Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-31
NEWS OR TIE DAY.

Dc QSlQ To- mOTTOW.
Albert Wordsworth Thompson, the
American historic painter, died on Fri
day at Summit, n. ].
Henry NJ. Sweeney, president of the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank of
Georgetown, is dead, aged 81.
A contest over the filing of a va
cancy in the Japanese cabinet caused
the resignation of the entire ministry.
The official speed of the cruiser Brook
Ign is reported to be 21.l9 knots. Her
builders will earn bonus of $3.50, 900.
Richard Holmes, colored, was lynch
ed at East Point, Grant parish, La,
Saturday night for an assault on ten
year-old white girl.
Elk. Governor F over, of New York.
is to be temporary chairman of the
gold democrats convention, in Indian
apolis, on Wednesday.
Prince Lobanoff Rostovsky, Russian
minister of foreign affairs, died sudden
ly yesterday while travelling in Austria
with the Car of Russia.
Charles Stanley Reinhart, draughts-
man and illustrator of international
reputation, died yesterday at the
Players Club, in New York.
The Catholic congress at Dresden
was composed of six thousand dele
gates. The readmission OF the Jesuits
to Germany was demanded.
Dispatches from Canea and Constan-
tinople state that the condition Of affairs
in the disturbed Turkish provinces ap-
pears to be very much improved.
Hon. John K. Cowen, president Of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, on
Saturday dislocated his shoulder while
riding a bicycle, at Nantucket, Mass.
A social sensation has been caused in
Baltimore by Mrs. Ella Mercer Peters
suit for 100000 against Mrs. Sophia
Gather for alleged defamation OF
character.
Mrs. Francis Alkohfer, 70 years old.
dropped dead yesterday on the grave
of her husband, in St. Boniface Gene.
terry, Chicago, while she was placing
flowers upon the mound.
Professor E. D. Cole, Of Ann Arbor,
Mich, AN aeronaut, was drowned in the
bay of Presque Isle yesterday afternoon,
and his companion, Josie Carmo, mar
rowly escaped similar fate.
Rioting was renewed Saturday night
in the Galata quarter of Constantine
pie. The ambassadors of the foreign
powers have appealed to the Sultan tc
suppress the disorders without delay
The determination of ex-senator
Henry G. Davis, of Elkins, W. Va,
, father-in-law of Senator Elkins, to sup.
port Bryan and Sewall has occasioned
considerable surprise in political cir
Giles.
The Catholic congress, which closed
five days session at Dortlnund on Fri.
day, passed resolution proposed by
DR.. Porsch, warning German Catholics
against emigrating to America under
the present economic conditions.
General Passenger Agent F. N
Drake, of the Big Four, dropped dead
on the south bound Grand Rapids and
Indiana Railroad train as it arrived in
Grand Rapids, Mich, from the north
ern resorts at 10 o'clock Saturday even
ing.
William Robins, who on Friday al
Talcott, w. Va, shot and killed his
daughter on account of her alleged in
timacy with young man, was pursued
into the mountains. by posse and
when on the point of being captured
cut his throat. He will die.
The great Coal Exchange building in
Scranton, Pa, which was erected in
1885 at cost of $4,000, was Quilted
by flames yesterday morning. Every
Que OF the eighty tenants sustained
more or less damage, the aggregate OF
which is estimated at $125, 900.
1t is understood that Consul Lee has
strongly protested against the notice
posted at the entry of Cabana fortress
in Cuba, stating, ifthe American consul
presents himself there to detain and ar
rest him. Consul Lee has also demand
ed that Weyler make full investiga.
ton Of Chas. GOWNS death.
On Wednesday next, between sun
rise and noon, the followers of Julius
Strangnowski, a German Baptist preach
err, expect to be gathered into the clouds
from Union Square, New York city.
Stangnowski claims that on September
2, 1863, at Konigsburg, he had revela-
ton which, be says, predicted the COM
ing ascension to heaven.
No one was nominated for Governor
of South Carolina at the primaries held
last week and the State executive COM
mittee mas ordered q second primary,
limited to Evans and Earle, for Sep
TENDER s. All of the present Congress
sional delegation were renominated ex-
cept Strait of the Fifth district. He
will also run on a second primary. Ell
lott of the First district is the only
gold standard nominee.
When Archbishop Martinelli assumes
his duties as Papal delegate he will in
stitute an ecclesiastical tribunal which
will be in the nature of court of
fual appeal. No tribunal of the kind
has ever before existed in the United
States, and it comes as a concession to
that particular coterie in the church
of this country which has for years in
sisted upon the necessity of such a
body to arbitrate between priest and
prelate.
A dispatch from Washington says :
Secretary Carlisle makes lame de-
NAL that he ordered the government
deposits removed from the national