Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-12
NEWS OF THE DAT.
Cholera has broken out in south'

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hotel yesterday, aged IS years.
Mary Croughan, aged twenty FIVE
wears, died al Lynn, Mass, yesterday,
as the result of nine weeks of continu-
Gus hiccoughing.
Two American sailing ships arrived
at New York yesterday, within an hour
of each other, after ninety-six days
race from Hong Kong.
The weather bureau, in its weekly
review of weather crop conditions for
the week ended April 8, says that upon
the whole the week has been very fav-
orable.
The Tennessee Senate yesterday
adopted a joint resolution requesting
Congress to enact a law providing for
the free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to l.
George Stice was killed while sitting
at the window of his home, near Ma,
con, No.. yesterday, holding his baby
on his knee, an unknown man firing
through the window at him.
North Carolina politicians have just
made the discovery chat the election law
passed by the last legislature repeats all
the city and town election laws enacted
since 1883, but does not provide any
substitutes for them.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese Of
Maryland is bequeathed an estate, esti'
mated to be worth over 5000, 900, by
the late Diversified Fraser Keerl, whose
will is contested by his fathers sister
Miss Susan 81. B. Keerl.
Charles Hart, aged eighteen years
convicted of killing q boy aged four
years and girl aged six, named Good
in Paulding county, Ohio, was execut.
ed last night after midnight in the Ohio
penitentiary, at Columbus.
A bill has been introduced into the
Illinois House of Representatives to
submit to the people an amendment to
the constitution providing for sepa.
rate General Assembly for Cook county
in which Chicago is situated.
The mail and express wagon which
connects Cripple Creek, Col, with the
Midland Railroad at Grassy, COL, was
robbed Yesterday by highwaymen who
overpowered the driver and carried of
$4,000, which had been sent by express
to pay off the miners.
Representative Baker, republican, o.
New Hampshire, in an interview ex
presses the opinion that the republican
majority in the next Congress will re-
peal the income tax provision of the
tariff law, and that if sufficient revenue
is not then forthcoming for the support
of the government small increase will
be made in protective duties.
John L. Sanford, cashier of the
Farmers and Traders Bank, at Coving
ton, KY, was killed by State Senator
William Goebel, on the street in the
business section of the city. The trag
edy caused great excitement there, anc
throughout Kentucky, both men being
well-known. The shooting was the
elimination of an old political feud.
Frederick Welmer, a well-to-do.farm
er of Woodford county, KY, committed
suicide near Versailles, KY, on Wed
nesday night. He was married to s
young girl in Louisville Wednesday
having already two wives. Welmel
paid two hackmen in Louisville fifty
dollars to get him a wife. Shortly at
ter he was married his body was found
near Versailles.
The Massachusetts legislative com
mittee which recently visited the Soutf
made a report yesterday to the effec
that cheaper coal and labor, nearnes'
to cotton fields and other advantage
are responsible for the large exodus o
Massachusetts capital to southern cot
ton mills, but that there is no imme
date danger to the Massachusetts in
dustry from southern competition.
Fire broke out at nine o'clock las
night in the five-etory brick building
at the corner of Columbus avenue and
Ninety-fourth street, New York, occu
pied by the Colonial Bank. Eleven
families occupied rooms in the upper
floors and number of daring rescues
are reported. The building was val
ued at S125, 900 and the loss is estimat'
ed at 100000. 1t was reported that
one servant girl was burned to death,
apd several persons were injured.
Is is stated in the Russian semi
official organ that if Great Britain has
approved Japan's territorial demands
10 regard to Manchuria and Corea, Rus
STA will consider herself relieved of the
obligations of common action, and will
oppose Japan on land and on the sea
An authoritative statement of the terms
of peace between Japan and China
shows that japan demands the perma-
nent cession of the Island of Formosa,
the permanent occupation of Port Ar.
thur and an indemnity of 1920, 600, 00C
in gold.
Two maiden sisters, Miss Mary J.
and Elizabeth A. Bryant, residing
alone at Haverhill, Mass, were found
dead in their chamber yesterday, Eliz.
abeth having been burned to death and
the other smothered. 1t is supposed
that Elizabeth early in the morning
lighted kerosene lamp to go to her
sisters room, and that the lamp ex-
ploded, as pieces of it were found in
the room; that her clothes took fire and
she rushed into her sisters room, clos
ing the door behind her; that she fell
and the flames burned her clothing,
and that her sister, in endeavoring to
get of bed, was overcome by the smoke
or by heart failure. A portion of
Elizabeth's body was burned to crisp.
DEATH OF CAPT. SHEpPERD.-Capt.
Hambleton Shepperd, United States in
ternal revenue collector for this dis.
trict, whose serious illness was men,
toned in yesterdays GAZETTE, died in
Lynchburg yesterday evening about 6