Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The large barn of ]. D. Rockefeller,
near the Berkeley Inn, n. Y, was des-
troyed by an incendiary fire yesterday.
A Rome dispatch says that the Pope
has received from Cardinal Gibbons an
address OF protest against the Roman
fetes.
The Dowager Princess OF Batten-
burg, whose son, Prince Henry OF Bat
tenburg, is the husband of Queen vac
toria's youngest daughter, Princess
Beatrice, is dead.
The Russian minister of foreign af-
fairs and general of the Russian army
witnessed the maneuvers of the French
army yesterday, and their presence is
considered very significant.
A plan to fertilize the earth by gath
ering constant stream of electricity
from the atmosphere is being expert.
mented with at the Christian Brothers
farm at Ammendale, Md.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
the police have discovered and frus-
trated plot to assassinate Durrant.
The plot was concocted by we'll
known criminal while awaiting SEN
tence in the county Jail.
The report of experts who have been
examining county records of Charleston,
W. Va, was made public yesterday,
and shows deficiency of about 500, 600
in the sheriff g settlement for years
from 1881 to 1889, inclusive.
Senior Alberto Fombona Palacio, one
of the secretaries of the Venezuelan
legation at Washington, who was re-
Gently fined in New York for insulting
women, will give up his place and re-
turn in disgrace to his own country.
The negro residents of Jamaica, L. l.,
have joined in an application to the
court for a peremptory mandamus to
compel the board of education of the
town to admit negro children to the
public schools, hitherto reserved for the
white children.
Francis Schlatter, the poor cobbler,
who believes he has the power to heal
the sick, lame and blind is attracting
much attention in Denver. Already
people are stopping in the street to tell
idle bystanders how they had been
| cured. Deaf, blind, paralytic and rheu-
matte persons profess to have been
| cured within these four days.
Robert s., Walter l.. and James
Shelton, brothers, were acquitted
at Birmingham, Ala, on Wednesday of
the murder of Robert G. Ross, a bank
er, in February, 1898. The Shelton
boys believed that Ross, who was a
wealthy married man, had be-
trayed their handsome sister Annie.
Ross fled from the Deighborhood but
was pursued and shot from ambush by
the Skeletons.
| Peterson's Magazine and Arthur's
Magazine were sold at auction in New
York yesterday by assignee of Pen
field Brothers, the publishers, who
made an assignment three weeks ago.
Carl ]. Adams purchased Peterson's
Magazine for S. 900. which was $1,000
below the appraisement. Arthur's
Home Magazine, which had been ap-
praised at 5000. was SOLD to Hugh s.
Kimouth for $3.50.
Several scores of people, who crowded
into the residence of John Nearhood, at
the Centre Hall Changers picnic, at
Bellefonte, Pa, yesterday, were panic
stricken by lightning. During ire
mendous storm a thunderbolt struck
the house, burning it to the ground,
stunning many of the inmates and fear
fully scorching one man. To add to
their terror 8 barn a few rods distant
WAS also struck by lightning and de-
stroyed.
J. W. Patton, of near Leesburg, Ohio,
a member of prominent family, yes
terday fatally shot Charles Woodman-
see, a neighbor, whom he found with
his wife On returning home unexpect-
eddy. Woodmansee ran from the house,
out was shot before he reached the
front gate. Patton then took his vic
tim to doctor in Leesburg, requiring
his wife TO accompany them, and secur-
ed confession from both. Woodman.
see is dying.
a passenger train on the Wisconsin
Central road was held up by armed
men last night in swamp three miles
west Of Waupaca, Wis. The engine
and baggage car were ditched by pull
ing spikes. The ties were piled on the
track. The passengers were not mo-
Tested, only terrified by bullets which
were fired through the coaches.
Twelve sticks of dynamite we're ex.
ploded On the safe without avail and
the robbers fed without getting any
booty.
The New Jersey republican State
convention which met at Trenton yes
terday nominated John ". Griggs, of
Union county, e1-State Senator, and a
prominent lawyer, for Governor. His
chief competitor was e1-Congressman
John Kean, jr., who was the candidate
against Gov. Werts three years ago.
Upon questions of national Import, the
platform says: "We reafirm our de-
votion to the rational policy of our
party; our opposition to any attempt to
impose upon this country debased or
deprecated currency, and our firm be-
lief in the wisdom and benefcence of q
tax upon imports which will afford pro-
lection to American industry and ade.
! quate revenue"
RICH CURANs SNAPPED WRE.-
The marriage at Fargo, n. D., on
Wednesday, of two wealthy and titled
Cubans, Francisco Perrara Montalvo
Conde Gibacoa and Sonora Rosa Fero-
ma Pedro, is the closing chapter of a re-
markable story. The two were divorc-