Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

more yesterday.
Col. Buchanan Schley has appointed
State Senator Hattersly w. Talbot
chairman of the Maryland democratic
State central committee.
1t is rumored that Mr.. S. B. Elkins
will be VIM. l.. Wilson's antagonist in
West Virginia and that Gen. Harrison
will make speeches there also.
Mrs. Fl. F. Borley was arrested it Lit
tie Rock, Ark, yesterday for stealing a
diamond ring, which she pawned toget
a tombstone for her brothers grave.
1t is probable new army depart
ment will be established to be known
as the Department of the South, with
headquarters at Fort Mcpherson, At
lanta, Ga.
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, the war
governor of Iowa, and Secretary of the
Interior in President Garield's Cabinet,
died on Saturday, at the age of eighty
one years.
A special from Ashland, KY, says
miners destroyed $1,000 worth of lum-
Der near billiard because the owners
loaded camel coal against the orders OF
the mine workers.
President Hippolyte, of Hayti, is said
to be MORALLY i'll, and when he dies it
is thought that very uncertain state
of affairs will prevail, and revolution
would be among the possibilities.
The grand stand, exhibition building
and other frame structures at the PIN
lico race track near Baltimore were
destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon.
The loss will approximate $4,000.
Lieut.. VIM. Hem, r. N, owner Of
the cutter Galatea, which sailed
against the Mayfower for the Ameri-
cas- Cup in 1886, died suddenly on Sat
urday at his residence in Kildysart,
Ireland.
From all parts of the South come ex'
cellent reports Of material progress
The Southern corn crop is greater than
ever before and the cotton crop is large
and of fine quality.
q. S. Senator Buffers friends have
determined to run an independent dem
ocratic ticket against the TillmaniteS
| in South Carolina. Legislative tickets
favorable to Senator Butler will be
nominated in every county, and it is
probable that full State ticket will be
placed in the field.
James Cain, jr., a barber ct Lockland
Ohio, on Saturday came home drunk
she his girl baby, two months old
killing her; shot his young wife in the
head and shot his father, sixty-eight
years old, in the arm. In his prison
@ Ill Cain admitted his guilt, but alleged
Improper relations between his father
and his wife.
In Baltimore an electric plant is beine
erected to haul the trains of the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad through thu
Belt Line tunnel which is just beins
completed. The power-house is vel
under way, the locomotives for the
work are finished and the machinery t
generate the electricity is complete aDe
ready for erection.
The American Catholics is the name
of a sect formed at Freeland, Pa, OF
Sunday by Polish Catholics, who ART
dissatisfied with the Church of Rome
The recent difficulties at St. Casimir
Roman Catholic church at Freeland
where in a Sunday riot several mel
were shot, had much to do with foster
Ing the spirit of secession.
Theresa Hubbell, cripple, of New
Haven, c., claims to have been curet
Yesterday by the power of the relic o
St. Anne. She prayed before the relic
nine days, and claims to have improved
gradually. Yesterday evening she wa
able to stand erect at the altar in tn
Church of St. Louis. Then she bowed
her head. and, as the tears flowed, sh'
murmured a prayer of gratitude.
| Mr.. i. d. Passano and Miss Elizabeth
Bissell eloped from Belair, Md, Satur
day and were married in Baltimore
At the wedding supper at night at
hotel in the latter city the father of the
bride suddenly put in his appearance
and was about to have fight with the
father of the groom, but bystander!
prevented a difficulty. The newly
married couple later left for Boston.
| Threats of assassination crowd the
daily mail of President Casimir-P erier
of France, and other prominent officials
and the government is almost in q pan
ic over the danger. 1t is already made
evident that the extraordinary mea
sures for the suppression of anarchy
have served thus far only to make it
mad votaries more defiant and threat
ening than ever. The revengeful blow
which has followed every execution O
an anarchist murderer, has not ye
been struck in memory of Carnot's as
sassin, but the authorities are in mo-
mentary expectation and dread of it.
THE PYrH1ANs.-The Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias held three hours
session in Washington on Saturday
evening, most OF which was occupied il