Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-04
: NEWS OF THE DAY.

The people of st. Louis are taking
energetic steps to rebuild.
A prisoner in the Fayette county
Nv. Va.) jail yesterday knocked the
iailer down and, with six other prison.
ers, escaped.
A movement has been inaugurated to
raise fund of $3.50, 900 or more to aid
those who lost their homes in their Ell
forts to rebuild.
In the trial OF the Holt will case in
Washington yesterday Charles Strother
testified that Luke Devlin had told him
it would be to the benefit of witness II
the alleged will held good.
In Washington yesterday by the de-
cision of the District Court of Appeals,
Mrs. Mary Kemble Slack, whose light
for the possession of her two little girls
has been in the courts for several
months, was awarded their custody.
DIR. Henry A. Mott, an analytical
chemist, exhibited large quantities OF
arsenic and anthony found in the body
of Mrs. Evalina NJ. Bliss, whose daugh-
ter, Mary Alice Almont Livingstone
Fleming, is on trial for her murder in
New York.
The contract for erecting the College
of History, of the new American Uni
versity, at Washington, has been award
ed to Mr.. James L. Parsons, of that
city, at his bid of s15S,600. Among
the bidders were Pettyjohn Il Co.,
Lynchburg, $4,000.
Joseph M. Mccoy, of West Virginia,
has been appointed chief clerk OF the
pension bureau, to succeed Charles A.
McKevitte, of New York, resigned.
Mr.. Mccoy has held number of offices
in the bureau, and lately has been
assistant chief of the board of review.
1t is said in Washington that there is
a strong feeling among southern men in
favor of Vice.President Stevenson TOR
President, and the prediction is made
that as soon as one State convention
declares in favor of his nomination
others will follow the example set
them.
The village of Krienholz, in the Ber-
nese Overland, has been partially de-
stroyed by landslips and subsiding OF
the ground, caused by springs of water.
The inhabitants have been compelled
to desert the place, and great damage
has been done to the railroad and farms
in the vicinity.
Matt Warner and an old man named
Norman had discovered rich mineral
near the State line in Utah, and were
developing their find on the quiet.
Four unknown men learning the fact,
followed them. A fight took place, in
which Warner, who is dead, shot or
killed all four of the others.
The Kansas democrats yesterday
elected delegation to the national con-
vention, and bound them to vote for no
presidential candidate who was not un-
equivocally for the free coinage OF sill
YER at the ratio of 16 to l. The silver
men were so much in the majority that
the few gold delegates were not even
heard, and the proceedings were car
ried on by the silver men with harmony
and dispatch.
George Neitzey, who, for over fifty
years was a paving contractor In Wash
ington, fell dead at 4 o'clock yes
terdag afternoon, in the waiting room
fthe Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
station. He was seated upon one OF
the benches, waiting for train, en-
route to his country home in Plainville,
Va. Without any warning symptoms,
be fell back in his seat. Death came
with the attack. Heart trouble was
the cause assigned by the attending
physician.