Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Columbus. Ohio. nominated yesterday
Jacob s. Coxey, for Governor.
The heirs of Jose Maria Mora have
taken preliminary steps to prove their
right to one-h half the $500, 900 indeni-
nifty awarded by Spain to Antonio
Maxine Mora, his brother.
Mrs. T. Dewitt Talmage is critically
i'll at the sanitarium, at Danville, N.
Y, and DR.. Talmage has been sum
moned from his lecture tripin the West
to her bedside.
The special session of tho Illinois
Legislature adjourned yesterday with
out having enacted any OF the measures
desired by Governor Atgeld except an
arbitration law.
A dispatch from Paderborn, Wes'-
phalia. says that lightning struck q
company of soldiers at drill near there
Thursday, and most of them were pros
trated. Eight of them are in a dying
condition.
The frontier dispute between Argen-
tine and Chill has been settled. 1t was
at one time feared that this dispute
would lead to war between these two
countries and would also involve b.
livia, Peru and Ecuador.
A Chicago paper says: The crop of
corn this year will be the largest that
has ever been known. 1t is estimated
at the present time that the yield will
exceed by 1000, 900 bushels the rec
ord of snv nravious vpor
The Auohen Haryie colliery at Salt
coats, town on the Bay of Ayr,
twentv-four miles southwest of Glas-
cow, has been flooded. Sixty men
have been rescued and fourteen are
entombed in the mine, and it is be.
lieved that they have persisted.
The operators signed an agreement
in Pittsburg yesterday by which the
miners demands are acceded to, and
the big strike is ended. The papers
were signed last night which increases
the wages of 100000 miners in Penn
sylvania, ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
A cloudburst occurred yesterday ten
miles southeast of Florence, Colo, and
caused flood in Hsrdscrabble and
Westmore creek. Over 300 feet of the
Denver and Rio Grande railroads
main line was wiped away at the mouth
of Hardscrabble creek, six miles east
of there.
Disappointment in love caused Val
ente Aragon to blow his brains out at
Ell Paso, Texas, yesterday. He was at
the house of Victor L. Ochoa, the no.
torious Mexican revolutionist, and, go
ing to the parlor, he sat down, placed
the muzzle of pistol in his mouth and
blew his brains out.
The Vigilant won the Goelet cup for
sloops yesterday off Newport, r. l., be-
cause the Defender was forced to with
draw from the race within half q dozen
miles of the finish on account of o
broken gait. Bnt for this accident the
| Vigilant would probably have been
nine minutes or more behind the De-
fender.
Nearly thousand Southern Metho.
dists from Baltimore, Washington and
elsewhere are eucamped in the shade
of the oaks at Wesley Grove, near Bal
timore, and there they will spend the
next two weeks, living in the open air
and enjoying life as it can only be en-
joyed In the woods. The camp-meet-
ing at the grove was formally opened
last night.
The dual force of police of Omaha
is still giving the quiet people of that
place greve apprehension. The A. P.
a. rulers have named new set of Off
GERS and citizens are guarding the po-
lice station. Ignoring an injunction,
the city council have approved the
bonds of the new police commission,
and steps will be taken to-day to get
possession of city property. In that
event they will meet with armed re-
sistance. Every preparation for main
tang the peace has been made.
Democratic county conventions were
held in sixteen Mississippi counties yes
terday. In all of them, by practically
unanimous votes, the conventions de-
clared in favor of the free coinage Of
silver at the ratio of l6 to J.. All the
conventions endorsed Senator A. j.
McLaurin for Governor, and he is the
only candidate. The fight for United
States Senator is close, and no candi
date will get a majority. In Harrison
county, when Mr.. Dahlgren, Collector
of the Port of Mississippi, offered res
olution "that as democrats all endorse
the democratic President of the United
States, Grover Cleveland, and the dem
ocratic administration" it was voted
down by large majority.
THE DAVIS MoNUMENT.-Col. Will
liam A. smoot, of this city, Grand Cons