Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mrs. Talm age, wife of the Brooklyn
preacher, left all of her estate OF $685.,
600 to her husband.
Governor Brown, of Maryland, has
appointed Robert n. Gordon, of Cum
berlapd, associate justice of the fourth
circuit.
Returning soldiers have scattered
cholera broadcast throughout Japan,
and the ravages of the disease are said
to be frigbtful.
A mob las attacked the American
school at Tarsus, Asia Minor, maltreat-
ed several of the students and threaten
ed the missionaries.
Palmer Crockett, who was formerly
the owner of Fox Island, in Chesapeake
bay, died yesterday on Sykes Island,
aged one hundred and two years.
Nearly twenty people were injured
in street car accident near Crown Hill
Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind, yesterday
evening. The wreck was the result of
misplaced switch, a heavy motor
plunging into q trailer loaded with peo-
pie returning from the old settlers re-
union. The injured will probably re-
cover.
Mrs. Annie M. Gardner, of Arcadia,
Neb., who disappeared at the time of
the Christian Endeavor Convention,
in Boston, met her husband in Chicago
yesterday and will return with him to
her home. Mrs. Gardeners cratic ac-
tons are said to be due to chronic all
ment, which the long railroad journey
aggravated.
It has just been learned that the re-
lations between japan and the United
States were greatly strained just as the
Chinese war was ended. Japan claim
ed the right to search American ships
and take off any Chinese found thereon
and had instructed the shore batteries
at Nagasaki to fire upon an American
warship if it attempted to escort a
vessel out of port.
About o'clock yesterday morning
two thieves broke into the yard at the
State prison at Wethers6eld, Conn.,,
and took span of horses, harnessed
them to surrey wagon, and drove
around inside the prison wall. They
then cut wire fence, drove across q
field of cabbage and out to the main
road. A mastiff lay in stall near the
horses which were stolen and gave no
alarm.
The seventy-first annual session of
the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the In.
dependent Order of Odd Fellows will
be held at Atlantic City September 16
to %. There will be present reprenta-
tives from each State in the union and
| also Canada. The delegates will num-
her 21O, and many of these will be &C.
companied by their wives and friends,
| which will considerably swell the
crowd.
The wife Of John Brust, roofer, OF
Williamsburgh, N. Y, gave birth to
| her tenth child on Wednesday, and
Brust went on a spree. Nothing was
| seen of him until one o'clock yester-
day morning, when he returned home
in an ugly mood and found fault be-
| cause his sister-iD-law, Mrs. Sarah
Gross, was attending to Mrs. Brust.
He seized an old sabre and tried to cut
| off his wife's head.
A proposition has been made by Mr..
Charles B. Rouss. of New York, to the
managers of the Atlanta Exposition, to
put up building on the exposition
grounds to be used as meeting place
| by the Confederate veterans who may
visit Atlanta during the exposition.
Mr.. Rouss proposes to erect building
where lectures can BIZ given by the
veterans, and also one in which relics
| of the late war can be shown.
The Americans in Shanghai have
sent dispatch to President Cleveland
protesting against United States Minis
ter Denby's action in consenting that
the British consul should represent
America in the SEE Chuen inquiry.
They recommend a reconstruction of
the commission by sending an Ameri-
can official of adequate rank and the
exclusion of implicated Chinese Off
Gals. They also recommend that a
marine escort accompany the commits
sion.
Mrs. S. B. Diehl, the wife of the As
sistant Superintendent of Pinker-
toms Detective Agency in New York,
-tarted from her home in the Saratoga
flats, Brooklyn, on Thursday evening
at o'clock, for walk. She had a
bull terrier pup, with her and wanted
to exercise him. As she entered a lot
she was seized by stranger who tried
to tear from her ears her diamond ear
rings. The man had red pepper and a
pistol, and she says he put the pepper
in her mouth when she began to scream,
and tried twice to shoot her. The
revolver had been stolen from her hus-
band.
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