Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Janon Fisher, son of Judge VIM. A.
Fisher, was yesterday appointed city
commissioner of Baltimore In place OF
Col. II. T. Douglass.
Eyerard R. Todd, who fell from
Chevey Chase electric Car "Wednesday
morning, as he was coming into Wash
ington from his home, died last night
at Garfield Hospital.
Mrs. Kate Chase, the daughter of the
former chief justice, who is in New
York, explained that the sum raised to
redeem her fathers place, Edgewood,
is still insufficient aud that she has
been turned out and is without home.
The Tammapy primary election was
held in New York yesterday. The
tickets arranged by the old leaders
were in majority of cases elected, in
dicating that the recognized Tammany
will be the same as the Tammany OF
old.
Charles F. Crisp, ex.speaker of the
United States House of Representa-
tives, is sightseeing in London. He
recently visited the place where he was
born in Sheffield, January %, lS45,
while his parents were on visit to
that city. Ex-Speaker Crisp is to be
dined in London by Speaker Gulley, OF
the House of Commons.
A serious accident occurred at the
chute in Chicago last night. A car
containing about twenty people was
near the top of the chute when the
cable broke and the Car went tearing
down the slide of 300 feet. A wild
panic ensued among the people in the
car and many of them in their desper-
ate efforts TO escape were spilled out of
the car and badly injured.
District Attorney Birney, of Wash
ington, yesterday received word that
Millikep, who was arrested recently in
Tennessee on charge of entering
Judge Phillips's house at night, has
been released on bail. The bond re-
quired was $1,000 and the sureties are
r. B. Turley, Josiah Patterson and
Luke E.. Wright. The cese will come
up before the criminal court next Mon
day.
Secretary Hoke Smith returned to
the Interior Department from Georgia
yesterday. "We will have hard fight
in the State" he said, shut feel con-
fident the free coinage movement will
be defeated" Asked if he believed the
plan about to be adopted by the silver
men of Virginia of attacking the ma
tional banks and keeping free silver in
the back ground would have much
effect if adopted in other southern
States, Mr.. Smith said he thought not.
Miss Clara Smith, aged eighteen
years, attempted to commit suicide
last night by drinking an overdose Of
laudanum while she was on the steam
or Louise on the way from COLCHESTER
Beach to Baltimore. She said she had
been worried about love affair, that
her friends had notified her gentleman
friend not to call at their home any
more, and that as she was not to be
separated from him she concluded to
kill herself.
Mayor Bemis, of Omaha, has issued
a peace proclamation. The municipal
situation is said to be serious, although
the civil authorities are prepared to re-
sist the efforts of the A. P. A. to get
control of the police force. Immediate
trouble has been temporarily averted
Ivy the refusal of the government Of
Nebraska to appoint q new commission.
The A. P. A. men threaten to use force
to-day, and serious trouble is appre-
hended between the dual police forces
and their friends.
The following resolution was adopted
by rising vote st the Purcellville
bush meeting yesterday: ITO Governor
Culberson, of Texas: The Prohibition
and Evangelical Association ofLoudoun
county, in session to-day, with an
audience of about five thousand people,
by rising vote send your excellency
greeting, and applaud your recent proc
lamation relative to prize fighting in
your State. We want to be recognized
as among those who would help to up
hold your hands for law, order and
humanity"
A warrant was issued in Washington
yesterday for the arrest of VIM. w.
Mendenhall, q patrolman. He is
charged with obtaining money upon
furniture which he had previously sold.
he resigned from the force, sending his
wife to the station with his baton and
badge, and both the patrolman and his
wife are said to have gone to Baltimore.
After the facts became known large
number of persons alleged that Men,
denhall had borrowed money from
them and had not returned it. Men
denhall was regarded as good officer.
A dispatch from Bristol, Tenn, says
Henan Fleming, the Kentucky and Vir-
ginia outlaw, indicted for completely in
the murder of the Mullins family at
Round Gap, in 1880, for which :'Dock"
Taylor was executed, has been acquit=
ted. The judge ruled out evidence
obtained by Jennings confession.
Fleming Was badly wounded while re-
sisting arrest in West Virginia. His
brother was killed. The Mullins mas
sacre was the most cold looded ever
committed in Kentucky Or Virginia,
and it is the opinion OF many that the
Flemings engaged in it.
For HONEST ELEcTIoNs.-The hon
est election conference, to frame non
partisan election law, and to prosecute
the same. convened in Petersburg last
night at $780, E. P. Buford was made
chairman and exDlainei the object for