Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-02
NEWS OF Il DAY.

City, Delaware and elsewhere.
The court at Naples has ordered that
the SONS of Prince Colonua be given in
to the custody of his wife, who is the
daughter of Mrs. John w. Mackay.
An organized movement, having for
its object the placing of all fourth class
postmasters in the classified service, is
now approaching maturity in Wash
ington.
Lightning struck a man who was
swimming to shore from q capsized
boat neal Stamford, Conn. yesterday,
carrying his son on his back, and both
were killed.
The New York Coffee Exchange is
under q cloud, and stands accused by
the Attorney General of %sanctioning
the adulteration by its members of food
products.
Friends of Secretary Carlisle regard
him as a most available candidate for
the presidency because of his strength
in the South and his acceptability to
the North.
The Emperor William Memorial
Church was dedicated yesterday in Ber-
lin, and to-day the anniversary of the
battle of Sedan was celebrated through
out Germany.
The Academy of Music, the Oldest
| playhousein Buffalo, N. Y, was burf-
early yesterday morning. The loss on
the building is about $4,000, and
much valuable theatrical property was
destroyed.
Major Richard II. Sylvester died yes
terday at his home in Washington after
an illness of almost a years duration.
He was the oldest journalist in the city
of Washington, and had been connected
with the Post ever since it was founded
in 1877.
Miss Lulu Longstreet, only daughter
of General Longstreet, the famous Con-
federate leader, was married at st.
Philips Catholic deanery, in Atlanta,
Ga, on Thursday last, to Prof. ]. E5tiD
| Wheelchel, q well-known educator, of
Gainesville, Ga.
An attempt was made about noon
yesterday to burn the woods below
Brentwood road, about n half mile
| above Washington and had not mount
ed policemen discovered the flames
when they did a disastrous forest fire
might have resulted.
The Chinese foreign Office has asked
the recall of the British ambassador al
Pekin, N. r. O'Conner, owing to his
menacing attitude in connection with
his governments demands for the ap-
pointment of a commission to inquire
into the Ku Cheng massacre.
The presidents of the anthracite coal
companies have planned to establish q
| combination on the basis of a transpor.
! tation pool, in the same way that the
other traffic provided for in the new
Trunk Line and Central Traffic Asso-
citation agreement is regulated.
The New York Herald says: Four
hundred mills and factories in this
country have increased the wages of
their employees, affecting 10000 work
ing persons. In $50 other mills, the
number of whose employees is not
stated, wages have been increased.
The Chicago Times Herald published
interviews with President Debs and
ex-Vice President Howard of the
American Railway Union, in which
they stated that ex-Mayor Hopkins, of
Chicago, advised them to tie up the
railroads in the strike against Pullman
in 1894.
A dispatch from Zermatt, the little
Swiss village near the Matterhorn,
which reached here to-day, says that an
English girl, a Miss Simpson, who was
an intrepid mountain climber, has been
killed by a Landslide while crossing the
mountain, accompanied by a friend and
two guides.
The report of the government analy-
sis of cereals at the Worlds Fair at
Chicago, just issued, comments on the
remarkable dryness of the cereal pro-
ducts of this country, and says they
showed a moisture ofabout e~ight-tenths
of one per cent. less than those of for
eign countries examined.
Sheriff Dove and his deputies guard
ed the county Jail at Upper Marlboro,
Md, last night to prevent an attempt
of lynching John Davidge, a nineteen
year-old colored boy, who is locked up
on q charge of attempting a brutal
feionious assault on little Emma Stew
art on Friday afternoon.
George Wray, of Hamblen township,
Brown county, Indiana, was ninety-six
years old May 5 last. He has been
married three times, his last wife being
thirty-fve years of age. By his first
wife he had six children, his second
two, and two by the last, the youngest
child being less then two years of age.
An electrical storm of great violence
swept over New York city late Satur-
day afternoon, accompanied by q gale
which at the height of the tempest
threatened to turn the upper part of
the city into a heap of ruins. Several
buildings were demolished, walls blown
down, roofs carried way and trees and
street fixtures damaged. Several per-
sons were injured.
DR.. Forbes Winslow, of London, q
well-known specialist on suicide and
insanity, says that "Jack the Ripper"
who by his crimes terrorized London a
few years ago, is incarcerated in q
county lunatic asylum in England. DR..
Winslow says this fact is known to the
authorities, but they have hushed up
the case. DR.. Winslow also asserts that
the ripper was a medical student suffer-
ing from homicidal mania.