Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Fl. Williams was arrested on charge
OF feloni, u.ly assaulting his fifteer-
year-old daughter on April 10.
1t is reported that fighting has &C.
CURED in Granada, Nicaragua, and
fears are entertained that a revolu-
ton will occur. President Zelaya is in
danger.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria,
has sent gracious autograph letter to
Count Kalnoky, declining to accept the
latter's resignation as imperial minis
ter for foreign affairs.
The New York Herald's correspon-
dent in Suaquit, Ecuador, sends word
that the revolution there is spreading
on all sides, and that Senior Sarast,
minister of war, is reported to be killed.
Mr.. George V. Massey, in letter to
the republican members of the Della
ware legislature who have been voting
for him for Senator, requested them to
discontinue voting for him, if any other
republican could be elected by their
votes.
A committee of Methodist ministers
propose to bring to the notice of the
Pope, through Cardinal Gibbons, the
condition of the Protestants in Ecua-
dor, Peru and Bolivia, where, it is
claimed, they are not allowed equal
privileges with the Catholics.
Mr.. Duncan NJ. Bowie, of Washing
ton, died last evening on the north
bound train between Wilson and Wei
don, n. G. He had been quite sick for
some weeks with tumor, and was on
his way to Washington. He was &C.
companied by his wife and daughter.
Secretary Carlisle has directed the
federal authorities at Tampa, Fla, to
communicate to the State quarantine
authorities his opinion that the United
States laws do not warrant the deten-
ton of the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isa-
bella on reported violation OF the fed
eral quarantine laws.
The Spanish government has made
ample apology to the United States
demand regarding the Alliance affair
Spain, however. requests of this gov,
eminent an explanation of its conduct
in permitting assistance to have been
extended to the insurgents by its
agents in the United States, who have
openly shipped arms and munitions
o. war with but little hindrance on
the part of the authorities.
At the annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans, to be held the
final week in May, at Houston, Tex,
Miss Mildred Lee and Miss Winnie
Davis will be the guests of the Robert
e. Lee Camp. Confederate Veterans, Of
Richmond. Miss Lee will leave Wash.
ington about the 18th of the month,
and will be joined at Richmond by
Miss Davis. The Daughters of the
Confederacy have named their chap
ter, mildred Lee" in honor of Miss
Lee.
A violent electrical storm passed
over Charleston, w. Va, and the Kan
awha valley yesterday afternoon, do
ing consideral damage. The Hebrew
synagogue was partially unroofed by
the wind, and a flash of lightning tore
off the cupola. The lightning struck
telephone and electric light wires,
burning out many instruments. Regi-
Maid MacCorkle, the governors private
secretary, was knocked senseless while
answering q telephone call, and re-
NAMED unconscious three hours.
A young woman named Jennie Jones, 8
stranger in the city, wanted to commit suicide
from one Of the Norfolk wharves yesterday;
but was prevented and carried to the police
station, where she was cared for by Chief
King. She was the wife of an actor, who
died in Illinois few months ago. She
tramped to Philadelphia and from there to
the Eastern Shore Of Virginia. from which
latter section some one gave her transporta.
ii n to Norfolk. She is trying to get to New
Orleans. Her maiden name was Jennie West.
The young woman has been sent to the Flor
ence Crittenton Home.
The fact has just been discovered that
Franklin W. Knapp, native of Chenango
Forks, N. Y, while travelling with circus,
was murdered in Elkton, Md in July last,
and that his body. weighted with stones, was
sunk in the Chesapeake bay, off Turkey
Point. "Arizona Bob" who was connected
with the show, is charged with the crime by
the Cecil county authorities, who are en-
deavoring to arrest him. Edward Wertley,
of Mt Winans, Baltimore county, who has
been arrested, has made statement impli-
eating ARIZONA Bob"
Dr. James & Nichols, one of the most
noted ministers in the Maryland Methodist
Protestant conference, died to-day at Johns
vile, Md. He was seventy-eight years old.
and had benin the ministry ffty-nine years
Refined sugars advanced at the re6neries
yesterday 16 of Z, cent pound, making the
advance since April % three.sghts of cent.
The strong market for raw sugar is assigned
as one Of the causes of the sharp advance.
At the municipal election at Raleigh, N c.,
the democrats won, the majority for mayor
being 319. At Asheville T. F. Davidson,
Democrat, was elected mayor by 5 1 majority:
usual democratic majority 400.
The Kentucky derby, over the mile and
half course, was won at Louisville yesterday
by Halma, the favorite The time was 2:371b.
over q fast track The prize was worth
s $4,000.
Elections were held in about one hundred
and fifty incorporated towns in Indiana yes
terday and resulted in a general repetition of
the republican victory in November.
Yesterdays League games resulted as fol-
lows: Pittsburg, II, Brooklyn, /; Chicago, 4,
Washington, o; Boston, 8, st. Louis, 6; Chm
cinnati, A, New York, 3.
President Cleveland is said to be contem.
plating pleasure trip on the lighthouse
nder Violet down the Potomac river and on
the Chesapeake bay.
MoRGANFIELD IN THE PENITEN-
TIARY.-Charles A. Morgan, alias Nor.
garfield, the Aqua creek train robber,
was received at the penitentiary in
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