Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-14
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Charles Mex -eever bested "Youpg
Critic" in twenty-round fight at the
Empire Athletic Club, in Maspeth, L. l
last night.
1t is reported that Senator Hill will
net be candidate for Governor Of
New York this year nor a candidate for
election to the United States Senate
next year.
By an explosion of gas at the Wood.
ward colliery OF the Kingston Coal
Company, at Kingston. Pa. at 8 O'Clock
last night five men were burned and it
is feared all will die.
Horses attached to carriage con-
| tanning bridal party ran away in New
York on Sunday, and the bride was
carried twice past the hall where she
| was to be married.
A dispatch from Havana says "The
American residents are greatly pleased
by the nomination of General Fitzhugh
Lee as the successor of Ramon 0. Will
liams, American Consul General here. "
The House committee on judiciary has
finished its work on the bankruptcy bill
and chairman Henderson will report
the bill to the House this week, where
it is expected it will be called up in q
few days.
A furious race riot occurred at Shen-
andoah. Pa, last night, in which three
men and woman were wounded, two
fatally. It was the elimination of o
feud existing between the Italians and
the Polanders.
]. Milton Turner, ex-Minister to Lii
IBERIA, is at the st. Louis Hospital with
fractured skull. A fight with his
stepdaughter Monday night, resulting
from too free indulgence in whisky,
is the cause.
John Frazier, colored, made an at.
tempt to criminally assault little six.
year-old Nellie Padgett, daughter Of
John Padgett. near Adamstown, Fred
erick county, Md, yesterday. Threats
of lynching are made.
The report that Capt. O'Brien and
the first and second mates of the steam
ship Bermuda were to surrender them.
! selves to the United States marshal al
New York to-day was in a measure
discredited by Deputy Marshal Ken
nedy this morning.
In Washington yesterday Judge Cole
issued an order requiring Secretary
Carlisle to answer and show cause why
mandamus should not be issued COM
pelling him to deliver to VIM. Graves
of New York, 81 100000 of government
bonds for which he bid fraction over
$115.
1t is the expectation of Secretary
Morton to have covered back into the
Treasury at the end of the present adj
7 ministration in the neighborhood Of
$2,O0o,00 from the appropriations foi
the Agricultural Department for the
four years of which he will have been
( at its head.
During test of the new Ludley pow
der pneumatic gun yesterday at Glenn
Cove, L. l., the piece exploded, and Gen
Nelson A. Miles, and members of the
board of ordnance had narrow escape
from severe injury. A spectator named
Joseph Rome was hit by a piece O.
metal and barely escaped with his life
A telegram from Oaxaca City, Mexi
co, states that the rebel Indians at the
town of Juquela killed all the towr
councillors, school teachers, local priest
chief of police, and the telegraph opera
tor, in fact, every one holding gov
eminent place. The people are in ter.
ror and troops have been sent for The
relief of the town.
There are rumors of scheme ma
tured by a combination of leading dem
ocrats to capture the presidency by or
ganizing split at the Chicago conven
ton. The idea is to put two democratic
tickets in the field and then have the
| two wings of the party come together
in the electoral college and select 8
candidate of that party, provided, o.
course, that the so-called regular demo
Gratis and the boiling democrats have
jointly a sufficient number of electoral
votes to turn the trick.