Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A mad dog scare at Cockeysyilie.
Md. has resulted in the death OF about
forty CANNES.
If Germany proposes another inter
national monetary conference the
United States will probably accept the
invitation to be represented.
The report is revived in London
society that q marriage is in the course
of arrangement between Consuelo
Vanderbilt aud the young Duke of
Marlborough.
Herman Schmidt was almost strar-
gled 10 death in Harrison, n. j., yes
terday. Some one got into his room in
some mysterious way and buckled a
waist strap around his neck.
After a struggle of FIVE weeks, the
strike OH the lines of the Brooklyn
Heights Railroad and Brooklyn,
Queens County and Suburban Railroad
in that city has been declared off by
the local assem- blies.
The inventory of the personal estate
held by the late William T. Walters, OF
Baltimore, amounts to 1857 1895.
| 1t is estimated that the real estate will
swell the entire estate to S5,000,0OO.
The art gallery is valued at SlS8,OOO.
DR.. G. L. Barney, Boston physician,
became insane in train on the Boston
and Albany railroad yesterday, forced
his way into the locomotive cab and
tried to run the engine. He was over
come after hard fight with the train
men.
Seventy eight convicts were confirm
ed in the Protestant faith yesterday in
the chapel Of the Maryland peniten-
tiary. Before the confirmation Mr..
Zinkham baptized 90 persons, of whom
II were white, II colored and one was
Chinaman.
A fire that caused a damage esti-
mated at $4,000 occurred in the old
Johnson Building, on Broadway, New
York. Saturday afternoon. 1t originated
in the studio OF G. Pach, on the sixth
floor of the building and burned down.
ward. A number of very valuable
pictures in Shuman's gallery were re,
moved from the building underlined.
Cline Cameron shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife yesterday in the St
Louis hospital, and then attempted sui
eide. Cameron is carriage trimmer
only eighteen years"old, and has been
married six months. His wife, aged
seventeen, was convalescent patient
at the hospital. Cameron visited hi;
wife that day at noon. They had g
quarrel, and the shooting followed.
Miss Madge Yorke, a soprano singer
on the stage, was shot and almost in
stantly killed by James P. Gentry, 6
comedian, in Zeiss's Hotel, Philadel
phia, last night. Gentry made
his escape. He is said to be from Rich
mond, Va. 1t was generally under
stood that Gentry and the girl were
engaged to be married and no motive
for the deed other than fit of jeal
ousy can be imagined.
According to San Francisco paper
the principal evidence against the &C
cused Hawaiians in the recent court
martials was statement from Captain
Davies, who commanded the vesse
which brought arms to tho island
The statement is said to have been pro
cured by stringing Davies up by thu
thumbs until he confessed. Another
man was made to confess by being
kept in a tub of ice water.
Through a misunderstanding Of or
ders an express train on the Aitcheson
| Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, heavily
loaded with excursionists, and liv,
stock extra collided Saturday nigh
GEAR Guthrie, Okla. The freight engi
neer was instantly killed, two mel
were fatally injured, and eighteen re
ceivcd serious wounds. A dozer
freight cars piled into great heap ant
the baggage, express, and mails of tht
passenger train completely telescope(
and demolished all in an instant. Add
ed to the terrific noise was the escap
ing steam and the believing ant
plunging of hundreds of cattle injured
or maddened by the smell of blood
completely drowning the groans of thu
injured and the cries of the badly
frightened passengers.