Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

of age.
While bicycle race was in progress
at the Driving Park, at Buffalo, yester-
day, the grand stand collapsed, injur-
ing nineteen of the occupants.
A assure has appeared in the north
west side of the great cone of Mt. Vesu-
vius, and a dense stream of lava is
flowing down the mountain side.
Mrs. Pearl Craigie John Oliver
Hobbes) has been granted divorce in
London, on the ground of cruelty and
unfa:thfulness upon the part of her
husband.
Charles D. Sherwood, ex-lieutenant
governor of Minnesota, has been found
dead floating in the lake at the foot OF
Peck Court, Chicago. 1t was undoubt-
edly case of suicide.
1t is asserted in Manzanillo. Cuba,
that the rebel leader Amador Guerra
has been killed, the report of his death
in skirmish between Bayamo and
Manzanillo being confirmed.
The Henderson county courthouse
in Tennessee and the Cherokee county
courthouse in Alabama were burned on
Wednesday. Both fires are believed to
have been of incendiary origin.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg an-
nounces that the understanding be-
tween Russia and China is now COM
plete, and that the agreement relating
to the proposed loan is about to be
signed.
By the explosion of gasoline stove
yesterday, the home of Mrs. Daniel
Richmond, on the Hillen road, near
Baltimore, was burned to the ground,
an infant was cremated and Mr.. Rich.
mord SO badly burned that she will
die. Mr.. Richmond and four children
were more or less injured.
Miss Bessie Harris confessed in court
at Ramirens. Tex, or Wednesday that
she hanged her lover, Albert Blackman
until he was dead. He had agreed tc
allow her to suspend him by rope as
test of his love for her, she having
agreed to let him down in time to save
his life.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
Ivy Americans in all foreign countries
| the ambassadors and ministers receiv
ing callers. At London dinner was
given BY the American Society, al
which there we're distinguished guests
and in Paris guests were entertained by
the American Chamber of Commerce
Mr.. Thomas Moore, aged so years, o
southwest Baltimore, was drowned
early yesterday morning while crab
bling in Spring Gardens, near Hartman:
bridge. Gis thirteen-year-old son james
and another lad, William Schwab, were
watching him when he sank. 1t is sup
posed that Mr.. Moore was seized will
| cramps, as he was fine swimmer.
At o'clock yesterday evening, while
about 800 of the people of Bristol, Ind.
were gathered on q bridge spanning
the St. Joseph river, Watching q tut
race, one hundred feet of the Sidewalk
of the bridge went down, carrying will
it 100 persons. The fall was about thirty
feet, and the iron fell on many. None
was killed outright but several will die
A desperate fight occurred yesterday
on a picnic train, near Chicago, on the
Santa Fe road, between the trainmen
and gang of toughs who are known a;
the Henry Street Gang" Conductor
Tabert was shot in the leg and brake
man was badly beaten and bruised
Two members of the gang were serious
ly, if not fatally, hurt. The gang start
ed the row for robbery.
Catherine Paetow, of Brooklyn, dice
uddenly on the front porch of hel
house on Wednesday night in the
midst of Fourth of July celebration
Physicians who were summonsed from
the neighborhood ascribed the dealt
to fatty degeneration of the heart, bu
while the body was being prepared fol
burial it was discovered that there was
bullet in the woman's heart.
At Meadville, Mo-, S. A. Fields Gu
the throats of his wife and baby with 6
+ zor yesterday morning, and then end
e. his own life in the same manner
The bodies were found in garden
about 200 yards from the residence o
his mother-in-law, who lives near there
A note was found on Mrs. Fields, say
ing everything they had was to be lief
to her mother. IL seems that Fields anC
his wife had planned the tracey.
A dispatch from Washington says
"The little junta of third party silver
ties, of which Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada, is the head, finding that nothing
has come from its attempt to start 6
new party, has changed its plan and
has organized secret society for politi
cal purposes, which is called The Su
preme Temple, Silver Knights of Amer
ica,' and is to have its headquarters in
Washington, having been formally char
tered at Alexandra, Va, as corpora
ton"
Three desperate postoffice burglars
Joseph Killoran, Charles Allen and
Harry Russell, prisoners of the United
States government, held up Keepers
Edward A Scheen and Charles Schoen
at the muzzles of three shining revol.
vers in Ludlow street Jail, New York
yesterday, seized the keys between
them and liberty and made good Their
escape. The men are still at large and
the Jail officials are in distracted state
of mind. 1t was generally limited that
bribery had been practiced by the pris
oners, but no one would say who the
person was they suspected.
An atrocious triple crime was com.
mitted at Shenandoah, Pa, Wednes.
day, by Martin Rattigan. who, perhaps,
MORALLY stabbed his wife, his sister-in-
law and himself. The wife's refusal IT,
live with him after ne had just ended 8