Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Arguments in the Scott Jackson case
were commenced to-day at Newport,
Kentucky.
Five firemen were neatly suffocated
and another was badly hurt in bre at
Mentzel & Sons, paper dealers, in Bal
timore yesterday.
Mobs in sympathy with the striking
street car men in Milwaukee yesterday
stoned the cars, tore up the tracks and
assaulted the new motormen. A num-
Der of arrests were made. The COM
pany declined to agree to arbitration.
The court martial of the men cap
tured on the filibustering schooner
Competitor was held at Havana yester-
day. The prosecutor demanded the
death sentence against the men and
Admiral Navarro, who presided, ap-
proved of the demand.
Death from hiccougbs was the fate of
Miss Lydia Ferguson, o teacher in the
public schools at Rainsboro, 0. She was
attacked with hiccoughing, which con-
tinued for two weeks. Yesterday she
died in great agony. She had not taken
nourishment for two weeks.
Puertoviejo, the capital of the Prov
ince of Manabi, Colombia, with pop
ulation of ten thousand, was entire
" destroyed by two earthquake shocks
Thursday night. The shocks we're sue
ceeded by floods, inundatiDg the city.
Many lives are supposed to have been
lost.
Harry and Walter Crow, SONS of Ma
thaniel Crow, of Baltimore, we're knock
ed from the trestle of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
across Patterson Park avenue yester-
day by train. Harry, aged nine years,
died few minutes later, and Walter,
aged six years, is in critical condition.
Superintendent Kimball, of the life
saving service, has issued an order, di-
recting that hereafter no member of
life saving crew shall, during the active
season, engage in ferrying, boating,
clustering, grabbing, fishing, shooting
game, gathering moss, or in any similar
employment, for pay or market, in
competition with other persons engaged
IN SUCH BUSINESS.
The Hon. Warner Miller, one of the
New York State Big Four delegates at
large of the republican party at st.
Louis, who has recently returned from
a western trip says: "The St. Louis
convention, in my judgment, will frame
platform on the currency question
that will be absolutely satisfactory to
the people in the east and to the great
majority of all the business people of
the entire country. 1t will declare un-
conditionally against the free coinage
of silver. It will declare in favor of the
present standard and of maintaining all
of our currency at parity with gold"
II was reported in London yesterday
that several directors of the British
South African Company intended to
resign unless the resignation OF Cecil
Rhodes was accepted. In the House Of
Commons Sir William Harcourt, the
liberal leader, charged the government
with being responsible for the acts of
the South African Company. In reply,
Mr.. Chamberlain, said that, while Cecil
Rhodes recent actions we're condemn
ed, his past services must not be for
gotten. Secretary Chamberlain yester-
day announced the policy ofthe British
government in regard to South African
affairs to be in favor of joint commits
sion of both houses to inquire into the
whole situation to prevent any further
disturbance occurring there while urg-
ing redress of the grievances in the
Transvaal.