Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.

49,
Frank Welsch, an American life in
surance agent, was killed near Culia-
can, Mex, recently, by a band of Yaqui
Indians.
The President has committed to life
imprisonment the sentence Of death
passed upon Cephas Wright, q Choc-
taw, convicted of murder.
Six prisoners, four white men and
two negroes, escaped from the Jail at
Cumberland, Md, last night by making
a rope of a number of blankets.
This congregation of Franklin Square
Baptist Church, Baltimore, has decided
to call Rev. s. M. Melton, a Virginian,
to become pastor of the church.
Paris detectives have not yet discov-
cred the authors of the dynamite out
rage in the Rothschilds bank, although
a number of arrests have been made.
Gertie Mayston, a Gaiety Theatre
girl, whose stage name was Hilyer, was
Shot and killed yesterday by her hus-
band, who then attempted suicide in
London.
Joseph Elliott, while working on a
threshing machine with James B
Leight, near Van Bibber. Nd, yester-
day, had his right hand torn off in the
machine.
Ex-Judge Edward A. Gibbs, for
eighteen years judge of the appeal tax
court of Baltimore. died yesterday of
old age and general debility at his home
in that city.
An unknown man was yesterday
enticed into q notorious house in Pitts
burg, his throat cut and the body
thrown into the street from q third
story window.
The Hagerstown, Md, Furniture
Works, a frame factory, owned by o
stock company, was Quilted by fire last
night, and is, with contents, a total
loss. The loss may reach $4,000 or
$15, 600.
Senator Quay and his friends yester-
day took possession of the State COM
mlttee at Harrisburg and deposedB B. f.
| Gilkeson from the craftsmanship. AS q
result, the State committee headquar-
ters were opened.
The Princess Colonna, ~stepdaughter
of John W. Msckay, who has separated
from her husband, the prince, has been
| given the custody of her three children
under an agreement that she pay the
prince $4,000 a year.
Ex.consul Waller has been visited in
prison by two officials of the American
embassy at Paris, and the statement he
| has made concerning his arrest and
courtmartial in Madagascar has been
forwarded to Washington.
While drilling for water on q farm
two miles north of Wauzon, o., on
| Saturday, the tools tapped a gas vein Of
tremendous pressure. The gas imme-
diately caught fire and made a roaring
flame s%eventy-fve feet high.
licensed because General Sarasti's
forces had been defeated by General
Alfaro's columns, a Colombian mob
would have lynched Sarasti when he
returned to Quito if he had not taken
refuge at the American Legation.
The finding of another large nugget
of gold is reported from the Hanly,
N. O., gold section, this one being
found in the Crawford nina. 1t vas
found on the 22nd and weighed ten
pounds and sixteen pennyweights.
There is a rumor to the effect that
the debutante daughter of Mrs. Alva
Vanderbilt, Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt,
is shortly to be the betrothed to the
young Duke of Marlborough, whose
advent into English politics is so re-
cant.
A fire in the waste paper room in the
Treasury building, in Washington,
brought out the fire department of the
city yesterday evening and caused
some excitement, but no further dam
age then the destruction of a little
waste paper.
The Secretary of Wa ordered the
establishment of a modern military
camp on the Chickamauga battlefield
during the continuance Of the services
incident to the dedication of the new
national park at that place. An official
programme of the dedicatory exercises
has been announced by the secretary.
In a fit of religious insanity Mrs. F.
B. Beard, of Andover, N. r., who is q
summer cottager at Old Orchard, Me-,
yesterday assaulted her daughter Jo-
sephine, who is . Boston schoolteacher,
with an axe, and the young lady lies in
the Methodist Episcopal General Hos
pital, Portland, in a critical condition.
Miss GRAHAM, her roommate, was
slightly injured.
a triple killing occurred at Sweet
Grass on the international boundary
yesterday. William Long, cowboy for
the outfit, who is also said to be a
whisky smuggler, killed a mounted po.
liceman named Richardson. After the
shooting of Richardson, Long went to
G. B. Toole's ranch, where he killed
Ira Brown, foreman of the shop ranch.
The latter before dying shot Long,
killing him almost instantly.
Three hundred out of 1000 people
we're poisoned at a German Lutheran
Mission festival OF picnic in g grove at
Tracy, near La Porte, Ind, Sunday. A
picnic dinner vas served and it is
though some m~iscreant poisoned the
potatoes or drinking water. The vic
Tins were attacked with frightful
pains, purging and vomiting, and rolled
and tumbled on the ground in agony
until medical aid was secured. As yet,
none have died, but many are still very
i'll. Two hundred were present FROM
La Porte.