Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The old Times building IN chicago
was damaged yesterday to the extent
of $4,000 by fire.
Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio, reached
Washington last night from his south
ern tour. He contemplates another
southern trip next fall.
Prof. C. M. Bruner was burned to
death in the forest FIRE near Victoria,
KY, Saturday. He was passing through
the woods on horseback when he was
surrounded by fire. The horse threw
him, and he was S injured that he
could not escape.
Bertha Valentine, aged seventeen
years, died in horrible agony at her
home in Brooklyn, on Saturday, from
an injection of anti-toxine, and it is
supposed that some deadly poison be-
came mixed with the diphtheria RENE
dy in in its manufacture.
Rev. DR.. Randolph Fl. McKim, OF
the Protestant Episcopal church of the
Epiphany, Washington. in a sermon at
the church of st. Michael and All An
gels, Baltimore, yesterday, set forth
the necessity and advantages of divid-
ing the diocese of Maryland.
At q hearing before a legislative
committee in New York on Saturday
there was a d~isgraceful wrangle be-
tween Judges Cowing and Gotf, which
was brought to an end by the announce
ment of the death of Judge MARITIME, OF
the Court of General Sessions.
Four lives were lost in a trolley car
accident at Evansville, Pa, Saturday.
The car became unmanageable and ran
down the m~ountainside at high speed.
The passengers became panic-stricken
and crowded about the conductor so
that he could not turn on the brakes.
Thomas White, formerly marshal of
Rocheport, Mo-, on Saturday accused
the wife Of David Eaton, a colored
farmer, of telling evil stories about
him to his wife, and whipped her with
a rawhide. The young woman got o
pistol and shot White in the right tenn
pie, killing him instantly.
A fve-mile trestle on the Norfolk
and Western Railroad, near Ports
mouth, o., was set on fire by brush
burners on Saturday and a freight
train was ditched. One of the seven
teen cars contained matches, which ig-
nited the wreck, and all ofthe cars and
contents were consumed.
The Confederate monument in Oak
wood cemetery, Chicago, will be de-
Dictated on Decoration Day, General
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, de-
livering the dedicatory address. The
event has awakened great enthusiasm
in the South, and carloads of flowers,
blossoms and hanging moses will be
sent to Chicago to ornament the monu-
ment and graves from each ofthe south
ern cities.
The body of a negro woman, strang-
led to death and with both legs cut off
at the knees, and a large cash at the
right hip, was found at 6 o'clock yester-
day morning in front of Nc. rs Sixth
avenue, New York. 1t had evidently
been brought there and thrown over
the fence. There was evidence that
the murderer had intended making
some other disposition of it than he had
made. The body was bundled upin an
old carpet and was tied at either end
with pieces of clothes line.
The Sunday school pupils of st.
Clements Protestant Episcopal Church,
henceforth to be known as the Church
of our Saviour, with sixty-fve COM
m%unicants, marched out from the hall
in Brookland, nea Washington, where
they have been worshiping, yesterday
afternoon and laid the corner stone Of
q new ediice. DR.. Buck, the venerable
rector of the Rock Creek Church, of
which the new society was formerly a
mission, presided at the cermonies. In
structive addresses were delivered by
Rev. DR.. Childs, A%rchdeacon of Wash
ington.