Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWO UT ldE Dhl.
Two persons were killed and score
of dwellings were demolished by tor
nado at Hartford, Kan, yesterday.
Tornadoes also done much damage yes
terday in Iowa and Nebraska.
An operation for appendicitis was
performed yesterday upon Gov. Atkin-
son, of Georgia, who is seriously ill.
The democrats of Columbus, O., the
home of Allen W. Thurman, have elect
cd solid anti-free silver delegation to
the State convention.--
O:ceola. G G. Gre Green, well-known man
CT affairs of Washington, died at Rose
dale, the family residence, yesterday
evening from tho effects of a surgical
operation.
At the meeting of the university cor
poration of the Columbian University
of Washington, yesterday, Rev. B. l..
Whitman was elected president of the
institution.
Reports from the cotton sections to
the Department of Agriculture show a
surprising falling off in the use of arti-
fetal fertilizers. Department officials
say this is the most noticeable feature
of recent advices.
Democratic county conventions were
held in Kentucky yesterday, but &C
cording 10 the returns received the
money question was not definitely set
tied. The State convention will be
held next Tuesday.
DR.. ]. Alexander Tonner, who was
indicted for unnatural crimes in his
apartment in the Navarro Flats in New
York. yesterday pleaded guilty before
Judge Cowing, and was remanded to
Wednesday for sentence.
TIE case against actor ]. X. Emmett,
who, while in state of intoxication a
week ago Saturday, attempted to kill
his wife by shooting her, was dismissed
in the police court in San Francisco
yesterday, Mrs. Emmett refusing to
prosecute.
Burt l.. Hastings, of Sandusky, o.,
yesterday shot and killed Lizzie Stoldt
and then fatally shc5 himself. He
wanted her TO marry him, but she
would not consent, and WAS to have
been married yesterday evening to
James G. McGary.
A plumber who was repairing the
glass dome of the Chamber of Deputies
in Lisbon yesterday left o brazier burn
ing on the roof. The woodwork caught
fire and the chamber was destroyed.
All the archives were burned. -Four
persons were injured.
By the death of Mr.. James Carroll Of
Charles, which occurred at Atlantic
City on Saturday last, Gov. Frank
Brown, of Maryland, receives an addi-
ton to his estate ofat least $3.50, 000
The governors co-heir is his cousin,
Mrs. Randolph Mordicai, of Baltimore.
A Paris newspaper says that a report
is current at Hamburg that the anar.
chists will attempt a great outrage
upon the occasion of the approaching
fetes at Kiel. The city council OF
Toulon has decided to half-mast the
flags on all public buildings while the
the French ships are at KEEL.
In frenzy over his wife's flight with
another man, Frank Williams, a St.
Francis, Kan, farmer, attempted TO
murder his wife, Miss Alice Smith and
William Smith Saturday. He then
beat the heads of his two children, a
girl aged five and boy of nine, with a
Ratchet, after which he blew his brains
out with revolver. The children will
die.
Greenville, o., was partly in the
hands of incendiaries and thieves yes
terday. A fire was started in q stable
in the rear of the Winter block and
spread rapidly. In the excitement the
robbers took what they pleased. The
total loss by the fire will reach 1926, 900.
Three men are under arrest charged
with starting the fire. There were
threars of lynching, and the sheriff
augmented his guard to protect them.
The Russian Ambassador, Baron
Won Mohrenheim, invested President
Faure, of France, at the Elysee Palace
yesterday with the collar of the Order
of St. Andrew, on behalf of the Car.
The investiture was attended with
uiuCu CeieiucIly. uo all DaSSduof Sdlu
in bestowing the order upon the Presi-
dent that the Gar wished it to be re-
garded as a mark of his high friend
ship, and as fresh pledge Of his es-
TEEN for France.
Shortly after o'clock last night
Edith Johns, cook, climbed to the
top of the new Wright House, restau-
rant, in Cleveland, Ohio, to witness a
fire which was burning in building
nearly block away, seized naked
electric wire and received the full vol
tage. The poor woman's screams at
tracted hundreds of passers-by along
the streets. Tom Bell, stereotyper,
was the first to rush upstairs upon the
roof to rescue the woman. He caught
her around the waist and he, too, re-
ceived the full voltage. He became
tangled in a heap of dead wire and was
most frightfully burned. When some
6remen, who were summoned, reached
the building the woman was dead and
Bell was dying. His death is momen-
tarily expected.
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