Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-31
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A monster which devours horses is
roaming the woods near Margaret
vile, N. Y.
Senator Stuart dislocated his knee in
alighting from moving electric car In
Washington last night.
Reports from Jackson's Hole, Idaho,
indicate there is no danger of fighting
between the Indians and settlers.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg states
that Russia will insist on Japan evacuat-
ing the Liao-Tung peninsula without
delay.
An accident to the yacht Defender
while she was racing with the Vigilant
caused her to give up the RAGS yester-
day evening.
The colored farmers and their fam
lilies who were duped into migrating to
Liberia arrived, penniless, in Philadel-
phia yesterday.
Two flibustering expeditions, well
supplied with arms and ammunition,
are said to have landed on the south
ern coast of Cuba last week.
The courthouse in Fresno, CAL, was
burned Yesterday. Only the hall of
records was saved. The loss is estimat-
ed at 500, 900, most of which is covered
by insurance.
Thomas Carroll, Of Bridgeport, has
gone to Cuba under contract with the
insurgents to make large supply of a
high explosive which he has the secret
formula for making.
A dispatch from Berlin quotes the
ambassador of q foreign power as say
ing that the Franco-C Chinese treaty is
the greatest achievement of French
diplomacy since 1870.
Returns of the British parliamentary
elections are now complete except for
the Orkney Islands. The government
majority will be 152 and the conserva-
tive majority over all12.
Charles E. Mavne, of Omaha, has
been arrested in Los Angeles on the
charge of being criminally intimate
with his ward, Elsie Shipton, who is
only fourteen. years of age.
A dispatch from Charlottetown,
Prince Edward Island, says Mrs. Alex
ander Campbell, of Montague, gave
birth to five daughters on Sunday. Her
husband is tailor in his Saith year.
Mrs. Spivey, charged with the MUIR
der of her husband at Montgomery,
Ala, was released last night, Judge
Fuller holding that the evidence did
not show that a murder had been COM
mitted.
A cyclone and cloudburst at Wells
ston, o., yesterday flooded streets and
| cellars, carried away the waterworks
dam and drowned some Italians work
ing in street railway cut before they
could escape.
A riot is reported to have occurred at
Brookside, Ala, last night between ne
groes and whites over the killing of q
deputy sheriff by negro. Four men
are orted killed. Fifteen deputies
left fl. the scene at eleven o'clock last
night.
Serious street disturbances have oc-
CURED in LISBON in consequence of ru-
mors that priests have been guilty o.
child.stealing. In number of in.
stances priests have been attacked by
mobs, and several of them have been
injured.
Two one thousand-dollar notes, torn
in halt, were found one day last week
amid rubbish in the upper story of the
old health Office on D street, Washing.
ton, yesterday by Fannie Ford, wife Of
the janitor. The notes were stolen and
hidden some years ago.
A democratic primary was held in
various counties of South Carolina yes.
terday for the nomination of candidates
to be voted for by the democrats in the
election of August 20 ofmembers of the
constitutional convention. OF the 160
delegates nominated about $50 are Til
nantes.
The dead body of sea serpent,
which it is thought had been struck by
vessel, has come ashore at Blackwell's
Island, N. Y. 1t is described as being
twenty-five feet long, spotted some
thing like rattlesnake, about nine
inches in circumference of body, with a
head very much larger. furnished with
double row of fangs. The back was
ridge, and the whole body covered
| with scales. There were protruding
spines or spikes which looked as if they
were combinations of the serpent's
ribs.