Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.


in the near future.
Rychlovski & Sayot's great petroleum
refinery at Bstoum, on the Black sea,
has been burned. The loss is enormous.
Miss Susan Fenimore Cooper. daugh-
ter OF James Fenimore Cooper, died of
apoplexy ct Cooperstown, n. j., yes
terday, in her SD year.
Ashford, who recently murdered his
wife and child in Vancouver, B. c., has
been identified as George F. Powers, a
member of a wealthy English family.
Right Rev. David Buell. Knicker-
hacker, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
the Diocese of Indiana, died yesterday
at Indianapolis, aged sixty-one years.
Fourteen employees of the Delevan
House, in Albany, n. Y, which was
burned on Sunday night, are missing,
and it is believed they have persisted in
the flames.
A strenuous effort will be made in
the United States Senate to prevent the
passage of the bill carrying with it an
appropriation to put the provisions OF
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The Ohio apartment building, in
Chicago, was destroyed by fire yester-
day. Loss $4,000. Twelve persons
were overcome by smoke and were
carried unconscious from their beds by
the firemen.
Secretary Carlisle and Representa-
tive Springer, chairman of the banking
and currency committee, held a confer
ence yesterday. Mr.. Carlisle is report
ed as favoring an abolition of the tax
upon State banks.
Miss Belle Armstrong, wealthy
young lady, jumped from moving
train near Almonte, Ont, yesterday
aud broke her neck. Her father wit
messed the accident, and the shock
drove him insane.
pike" Sandusky, an old-timer in
northern Montana, and discoverer OF
the famous Gold Bug group of mines OF
the Little Rockies, was yesterday shot
and killed in The mining camp bearing
his name by Harvey Curry.
Within the past eighteen hours foul
members of the family of jacob K. LIE
van, of Obey, Pa, two of whom were
adults, died Of diphtheria. Last Satur
day another child was buried, and two
are now at Deaths door.
Three children of Mrs. Viola KEMP
were burned to death near Rome, Ga.
last night. Their mother left them in
charge of cousin, who built big fire
locked the children in and went tc
town. The house was destroyed.
Traders on the Chicago Board o.
Trade celebrated New Years Eve by
ghost dance, singing and throwing
bursting bags of flour and grain at each
other. The Cincinnati traders had q
concert by band stationed on the
grain tables.
At Monroeville, Ala, yesterday Doss
Nets killed his sweetheart, Lizzie
Smith, by stabbing her, then cut bis
own throat and died. They were to have
been married New Years day and his
jealousy of the attention of former
lover for Lizzie caused the deed.
The mercury went down to 140 above
zero at Jacksonville, Fla, just before
sunrise yesterday morning, this record
beipg 10 colder than the temperature
during the great freeze of 1856, and the
lowest since 1885. The orange and
vegetable crops are practically ruined
Judge Buchwalter, of Cincinnati, yes
terday refused to surrender the Rev. A.
! II. Hampton, colored minister,
charged with shooting ]. G. Durham,
in Kentucky, until he had the assur'
arce of the Governor of Kentucky that
the prisoner would be protected from
mob violence
A blaze started in the roof of the
three-story brick building, corner Of
Ninth street and Louisiana avenue,
northwest Washington. occupied by
the Emmert Beef Company and several
commission firms, about two O'Clock
this morning and damaged the building
and contents to the extent of about
$4,000.
One hundred thousand dollars is re-
ported to be the fee which the Chinese
government will pay John w. Foster
for acting as adviser to her peace
commissioners in the coming nego-
tiations with the representatives
of Japan. Mr.. Fosters income from
his practice as a counselor in diplomatic
matters has been estimated during
recent years at $4,000 q year.
The two-months-old baby of John
Glatfelder, living at Myerstown, Pa,
was killed yesterday by its three-year-
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when neighbor said she was going to
take the baby home with her. He
picked up pair of scissors and threw
them at the girl. The scissors struck
the baby on the head, causing its death
almost instantly.
The home of Michael O'Connell, in
Ell Paso, Pierce county, Wis, was burn
ed yesterday, and his wife and five
children persisted in the flames. Mr..
! O'Connell slept below and was awak-
ened by the fire at two o'clock.
He Just had time to escape in his night
robe. His wife appeared at the win
dow and dropped one child, and re-
turned for the others, but did not ap
pear again.
DR.. E L. Riegel, prominent physic-
ian of Bloomsbury, n. j., and VIM.
Bebbler, of Philadelphia, fought duel
at Bloomsbury early Sunday morning.
The trouble was jealousy over Riege's
wife. Riegel received two bad wounds
on the crown of his head, and his coat
/. was pierced with bullets. Bebbler
made narrow escape, book in his
pocket preventing bullet from pass
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