Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A dispatch from Tangier says that
rebel tribesmen have entered and loot
ed the city of Morocco.
After investigation n Senate, commit
tee has reported that the growing of
cotton is no longer profitable.
George W. Mcbride. Secretary of
State for Oregon, was on Saturday
night elected United States Senator to
succeed Senator Dolph.
Bishop Watterson, of the Catholic
diocese of Columbus, delivered an nd-
dress at meeting of the Y. NJ. c. A.
at Columbus, O., yesterday.
1t is stated that the administration
in making its recent sale of bonds Sc
cured the best bargain possible under
the circumstances and conditions.
The japanese have distinctly inform
ed the English foreign Office that they
are not DESTROYS of interference by the
European powers with the course ofthe
war.
Samuel Schmidtel, fireman on the
tug NJ. L. Keen, was scalded to death
on Saturday afternoon by the boiler
having hole blown into it. The &C.
cident occurred in the Baltimore har-
Dor.
In connection with the visit of
Bishop Becker, of Savannah, Ga, to
Rome it is stated that there is posi-
bility that he may be made an arch
bishop and that new province may be
created out of the province OF Balti-
more.
Notwithstanding the protests of the
Hoboken ministers, Colonel Iugersoll
delivered his lecture on the bible"
last night, and he held up the clergy
men to ridicule, but he took care to
keep all his remarks inside the restric-
ton of the old blue law.
The frame car shed Of the traction
company, at the corner of North
avenue and McMechen street. and the
machine shop Of the Catch-on Clasp
Company and the American Steel
Buckle Company, on Sharp street, near
Stockholm street, Baltimore, were des-
troyed by fire yesterday.
The SOUTH bound passenger train on
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
was derailed near Greenville, Ala, Sat
urday, as stated in the GAZETTE of that
day. The cars rolled down an en-
bankment, and FIVE of them were burn
ed. One man man was killed and sew
eral passengers were badly hurt.
The man who attempted suicide at
Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, on Decem-
Der End, and had since been at the
Maryland General Hospital refusing to
give his name, killed himself yesterday
by jumping through third-story win
dow of the hospital. His name, it is
thought, is Charles E. Norton, of New
York.
Right Rev. Charles r. Hale, assist
ant bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Diocese of Springfield, ILL.,, was robbed
of his satchel, containing his robes Of
office, valued at 500, and jewelry
worth 5000, in a railroad station in
Chicago on Saturday. He placed the
satchel on the floor while buying his
icket. When he stopped to pick it up
it was gone.
Shortly after o'clock yesterday
morning the engine room of the Rock
Slope at Pratt mine, near Birmingham,
Ala, was discovered on fire.. In the
slope there were twenty convicts, two
of whom were killed-one having
battered his head against a wall and
another having been kicked to death
by mule The fire was the work OF
an incendiary.
At Elizabeth, w. Va, on Saturday,
Arthur Edwards left his invalid wife
sitting before the fire to go to a neigh
boris for few minutes. He returned
in less than half an hour, and found
Mrs. Edwards lying on the floor, her
head in the fire, the clothing burned
from her, and her body burned to a
crisp. Her head, which was in tn.
CRATE, was almost burned off.
The jury in the case of Captain How
gate, charged with ENLIGHTENMENT, re-
turned verdict of acquittal in Wash
ington yesterday. After the verdict
was rendered Howgate was sent back
to Jail to await a trial on the seven in.
dictments still remaining against him.
1t is not known which of these will first
be tried. Most Of the ballots of the
jury stood: Guilty, Z; not guilty, 5.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, at daybreak
yesterday morning Altamott G. Walk
err, well-known business man,
awakened his sleeping wife and fired at
her, the bullet imbedding itselfin the
pillow. Mrs. Walker started TO flee
from the room, but was grabbed around
the neck by her husband, who, with
pistol in either hand, fired two more
shots, one wounding her slightly in the
hand. Walker then turned the pistol
on himself and sent bullet through his
lungs. He lived but short time.
FRED. DOUGLASS.