Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-22
NEWS oF THE day.

| Captain Frank Williams, the we'll
known New Orleans sporting man, died
suddenly yesterday of apoplexy.
AS result of the general elections in
Great Britain the unionists now snow q
net gain of 6S, giving the government q
majority of 10S.
Four of a party of six men in car
rage were killed by a train striking
their vehicle crossing the track near
Williamson, Mass, yesterday.
Four of the National Linseed Oil
Company's mills, at Chicago, were to-
tally destroyed by fire yesterday, en-
failing loss of nearly $500, 600.
Ex.Chief Justice R. 8. Strahen, of
Oregon, died of apoplexy at Portland
Yesterday, aged 60. Deceased was a
democrat and one of the leading law.
yers of the State.
70 morrow will be the anniversary
OF the birth of Cardinal Gibbons. He
was born in Baltimore, July %. 1884.
Cardinal Gibbons is now in Europe
where he went to visit the Pope.
The tug George w. Childs was fired
upon and seized by the U. s. revenue
cutter McLane off the Florida coast
yesterday. 1t is believed that she was
on filibustering expedition to Cuba.
The Georgia crop of watermelons
this year is so big that it has blockaded
the transportation lines. Tine fruit
rots on the way, and is not accepted by
| the Wholesale dealers to whom it is con-
signed.
Lee Jim Nun, treasurer ofthe Chinese
lodge of Freemasons, No. 8, Chez Kong
Tong, who died at Derry, Pa, last
week, was buried at Pittsbury yesterday
with all the pomp and ceremonies OF
Chinese masonry.
The victim of q practical joke, Miss
Ella Templin is now thought to be In
a dying condition at Douglassville, Pa.
Young Harvey Potts, who pulled q
chair from under her, is almost wild
over the awful results of his foolish
prank.
A severe electrical storm passed oyer
Ellsworth, Kan, yesterday. lightning
instantly killed Eli McHenry, Edward
Grimes and Frank Brown. All the
victims were married and leave large
families.
The Church of st. Jean Baptiste,
New York, was crowded with Sunday
visitors to the relic of ST. Anne, many
of whom were suffering from Affections
which they hoped would be cured after
PRAYING to the sainted mother OF the
Blessed Virgin.
At the little borough of Mart, near
Waco, Tex, yesterday shanty was
blown up with dynamite and Eve
negroes killed. The explosion was
caused by enemies of Mrs. Phillips,
whose husband had been killed in q
shooting affray.
/ A cloudburst struck Wallace, N. NJ,
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, caus-
ing the Rio Galistee river to overflow
its banks across the upper part of the
town, submerging and partly destroy
ing houses, driving out the jewellers
and drowning animals.
| A wind of cyclonic force passed over
Baltimore short time after 5 o'clock
Saturday evening and caused consid-
cradle d, struction to property in the
eastern suburbs. A little girl was
killed by a fence which was blown
down and fell upon her.
In the recent battle between the
Spanish forces of Marshal De Campos
and several thousand insurgents at
Manzanillo, thirteen Spanish officers, in
addition to General Santocildes, were
killed, and the insurgent loss was five
hundred killed and wounded.
The great convention of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union of America
which met in Baltimore last week is
over. The convention adopted reso-
luton placing the Baptist Young Peo-
ple's Union in opposition to the saloon
and to the liquor traffic in all 1ts
phases.
A fatal wind storm, accompanied by
heavy rainfall, burst upon the camp
grounds near Roseville, Ohio, yester-
day afternoon, uprooting trees and
overturning buggies. The storm was
cyclonic in fury and before it had spent
itself two persons were killed by tree
falling on the tabernacle and several
others more or less injured.
at Cumberland, Nd, last night
Theodore Muir, German glass blow
or, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the forehead with re-
volver The unrequited love of Lizzie
Haseburger, the 19-year-old daughter
of the man with whom he boarded, was
the cause of the act. He called her
into the parlor and killed himself be-
fore her.
Returns from the democratic pri-
maries held in several counties in
Maryland on Saturday show victories
in the main for Senator German. This
leaves only Baltimore city to select
delegates, and as these will surely
be favorable to Senator Cor
man, there is now no doubS of
the latter controlling the convention.
He will certainly name the next Gov
ernor. The fight against aim appears
to have 6zzled out.
A terrible cyclone passed over Sulli-
van county, Ulster county, and portions
of Orange county New York, Saturday
afternoon, accompanied by cloud
burst. The Ontario and Western Rail.
road tracks were buried near Liberty.
Several barns were completely wrecked
at Pine Bush, and barns at Livingston
Manor were struck by lightning and
burned. At Circleville four men were
shingling roof of barn when the
cyclone struck them. All we're blown
OFF, three going distance of forty five
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