Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF The DAY.
Grasshoppers have appeared in such
quantities in certain sections of Ne
braska as to interfere with railroad
travel.
VIM. Chandler, colored, was lynched
at Abbcville, Miss, yesterday for at
tempted assault upon Miss Johns,
daughter of prominent citizen.
At Charleston, S. C, yesterday, Cir
cult Judge Simonton dismissed the case
Involving the South Carolina registra-
ton law, in which Judge Goff7s decision
was reversed.
Ten prisoners, four of them murder
ers. tunneled their way out of the coun-
ty Jail at Popular Bluffs, Mo, last night,
aud all but one are still at large. Oae
of the murderers was captured.
David H. Morris, son of the late
John A. Morris of West Chester, was
married to Alice Vanderbilt Shepard,
daughter of the late Elliot F. Shepard,
10 New York yesterday.
The Washington police say that a
double attempt was made topoison Cora
Handy, colored, Tuesday night at her
home in that city and have charged Il q
woman's husband with the second at
tempt.
The town of Danilow, in the province
of Jaroslaw, has been the scene of a
great fire, which destroyed several pub
lie buildings, church and number
of private houses. Several persons met
death in the flames.
During debate on the proposition
to grant general amnesty to persons
condemned by court martial, there was
great uproar, and an encounter, in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies yesterday.
A duel will follow.
Sixty men were killed and three
seriously injured by an explosion of
powder in the Balisle factory at Avig-
Llama, fourteen miles west of Turin yes
terday. The explosion was causdd ty
the carelessness of the victims.
In Winnipeg last night the debate on
the school question was continued in
the Legislature, and vote was finally
reached. Premier Greenway's reply,
announcing that Manitoba could not
maintain separate schools, was adopted.
The Hotel Association of New York
will make an attempt to have the new
civil rights law declared unconstitu-
tonal on the ground that it fixes arbi-
trarily the damages that may be recov-
Grad hp an auprievcl DartV
Emperor Franz Josef of Au stria, yes
terday accepted the resignation of the
ministry. Count Kialmantegg, Gov
ernor of Lower Austria, has accepted
the Austrian premiership and is form
ing provisional cabineti in place Of the
Windischgraetz cabinet, resigned.
Mr.. Turf, philanthropist of Boston.
has purchased 5000 acres of ground
near Southern Pines, N. G.. on which
he will erect five hundred cottages for
the benefit of persons suffering with
consumption. He says he will provide
easy employment for the class of per.
sons whom he has seen fit to make
homes for.
+ The steamer Yumuri arrived at New
York from Mexico and Havana last
night with raging fire in her forehold.
1t was discovered Tuesday night about
10 o'clock Of Cape Henry. The fire
was put out shortly after midnight, by
flooding the forebold. The steamers
hull is not damaged, and the loss will
be much less than at first supposed.
In Washington yesterday Frederick
Thomas, who gave his name as Waltz r
Anderson, was sentenced to eight yea 8
at Albany for assault with intent to
kill. He went to call on young wo-
man on June 2. A quarrel arose and
he shot at her. At the trial Thomas
said he was born in Fauquier county,
and had lived most of his life in Phila-
delphia.
The court of appeals in Washington
yesterday afternoon handed down an
opinion affirming the judgment of the
lower court in the case of Thomas j.
Taylor, who was convicted of murder
ing his wife, Mamie K. Taylor, on Sep
TENDER IA last, and unless executive
clemency intervenes to pardon or re-
duce the sentence the man will hang on
the 26th of next month, according to
Judge Coles sentence.
Major Alexander Shaw was yesterday
elected chairman ofthe finance commit
lee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, vice James Sloan, jr., resign
ed. The directors declared the semi
annual dividend of three per cent. on
preferred stock. The net earnings for
May were S124, $40 more than in May,
1894, but were 1923, 276 for the eleven
months ended May 81, as compared
with the same time last year.
The home of D. D. Long, near Sham
okin, Pa, was visited yesterday morn
ing by an unknown mailman. About
4:30 o'clock the household was awak-
ened by loud knocking. Mr.. Long
hurriedly went down stairs, opened the
door and was confronted by the luna
tic, who knocked him down. The
family rushed to Longs assistance, and
the maniac fled to the spring house,
where he was afterwards tied with
ropes after hard fight.