Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The debt of New York city has in
creased nearly 81 ,OO0, 900 in one year.
1t is estimated that the corn crop in
Kansas will exceed three hundred mil
lion bushels.
Spain has decided to pay the Mora
claim in q lump sum in September next,
but without interest.
Secretary Carlisle is quoted by the
Duluth (Minn.) Tribune as saying that
he has no presidential aspirations.
w. w. Taylor, formerly State treas
urer of South Dakota, has pleaded
guilty to the embezzlement of 1867, :
02S.S4. Taylor will be sentenced to-
morrow.
Gen. Maceo writes to the Cuban
headquarters in New York that the
Spanish soldiers are panic-stricken aud
are defeated in every encounter with
the insurgents.
W. II. Erect, of Wrightsville, York
county, Pa, was killed at Phoenix,
Ariz., yesterday by falling from two
story house while descending with his
parachute from balloon ascension.
Senator Tillman made speech yes
terday at Conc ord, N. G. He said that
if the democratic presidential nominee
was not silver man he and his South
Carolina followers would go elsew here.
The Chinese government is said to
be in state of helpless confusion, and
is incapable of any decisive action or
exercising any effective authority.
The results will probably prove serious
unless the foreign powers take precau-
tons.
Mrs. George W. Miller, of Glenville,
Pa, died yesterday morning from lead
poisoning. Water for household use
is brought to the house in lead pipes
from spring about three hundred feet
away. The entire family are pros
trated.
Representatives of southern railroad
and steamship companies are in session
at Manhattan Beach, N. Y, engaged in
forming a new association, to be known
as the Southern States Freight Associa-
ton, in which it is hoped to include the
Seaboard Air Line.
In Clay county, w. Va, between
Clay courthouse and Leatherwood, yes
terday morning, Samuel Stevenson and
Nathan Back met on the public road
and got into dispute over matters of
business, which had been discussed at a
previous meeting. Stevenson drew a
pistol and shot Back through the head.
making wound from which he died
last night. There had been ill-feeling
between the men for several years.
Stevenson has not been arrested.
Last night Percy W. Laidley, q
prominent Charleston, w. Va, drug
sist, dreamed that burglars were trying
10 get into the house. His dream i'm
pressed him 80 that, as stated, yesterday
he got his 44-caliber revolver out of a
drawer and began cleaning it for use.
A few minutes later the pistol was dis
charged, the ball entering his left breast
near the heart and passing entirely
through his body, breaking glass jar,
embedded itself in the wall. He was
taken home where he died in an hour.
Senator PETER has written letter to
]. D. Holden, of Emporia, Kan, in
which he comes out strongly in favor
of currency based upon land values
alone. he has discarded silver and the
sub-treasury plan and writes that he
believes the chief trouble with the coun-
try is interest, and its twin evil, rent.
He calls attention to the fact that the
average rate of interest is seven per
cent, and states that the net average
savings of the people for the past forty
years has not been over three per cent.
Jacob Miller, a German, who has
lived with Farmer Jacob Miller, of the
Bachman Valley, near Melrose, Md /,
for three months, was killed in Tracy's
woods few days ago. Farmer Miller
paid him $3.50, the amount due him
for labor, when he met two tramps.
The trio began drinking at Melrose ana
we're seen going in the direction of the
woods, where he was stabbed through
the heart. The next morning one of
the tramps went to nearby farmhouse
anu tolu the people tnat Mlller mao
died in the woods. They went to the
woods and found him murdered. The
tcamps have not been seen since.
A freight train on the Northern Cen
trail Railroad broke in two yesterday
morning, between IL and l o'clock,
while crossing a stream known as 1.-THE
Gut" near York Haven. Pa. The two
parts subsequently, came together and
ten cars were wrecked. William dip.
brakeman, of Baltimore, jumped
from the train and landed at the foot of
the bridge. He was found unconscious
under a car loaded with sewing ma
chimes and was taken to the York
Hospital. It is feared he cannot re-
cover. His thigh and lower jaw are
fractured and his head is badly injured.
Of the cars wrecked all but one or two
fell into the creek, with the locomotive.
DROWNED WITH HIS ENGINE.-Jos.
West, an engineer in the freight yards
of the Pennsylvania railroad at the foot
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