Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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better since leaving Spala.

Baltimore Cathedral yesterday, SAID he
was opposed to woman suffrage.
The anniversary of the death of Chas.
S. PARCEL was celebrated in Dublin
yesterday by an imposing procession to
his grave in the Glasenevin cemetery.
The assignee appointed at the time
of the failing of Ex-Governor and ex-
Secretary of the Treasury Foster an
nounces that he will pay forty cents on
the dollar.
In the great three cornered race at
Morris Park, n. Y, Saturday evening
for purse Of s. 900, Henry of Navarro
won, Clifford second, Domino third.
Time, 1921.
A woman who had been nursing a
friend in New York suddenly became
insane Saturday and tried to throw the
new. born babe out of a window saying
she was casting out the devil.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the poet
and prose writer, died at his residence
at Beverly Farm, near Beverly, Mass,
Yesterday afternoon. He was born at
Cambridge, Mass, Aug. %, 1909.
While John Chandler and his wife,
colored, were absent from their home
at Smithsonia, Ala, Saturday night,
their house caught fire, and four OF
their children were burned to death.
Elk Gov. Andrew G. Curtin died yes
terday at his home, in Bellefonte, Pc.
In the eighty years of his life he had
been Governor of Pennsylvania, minis
ter to Russia and member of Congress.
1t is possible that Secretary Carlisle
will be candidate for the Senate
against Senator Blackburn, of Ken
tucky. A report to this effect has been
circulated quietly in Frankfort, the
State capital, for several days.
A dispatch from Paris gives the text
of an editorial OF the European edition
of the New York Herald, pointing out
that the real trouble between France
and England is not Madagascar, but
Egypt, which has attracted much notice
in the French capital.
Mrs. Wiley, white, who lived near
Irvine, KY, was murdered Saturday
near her home. She was returning
home by path that lay through the
woods when she was beaten to death
with club by some unknown person.
She leaves four little children.
a dispatch from Paris says that Brit.
ish power in the far East has received
such a blow through Japan's victories
over China that an English Intervention
may be expected and that then the
long delayed conflict between England
and Russia will be inevitable.
The captain of the steamer Seminole
from Jacksonville to New York reports
that the steamer ran into fresh water
when fifteen miles out at sea, at point
about opposite the mouth of the rivel
at Jacksonville. The water, which was
drawn up to the ships decks, was alb
solutely without any taste of brine.
Albert Deale, steamftter, while al
work at the Schneider fats, in Wash
ington Saturday, fell from the eleventh
story of the edifice while attempting tc
lower himself by a rope. He was car.
ried to the Emergency Hospital and ii
was found that his back had been badly
hurt.
A mysterious murder and suicide, OF
double murder, occurred in Middle
town, N. Y, yesterday morning. John
| Tiernev was found in his room with 8
bullet hole in his right temple. Hi:
wife was lying near him with q bullet
hole in her left breast, while a pistol lay
few feet away on the floor.
Sena.ot Faulkner, chairman of the
national democratic congressional cam
paign, who went to New York to aid il
narmonizng the discordant democratic
ctions in that State, returnedto Wash
igton pleased with the result of hi:
work and confident Senator Hill viii
oe elected Governor of the State.
DR.. McGlynn, in addressing $500
Catholics and Protestants at Prohibition
Park, New York, yesterday, denounced
the A. p. A., but said Catholics, through
the utterance of foreign born priests
were partly responsible for its exist
ence. He declared that American in
stitutions were in no danger from the
Pope or priesthood.
The New York and Norfolk Steam
boat Company's steamer City of Alba
ny caught fire Saturday night while
tied up at dock on the Harlem river
All her superstructure burned. The
damage to the boat is $4,000. A guam
titv of machinery stored on the
dock to which the fire spread, was dam
aged to the extent of $4,000.
Shoemaker Cess, of Schauffhausen
near Berlin, sent his wife and children
to market Friday evening and then
took to his house a 17-year-old CIR
whom he had got into trouble. He
murdered the girl, hid her body, sci
fire to the house and hanged himself
After the fire had been extinguished
both bodies were found dead, but still
warm.
Sage, the swindler, and two negro
prisoners, one held for homicide and
the other burglary, escaped from Bel
air, Nd, Jail early Yesterday morning
Sage was traced to Port Deposit, where
the clue was lost. The escape was a
well-planned and daringly executed
affair. 1t could have been a general
jail delivery if other prisoners had de-
sired to regain their liberty.
Beatrice Won Dresden, the young
lady balloonist, made an ascension at
Franklinville, n. Y, Saturday, and
when over 1900 feet from the earth she
fell from the balloon aud was instantly
killed. The body struck within the
fair grounds and was imbedded nearly
loot in the ground. The girl was
dead when the people reached her.
Her father and mother were among
the first to reach the body, and their