Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A cyclone in the neighborhood of
Denison, Tex, Saturday did much
damage. No casualties are reported.
A corps of engineers Saturday COM
pleted the location of an electric rail
way to join Baltimore and Annapolis.
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, spent Sunday at Coax Hip
with State Senator Fairfax, of Loudoun
county.
Sheriff S. G. Dyer, of Allegheny
died at Covington yesterday
from pneumonia, after an illness Of
four days.
It is reported that the insurgents in
the province of Santiago de Cuba have
two forts and liberated a large
of prisoners.
The lion and bull fight in the City Of
Mexico yesterday was a failure. Leo
wouldn't fight and the bull gored him
so seriously that he died.
Tonight Jake Kilrain will meet
Steve O'Donnell. of Australia, in
twenty-fve-round bout at the Seaside
Athletic Club, Coney Island.
The Supreme tribunal of the Knights
of Pythias completed its work at In
dianapoIis, Ind, Friday night and ad-
journed to meet in Norfolk, Va,
July 25.
A passenger train on the St. Louis.
Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad
was in collision with wild engine at
GAINESVILLE, Ark, Saturday. Thirteen
passengers were injured, but none
fatally.
Mary Feddersen, of Guttenburg, be-
came insane because the man OF her
choice failed to reciprocate her affec-
ton. In her rawlings yesterday she
ruptured a blood vessel in her brain
and died.
1t is now said the Cuban instruction
has developed an international scandal.
The revolt is alleged to he backed by
syndicate of American capitalists.
Three U. S. Senators are said to be i'm
plicated.
Teresa Mccoy, a e.year-old Har-
lem child, was on Sunday dragged into
the Harlem river by a runaway horse,
which had been frightened by female
bicyclist, and narrowly escaped being
drowned.
Miss Julia Woods, of Kansas, City,
Mo-, who was engaged to marry a prom
inent young man of that city, went to
New York last week to purchase her
trousseau, met Arthur Grissol and mar
ried him.
Warden Sage, of Sing Sing prison,
New York, on Saturday evening de-
clared that owing to the absence of
clear legal authority DR.. Buchanan, the
condemned murderer, will not be ex-
ecuted this week.
In Toronto, Saturday, the trial of
Clara Ford on a charge of numbering
Frank Westwood resulted in a verdict
of not guilty. The woman was accused
of Disgusting herself as a man and
shooting Westwood through jealousy,
but she proved an alibi.
To get the paltry insurance on the
lives of her children, Annie O'Neal,
deserted wife, of Chicago, has, it is be-
lieved, poisoned at least two of them,
while third child is missing. Only
one of the four children of the woman
/, now known to be alive.
Mrs. Frederick G. Faltoute, of New
ark, N. j., who procured a divorce
from her husband, has built lofty and
board fence between her res
ience and the adjoining property,
which is occupied by her former hus-
band and his second wife.
The village of st. Charles, H., was
visited by cyclone Saturday with ia
al results. The old stone postoffice
building, on the east side ofMain street
occupied by Mrs. Church as millinery
store, was blown down and Mrs.
Church and four other persons were
killed.
The Board of Trade of Washington
has taken up the Pingree potato patch
plan, inaugurated by the Mayor of De-
.roit, and will attempt this summer to
set all the poor of Washington at work
filling the high-priced real estate of
that city, with view to furnishing
provisions for next winter.
The baseball games Saturday result
ed as follows: Baltimore II, Brook
lyn 0; Philadelphia 10, New York 8;
Cleveland 6, st. Louis 5; Pittsburg s,
Cincinnati 2; Chicago z, Louisville 4.
Yesterday-Chicago 8, Louisville 2; st.
Louis IL, Cincinnati 4. The eastern
clubs will play in the west to-day.
In New York strong movement for
! national campaign against silver in
lation has begun. 1ir. Chauncey N.
Depew, who has just returned from
Detroit, says the public sentiment there
8 veering around to sound money.
Senator German said IN New York
that Maryland will be for the
gold standard.
At Atlanta, Tex, on Saturday Will
lam Waddle gave some deadly poison
% his three children, aged from 6 to 10'