Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

+ 1t is denied that the King of Corea
has been poisoned.
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, was
reelected at Denver yesterday.
w. w. Astor has made a $40, 600 con-
tract for flowers to be placed daily on
his wife's grave in New York.
Hugh J. Grant will be the next lead
err of Tammany Hall, according to a
prominent man in the organization.
The vessel held at Fernandina, Fla,
charged with violation of the neutrali-
ty laws, will be allowed to leave That
port.
The statement is made that Andrew
Freedman has purchased a controlling
interest in the New York baseball CLUB,
paying $50, 900 for the stock.
Frederick Villiers, newspaper cor
respondent, arrived at Vancouver fro In
Japan yesterday. He says the massa-
ere at Port Arthur was horrible.
Brooklyn trolley strikers yesterday
evening offered to make concessions,
aud it is thought that the whole strike
will collapse before the close OF the
week.
Thomas J. Beckwith shot and killed
his wife and then committed suicide On
Tuesday evening at Elkhart, Ind. lie
had forbidden his wife and stepdaugh-
t,r to attend church entertainment.
Joseph Banigan, the founder of the
St. Maria Home for Working Girls, at
Providence, r. l., has donated S5O,oOo
TO endow a chair in political economy
in the Catholic University at Washing
ton.
A cable from London says: "Charles
Mitchell has challenged Peter jackson
to fight according to Queensbury or
London prize ring rules for $1,000
side, the match to take place next May
or June.
Burglars cut out pane of glass in
Mrs. T. Lynch's diamond store in
Broadway, New York, last night and
escaped with valuable booty. They
left no clew and the police are working
in the dark trying to discover the
thieves and recover the property.
A letter written by Senator David B.
Hill to Clark Howell, of Atlanta, Ga,
in July, 1898, declaring that the demo-
cratic party should hold out the free
coinage of silver as the ultimate goal,
was published today for the first time.
The letter will attract considerable at
tention as hearing upon the campaign
of 1896.
The Morganfeld appeal went over in
the Circuit Court in Cincinnati yester
day until to-day. There was some de-
lay about preparing the bill of excep-
lions and the filing of the petition in the
habeas corpus case. The Virginia Off
GERS are still there, but it is impossible
TO say when they will leave with Scar
cey's partner.
4 severe rainstorm struck Mobile,
Ala, Tuesday night and seemed to
center near Point Clear and Battles. on
the eastern shore of the bay, where it
developed into cyclone. The hail fell
Us large as guinea's eggs and there was
water spout formed in the bay, which
c.,me in shore, wrecking the western
annex of the Grand Hotel. Fifty feet
OF inc wharf aC DattieS WuS plo"h
away.
Sixty persons are believed to have
been killed by the explosions of giant
powder at the fire in Butte City, Mon,
on Tuesday night. Nearly fifty bodies
were recovered yesterday. The fire is
believed to have been incendiary. The
persons killed were firemen, policemen
and spectators attracted by the fire.
The list of injured already numbers
more than one hundred, and some of
these will die.