Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The Pope has approved the appoint
ment of Rev. J. A. Forest as bishop OF
San Antonio, Tex.
1t is announced that Spain will take
part in the proposed international
monetary conference.
A clowdburst between Chambersburg
and Shippensburg, Pa, did much dam
age to crops and the railroads.
A boiler in an electric works at Car
thagena, Colombia, exploded yester-
day, killing ten persons and wounding
eighteen others.
Mrs. Catherine O'Leary, whose IN
ruly cow is said to have started the
great Chicago fire of 1871, died in Chi
cago yesterday.
The House of Lords yesterday even
ing rejected by vote of n to IL a
motion to go into committee on the
Irish Municipal Franchise bill.
In Chicago on Thursday night Fred
erick Hellman murdered his wife and
four children by turning on the gas in
the room in which they slept and died
with them.
The Spanish authorities at Havana
claim to have evidences of the death OF
Amador Guerra, the neted insurgent
leader. A schooner has left Colon with
large supply of munitions of war.
Its destination is believed to be Cuba.
Governor McCorkle, of West Vir-
ginia, has ordered the military to pro-
coed to the Pocahontas mining region.
1t is said that the miners throughout
the Elkhorn region are rioting, having
burned houses and committed other
depredations.
George Lawson, proprietor of the
White Ribbon Hotel, in Springfield,
ILL.,, fatally shot his wife and then him
self Yesterday. Lawson was drunk.
He went to the kitchen, where his
wife was preparing a meal. He kissed
her and then shot her through the
body.
Postmaster General Wilson has writ
ten caustic letter to the United States
district attorney for southern New
York on the subject of the escape OF
Killoran, Allen and Russell, the three
alleged postoffice robbers from the
Ludlow street Jail. He also offered a
reward for their recapture.
William Putbresch was taken from
his home near the village of Huntley,
ILL.,, Thursday night, led into the
woods by the yeung business men OF
that place, stripped of his clothes, tied
to tree and dashed halfto death with
whalebone whip, because of alleged
brutality to wife who had borne him
ten children.
Professor Willis F. Moore, the new
chief of the Weather Bureau, took
charge of his new Office in Washington
Yesterday. The principal aim of the
bureau now will be to concentrate the
work on forecasts. Professor Moore
! is an expert in this line, and will
make every effort to increase the &C.
curacy of the predictions.
Judge Showalter entered forma
order in Chicago affirming the decree O.
sale of the eighteen plants of the whisky
trust, as petitioned by the reorganiza
ton committee. The sale is not YET
assured, however, as the Greenhut ano
Morris interests gave notice of an APP
peal, and the case will be heard by the
United States Court of Appeals, which
sits in Chicago next week.
The testimony in the Farrall murder
trial, in Charles county, Nd, yester
day, tended to show a criminal relation
between Mrs. Farrall and Eugene Hal!
as motive to Mrs. Farrall's alleged
crime. Testimony was given by 8
brother of Frederick Farrall and two
servants, purporting to give admissions
of pys:,,s by DE--. rarI..E, inv prisoner
| a great deal ofthe testimony relating
to Eugene Hall was given.
James Nudd, railroad section hand
who lives in farm house one mile
from Canterbury, N. A., was tarred
and feathered by whitecaps before day
light Thursday. Nudd procured as q
housekeeper one of Canterbury's pref.
test girls, who up to the time of. her
acquaintance with Nudd was consider
ed a model of propriety. Disgust
eliminated when it was learned that
Nudd has wife and family in Illinois.
Darkness like that of night settled
down upon Baltimore yesterday at
noon. 1t was almost impossible to
read indoors without artificial light,
and when the storm had come and
gone and the darkness was no more
people drew long breath and con-
graduated themselves that the strange
occurrence had resulted in nothing
more serious than a very heavy sum-
mer thunder-shower. Lightning struck
several places, with slight damages.
There were caves.in of part of the
street bed and pavement at Fayette
street and Fremont avenue. Wash.
outs occurred at some points and food
ed cellars at others. There was q
great rush of water and mud into 8
traction company's power house.