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

United States officers seized lot of
arms and ammunition at Cedar Key 8
on Saturday intended for insurgents.
A Vladivostock correspondent says
that cholera is raging in China and that
there are daily 1000 deaths from the
disease in Peking.
Ex-Speaker Crisp. who returned
from Europe on Saturday, expressed
himself in favor of the nomination of
William @. Whitney as the democratic
nominee for President.
The decision of the Porte with ref
ence to Armenia has been made known
to England, France and Russia. It is
thought that it will not be satisfactory
to those powers.
Emporia, Kan, and vicinity was Wis
| tied BY tornado about 8 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, which did $4,000
worth of damage at the State normal
school. Considerable other damage
was done.
The President has issued an order
placing bookbinders in all branches of
the government printing Office, notably
the Treasury, under civil service rules,
on the same footing with those at the
main Office.
A lad practicing with revolver fred
into a cellar containing six hundred
pounds of dynamite at Specht's Ferry,
near Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday. The
house was blown up and five persons
were killed and number wounded.
Senator Hill declared in the Che
mung county, N. Y, democratic con-
vention on Saturday, that personal lib
erty was the paramount issue in the
campaign, and he denounced the New
York police commissioners and Mayor
Strong.
A woman yesterday attempted to
hand petition to Emperor William, at
Stettin, whereupon the police seized
her. The emperor saw the arrest and
called to the woman to give her letter
to one of his aide-de-camps. The wo-
man was then released.
Another supposed "Jack the Ripper
murder was discovered yesterday
morning at Kendall Green, London.
| The victim was an unfortunate woman
of the outcast class, and her throat was
cut from ear to ear and her head fear
fully battered with stone.
Cardinal Gibbons preached at the
Cathedral in Baltimore yesterday for
the first time since he returned from
Rome, giving in his sermon his impress
sions of the Pope and of the condi
tons which prevail abroad in contrast
with those existing in the United
States.
The store and postoffice at Leland
Prince Georges county, Md, was en-.
tered by thieves early on Saturday
morning, and the large safe, that does
double duty, was blown open. The
thieves secured $500 in stamps and
money from the postoffice and large
quantity of goods from the store.
| Rev. John Jenkins, colored, applied
to the police of London on Saturday
for assistance for himself and fourteen
colored boys under ten years of age to
return to Charleston s. @. He claimed
that committee OF ministers bad told
him that he could raise money for the
orphanage to which the boys belonged
by taking them to London to perform.
The London authorities would not per.
nit the boys to give entertainments be-
cause they were under age.
| With the arrival at Louisville, KY.
of commander in chief Lawler and his
staff from Chicago to-day, the frs
Grand Army encampment south O.
Msson's and Dixon's line will be for
malIy inaugurated. Louisville ha:
been decorated gorgeously, and the
vanquished southerners are prepared tt
show their former enemies that not G
trace of the sting of defeatremains, and
that they welcome them most cordially
to their sunny home down on the banks
of the beautiful Ohio.
Thirty-fve miners met an awfu
death 10 the Osceola mine, at Calumet
Mich, on Saturday evening. An ex
plosion set fire to the mine shaft anG
chambers. and cut off all possibility O.
escape. An immense volume of flame
shot from the shaft and indicated thai
the fire had grown and spread with
awful lhpluity III puV iOWOi OAouUOiS
There is no possibility of the recovery
of their bodies until the fire is extin
guished, which may not be for months
It is the opinion OF some of the Oldest
officials of the mine that the fire was
the work of an incendiary.
A thrilling accident occurred on Sat
urday night on the Rock Creek Rail
way bridge, over the sixty feet ravine
it spans, near Washington. A young
lady was hurled from her seat in 8
buggy by collision with another We.
hicle filled with ladies, against the low
railing of the bridge, and just missed
being sent over in the ravine. A young
man who was in the buggy with the
young lady, chung to the buggy ate,
the crash, and was dragged in it, over
turned, by the frantic horse nearly the
whole length of the bridge. Two
young men who were riding bicycles al
the time of the accident saved the
young lady from falling over the
bridge and the young man from being
dragged down precipice.
London is watching with amusement
the State reception in France of Sir
Joseph Renals, Lord Mayor of London.
The lord mayor himself must be &C.
cused of assisting in keeping up the de.
ception of the French as to his import
ance. To French interviewers he pre-
tends to take a serious view of his visit