Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The city of Lockport, n. Y, was car
ried by the democrats yesterday for the
first time in several years.
A passenger train on the Queen and
Crescent Railroad plunged through q
trestle near Vosburg, Miss, yesterday.
Eleven passengers were injured.
By fire in the story brick building
No Is Grand street, New York, last
night, 100000 worth of silks, dress
goods and kid gloves were destroyed.
While the wife of Daniel Lynch, OF
Suncook, n. H., was attending funeral
Yesterday her two little boys, aged i've
and three years, were drowned IN
creek near their home.
Elections were held in the various
cities of New Jersey yesterday, the re-
publicans being generally victorious,
though Newark and Jersey City were
carried by the democrats and Trenton
by the reformers.
John Lehman, street car driver, at
Chicago, while brooding over the idea
that his family would suffer from want,
shot and killed his three children and
himself yesterday. Two other children
who were not at home escaped
President Cleveland is reported to
have prepared letter, which will soon
be made public, declaring ne will not
be a candidate for denomination, and
urging democrats to make the cam
paign on sound money platform.
The Presbytery of the st. Lawrence
yesterday dissolved the pastoral rela-
ton of the Rev. William N. Cleveland,
brother of the President, with the Pres
byterian Church at Chaumont, n. Y.
The Rev. Mr.. Cleveland entered pro-
test.
The Chicago police have discovered
species of child torture almost I'M
paralleled, According to their story
cruel persons are guilty of tampering
with the eyes of young children to
make them blind, that they may be
used to attract the attention of chart
tably inclined people.
Lewis E. Crude, aged seventy seven
years, committed suicide Monday by
hanging himself with leather halter
in the hay loft above his stable, in
Hsgerstown, Md. He informed neigh
bors before he hanged himself that he
intended to take his life, saying every
body ill-treated him.
Gen. John D. Kennedy, who was
consul general at Shanghai during Mr..
Cleveland's first term, died in his home
at Camden, S. c., yesterday OF apo
plexy. Gen. Kennedy was one of the
Youngest brigadiers in the Confederate
army. and made brilliant record, and
subsequently was Lieut.-Governor of
his State.
I The sensational murder OF Miss Eliza
beth Trowbridge, at Elgin, III Monday
night, by Miss Mary Linnett, of chi.
cago, who Immediately blew out her
own brains with revolver, brings out
startling story of the insane love of one
| Young woman for another. 1t is strik-
ingly like the famous Freda Ward case
at Memphis, Tenn, which startled the
country few years ago. A woman's
unnatural affection for another was the
direct cause of the deed, and the
horrible tragedy recalls the attempted
shooting of Frances Sherman, of Chi
cago, by the same girl.
1t is believed at the Treasury Depart
ment, in Washington, that within q
short time President Cleveland will is
sue an additional order, including with.
in the jurisdiction of the civil service
commission every employee of the gov
eminent in Washington and elsewhere
who has not yet been brought within
that Jurisdiction. Before President
Cleveland leaves the White House, /"
said an official Of the treasury yester-
day, "the power of appointment by any
official except the President himself
will have been so completely abolished,
that not man or woman can be ap.
pointed to office except through the
| civil service commission.