Elkton, Md, committed suicide
shortly after S o'clock Saturday morn
ing by shooting himself with pistol a
his business Office. He had been en-
gagged in the sale OF agricultural nipple
ments, but about q year ago he made
an assignment, and from that time un
til his death it appeared to worry him
His endorsements very likely inhu
enced him to commit suicide. Before
shooting himself he wrote some letter:
I-one to his brother-in law, Mr.. ]. R
Chapman, of this city, saying he had
shot himself and requesting him tc
come Immediately. A wife and two
boys, aged, respectively, about twelve
and fourteen, survive him.
Fire at Pensacola, Fla, on Saturday
DESTROYED the coal chutes belonging te
the Export Coal Co., an immense ware
house belonging to the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, and considerable
valuable property, situated on the Lou
isville and Nashville coal docks. About
one half of the dock was burned, with
% cars, some laden with coal and 9th.
ers empty. The warehouse contained
500 tons of salt, which is total loss
Two Norwegian barks which were ly-
ing at the dock, had most of their rig
ging burned. While the fremen were
working on the warehouse, several bar
rels of oil exploded, seriously if not ia
tally ipjuring Chief Baker and another
fireman named William Briston.
A sailor was killed and another
badly injured by being struck by top
mast, which was so badly burned that
it fell, knocking them overheard. The
loss is estimated at from 100000 to
S125, 900.
In AN OLD WELL.-Cumberland Gap
Tenn, is all stirred up over the late
discovery of q number of arms, &C.,
buried during the late war. A few days