Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Rain has destroyed nearly the entire
oat crop in southeast Kansas.
The New York Bankers Association
of Saratoga yesterday adopted
sound money platform.
At meeting in Boston yesterday OF
the Christian Endeayor Societies, San
Francisco was selected as the meeting
Mace of the society in 1897. Over 50,-
900 are in attendance.
The colorsd citizens of South Caro-
lima have decided, after long session,
TO fight their own battles. AT the con.
ference in Columbia Wednesday night
there was not white man present.
Some prominent New York million
aires who have country establishments
along the Hudson river will build a
magnificent casino on the Hamilton
homestead as country clubhouse.
Ambassador Eustis published q state
ment in Paris yesterday to the effect
that he did not authorize Nj. Rouvler to
publish q conversation he had with
him, and that he did not use the lam
guage M. Rouvier attributed to him.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
ticket Office at Harper's Ferry was
robbed Wednesday night. The thieves
secured SIS in money. The tickets
we're not disturbed. An entrance was
made through the ticket window lead
ing to the ladies' waiting-room<
The United States canal commission
has now completed its inspection of
both the Nicaragua and the Panama
routes. 1t is reported in Colon, Colon
bia, that members of the commission in
private conversation have expressed
favorable opinion of the Panama route.
Peter Winter, farmer living near
Bridgeport, Conn.,, having yesterday,
in dispute killed William Butler, one
of his helpers, placed the corpse in a
carriage, and, accompanied by the dead
mans mother and brothers, drove to
the city and surrendered himself to the
police.
A disastrous confagration occurred
yesterday at Brotterode. q village in
Hesse Nassau, Germany. Three hundred
and fifty houses were destroyed,
and ten of the villagers were
killed while seeking to rescue their
valuables. Two thousand persons are
homeless.
The upsetting coal stove in the
kitchen of D. II. Jones, at Waverly,
| near Baltimore, yesterday morning, and
the consequent overturning of boiler
| full of hot water on top of it, caused
the death of one child, the serious scald-
ing of three others, and the slight
scalding of Mrs. Reynold w. Jones.
A triple drowning accident occurred
in the village of Slattersville, R. l.,
Yesterday. George E. Rippett, aged
seven; John Keegan, aged six, and Jno.
McGuil, aged five, left their homes
about two o'clock to go fishing. They
! did not return, and at night their hats
were found floating down the river.
Their bodies have been recovered.
Discouraged because of poverty and
disability to get work, Mrs. Rose Gear
hart, of Philadelphia, poisoned her lit
tie daughter, Lola, yesterday afternoon
and then attempted suicide in the
same manner. The child died from
the effects of the drug, while the
mother was still alive early this morn
ing, although her life was in pre-
carious condition.
The skeletons of eighteen men, ap-
parently members of an Inflated ex-
| ploripg party, were discovered in q
small cave in wild and desolate part
of the southwest of Greenland, by Cap
tain Hans Anderson, of the bark Sc
rene, which arrived in Philadelphia on
Tuesday from Ivigtut. Who the men
were, and whence they came, are ques.
tons that the future may or may not
determine.