Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The total number of killed, wounded
and missing Armenians up to date, as a
result of the recent rioting in Constan-
tinople, is over seven hundred.
1t is said that the Pope has for some
time past been trying to secure united
action by the powers on the Armenian
question.
The fine equestrian statue of Major
General Winfield Scott Hancock was
placed in position on East Cemetery
Hill, Gettysburg, yesterday.
Cardinal Gibbons left Baltimore yes
terday for Santa Fe, N. NJ, where he
will invest Archbishop Chapelle, of that
province, with the pallium.
At Minneapolis yesterday the authori-
ties admitted that they had discovered a
plot to effect the escape of Harry Hay
wood, the condemned murderer of
Catherine Cling. from the county jail.
At the Cleveland, O., rolling miles
Yesterday evening four men were
killed and seven others were probably
fatally Injured by the collapse of the
casting house, the largest building OF
the plant, burning many of its inhabi-
tants in the debris.
The Navy Department has designated
Miss Gray, daughter of Senator Gray,
of Delaware, to christen the new gun
boat Wilmington, and Miss 6uild,
daughter of the mayor of Nashville, to
christen the Nashville, at the launching
of the two boats at Newport News on
the 19th inst.
The President has concluded his va
cation, so far as Gray Gables is concern
ed, and left yesterday afternoon on the
steam yacht Oneida, as the guest of
Commodore Benedict. Private Secre-
tary Thurber accompanied them. Mrs.
Cleveland, the children and other
| members of the family will leave next
Tuesday in special Car.
| In the hurricane which swept over
La Puz, Mexico, 1874 houses were de-
stroyed, four lives lost and about
twenty one persons were wounded.
Nineteen crafts, including the American
schooner Car, partly loaded with dy-
| Mantle, were beacbed, and a govern
ment cutter WINS sunk. Gardens and
| orchards were washed away.
Gaetana Stomoll, woman, was ar
rested in Catapia, Sicily, yesterday, for
poisoning twenty-tbree children by CIV
ing them phosphorus mixed with wine.
The woman confessed and offered as an
explanation that she wanted revenge
for the death of two Of her own child
rem, who had been bewitched. A
crowd of people attempted to lynch the
unnatural wretch, and were prevented
with great difficulty.
Mrs. Mary Knight, aged forty-three,
murdered her mother, Mrs. Catherine
Hart, aged sixty-four, in Dayton, Ohio,
yesterday. Both were drunk and quar-
reling, and Mrs. Knight knocked her
mother down with piece ofiron, then,
picking up chair, beat her over the
head, mashing her skull AID Draining
her. The old woman was dead when
the officers arrived. The daughter is
in the city prison charged with murder.
tits again reported that the Sultan OF
Turkey has agreed to grant the reforms
in the administration of Armenii de
manded by the powers, after which, it
is said. Said Pasha, the foreign minis.
ter, will resign and other changes will
be made in the government. a dis
patch from Constantinople says that
the English fleet is anchored in the
Dardanelles ready to sail for Constan-
tinople. The dispatch adds that a Rus
sian fleet is anchored close to the Bos-
phorus.
A dispatch from Mexico City says
immense preparations are being made
for the coronation of the Virgin of
Guadalupe to-day. Over forty bish
ops are there, and about $4,000 pilgrims
are in the city. The Central Railway
alone will receive over 100000 for
conveying pilgrims. All the railways
are taxing their utmost capacity.
Archbishop Corrigan, of New York,
has arrived at Mexico to attend the
| ceremonies.