Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Zermatt Parkett, an American, has
accom- Of ed Tho ascent of the Matter
horn in the Alps.
A report has reached New Orleans to
the effect that the Nicaraguan govern
men5 threatens to annul the concession
for the canal.
Dollie Tyson, colored, sister of
'Blind Tom the famous musician:
died very suddenly at her home at CO.
lumbus, o., yesterday.
Burglars yesterday blew up the safe
in the postoffice at Allegheny, Pa, and
got away with $3.50 worth of stamps
and 5000 in cash, and made their es-
cape.
Dorchester county, Md, yesterday
selected anti German delegates to the
democratic State convention. Friends
of Senator German controlled the
county convention in Somerset.
Four masked men yesterday battered
down the door of John Mullins house
near Ashland, Ohio, bound and gagged
Miblin and his wife and tortured them
until they gave up $lS, all the money
they had.
Secretary Carlisle is of the opinion
that the income tax may again come
before the Supreme Court when suit is
entered for money paid in under the
| law that has since been declared uncon-
stitutional.
Rev. Arthur Brooks died on board
the steamship Fulda on her passage
from Southampton to New York. He
was brother of the late Bishop Phillips
Brooks and pastor of the Church OF the
Incarnation, New York.
The treaty between Russia and China
in respect to the Chinese loan contains
absolutely no railway concessions either
to France or Germany, nor does it
grant Russia the right to prolong the
trans-Siberian railway through Man
churia.
The Banque du Peuple, of Montreal,
Can, closed its doors yesterday and
announced its suspension. The general
impression is that liquidation will fol-
low. There is great excitement among
depositors and note holders, and
throughout the Canadian commercial
world.
Since the Legislature OF Mary isna i
established the whipping post in that
State for wife. heaters, four husbands
have been dashed for brutally assault
ing their wives. One Of those whipped
was colored and the other three were
white. The act was passed at the ses-
sion of 1882.
Rev. W. G. Davenport, of Washing
ton, father of young Dana Davenport,
who disappeared from his stopping place
near Baltimore twelve days ago, return
ed to Washington last night after an
unsuccessful search for the missing boy.
Mr.. Davenport has by no means aban-
doned hope that his son may yet return
safe and sound.
The resignation of the Right Rev
Mgr. Denis ]. O'Conuell from his office
of rector of the American College al
Rome las started considerable specu'
lation as to the future of this American
prelate and about his successor in the
resigned position. Mgr. O'Connell has
heen in poor health for some time, an6
his resignation has been partly assign
ed to this fact.
Up to midnight returns from the
British parliamentary elections show The
following results: Conservatives 200
liberal-unionists 81; total unionists 231
liberals "A; parnelites 4; McCarthyites
IL; labor L; total 292. The gains which
the uuionists have secured in the cleo
; tions thus far held insure them ma
jority of 80 in the next house, even j
the remainder of the seats to be voted
on remain the same as heretofore.
The inquest in the case of the two
Pitezel children, whose bodies were
, found buried in the cellar of dwelling
in Toronto, Ont, was begun last night
The finding of the bodies created Q
sensation in police circles in Philadel
phia. The authorities are convinced
that they were murdered by Holmes
who is now in prison there awaiting
trial on the charge of conspiracy to de-
fraud the Fidelity Mutual Life Insur.
ance Association of $4,000. The Pite'
eel boy, the brother of Alice and Nellie
Pitezel, was beyond doubt murdered in
indianapolis, Ind, on October 9th last
presumably by Holmes.