Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Katie Rupp, the girl who was shot
BY Beruhardt Altenberger, near Snake
Hill, n. j., on Sunday night, died last
night.
1t is rumored that the Maryland
State Board of Health will shortly eX-
anime the grounds where Coxey' army
is encamped.
In consequence of the coal strikes in
this country Scotch mine owners have
been asked to tender shipments OF coal
for the United States.
President Cleveland and his party are
expected to return to Washington next
Monday evening or Tuesday morning
from their fishing trip.
The Brazilian government forces are
reported to have been defeated in bat
tie with the insurgents and to have lost
40 men in the engagement.
Ten colored prisoners escaped from
the Jail at Raleigh, N. c., yesterday in
Guiding Orange Page, who was to have
been hung June for murder.
The Third district Tennessee demo-
cratic congressional committee yester-
day declared for free silver and refused
to indorse the administration.
Governor Brown, of Maryland, has
signed the death warrant of James
Allen, colored, fixing the date of exc
cution July 6. at Upper Marlboro.
Desperate with hopelessness of secur-
ing work Chas. Samsmuller, in New
York Yesterday, nearly decapitated his
mother with a razor and then killed
himself.
The second days conference of the
miners and operators, at Cleveland, O.,
ended without any agreement being
reached, the miners refusing to recede
from their demand for restoration OF
the old rate.
The Missouri Democratic State Con-
veution yesterday adopted resolutions
demanding the free coinage of gold
and silver, denouncing the democratic
Congressman and Senators who oppose
tariff reform and indorsipg the course
of President Cleveland.
Rev. DR.. Papi, secretary to Arch
bishop Satolli, the papal ALLOCATE,
believes that the statements announc-
ing the alleged intervention of the con-
gregation of the propaganda at Rome
between the Archbishop and his Ameri-
can opponents are without foundation.
Severe storms caused destructive
floods for twenty miles around st. Paul,
MINI. Bridges were washed away and
milldams broken. A number of build
ings were undermined and railroad
tracks washed out. \ woman was kill
ed and several other persons stunned
by lightning.
Jake Rudolph, the politician who
last week attempted to shoot Business
Manager J. B. Eliot, of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle has been adjudged in
sane and ordered by Judge Levy to be
committed to the Stockton asylum
The charge of attempt to murder, how
ever, has not been dismissed.
Everything continues quiet in the
Georges Creek region of Maryland,
and the Consolidation Coal Company
miues are steadily increasing their out,
put. The indications are that the
miners strike in the Kanawha coal
region OF West Virginia is now near an
end. the miners going back at the old
rates.
a dispatch from London states that
Ambassador Bayard has intimated to
the British government the desire OF
the United States to withdraw from the
Berlin agreement, provided all the
rights of United States citizens in Sa.
moa are safe guarded. Members ofthe
Senate committee on foreign relations
say they have no knowledge of any
such negotiations.
Pawtucket, r. l., was illuminated
last night by the blaze from fully fifty
thousand tons of coal consumed in the
disastrous fire On the river front yes
terdav afternoon. a conservative es-
innate places the loss at 100000. The
fire started from spark waited from a
plumbers kettle to the barn of the
Newell Coal and Lumber Company
whose entire property is in ashes.
The progress made on the tariff bill
in the Senate continues to be slow
The absence Of Senator German, who,
it is reported, is in New York, has pre-
vented the democratic Senators from
making any further progress in their
arrangement for closing debate on the
tariff bill. Senator Coke, of Texas,
made the assertion yesterday that duties
will be collected under the new tariff
law within six weeks.
Many children whose homes were in
the burned district of Boston are miss
ing. and the fremen are searching the
ruins for bodies. 1t is thought that
most of the little ones wandered away
and were lost during the excitement.
A list shows that over 10 children are
missing. No bodies have yet been
found, however The fire destroyed
l37 buildings, rendering l67 families
homeless. The total loss is estimated
ut 500, 900.
Argument was commenced in Wash
ington yesterday before Judge Nc
Comas on the demurrer filed by Col.
Fred. c. Ainsworth to the indictment
recently returned against him in con-
nection with the Ford's Theatre
disaster, of the 9th of June last. The
demurrer is similar to that filed to the
former indictments against Ainsworth
and others which were quashed by the
Court of Appeals. The argument was
not finished, and the case went over
till Friday.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
Mr. E p Fnrlong died Friday. the