Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The government de0clC at tHe close
of the present year is placed at $40, OOO-,
900.
Ex-United States Senator James F.
Wilson died at Fairfield, Iowa, last
night.
Mrs. Isaac Parmenter, rich widow
of Summit, N. j., yesterday married
Charles Kelowoy, her coachman, who
is young enough to be her son.
Charles L. Snow (dem.) was elected
Mayor of Bangor, Me-, yesterday, in
special election, there having been no
choice at the first election in March.
There is movement among the adj
vocates of the free coinage of silver to
have Benjamin Harrison nominated for
President for third time by the re-
publican National Convention.
A Pennsylvania railroad train yester-
day evening made the run from Cam.
den to Atlantic City, fifty-eight and
three-tenths miles, in 45} minutes.
The average speed was ISL miles per
hour.
Mrs. Annie Lewis was committed for
court in Baltimore yesterday, charged
with setting fire to the house OF Henry
B. Wartham. The motive is said to be
revenge. Eight lives were endangered
by the fire.
It is stated that the silver men are
laying plans to secure the election next
year of delegates to both democratic
and republican national conventions
who will be favorable to the free coin
age of silver.
An attempt was made to blow up the
residence of Herman Knopke, in East
St. Louis, with dynamite yesterday.
The front of the house was badly
wrecked, all the windows shattered
and a big hole was blown through the
roof.
Sam Nolan, boy nine years old,
was leased by his mother in Fort
Worth, Tex, yesterday. He told his
playmates goodbye, saying he would
never meet them again, got his fathers
double. barreled shotgun, and blew out
his brains.
Over one hendred colored mill en-
ployes invaded the town of Bath, n. c.,
Yesterday, and conducted themselves
in a riotous manner. A military COM
pany was called out, and five of the
ringleaders were arrested and sent to
Jail at Washington, N. G.
Secretary of Agriculture, Hon. j.
Sterling Morton, denies that his recent
utterances on the money question were
authorized by the President or repre-
sented the latter's views as far as he
knows them. He says he is alone re-
sponsible for his statements.
DR.. 81. M. Bien, a well-known Jew
ish rabbi. of Vicksburg, Miss, was
found dead from effects of morphine,
in his room at the Florence Hotel, in
Birmingham, Ala, yesterday. A note
found on his table indicated that he had
committed suicide because Of despon-
dency.
A letter received at Haverhill, Mass,
yesterday announces that Frank How
ard Poor, who is at present serving a
sentence for forgery at the Massachu-
sets reformatory, at Concord, is heir to
about 100000 through the death of
Frank Howard, Nevada mine owner,
for whom Poor was named.
The Rev. Walter Elliott, a mission
airy of the Order of the Paulist Fathers,
in New York, is confident that the
people of this country will ultimately be
converted to Catholicity. He has come
to this conclusion after two years ex-
perience as Catholic missionary among
the Professionals OF Michigan and Ohio.
Mrs. Marietta A. Franz, whose two
children were kidnapped and hurried
away in closed carriagein Washington
Sunday, has begun proceedings against
her husband, Charles F. L. Franz, to
regain possession of them. The hus-
band and father admits taking them
away, and he will have to explain the
matter to Judge Hagner.
Mr.. Carlisle's friends claim that the
Kentucky State convention which NOM
mates the officers will not only fail to
adopt free silver plank in its
platform, as is confidently asserted by
Senator Blackburn, but will actually
endorse the administration and re-
affirm the financial plank of the Chi
cago platform of 1892. The free silver
sentiment of Kentucky has been great
ly overestimated.
DR.. Sampson Pope and J. F. G. Cald-
well, of Newberry, arrived in Charles
ton, S. c., yesterday and filed bills for
an Injunction in the United States
court, entitled Frederick Pratt and
Samuel Prince, complainants, against
Governor Evans and the election COM
missioners for Richland county, praying
for an Injunction to prevent the cleo
ton in September to revise the State
constitution, and is returnable at Co
lumbia May 9. Gov. Evans will not
obey the injunction issued by Judge
Golf.
Sheriff Zimmerman, of Frederick,
Nd, after consultation with the court
yesterday, it decided that would be best
to have Frank Winterchief, the colored
assailant of Mrs. Thomas Butts, remov-
ed from the Jail there, and this was done
in such quiet manner that the fact
was not generally known until II
o'clock last night, when the leader of
gang of seventy-fve desperate men
called on the sheriff to ascertain wheth-
er such was the case. He stated that
his men were within stones throw of
the Jail; that he had another band Of
forty to serve as sentinels and that if
the negro was in jail they were determ-
ined to have him. The grand jury has
been summoned by the court for We'd
nesday. Only the two men who cap
tured the negro will be summoned to
ANNA r before them Indictment will