Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Twenty-Five Cuban insurgents were
killed in a battle near Cienfuegos on
Saturday.
1t is denied that Cardinal Gibbons is
the bearer of protest of American
priests against the continuance CT Arch
bishop Satolli's mission in the United
States.
1t is said that the silver men are de-
term'ned to avoid all tests of their
strength with the sound money advo-
Gates in both democratic and republic
can parties.
In quarrel over division of prop
erry Dir. Frank Settle, of St. Louis, shot
and killed Mrs. Jaue Peterson, his sis
ter in-law; wounded her sister, Mrs.
Morish, and then committed suicide.
MIR. Robert Quail Taylor, senior
member of the firm of R. @. Taylor q
Co., hat dealers, in Baltimore, died
yesterday morning from heart trouble,
,ed seventy six years and ten months.
Marshall E. Price, condemned to be
hanged July 5, was taken to Denton,
Nd, on Saturday to appear in court to-
day, when motion comes up to strike
ont Judgment on the verdict found in
the case.
An electric car containing sixty pas
seugers on the Dartmouth and Western
Railroad jumped the track about two
m les from New Bedford, Mass, yes
terday afternoon, rolling over and in
juring thirty pc ople.
Mrs. Belle Farrell, who was indict-
ed for the murder of her husband,
Frederick Farrell, in Charles county,
Md, has returned to the county and
surrendered herself 10 the sheriff. 1t
is thought that her trial will begin at
| La Plata to day.
G. r Edridge, detective who has
been investigating the murder of Thos.
Roman, was l4shed in boat and turned
adrift on Snake river, near Huntington,
Idaho. A short distance above the
rapids he succeeded in looseniug him
-elfand swan ashore.
BIZ the explosion OF steam valve in
the whaleDack steamer Christopher
COLUMBUS, off Waukeegan, on Lake
Michigan, on Saturday night, two mea
we're killed and thirteen were danger
ously or painfully injured. The steam
er was racing with another steamer.
The American line steamship st.
Louis reached New York from South
amp!on on Saturday, after voyage OF
Z days, hours and II minutes. Her
ldder was broken Tuesday morning,
ard for four days she was steered and
propelled by her twin screws. Repairs
are already being made.
c. B. Birch, cash receiver for the
West Chicago Street Railway Company
a. the Armitage avenue cable barns,
Chicago, was shot and fatally wound.
c | at an early hour yesterday morning
by a man who attempted to rob him OF
the days receipts. Birch was alone in
his office when masked man entered
and told him to hold up his hands.
The test of an electric motor was
made on Friday night on the Nan.
asket branch of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad. Many
railroad men say that the steam road
is doomed rs a result of the showing
The speed attained is reported to have
heen eighty miles an hour, and the en-
CINE was not geared up to its limit.
Preparations OF the records of the
union and Confederate navies in the
late war is progressing. The records
when published in detail will prove to
be valuable. Much space is devoted to
a detail of the operations of Captain
Semmcs in his escape from New
Orleans and his subsequent destruction
hood of the West Indies.
The American warships and their
officers and sailors at the North Sea
Canal opening excited the admiration
Of the correspondents and naval ex-
perts of all nations Emperor William
on Sunday visited the United States
cruiser San Francisco, flagship Of the
American squadron at Kiel, and ex
pressed to Admiral Kirkland his admi-
ration of the American warships.
The first legislature under the Ha-
waiian republic was called together on
the 18th instant. The Presidents mes
sage was read. It deals with many
questions of local interest. speaking
of annexation with the United States,
the President says "While the an
Eexaton of this country to the United
States of America has not been accom-
plished, it still remains the policy Of the
government. Its consummation will be
earnestly sought, with an abiding faith
that such result will be lasting bene-
| fit to our country"