Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Albert Andrews has confessed in st.
Louis to having killed State Senator
Peter Morrisey, for which crime his wife
has been arrested.
The reunion of ex-Confederate
soldiers began at Moore6eld yesterday,
and will continue two days. Yesterday
was old soldiers day.
Mr.. 81. Marechal, chief engineer of
Paris, is in Washington investigating
the underground system of electric pro-
pulsion for street cars.
An effort is being made to introduce
in Washington the system of transpor-
ta.ion OF mails by street cars success
fully tested in other cities.
Cholera is reported to be working
frightful havoc in japan, the disease
having been spread by the soldiers re-
Gently returned from the war. The
Formosa expedition has proved partic-
ularly disastrous.
While temporarily insane Mrs. Bette
North, twenty-seven years old, of Balti-
more, yesterday threw her ten-day-old
infant son from the third story of her
home, then leaped herself. Both were
removed to hospital, where it is
thought they will die.
Minister Turell, at Constantinople,
reports that threats have been made
against the lives of professors in the
American College at Marsovan and 9th
ers because they had informed the
Turkish government of the plans OF Ar
menian revolutionists.
There has been heavy mortality
among the French troops in Madagss.
Car on account of disease. The Hovas
are now intrenched in the mountains
and q strong force has gone to the rear
to cut off the supplies of the French
force operating against them.
The Southern Lumber Manufactur-
ers' Association concluded their session
in Memphis yesterday after adopting
the resolutions presented by the vari-
GUS committees. A price list based on
90 cents freight rate was adopted to
lake effect September 1. The prices OF
all standard lumber were advanced.
Several thousand A. P. A. members
il Kansas City, Mo-, are watching the
controversy in Omaha with interest,
and threaten, if armed force is needed
to go to Omaha in body. The ad.
visory board, composed of two mem.
bers of each of the twenty-five councils
in Jackson county. has sent telegram
to Omaha offering 5000 men.
Herman Alderman, aged eight years,
died in great agony in Wilmington from
what the attending physician, DR.. John
G. Fahey, declared was case ofpoison'
| ing. Tuesday evening the boy went to
a bakery near his home and obtained
for one cent large pineapple pie, which
was sold cheap because it was stale
He divided with his sister, Annie, aged
fourteen years. Both were taken
violently i'll the same night. The girl
recovered under treatment, but the boy
died yesterday.
| One person was killed and a score o.
others more or less seriously injured in
a rear-end collision on the Camden ano
Atlantic railroad in the southern part
of Camden, N. j., last night. The At
| lantic City accommodation train, which
left the shore ct o'clock in the after
noon, crashed into the rear end of ar
excursion train at Liberty Park station
Chas. johnson, the six-year-old son o.
Rev. Marshall Johnson, pastor of the
| African Methodist Episcopal Church o.
Camden, was burned to death and 8
number of other persons were more OF
less injured.
The republican party, in convention
at Cambridge, Md, yesterday nominal
ed Hon. Lloyd Lowndes for governor
Harry NJ. Clabaugh, of Carroll county
for attorney general, and Mr.. Robert T
Graham, of Wicomico county. for comp
troller. MIR. William T. Master, o.
Baltimore, withdrew as candidate fol
governor, and thereby made himself 8
popular hero. The convention was
most enthusiastic, and Lowndes and
| Master were cheered to the echo. The
| platform declares in favor of reassess
ment, an improvement in the public
school system, restoration of the con-
troll OF election machinery to the coun'
ties, and condemns the partisan man
agement of the oyster police force.
| Prrr,r1oN -Thn ranniop of the LITTLE