Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The arguments in the Howgate case
were concluded yesterday.
Charles Carroll, brother of ex-Gover-
nor John Lee Carroll, of Maryland, died
at Aiken, S. c.. yesterday.
Senators VOORHEES, and Turpie yes
terday submitted to the President John
G. Shanklin. ofIndiana, for the Next
can mission.
Rev. Maltbie D. Babcock, of Balti-
more, has declined the call to the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church, of
Washington, D. c.
In the trial of Harry Hayward at
Minneapolis yesterday, his mother tes-
titled that he was inS her room at the
time the murder of Miss Cling was COM
mitted.
The steam ferry boat Idaho. which
left New York two weeks ago for jack
sopville in tow of the tug Lukenbach,
was lost Monday afternoon off Hat
teras. The crew we're saved.
The engagement of Edith, daughter
of tie late Beach Grant, and sister of
Lady Essex, to Arthur Paddleford,
whose first wife was Bettini Ordway, OF
Washington, is announced in Londop.
A motion for the second reading of
the bill submitted by the radical pop.
ular party, providing for popular rep
reservation in the federal States of Ger
many, was defeated in the Reichstag
yesterday.
Mr.. Daniel F. Shea, well-known
merchant of Elicott City, Md, was
found brutally murdered in his store
about nine o'clock last night. Robbery
was the principal motive that led to
the crime.
Governor Atkinson has been called
on by the citizens of Harris county,
Ca, which is near the Alabama line,
for aid to protect them from the depre-
dations of negroes, who, it is believed,
are on the verge of an uprising.
Mrs. Bourke Cochran, the wife of
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran, died
last night at the Holland House, New
York, from hemorrhages, with which
she was attacked on Tuesday. Mrs.
Cochran was thirty-one years old.
Emmett Womack, of Covington, Ga,
was yesterday appointed chief clerk OF
the Interior Department, to succeed
Josephus Daniels, resigned. The Office
also includes that of superintendent OF
Patent Office building, with an aggre-
gate compensation of 50, $50 year.
Two thousand Chinese soldiers were
recently killed by an explosion of 8
large powder magazine in the forts at
Takao, on the Island of Formoss. A
dispatch from Shanghai says that Ii
Hung Chang and other officials are
plotting the overthrow of the present
Manchu dynasty in China.
Gentry, who killed Madge Yorke, in
Philadelphia, Sunday night, at Zeisss
Hotel, was found to be only superfci-
ally hurt, and suffering from his ex-
posure while wandering about the park.
Magistrate Milligan went to the Ger
man Hospital and took Gentry's state
ment. Miss Ida Clark was the chief
witness, and at the conclusion of the
hearing Gentry was held to await the
action OF the coroner.
Stormy scenes were frequent at yester.
days session of the Congress of tie
Daughters of the Revolution, in Wash
ington. They were ali quoted down.
however, and adjournment was had
with the most pleasant feelings. The
trouble was over the nominations.
Some wanted the election to immedi-
ately follow, while others desired a
postponement. A compromise was
| finally agreed on. The stationery re-
port caused second parliamentary
storm. State regents then detailed the
growth of the Association. In the even
ing there was a special song service de-
voted to hearing the new national an
thems.