Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

IL IS SAID CnaC Inc sea SoEpouu was
seen off the Delaware capes last Sun
day.
In Baltimore yesterday the jury de-
MED damages to Mrs. Barbara Young
from DR.. N. G. Kierle, because .ot q
post mortem examination performed
on the body of her husband.
Lord Armstrong declares that he has
succeeded in applying the quick-tiring
principle to field artillery and that ne
has also been able to control the recoll
of quick-firing field guns.
The Tong Haks. a powerful religious
sect of Corean rebels, have attacked
the Japanese troops at Talku, Southern
| Corea, Reinforcements have been sent
to the japanese from Seoul.
President Cleveland has issued a
proclamation granting full amnesty and
pardon to all Mormons who have VIC
lated the laws against polygamous mar.
| riages or who have been convicted OF
violations of said law.
"Billyn Igo, eight years old, was ar
rested in New York yesterday for
stealing a horse and wagon. He is a
confirmed tobacco chewer and horse
thief, it is said. He claimed that the
horse followed him out of personal de-
votion, and he was discharged.
Specials from various points in the
middle and coast region offs South Caro-
lima regarding the West India cyclone
report considerable damage to corn and
cotton, very serious damage to rice,
but no loss of life. At Georgetown the
damage to the rice crop is very great.
A dispatch from New York says ut
is generally believed that Senator Hill,
if elected, will resign from the Senate
and perform the duties OF Governor.
Indeed, it is said that Mr.. Platt is count
ing on this to give him an early oppor..
tunity to realize his darling ambition OF
returning to the Senate.
At Media, Pa, yesterday the jury in
the trial of Professor Shortlidge for the
killing of his pretty wife, returned q
verdict of mot guilty" The members
of the jury announced that they based
their verdict upon the ground that the
| defendant was insane at the time OF the
commission of the crime.
Half of Crow Wing county, Mimi,
was swept by forest fires yesterday
evening. The loss to farm buildings
and farm products is 100000. 1t is
| feared some lives have been lost, but
nothing definite has been learned IN
Brainard, the county seat, up to a late
hour last night.
Rev. Willie Morgan Cross, whose
suspension from the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of Balti.
more and removal from the pulpit OF
Oxford NJ. E. Church was announced
Yesterday, because it was charged that
he was engaged to two young ladies at
the same time, will retire from the
ministry, and enter the business world.
The Carnegie Steel Company, Linn
tied, at Braddock, Pa, yesterday, gave
notice to its 5000 workmen employed
at the Edgar Thomson Steel Works
and furnaces at Braddock of a de-
sire to terminate its sliding wage
scale contract with them. A new scale
is proposed, which, it is said, will make
reductions on all classes of work except
common laborers.
Members of the Peary Arctic party
are now complaining of ill treatment
they received while on the trip and say
they had good reasons for coming home.
They complain that Peary did not treat
them as gentlemen, that he was auto
cratic, also they did not get proper or
| sufficient food and say mo Arctic ex-
petition can ever succeed which takes
a woman along to hamper it"
L. Walter Weed, of Montgomery
county, Nd, has sold to the Bethesda
Mining Company, Of Baltimore, the
tract of land known as the "Huddle-
ston Farm neal Bethesda, for $780,
600, of which $500 is to be paid in
cash, the balance within a year. Many
fine specimens of gold have been found
on the place recently, and it is the IN
teution of the company to begin min
ing on an extensive scale.
Senator Hill was the subject and OBJ
iect of all political discussions in Al
bany Yesterday. He remained at his
office all day, and was kept busy re-
ceiving and opening kilograms of con-
graduation from all w the country.
Tn to the time of his leaving his office
he had not decided to make any public
statement of his intentions regarding
the nomination. 1t is generally be-
lieved he will accept. Thomas c.
Platt has not consented to make any
public statement regarding Senator
HIPS nomination. He admits private
ly that since Flowers sudden with
draWal he anticipated Hills nomina-
ton. Mr.. Platt says he does not I'M
derrate Hills strength, and that in
many respects he is probably the
strongest candidate the democrats
could have named.
The Storm.
The hurricane from the West Indies