Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

signed articles for ten or twenty
round fight in England.
Minnie Ryan aud Martin O'Shea were
married al the bedside of the brides
dying father il New York yesterday.
The wife of Senator Hansbrough, Of
North Dakota, died from acute pneu-
monia in Washington yesterday even
ing.
The republican caucus of the North
Caro- ina legislature has nominated ].
G. Pritchard for G.. S. Senator for the
short term.
The sudden flooding of mine at
Audley, North Staffordsbire, England.
Yesterday caused the loss ola score or
more of lives.
Additional cases of arms, consigned
to British Vice Consul Borden, on the
steamer Baracoa, We're seized at Fer
nandina, yesterday.
The coal barge Seth Low was wreck
off Short Beach, New York, yesterday,
and the captains son and the cook
were drowned.
Gen. W. J. Sewell was nominated for
United States Senator by the republl-
can members of the New Jersey Legls
lature last night.
Frank Zelno, professional high diver,
in making an eighty foot leap at Will
lis. Tex, Sunday, missed his tank and
struck on his feet, breaking both legs.
The Italian garrison at Karsala is be-
sieged by an overwhelming force of
dervishes, and an expedition has been
sent to the relief of the place from
Keren.
Twenty skilled workmen in the
Homestead. Pa, steel mill were dis
charged yesterday because they at
tended a meeting to discuss organiza-
ton.
IF. Abbott, the defaulting cashier
of the Dover, n. H., National Bank,
when he learned that his arrest
had been ordered, committed suicide
yesterday evening.
Westcott F. Zittel, of New York, who
says that .janitor Braeher's pretty
daughter married him while he was in
toxicated, has begun proceedings to
have the marriage annulled.
Martin Scbell, formerly of Brooklyn,
was caught in the fywheel of the cleo
trict railway power-houseat Galveston,
Tex, yesterday, and torn to pieces,
aud the body scattered over the build
ing.
Jeter g. Pritchard, of Madison
county, was last night nominated by
the republicanpopulist fusion caucus of
the North Carolina Legislature for
United States Senator for the short
term.
Mrs. Katharine Willard, who is the
guest of the President and Mrs. Cleve-
land, gave yesterday at noon the first
of her series of matinees musicale at
the residence of the Secretary of War
and Mrs. Lamont.
Oscar w. Henning and Jeanette
Baker, of Baltimore, were married on
Sunday evening. TIE BRIDES father
had the groom arrested, charging that
his daughter was but fifteen years old.
Henning was subsequently released.
The Susquehanna river is gorged
with ice, and Port Deposit, Md, is mo
mentarily threatened with food: The
leo, six inches thick, broke several days
ago, but no danger was apprehended
from it until early Sunday morning.
In the House yesterday the Senate
bill to provide for the enlargement of
the judicial system of Indian Territory
by the appointment of another United
States judge, and by increasing the
number of places for holding court, was
amended and passed.
Yesterday evening the Senate agreed
in executive session on the motion of
Senator Morgan to take up the Japa-
nese treaty on Friday next. The indi-
cations are that the treaty will be rati
fed, as it is understood that all objec-
tions to the convention have been over
come.
At Windsor Mills, Ont, yesterday, a
a young married woman named Moore
deliberately left her house after break
fast with her fifteen months child
10 her arms and walked into the River
ST. Francis. Both mother and child
were swept under the ice by the swift
current.
Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew was vigor-
ously assailed by Methodist ministers
in New York, Saturday, for saying the
half rate railroad fare privilege had
teen withdrawn because it had been
abused by preachers. A committee was
appointed to call on Mr.. Depew and
demand retraction.
An entire colored family named Nc
Crea were poisoned at Charleston, S.
c., yesterday, the poison being admins
tered to them in cornmeal made into
bread. The deed was inspired by
jealousy. and was committed by Mag
gle Boroughs. John and Jane McCrea
are dead. The others have recovered.
Several of the street trolley car
strikers in Brooklyn were arrested yes
terday for interfering with the running
of the cars by placing obstacles on the
track. &c. A mob of strikers attacked
a mail car with stones. The co,.3actor
was slightly injured. The mob was
dispersed by squad of twenty-five
reserve policemen.
Capt. Alex. F. Marley, aged seventy
two, one of the first graduates Of An
by appointment of John c.
Calhoun, died at New Orleans on Sat-
urdsy. He resigned from the Mediter-
ranean squadron to enter the confeder-
acy, commanded the batteries at Char
lesion, and commanded the McCrea
and afterwards the Manassas, the first
ram.
Merwin M. Smell, who was once sec