Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Foley
arrived at Cologne yesterday.

Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Foley
arrived at Cologne yesterday.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
have named the little girl, now twelve
days old. Marion Cleveland.
Professor Lueger, the State ento-
mologist of Minnesota, has invented a
machine that is used, to exterminate
grassboppers.
Six additional batteries of artillery
and reinforcements to the number of
$4,000 men will be sent from Spain to
Cuba in September.
Peru's legation in La Paz, the capt.
tai of Bolivia, was attacked by large
crowd yesterday and the minister from
Peru to Bolivia stoned.
Private letters received in New York
from Rome say that the appointment of
an auxiliary bishop to Archbishop Cor
rigan has been postponed.
II. Rider Haggard. the author, was
roughly treated in East Norfolk, Eng,
yesterday where he was making tour
as conservative candidate.
Clifton Wilson, fourteen years of
age, had one of his eyes blown out by
the explosion of bomb, which he was
making, in Baltimore yesterday.
A wind-storm struck St. Clair, Mich,
yesterday. Several yachts were over
turned in the river. VIM. Lees two
children were crushed under falling
chimney.
The New York police board yester-
day appointed new head to the de-
tective bureau and made many changes
in the force, with aview to its thorough
reorganization.
At the conference of thesilver men
in Chicago yesterday there came near
being split in the ranks owing to
desire of the southern men to ignore
the Bimetallic League.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lachmann died in
New York yesterday from the effects of
falling out of o window in attempting
TO recover her false teeth, which had
dropped upon the coping.
Joseph A. Wilson, well-known bus
mess man of Washington, and pres.
ident ofthe firm of Wilson & Rogers,
dealers in meats, was arrested last night
on warrant charging him with forg-
cry.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania,
would like to see Reed or Mckinley
dominated for President. The Senator
does not favor free coinage and thinks
the democrats will again name Cleve-
land.
A battle is reported from the Turkish
Macedonian frontier between force
of insurgents, said to have numbered
5000, and body of Turkish troops.
The Turks were defeated with loss of
600 men.
Dick Hansen and John Hall started
from Great Falls, Mont, yesterday,
down the Missouri river for st. Louis.
The boat was overturned five miles
below Big Falls, and both were
drowned.
Capt. Reuben F. Kolb, twice defeat
ed for Governor of Alabama on the
populist ticket, to-day announced
through his paper, the Peoples Tribune,
that he will not again be gubernato-
rial candidate.
The Baltimore police think they have
an escaped convict from the Virginia
penitentiary at Richmond in the person
of James Johnson, colored. He is now
in Jail, where be was sent for ninety
days for resisting an officer.
Two girls who ran away from their
home in Chicago assumed boys' cloth
ing and occurred positions at Glen ISL
and, N. Y. Their father came to look
for them and, going to the resort, was
waited on by the eldest daughter, who
dropped her tray and fed screaming.
They are now on their way home.