Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-09

NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Mr.. I. Freeman Rasin, of Baltimore,
denies the report that he and Senator
German have had row.
Annapolis, Nd, has elected 9 DEM
ocratic mayor and city council and a
republican city counsellor.
Arrangements have been made in
Philadelphia to Send the old Liberty
Bell to the Atlanta Exposition.
Senator Blackburn has been called
ofthe stump in Kentucky by the dem
ocratic State central committee because
of his free silver views.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg states
suthoritatively that no question of ced-
ing Chinese territory to Russia entered
the recent financial negotiations be.
tween the two powers.
Reports received in Kansas City
from the storms of the past three days
in Kansas. Missouri, Arkansas and the
Indian Territory indicate that forty
three lives have been lost.
The situation continues grave in the
Elkhorn, W. Va, mining region.
Col. White, Governor McCorkle's pri-
vate secretary, says the danger is i'm
minent and that trouble may occur at
any time.
In Montgomery county, N. c., yes
terday, during fight between two
brothers, Pink and Frank Williams,
their mother attempted to take re-
volver from one, when she was shot in
the abdomen and killed.
The French Chamber of Deputies
yesterday adopted motion to the eff
feet that the government open negotia
tions as soon as possible with the
United States for the conclusion of a
permanent treaty of arbitration.
In battle between Spanish troops
and insurgents, near Manzanillo, yes
terday, $50 of the latter were killed
and fifty of the former killed or wound
ed. During the month 10000 Spanish
troops will leave Spain for Cuba.
The Georgia Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Southern Railway Com
pany need not pay damages to owners
of property abutting on the site of its
proposed shops in Atlanta, and the
work of building the shops will be push
ed ahead.
Fifty houses have been destroyed by
fire at bonneville, suburb of Corn
wall, Ont, and 800 people are render
ed homeless. Great distress prevails.
One child was burned to death. Some
boys playing in she'd set fire to it, and
thus started the blaze.
From observations made by the light
house board, it appears that the second
attempt to erect a lighthouse on the
dangerous Diamond Shoals, off Cape
Hatteras, n. c., has failed. The piles
iriven into the sand have been twisted
oy the constant dr. vipg of the waves
Just what steps will be next taken to
guard the important coastwise traffic
against the perils of that place has not
been determined.
An electric car running between
East Liverpool, Ohio, and Wellsville
got beyond the control of the motor.
man yesterday afternoon and plunged
over bridge into run, falling thirty
feet. The car was smashed, and it was
miraculous that any of the passengers
escaped alive. James Hamilton, the
motorman, was killed. Two passen-
gers were fatally injured and twelve
were hurt.
A man supposed to be G. E. Cole, as
saulted and attempted to rob 2. G. Nc.
Gloin, in his saloon in the heart of the
business district of Chicago yesterday
evening. After seriously wounding
McGloin the thief escaped and made
the most remarkable race for liberty
ever seen in the streets of Chicago.
After firing into the mob that pursued
him, and seriously wounding three cit
liens, he was run down and killed by
Officer Rosenthal, opposite the entrance
of the Auditorium, on Congress street.
IYNcHING FRUsTRATED.-An angry
mob surrounded the Jail at Berryville
Sunday night and demanded of the
sheriff that he turn over Henry Robin
son, the colored man who is charged
with committing an assault on Miss
Maggie Nails, beautiful and accom-
plished girl living near Berryville, about
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