Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-19
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News has been received from Cara
cas-, Venezuela, of the death of Felici-
auo Alyezez, acting president of the
country.
1t is expected that by the end of the
month 100000 troops will have arrived
at Tien Using. Forty-eight thousand
cavalry are arriving from different
provinces at Shrinking and Kirin.
Otto Wonigkeit and Charles Ermisch,
aged II and 10 years respectively, were
hanged in the Jail yard at st. Paul,
MIMI, this morning for the murder of
Lindhofr. bar tender, on the night
of May End last.
Judge Lacombe to-day in the U. S.
Circuit Court for New York rendered a
decision in the case of John James
Howard, Levi P. Morton's coachman.
The Judge dismissed the writ of habeas
corpus and ordered Howard to be
taken back to Ellis Island. He will be
sent back to Europo.
The missionary council of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church will be held
this year in Christ Church, Hartford,
Conn. The exercises of the council
will begin Sunday afternoon and will
continue until Wednesday evening.
Among those who will address the
council will be Bishop Randolph of
Virginia.
Although a short time has elapsed
since the issuing of orders by the
Pacific Express Company that no more
money should be received at its Offices
in the Indian Territory for transporta-
ton, business in the Territory bias been
seriously affected, and complaints are
already beginning to be heard of the
scarcity of money.
w. T. Martin, white man, We'd
nesday night whipped his infant daugh-
ter to death with leather strap near
Energy, Miss. Martin was drunk at
the time. He is being pursued by a
posse and if caught will be lynched.
In 1888 he and man named Hood, at
Sandersville, while intoxicated caught
an inofIensive negro and placing rope
around his neck, hanged him. Hood
fled from Mississippi but Martin was
sentenced to be hanged but his sentence
was reduced to life Imprisonment by
Governor Lowry and later on he was
pardoned.
An autopsy was made last night
upon the body of Mary S. Duff,
the Brooklyn girl who, with her
b etrother, was found dead in a bath
house yesterday at Sea Cliff, L. I.
The autopsy has established beyond
doubt that the cause of the young
woman's death was heart disease,
whether superinducel by chloroform
or not will probably never be known.
MIR. Hodskin said that there could be
no doubt that his cousin had shot him.
self in frenzy of despair or fear, or
both, when he found that life had fed
from his betrothed.
At Fort Madison, Iowa, to-day John
Dooley, was hanged for the murder Of
his aunt, Mrs. w. H. Coons and his
cousin Nellie Coons, aged 10 years on
The night of May -, 1892, near Prescott.
On that night the husband and father
Of the murdered woman left home on
trip. Next day he found his wife ard
daughter dead in one room. The con-
dition of his wife's clothing indicated
that an outrage had been attempted
prior to the murder. Dooley, who lived
with his uncle, was missing, but on
May 10 was captured near Villisca. He
was convicted and afterwards adj.
mitted his crime. he was 10 years of
age and victim Of cigarettes and vel. |
low backed literature.
Monsignor satolli. papal sblegate, and suite
arrived at Montreal from Quebec this morn J