Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bishop Potter Will to-day close MS
work in the New York Sums and re-
turn to his home in Washington Square.
Cardinal Gibbons will reach Balti-
more Saturday, August "a, and will be
rendered reception by the Catholic
Club on the following Sunday evening.
The negroes of Rockford, ILL.,, held a
largely attended meeting last night,
and passed resolutions of sympathy
with their people in Spring Valley, and
voted to extend moral and financial aid
to them. A committee was appointed
to solicit funds.
Rosie We'll, twenty-five years old,
snd her sister Kate, eighteen years
old, were stabbed on the street in New
York by Philip Giampata, an Italian
shoemaker, yesterday. Kate had a
child by Giampata, but had left him.
1t is thought neither sister can recover.
The Christmas novelty factory of
George Frank, on south Eutaw street,
Baltimore, was badly damaged by fire
last night, causing loss of about
$57, 900, nearly covered by insurance.
There were ninety girls and thirty men
in the building and all escaped safely.
Jennie Greenwich, aged sixteen years,
who was employed at Paul, Mayer &
Hable's shirt mandatory, Baltimore,
was instantly killed yesterday by hay
ing her hair caught in the revolving
shaft of a sewing machine, which she
had been operating few minutes be-
fore.
In New York yesterday the Belmont
Morgan bond syndicate deposited
$1,000, 900 in gold in the local sub-treas-
ury. This offsets the gold drawn by
certain commission houses from the
sub-treasury for export, and is in line
with the policy of the bankers who so
successfully placed the last government
loan. :
Fire Wednesday night consumed the
Transfer Hotel and several buildings
adjoining in Pendleton, Ore. Four
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins and one man is still missing.
There were twenty. nine guests in the
house at the time. The FIRE originated
in an upper floor of the hotel, and was
caused by man dropping lighted
match near gasoline. The property
loss amounts to $4,000; insurance
81. 800.
At 11:S0 o'clock last night Urban
Els, aged thirty-three years, of Balti-
more, shot his brother-in-law, Charles
A. Pfeiffer, aged thirty-two years, in
the right arm, his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Margaret Pfeiffer, in the left breast,
and then shot himself in the forehead.
The wounds of Mr.. and Mrs. Pfeiffei
are slight, but Els will probably die.
No cause is assigned for the shooting ex-
cept that it is thought that Els was
temporarily demented. He has been
acting strangely for some time past.
By the fall of the interior OF build
ing under construction at West Broad
way and Third street, in New York,
yesterday, seven men are known to
have been killed and six injured. Ten
missing men are supposed to be still in
the ruins. The injured at the hospital
are doing we'll and it is thought all will
recover. Many opinions have been ad-
vanced as to the direct cause of the dis
aster, but it is generally admitted that
the workmen piled an excessive weight
upon the various floors in defiance of
t re warnings of the superintendent of
the iron work.
AT Buffalo yesterday a magnificent
crowd witnessed the Grand Circuit
races, and were we'll repaid by the
spectacle ola noble struggle between
Joe Patchen and Robert ]. for the SUI
premacy. Patchen repeated his Cleve.
land victory on Roberts own stamping
ground, but was forced to put in four
faster heats than last week. The four
heats averaged 205f. The Consensus
of opinion is that Robert ]. has become
stale and needs rest, and with week
or so of rest he will again be in condi-
tion to give Patchen, Gentry or any
other of the flyers fight.