Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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are now in foliage in Washington.
Emperor William arrived at Cowes
yesterday and visited Queen Victoria
at Osborne.
| Daniel Webster, of Wisconsin, has
been appointed chief examiner of land
claims in the Interior Department.
King Christian, of Denmark, is slf-
| feripg from catarrh of the bladder and
his condition is thought to be serious.
Mr.. ]. Edward Wilson has been ap-
pointed assistant postmaster of Wash
ington, succeeding Capt. Harry sher-
wood.
Louis Stern, of New York, was yes
terday fined 600 marks and sent to Jail
for two weeks for insulting an official in
Kissengen.
a new counterfeit $40 national bank
note on the First National Bank Of De-
troit has been discovered by the secret
service bureau.
A residence on the Clenzkrag estate,
near Breslau, was burned yesterday,
and FIVE persons persisted, while others
received severe injuries.
Mrs. Annie Schloffer and her three
children were probably fatally burned
in Baltimore yesterday afternoon by
TIE explosion of a gasoline stove.
At a meeting of Europeans in Shang-
hal yesterday resolutions were adopted
appealing to European governments to
take action upon the massacre at What
Han.
Blachley Hoyt Porter, second son of
Timothy FL. Porter, a wealthy resident
of Stamford, Conn.,, was recently killed
by lightning in the Grand Canyon, in
| Arizona.
The rioters and the lawless had sway
in Spring Valley, ILL.,, yesterday. No
attempts at arrests have been made
and those enthusiastically inclined are
in high spirits.
The bread riots in Tabreese, Persia,
continue. A mob has wrecked the
house of the governor, who has resign
ed his authority and promises a reduc-
ton in the price of bread.
Col. Frederick D. Grant says he will
not resign from the New York police
board in consequence of his difference
with the other commissioners about
the case of Captain Eakin.
Miss Adelaide Bassett, while ascend
ing in balloon with parachute at
Peterborough, London, Sunday, struck
u telephone wire, which detached the
parachute. The lady jumped and was
killed.
Much excitement prevailed in the
vicinity of the Baltimore and Ohio de-
port, in Washington, about 9:15 o'clock
last night, when John NJ. Green, col
ored special officer, twice carelessly
discharged his revolver near the pas
senger gate of the station at William
Goodling, q colored man, who, he
claimed, was q pickpocket endeavor-
ing to escape arrest.
The yachts Defender and Vigilant
sailed over 351 mile course yesterday
from Cottage City, Mass to Newport,
R. I. The sea was smooth and the
wind varied from ten to fifteen miles an
hour. In the twenty miles beat to
windward the Defender beat the Vigil
liant by five minutes forty-six seconds.
On the stretch thence to Newport, with
sheets eased little, the Defender
gained enough to make her time from
start to finish nine minutes nine seconds
better than the Vigilant's.
A combine of millions has been form
ed between the Baldwin Locomotive
Works and the Westinghouse Company,
with capital of $4,000, 600, to make
electrical engines. The consolidated
interests promise to bring about rail-
road revolution. The combination is
to develop the possibilities of the Tesla
motor as applied to the railway service.
1t is intended to make it possible TO
ride from New York to Pittsburg in
three hours. With the Tesla motor,
power to draw car at the rate Of $50
| miles an hour or more is assured.
Betsy Trout, who lives with her u
year old daughter, Mary Ann, in Earl
township, Pa, celebrated her 99th
birthday at their cabin in the woods on
Sunday. The occasion was made one
of great interest. The neighbors for
miles around, numbering over 800,
spent the day with the old woman and
her daughter. They brought many
good things to eat and number Of
presents for both mother and daughter,
aud there was big feast on the lawn
near the house. A brass band was
present with the visitors, and Betsy
said the music was the best she. ever
heard. 1t was the first time she heard
a band playing in 40 years.
The case of w. Il. T. Durrant,
charged with the murder of Miss La
mont, was resumed in San Francisco
yesterday. AS the list of talesmen was
called, there was the usual avalanche
of excuses, and up to the noon recess
no additional jurors had been secured.
The first attempt to do violence to Dur
rant, since his arrest, was made yester-
day as the defendant was leaving the
court. The prisoner was in the custody
of the chief jailor, when wild looking
man rushed from the crowd towards
Durrant with the evident intention of
assaultiug him. The jailor threw him
off before he could reach Durrant and
the assailant tried to draw pistol. He
was seized by two deputies before he
could aim his weapon. 1t is believed
he is insane.
LITHUANIAN CoLoNIsTs FOR VIR-
GINIA.-Ten of the prospective 5000
Lithuanian colonists, who are to settle