Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-29
NEWS OF THE DAT.

Henry Ward Beecher.
Since the outbreak of cholera in
Japan nine thousand persons have been
attacked with the disease, and over
Eve thousand persons have died.
The British election returns show
that in the new House of Commons the
conservatives will have a clear major,
ity over all other parties combined.
Hon. Henry w. Hoffman, associate
Judge of the fourth judicial circuit of
Maryland, died yesterday in his sixty
ninth year, at his residence in Cumber-
land.
The normal school, which has been in
session at Charlottesville for the past
four weeks, will close tomorrow. The
session has been an exceedingly
pleasant and profitable one.
The United Brotherhood OF Tailors
went on strike in New York Sunday,
and the officers claim that $1,000 of the
members responded by stopping work
and that New York city, Brooklyn,
Newark and Brownsville are effected.
The Earl of Verulam is dead in Eng
land. He had been lord lieutenant OF
Herts, high steward of St. Adams and
a lord .in.waiting to the Queen. He
was member of Parliament from 1880
to 1915. when he succeeded to his title.
Governor Culberson, of Texas, on
Saturday issued proclamation pro.
hibitory of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
fight. He asserts that it is fragrant
defiance of law and will bring disre-
pute upon and foster spirit of dis
obedience of all law.
A freight train on the Southern Rail
road came in collision with q detached
part of another freight train near
Columbia, S. c., yesterday morning
The wreck took fire and seven cars
and locomotive were destroyed. Two
trainmen were hurt.
The Chicago police have found q
man who took three human bodies
from II. n. Holiness house in Chicago
and articulated the skeletons. In the
basement of Holiness house the police
found mass of quicklime in which two
bodies had evidently been buried.
Oscar Wilde is now confined in the
Norwood Scrubbs prison. The chap
lain of the prison writes to his family
that the prisoner is enjoying good
health and is working resignedly. he
is not compelled to walk on the tread
mill, but is employed in breaking stones
and picking oakum.
The Butler county democratic con,
vention, at Hamilton, Ohio, divided OH
the currency question Saturday, the
sound money men electing ex-Gcv-
srnor James E. Campbell and Con-
FRESHMAN Paul ]. Sorg delegates to
the State convention, and the silve,
men choosing men of their own views
Indian Agent Teter has sent dis.
spatch from Market Lake, Idaho, to
the department at Washington saying
there was no truth in the report of q
massacre by the Indians at Jackson's
Hole. A report to the governor of Wy.
oming says the trouble with the Iu'
dams was caused by their slaughter Of
game contrary to law.
D. B. Williams, one of the professors
at the Virginia Normal Institute, died
suddenly Saturday at the Home for the
Sick, Petersburg, where he had beer
AIKEN for physicians to operate on him
for appendicitis, but he died before the
operation could be begun. The deceas
ed was native of Richmond, and was
educated at Worcester, Mass.
Frederick county, Nd, democrats
in county convention, Saturday declar'
ed for leassessment and acted in har
mony. The regulars controlled in the
Prince Georges primaries. Senator
Germans friends scored signal vic
tory in Howard county. At the dem
ocratic primaries in Hartford county 6
full ticket was nominated, the regular:
winning.
Mrs. William Pierce, of Middleport
N. Y, and her married son, Franklin,
who owns large family boat and
travel by river operating merry-go
round, were both drowned at Ceredo
W. Va, on Sunday. Mrs. Pierce fell
into the river. Her son jumped in at.
ter her, end the current swept them
under the barges. Both bodies have
been recovered.
Business was conducted in Richmond
yesterday as openly as prior to the re.
cent action of Chief Of Police Howard
relative to observance of the Sabbath.
Names of all alleged violators of the
law were taken, however, and their
prosecution will be asked should the
court in pending appeal case render q
decision upon the basis of which a con
Yiction is possible.
1t was rumored at Memphis last
night that the large and elegant steam
er Belle Memphis, owned by the An
Choir Line Company, and running be-
tween that city and st. Louis, had sunk
about sixty miles north of Memphis.
Report has it further that forty or more
lives were lost. The list includes a
large delegation of Memphians, taking
advantage of cheap excursion rate
and making the round trip on the
steamer.
Services were being conducted in q
negro church near Mitchell station,
Ala, yesterday, when the report of q
pistol rang out, and the preacher, Eli
Williams, fell dead in his pulpit, the
ball having entered his heart. The as
sassin is believed to have stood outside
of the church building at the time he
fred. His identity is not known.
Swing and Pleasant Mckee, two ne.
groes who were standing outside, were
arrested. They are held simply as wit
nesses. however.