Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is reported that Miss Consuelo
Vanderbilt will marry the Duke OF
Marlborough.
Senator German, of Maryland, says
he is certain that the democratic party
10 Baltimore and the State will come of
with flying colors at the next election.
Two fremen were killed and eigh-
teen injured at the fire which started
10 Seaman's feed and hay warehouse,
in Cincinnati, yesterday afternoon.
Loss $500, 900 to $400, 600.
Arthur Newsan, late magistrate on
the Island ofTrinidad has been arrested
in Brooklyn upon the charge of embez-
cling $3.50, 900 from the estates of which
he was administrator. He fed from
Trinidad early in 1898.
At Kansas City yesterday, il fit of
drunken rage, George McNamara fatal
ly stabbed his wife, and seriously
wounded his mother-in-law, Mrs. S. E..
Mayfeld. The difficulty originated
with family quarrel.
The Italian Senate, by considerable
majority, yesterday approved the bill
making September % the anniversary
of the surrender of their arms and
evacuation of Rome by the Papal troops
in 1870 national fete day.
1t is said that 81. 81. Holmes, indict-
ed for the murder of Howard Pitzel in
Detroit, will plead guilty. This will
prevent his being extradited for the
murder of the Pitzel children. There
is no death penalty in Michigan.
A Santa Fe freight train, bound from
Denver to Colorado Springs, fell
through bridge just south of Monu-
ment, Colo, at IL o'clock yesterday,
killing three person, fatally injuring
three and seriously injuring fifteen
others.
At the end of novena to st. Anne,
begun in the French Church of st. Jean
Baptiste in New York city, and during
which a relic of the saint will be ex-
posed, the largest relic in this country,
will be exhibited to the faithful for the
first time.
The Internal Revenue Bureau has
practically completed the work of re-
cording and scheduling the returns re-
ceived under the income tax act. and
very soon will be ready to begin the
work OF refunding the amounts paid be-.
fore the law was declared uncoDstitu
tional.
The statement published to-day that
ex-President Harrison informed an
old army friend in conversation at
Old Forge, N. Y, yesterday, that he
was not a candidate for the presidency,
and that he would not accept the nom
iuation if rendered him, is now contra
dicted.
Rev. ]. G. Stinson pastor of the First
presby terian Church, at townsville, n.
Y, and Miss Emma Lindsey, also OF
that place, were in the Roxbury district
court yesterday charged with unlawful
cohabitation. Both were convicted and
fined $50 eech. They had gone to Bos.
ton to attend the Christian Endeayorers'
convention.
The next Congress, upon assembling,
| will be under the necessity of enactiDg
such legislation as may be required to
aid the treasury in view of its deficit.
1t is further pointed out that this de.
felt is mainly due to the extravaganza
of the last republican administration,
! and to obligations then incurred which
the democrats have been compelled to
discharge. 1t is not thought likely
that an effort will be made to increase
the duties upon articles of import, but
it is thought probable that the tax upon
articles Of domestic manufacture may
be increased.
Louis Paul Hermann, q jealous hus-
band, shot his young wife, Mary, in q
New York tenement house yesterday
afternoon. She died in the Harlem
Hospital at eight o'clock last evening
without regaining consciousness. AT
the same hour the murderer made o
full confession in the police station.
''She didn't use me right" he said
"and rather than see her go to the bad,
as she was going, l killed her. Now
that I've saved her from the street,
I'm willing to die" The murder was
deliberate and brutal. Hermann held
his wife's hands while he fred three
shots at her. One took effect in the
left temple, one in the breast and
one in the abdomen. Then he kissed
her and went out to give himself up.