Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Inc CA|luR III vi iniuCo cui 0e'ohS Wv
destruction OF the town of Audenreld,
Pa.
Miss Elizabeth Key, granddaughter
OF Francis Scott Key, will be given
position in the pension bureau.
Eighteen thousand dozens of pine
apples arrived in Baltimore yesterday
in three vessels from the Bahamas.
A lot on lower Broadway, New York,
has been sold for 81 800, 900, and six
teen-story building will be erected
on it.
A Berlin newspaper asserts that En-
peror William has not abandoned the
idea of calling an international none
tary conference.
A number of leading cracker bakers
Of Baltimore have entered into en-
agreement to raise and maintain prices
on cakes and crackers.
The European powers have granted
the Sultan's request for further time to
consider reforms in Armenia, but he
has acceded to the principle of Eu-
ropean control.
The trouble between Foreman Espey
and the bookbiuders of the government
printing Office was amicably settled
Saturday and the threatened strike
averted. Public Printer Benedict had
no hand in the negotiations.
Senator Tillman has repudiated en-
| tirely an agreement entered into by
him and his associates in South Caro-
| liza 10 divide delegates to the consti-
tutional convention between the two
factions. The result will be that Till
man will control the convention.
Mr.. VIM H. Kerr, president of the
Thistle Manufacturing Company, was
drowned at Annapolis, Md, yesterday
while trying to save the life of his lit
tie son, who had fallen overheard from
the yacht Watauga on pleasure trip.
The boy was saved by boat from the
shore, and Mr.. Kerr's body was recov
cred.
Richard Cadle, carpenter, who was
arrested Saturday at Gainesville, Nd,
charged with enticing Mary Gross,
daughter of Conrad Gross, and harbor
ing her for immoral purposes, was
taken to Baltimore to save him from
the attack of crowd of residents Ct
Catonsville, who were disappearing as
white caps.
At special convention OF the Irish
American Military Union in New York
yesterday resolutions were adopted de.
claring that the time has arrived when
Irishmen must unite and prepare for a
grand armed struggle for the independ
ence of their country, and calling upon
Irish-American military organizations
10 affiliate with the union for the pur-
pose.
The Spanish Cabinet Council has de.
cided 10 act with the greatest vigor in
Cuba, and to despatch $4,000 troops
there, in aiditionto tie 10, 000ilready I'M
der orders, and 10 purchase within two
months twenty gunboats. A telegram
received last night from Cuba says that
the Spanish troops have repulsed
rebel attack upon the village of Pare.
DIES Spiritus.
In Baltimore, on the street, on Satur-
day, Chas. H. Glendenning, o shoe
maker. shot with intent to kill his wife,
Mrs. Gleudennine, and her aunt Mrs.
Annie Geiger, When Glendenning was
taken to the station house he told Capt
Aud that he shot his wife because she
had left him and was leading dis
soute life. II fou d my wife and her
aunt going to house of ill-repute on
Spring street" he said, 'and in attempt
ing to kill her l accidentally shot her
aunt" 1t is thought that the wounds
of neither women will prove fatal. AT
ter firing the fifth shot Glendenning
pointed the revolver at his right temple
and fired. The bullet made a small
surface wound on his forehead and then
passed upward and through his hat.