Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is thought that the revolution IN
Ecuador will be serious affair before
it is settled.
The national electrical convention
will be held.in Washington from No
vember II to II.
The electric plant of the Kelley In
stitute at Laurel, Md, was seriously
damaged by fire yesterday morning.
Gen. S. B. Maxey died yesterday
at Eureka Springs, Ark, of compiled
ton of diseases, incident to old age.
Reports have reached San Francisco
of terrible storm in Japan, in which
1000 lives were lost and property de-
stroyed.
Russia's Department of Commerce
has requested merchants of that coun-
try to send samples of their wares to
New York to be exhibited to American
importers.
Burt E. Hyde, who was transferre d
from Hoffman to Swineburne Island
New York, on Tuesday afternoon last,
suffering from yellow fever, died yester-
day afternoon.
The owner of the cottage at Ford
ham, occupied by Edgar Allen Poe, the
Z oct, says there is no truth in the re-
port that it has been sold to the
Shakesperean Society.
A dispatch from Frankfort, KY, says
Senator Blackburn has enough pledges
to secure his reelection, provided the
districts heretofore carried by the DEM
ocrats give their usual results.
a bomb was exploded yesterday in
front of the French consulate at An
coma, Italy, just as the police were in
the act of arresting an anarchist who
had been posting revolutionary pla-
cards.
Dock Wade, Confederate veteran,
was murdered yesterday at Abbeville,
Ga. The motive is supposed to have
been robbery, he having recently re-
ceived his pension from the State. Two
arrests have been made.
The inquest on the body of Nellie
Pitezel, the younger of the two girls
believed to have been murdered by the
notorious Holmes, was concluded in
Toronto last night. The jury returned
verdict of wilful murder against
Holmes.
After consultation with the experts
of the government printing Office, the
civil service commission has practically
decided to remove the limitation of
forty-fve years from the regulations
applying to examination for the gov
ernment printing Office.
The town of Przytyk, in the Radon
district, in Poland, has been entirely
destroyed by fire. A church is the only
structure that was not burned. Four
thousand persons are homeless and are
camping in the fields or about the smok-
ing ruins of their houses. The fire was
incendiary.
William Morgan, a farmer living
near Martinsburg, W. Va, found four
boys in his orchard stealing apples
Thursday. He secured shotgun and
fired to scare them away. Will Ran
kin was hauled home in wagon aud
the attending physician found thirty
holes in his body. He may die. Nor
gan has been placed under arrest.
Before daybr Thursday morning
burglars made general raid on the
row of one-story stores and Offices on
the west side of Fourteenth street be-.
tween F and G streets northwest,
Washington. TIE job was done so sue
cessfully and with such neatness and
dispatch that it is supposed to be the
work of professional housebreakers.
a terrible storm of wind, hail and
rain broke over Frederick, Md, and
vicinity Thursday evening, Hail
stones as large as hickory nuts fell, and
the wind blew with such velocity as to
lift a horse and buggy, containing q
man and woman, out of the road and
against the fence. The rain fell in tor
rents, and the hail did some damage.
At High Knob, KY, Wednesday,
Tom Sheppard was killed at a bali
game. Joseph Corbett and ]. M. Cross
were discussing the game, that was be-
ing played by amateurs, when Tom
Sheppard struck Corbett with bat,
breaking his arm. It is alleged that
w. G. Huntley and E. II. Gross, Cor
belts friends, shot Sheppard three
times and fled.