Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

damages against tne government.
The postoffice at Towson, known as
Station A, of the Baltimore office, was
broken into Saturday night and robbed
of $l09.
Samuel c. Carpenter, accused of the
murder of Mrs. Ray Blackwell, of Phil
lipsburg, n. j., attempted suicide by
cutting his throat in his cell in the Jail
at Easton, Pa, yesterday.
By the burst of a dyke in the Epinal
district of the Vorges, France, on Sat
urday, as mentioned on that day, sew.
eral villages were washed away, and
more than a hundred people were
drowned.
Haserstown, Md, attorneys have
prepared petition asking the court to
grant an Injunction restraining Rev.
Edmund Walton from publishing the
names of the 500 signers to the saloon
keepers petitions for licenses.
One hundred and eighty thousand
pounds of leaf tobacco, with number
of barns and dwelling houses, were
entirely destroyed by fire on the
Kallanger plantation of the Goemelar
estate, on the Island of Java, yester-
day.
Advices from Toxic indicate that
United States Minister Dun is doing
everything to induce the Italian, Bel
gain, Austrian, Spanish and Dutch
ENJOYS to help persuade Premier Count
Ito TO comply with the demands OF
Russia and France.
"Toronio Red" the now famous
newsboy, made an addition yesterday
to his already long list of daring feats
by leaping from the highest point OF
the Lackawanna trestle, at Buffalo,
n. V, distance of los feet. He was
rescued by his friends in boat.
Will Lambert, Postmaster at Silver
Hill, Prince Georges county, Md, who
keeps liquor, grocery and cigar store
in the same building with the postoffice,
was robbed before daylight Thursday
morning of almost his entire stock OF
groceries, liquors, and cigars, valued at
about $500.
Ex-Speaker Crisp declares himself in
favor of the free coinage of silver. He
believes the democrats should nomi-
nate a western man with a military
record for President, and that the party
should not nominate Mr.. Cleveland for
third term-that no man should have
a third time.
Mrs. David Hammond, of Potomac
street, Georgetown, was found in dy-
ing condition in room at her home in
that city yesterday. The indications
pointed to a selfinficted criminal OPP
Grafton, though this is controverted.
The woman was approaching maternity.
The result of the autopsy was not Salts
factory.
No clue has been found to the where
abouts of Rev. John Bell. A pathetic
letter to him from Emma Hall, who
died in Detroit hospital, was found in
which she declared that she would not
betray him. The wife of Bell told a
reporter on Saturday that her husband
had confessed to her that be was re-
spousible for the condition of Miss EN-
ma Hall.
Oliver Curtis Perry was sent back on
Saturday to the Matteawan, n. Y, Asy-
lum for Insane Criminals. He was or
dered surrendered by Judge Lippin-
colt, of the New Jersey Supreme Court
His lawyers did all that legal ingenuity
could devise to prevent his surrender
to the asylum officials. The court ig-
nored the technical questions raised
about. his insanity.
Since the decision of the Supreme
Court in the income tax cases frequent
references on the part of attorneys to
the liability of the government for sums
paid on incomes from rents and invest
ed personal property under former in
come tax laws are being made. Asso-
ciate Justice White in his dissenting
opinion says if the decision is to stand
the government is liable for hundreds
of millions of dollars.
A dispatch from Chicago says: "The
coming democratic State convention in
Illinois will beyond all doubt declare
for free silver without international
agreement of any kind and the move
ment is of such strength that other
western and southern States will be
prevented with great difficulty, if at
all. from following the lead of Illinois.
AS a party, the democracy of Illinois is
doomed to Reorganization"
In San Francisco on Saturday Theo-
dore Durant was formally charged with
the murder of Blanche Lamont. He
has been very surly for the last two
days, and asked: "How much are you
going to charge me with ?" Friends OF
Durant still affect to believe in his in
nocence, even promising to solve the
mystery, limiting that the murders
were the work of middle-aged mar
ried man, q resident of Mission.
Rev. Heber Newton preached a SER
mon in All Souls Episcopal Church, in
New York, yesterday, in which he de-
fined what he believed about the resur-
rection of Christ. He assents to the
creeds, but insists upon interpreting
for himself. He explained his position
with reference to the resurrection of
Christ; declared that neither of the
creeds affirm that the risen Christ ap-
peared in the body of flesh and blood,
and gave his reasons for emphasizing
his dissent from this assumption.
The eighth annual banquet of the
Grant Banquet Association, in COM
of the birthday Of General
Grant, was given in the Hotel Wal
dorf, in New York, on Saturday night.
Ex-Gov. William E. Cameron, of Vir-
GINA, responded to the toast, "Grant:
Before Appomattox the Foe; After Ap-
pomattoX the Friend of the Confeder-
ate Soldier" At the banquet given at