Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Rev. Sam Jones discussed Maryland
politics in a sermon at Emory Grove
camp meeting yesterday.
Ex.Gov. Campbell won't accept the
democratic nomination for Governor of
Ohio. He says he is too poor to run
again.
Forty thousand dollars worth of
securities were stolen from the safe OF
the city treasurer of Montreal on Sat-
urday.
Annie Stack, aged sixteen years,
was killed by lightning at Forrestville,
Prince Georges county, Nd, on Sat
urday.
Minister Ransom, to Mexico. is to be
reappointed in order to overcome OBJ
jections to the regularity of his ap-
pointment.
Four colored prisoners escaped from
the Towson, Md, Jail in broad daylight
yesterday by digging hole through
one of the walls.
Returns from four primaries held in
as many counties in Kentucky on Sat
urday show that Blackburn secured
three out of four.
Emmanuel Padrol, rancher, dis
covered rich vein of gold, last week,
in which he cleaned up $4,000 in q
single day, near Silver City, New.
Reports from Cuba last night were
that General Maxine Gomez died from
consumption July 81. Other reports
are that he died from the effects OF 8
wound.
Five men were overcome and died
from inhaling gas from an abandoned
mine near Mahaff1y, Pa, yesterday.
Ten oth-r persons were affected, but
not seriously.
The commission appointed to inyes-
tigate the Chinese massacre of mission
aries has arrived at Ku Sheng, and al
ready several arrests of assassins have
been made.
A northbound passenger train on tho
Southern Railway jumped the track
near Blacksburg, S. o., yesterday, caus-
ing o bad wreck. Express Messenger
Green was killed.
The extension of the classified civil
service to practically the entire force OF
the Agricultural Department is formal
| ly announced in O circular issued by
Secretary Morton.
The jury in the case OF DR.. Dustrow,
the ST. Louis millionaire, who has
been on trial at Union, Mo-, on q
change of venue, for the murder of his
wife and child, failed to agree.
James Vane, aged forty-three years,
fireman on the tugboat Charles j.
Baker, had his left leg cut off at the
ankle by getting it caught in a hawser
Saturday, in the Baltimore harbor.
The people of Pomona, n. j., spent
Sunday fighting forest fires, finally
checking the progress of the flames by
throwing up sand embankment three
feet high and nearly five miles long.
A dispatch states that the health OF
the Grand Duke George is SO unsatis-
factory that Professor Leyden, the great
German specialist on lung diseases, will
go to Copenhagen to visit his imperial
patient.
The twenty. fifth anniversary of the
battle of Gravelotte was celebrated in
grand style in Berlin, yesterday, the
Emperor laying the foundation. stone
of the national monument to Emperor
William l.
The returns from county conventions
held in Ohio on Saturday indicate an
unexpected victory for free silver.
Some county conventions adopted reso-
buttons condemning Senator Brice's
financial views.
The cruiser San Francisco will Tues
day proceed to Havre, where she will go
into dock to be cleaned and overhaul
The work will take at least fortnight,
and much longer, unless the vessel is
ordered away by the Navy Department.
Mrs. S. Y. Smith and colored servant
were drowned in the Tug river at Gray,
w. Va, yesterday while being ferried
across the stream to attend church.
Mrs. Smiths little children stood on
the river bank and saw their mother
perish.
Mrs. Bette North, who, while tenn
porarily insane, threw her ten-days-old
baby from the third story window of
her home in Baltimore last Thursday,
and then leaped out after it, died last
night at the at the Baltimore Universi-
ty Hospital.
A proposition has been made to the
Hawaiian government to build cable
from San Francisco to Honolulu, pro-
yides government subsidy of $4,000
year is paid for twenty years. The
plan provided for subsidy of 800, 900
from the United States.
The wife and little son of Arthur
Francis, of Englewood, ILL.,, were
drowned in Spring Lake, yesterday,
The child was in bathing, and got be-
yond his death, when the mother went
to his rescue, and both were drowned.
The bodies were recovered.
Rev. Isidor Danbreise, S. j., died
yesterday at the Novitiate in Freder.
lex, Nd, from the effects of general
debility, aged eighty-six years. He
was born in Lille, France, in 1910, and
entered the Jesuit Order in 1882. In
1S47 he came to the United States.
H. Homes castle, in Chicago which
is said to have been the scene of num-
erous murders by the owner, YVES dis
covered to be on fire early yesterday
morning, 1t is believed it was seton
fire. Homes lawyer denies emphati-
cally that the house was set on fire.
Acting Secretary McAdoo says that
four of the new lightdraft gunboats will