Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-13
NEWS on THE DAY.

Robert ]. beat Joe Patchen and Gen.
| try at Louisville yesterday.
Twenty-Five hundred Spanish soldiers
landed in Havana, Cuba. yesterday.
Twenty.thrse dead miners were tax
en- out of the Osceola mine near Hongh-
ton, Mich, yesterday.
Thirty-five deaths from cholera have
occurred in Honolulu. A sailor on the
U. 8. ship Bennington died of the dis
ease.
An earthquake occurred at Teguci-
galpa, Mex, yesterday. Three hun
dred people were killed. The property
loss is $3.50, 900.
The Cubans under arrest at Will
mington, Del, charged with violating
the neutrality laws, we're indicted by
the United States grand jury yesterday.
Charles Redmond, eleven years old,
shot himself at his home in Williams
burg, N. Y, yesterday because his
father threatened to whip him.
Much damss was done by a severe
electrical storm in Massachusetts and
New Hampshire yesterday. The ve-
locity of the wind was eighty miles an
hour, and the lightning wasincessant.
Elk Queen Liliuokalani has been par
doned by the Hawaiian government,and
permission has been granted all exiles
to return to Hawaii, excepting the Ash
ford brothers.
Louis Bustiano, aged II years, was
killed on the Pennsylvania Railroad
near Norristown, Pa, yesterday, at the
same place where his father was killed
a few years ago.
Rev. DR.. Charles 81. Hall, pastor of
the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, died last
! night. DR.. Hall was born at Augusta,
Ga, November Z, 1922.
While 10000 people were watching
the fireworks along the river front, at
Louisville, KY. last night portion OF
the grand stand on which were seated
at least 10000 people gave way, and
about 100 people, were injured. No
fatalities we're reported.
The intense heat at Chicago, of the
last two days, was ended yesterday bya
record-breaking slump in the mercury.
TIE temperature dropped fifteen de-
sress in fifteen minutes. After the first
plunge the decline was more moderate
in speed, but the thermometer soon
registered about go degrees against Sc
Wednesday.
The British consul at Wen-Chow, in
the province Of Che Kiang, has been
stoned by mob. Literature melting
against the English has been circulated
by the officials. The inquiry ut Ku-
cbeng is being INSTRUCTED by the tactics
of the officials, headed by the viceroy,
trying to exonerate the prisoners in
the face of the most damning testimony
Mrs. Rhea, living on farm twenty
Eve miles from Osceola, Ark, was muir
dered by two negroes, Will Cardwell
and an old man who were working for
her, and whose object was robbery.
Caldwell was arrested yesterday, con.
fessed, and was taken from the officers
aud hanged to a tree. The old man
WAS also caught. and by this time has
probably been lynched.
In the South Carolina Constitutional
Convention yesterday Colonel Robert
Aldrich introduced complete consti-
tuition. texcludes colored people from
holding Office. Colonel Aldrich's draft
Iengthens the terms ofall State officers
TO four years, instead of two, as at pre-
sent, and the judges are to be elected
for life, instead of for terms OF four
years, as now. His plan of suffrage is
purely educational one. but the Legis.
lature is required to provide system
of registration. He contends that the
I4tb and 18th amendments to the fed
eral constitution do not confer upon the
negro an inalienable right to hold Office.
General Isaac N. Walker, of Indian.
apolis, Ind, was yesterday elected
co,nmander-in.chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic at the National
Encampment at Louisville, KY. St.
Paul, Mimi, was selected as the next
place of meeting. The vote on place
stood st. Paul 1893. Buffalo 226, Nash
vile 33, Denver 103. Retiring Com
mander. 10. Chief Lawler in his ad:
dress said the membership of the Grand
Army June 80, 1894, was 81 $50. and
the gain during the year was 43, 04O.
He recommended that committee be
appointed to protect the pensioners
and urged that Memorial day be kept
free from Decorating sports. and favor
ed a government appropriation for the
decoration of graves in the Southern
M t;oDoI oop, afarioa