Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

simmons NAV fight in New Orleans for
S20. 600 and the championship of the
world.
In the House of Representatives yes
to-day evening Mr. Grain introduced
bill TO place on the free list ali products
controlled by trusts.
Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor
Harrison of Chicago, became violent
during the first session of his sanity
trial Yesterday and was removed from
court.
Eleven men, eight women and four
teen children were placed in Jail at
Greensburg, Pa, yesterday, charged
with participating in the coke strikers
riot at Mammoth, Pa.
Secretary Carlisle and party left
Washington al ) o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon on the revenue cutter Maple
for cruise on Chesapeake bay. The
party will probably return Sunday
night
The Russian imperial yacht Polar
Star, with the Czarewitch on board, ar
rived at Gravesend yesterday, the OBJ
ect OF his visit TO England being to see
his betrothed, the Princess Alix, Of
Hesse.
There was panic among the one
thousand children in the Bancroft
school, Chicago, yesterday caused by
fire in an adjoining building. Eddie
Post leaped out of a window and was
injured.
Mr.. Izlar, of South Carolina, intro.
duced in the House yesterday bill APP
propriating $4,000 to enable the Sec
rotary of War TO protect and preserve
Fort Moultrie, on Sullivan's Isl
and, 5. c.
The Frankfort Gazette says it learns
of the impending betrothal of Prince
Christian of Denmark, eldest son OF
Frederick, crown prince of Denmark,
to Princess Maude, youngest daughter
OF the Prince of Wales.
Newell B Parsons, late confidential
clerk for Wells, Stone & Co., who was
convicted in Saginaw, Mich, ofstealing
1868, 900 worth of railroad bonds from
his employer, was sentenced to five
years in State prison yesterday.
The chairman of the House commit
tee yesterday requested the resignation
of Edward Clark, architect of the
Capitol. The latter refused. The re-
quest grows out of the recent investiga-
lion of the ventilation of the Capitol
building.
Hon. Bishop w. Perkins, ex-United
Sia.es Senator and for years repre-
sentative from Kansas, died suddenly
at his home in Washington yesterday.
His death was due to cholera morbus,
contracted in Indian Territory Il few
days ago.
Two thousand delegates from all
parts of the United Kingdom were pre-
sent at the great anti-Lords convention
in Leeds, Eng, yesterday and voted for
resolutions calling upon the govern
mcnt to introduce measure in Parlia-
ment for the abolition OF the House Of
Lords veto power.
Dispatches from Rome contain fore
cast of the Pope's encyclical letter, in
which the Pontifr intimates that this
wiI be the last address of the kind he
will ever issue. He expresses grief al
the schisms and animosities which
have torn furnishing countries from the
bosom of the church, and condemns
Freemasonry.
Senior Lorcna. President of the rebel
provisional government in Santa Catha-
rina, Brazil, has been shot, it is report
ed, by order of General Gumercendo
Saralva, who took him prisoner recent
ly. The other rebel leaders have join
ed forces at Cruz Alta, in Rio Grandc
10 Sui, with view Of having decisiN 9
battle with the government forces.
Policemen Michael Neary and Jaml 8
T. Dunn went down to the tracks OF
the Northern Central Railroad in Balti-
more last night TO drive away some
boys who were swimming in Jones's
Falls, and the boys ran up the tracks
pursued by the policemen. The police
men avoided 4 north bound train, but
failed to notice the approach of II south
bound passenger train. They were run
over and killed.
In the Maryland coal region the
number of miners at work is steadily
incrcasing-five hundred and thirteen
men at work yesterday. There was no
disturbance at Frostburg nor Lonacon
ing. Dispatches from Elk Gardens say
that 275 men were at work in those
mines Governor Brown ordered the
First regiment to Frostburg to take
the place of the Fifth, which returned
to Baltimore.
Fire was discovered in the coal mines
of the Mary Lee Coal and Railway
Company at Lcwisburg, Alabama, yes
terday One hundred men were al
work in the mine at the time, fifty of
them being beyond the fire, their only
way Of escape being through the flames
and smoke. Up to late hour last
night four dead bodies had been recov-
cred, and many Of those taken out alive
were Frustrated from sulocation.
LEFT HIM HELPLESS IN A PIT.-Some
time ago there was moonshincr case
before Commissioner Hamilton, of BAL
ton, Ga, and Will Roper was called
upon TO testify. a few days after that
warning was sent him, signed by the
skull and crossboncs of the whitecaps,
telling him to leave the country at once
or he was doomed man. On Monday
night of last week five men called at
his house and ordered him out. He
was bound and gagged. The put him
on mule and started out for Cohutta
Mountain. On one side Of the mount
ain several deep pits have been dug by
men prospecting for copper veins.
It was at one OF these pits that the