Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

died in Savannah yesterday.
Reports from Cuba state that yellow
fever is increasing among the Spanish
soldiers to an alarming extent.
Secretary Hoke Smith was accosted
on the highway in Georgia yesterday
by a populist who told the Secretary of
the Interior that he was turncoat and
G traitor.
Advices received at Seattle, WASH,
from Behring sea are to the effect that
seals are being killed so fast that in a
short time none will be left in Ameri.
can waters.
The United States Court in Boston
has awarded W. K. Vanderbilt $780,
737. 02 damages against the Metropoli-
tan Steamship Line because of the run
ming down of his yacht.
Mr.. Gladstone was greeted with tu-
multuous cheers yesterday at Chester
when he spoke at meeting of the
Armenian Association. He denounced
Turkish rule in Armenia, and said that
Great Britain must not fear to apply CO.
ercion.
A system of caisson-sinking for
foundations of bridges, buildings, etc,
invented by engineer w. OH. Wash
ington, of Charlestown, W. Va, and
recently tested in New York, is pro-
nounced by competent authorities the
best yet devised.
Further examination of the room oc-
cupied by Mrs. Connors at Holiness
castle, in Chicago, resulted in the find
ing of additional blood stains upon the
floor. A strong microscope was used
upon the stains by an expert, who said
they were undoubtedly human blood.
Fearing mob violence, the county
Judge of Woodford county, KY, order
ed w. N. Lane, the slayer of Col. III. @.
Rodenbaugh and his son, brought to
Lexington for safe-keeping. People of
Jessamine county, where Col. Roden-
baugh is best known, were preparing
to swing Lane up.
Well defined rumors are circulated
that Archbishop Ireland and Bishop
Keane, who are not on the best Of
terms with Archbishop Corrigan, were
not invited to attend the Catholic Abb
stainers' Unions Convention to-day.
Delegates confess that great mass
of the clergy are opposed to temper
ance societies.
Rudolph Spreckela, who in San Fran
cisco on Monday married Miss Eleanor
Joliffe, is the second son of Claus
Spreckels, and will inherit probably
$4,000, 900 when he father dies. He
has for years been prominent in the So
cial lite of San Francisco, and is very
popular. His bride is leader in 60
ciety and beautiful.
Mr.. Bland had his way in the
Missouri democratic State convention
yesterday, which declared for free sill
yer. All opposion was overruled.
The advocates of sound money made a
faint effort. Resolutions were passed
demanding free coinage OF silver re-
gardless of other countries. The State
committee was reorganized on a free
silver basis.
The position of Europeans in the
disturbed districts of China is reported
to be critical, owing to the hostility OF
native officials. The province of Flu
ken is in open rebellion, and Europeans
have asked for the protection of gum
boats. The British are to make an in
vestigation of the Kucheng massacre,
and will demand capital punishment of
the offenders.
E. F. G. Davis, president of the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineers, was found dead last night in
Central Park, New York. He was
badly crushed about the head and body
and it is supposed that the spirited horse
that he had been riding threw him and
fell on him. Davis lived most of his
time in Richmond, Va, where he has
several grown children.
A. E. Kelly, o well-known commits
sion dealer at Cleveland, o., went to
Lakeview Cemetery yesterday and,
lying down on his wife's grave, shot
himself through the heart, dying al
most instantly. Mrs. Kelly died about
a year ago and the husband has been
Respondent ever since. This fact,
coupled with some business trouble, is
supposed to have led to the suicide.
The Defender, yesterday, againlbeat
the Vigilant; this time in light weather.
The Vigilant has withdrawn from fur
Their contests with the Defender, Mr..
Willard intimating in letter to the re-
gatta committee of the New York
Yacht Club that the Defenders captain
iockeyed his boat so unfairly at the
start OF yesterdays race and:of Sandy
Hook on July 22d that he declines to
meet her again.
Mrs. Annie M. Gardner, of Arcadia,
Neb., the Christian Endeavor delegate
who disappeared from Boston on July
16, after causing to be written to her
husband a letter saying that she had
died and been buried in that city, is at
present acting as a domestic i'll the
home of Edward r. La Pierre, at Nor
wich, Conn.,, where she has been since
July 90. No suspicion as to her per-
sonal conduct has been raised at any
time since she disappeared.
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, chair
man of the committee on ceremonies
and ceremonial days of the Cotton
States and International Exposition,
called on the President at Buzzard's
Bay yesterday to request him to press
the electric button TO start the wheels
in the Exposition at Atlanta on Sep
TENDER IS. The President assured
Governor Bullock that he would take
great pleasure in pressing the button
and starting the wheels on the 18th
proximo, either from Gray Gables or
wherever he might be on that day.
Miss FLAGLER IN a SANITARIUM.-
Mics Flagler, since 0er disappearance