Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

It is reported that Capt. Bogardus,
the champion rille shot, died ut Ameri-
Gus, Ga, yesterday.
1t is said that il the new bond issue is
succo ssfnlly disposed of there will be no
extra session of Congress.
Preliminary steps were taken re-
Gently in Atlanta to form a trust to
control the southern pine lumber mar
ket.
BE- an explosion of fredamp in a
French cclliery in the Department of
Saone at Loire yesterday forty or fifty
persons were killed.
Mrs. Cornelius Keefe was killed at
thu Suydam street station, New Bruins
wick, n. j., Sunday night by train.
She was more than 60 years old and
her death was witnessed by her chill
dren and grandchildren.
The intense cold in China is imped
ing the operations of the Japanese
army. About Wei-Hai-Wei the opera
tons of the feet have been impeded by
snow storms. An attempt to recapture
the forts was made by the Chinese, but
repulsed.
The residence of Wilbert H. Fenton,
at Port Republic, n. j., was burned to
the ground at two o'clock yesterday
morning. Fenton and his family, which
consists of a wife and three children,
who were supposed to have persisted in
the flames escaped unhurt.
Frank Pattison, q patent medicine
vender, in Peoria, Ill, yesterday shot
his sister-in-law, Lena Sitter, killing
her instantly. He then shot himself
three times, twice in the breast and
once in the head He cannot live.
The cause of the act was family troubles.
Madame Jopiaux. who was convict
ed of poisoning three of her relatives in
order to obtain the insurance on their
lives, has appealed from the sentence
of death passed upon her. A death
sentence in Belgium is equivalent to
life Imprisonment, as capital punish
ment is not inflicted.
Under instructions from Judge Barr
jury in the United States Court at
Owensboro'. Ky, yesterday rendered a
verdict for cent damages against the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pauy in case brought by colored
minister to test the separate coach law.
The railroad company will appeal to
the Supreme Court of the United States.
A large procession of strikers march
ed to the City Hall in Brooklyn yester-
day and presented resolution annul
ing the franchises of the trolley compa-
MES. 1t was promptly passed, and
then the committee Of strikers went to
the mayor and asked him to sign it,
but got no satisfaction from him.
Judge Gaynor granted the petition for
the mandamus against the street car
companies.
An Indictment for libel was found by
the grand jury in Washington yester-
day against William Calvin Chase, one
Of the best-known colored attorneys o.
that city, aud was found at the instiga
ton of Recorder Taylor. The indict-
ment alleges that on January 5, 1895,
Chase caused to be published in the
Bee defamatory article accusing the
recorder of violating various laws and
of being morally unfit to fill the office
he holds.
The President yesterday submitted
another batch of Hawaiian correspond
ence, declaring that the State Depart
ment had no information of arms being
furnished to the royalists by the Brit.
ISL subjects. In the correspondence
was the suggestion by the Hawaiian
minister of the necessity of United
States warship at Honolulu, and speaks
o. possible trouble the Hawaiian
government will have in protecting
foreigners.
A currency measure is to be submit
ted by ex-Speaker Reed, which is ex.
pected by the republicans to unite all
the opposition to the Springer bill. The
silver Senators have been consulting
upon plan of their own. The bill, as
Mr.. Reed explains, is but temporary
expedient to tide over the present dis
tress. The substitution of ':coin" for
the gold provisions of the administra-
ton plan IS expected to win for it the
federation il not the support of the free
silver men.
The body of the man who dropped
dead in front of the Fourth police pre-
cinct station in Washington several
nights ago is still at Lees undertaking
rooms, in that city. A careful eXami
nation of the few worn letters found
10 his pockets has caused the coroner
to infer that the mans name was
James Hunter and not James Scott,
the name that he gave when asking
for lodging the night before he died.
Among the papers was note signed
by James Hunter, saying if anything
serious should happen to him to write
Dodwell, Carlill & Co., ship agents,
Hong Kong, China. Other letters
showed that he had travelled in
Australia and southern Africa, and from
the tone of one letter it is inferred that
he was Mason. On slip of paper he
had the address &c. L. Campbell, Low
Hills, Fairfax county, Va" The Wash
ington police have written to this adj
dress, and also to the firm in Hong
Kong.