Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The cut rates to Norfolk put into eff
feet by the York RIVER Line have been
met with reduced rates by the Bay Line.
John Palmer, colored, who killed
John Sloan, colored, in Washington,
Saturday night, has surrendered him.
self.
Two men, claiming to be Americans,
have been arrested in Barcelona, Spain,
in connection with the revolutionary
movement.
The Roenigen light and the Shadow
graph proved failures in locating the
ball in Miss Maud Summers's thigh in
Washington.
Lightning struck the life-saving sta.
ton at North Beach, Md, ten miles
south Of Ocean City, yesterday. Three
of the crew were injured.
Mr.. Stephen D. Kennedy, division
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and whose headquarters were
in Baltimore, died at Atlantic City yes
terday.
Jose Celso Cesar Moreno has visited
Baltimore in the interest of his project
to lay submarine cable from the Pa.
cific coast of the United States to the
coast of Asia.
Mr.. John c. Motter claims sixteen
out of twenty-five districts in Freder-
lex, county, Md, and control of the
county convention next Thursday.
Motter was at one time politician in
Alexandria.
The body of a boy named Mealman
has been found in a secluded spot on
the mountain near Fort Loudon, Pa.
AS he was horribly torn and mangled
it is supposed he was killed by either
bears or wildcats.
Two of the men shot by young Will
Adams while they were robbing his
fathers store, at Bedford Station, early
on Thursday morning, died within an
hour Of each other yesterday. Both
were known by the name of jenkins.
In the preliminary or practice trial
yesterday the cruiser Brooklyn devel
oped an average speed closely approx
mating twenty-one knots. There were
of course, no official figures which
could have any impartial or valuable
bearing.
Joseph Kruz yesterday, in a fit oil
rage, evidently, tried to murder his
four-year old son by holding him in
front of an approaching trolly car 10
Altoona, Pa. The motorman stopped
the car in time to avoid the crime.
Kruz is under arrest.
Hundreds of people were out hunt
ing for Mrs. jeanette Humphreys, who
has been missing since Monday from
ner home near Emporia, Kansas. About
six o'clock yesterday evening her body
was found in corntield surrounded by
hogs, which were devouring it.
A dispatch from Buzzard's Bay says
President Cleveland announced last
night that David r. Francis, ex-gov-
ernor of Mississippi, had been appoint
ed Secretary of the Interior, vice Hoke
smith, resigned, and that he will as
sumo the duties of his Office Septem.
Der l.
Mr.. John W. Thompson, president Of
the National Metropolitan Bank, and
one of the best known and most promi.
nent citizens of Washington, and Miss
Flora B. awkward, whose family has
been identified with the northwest por-
ton of the city for many years, were
married yesterday.
john Boots, aged twenty.six years,
Of Chesapeake City, who, on Monday
last, brutally assaulted and beat his
wife on the outskirts of Elkton, Md,
and who was sentenced to thirty days
confinement in the ElktoD Jail and to
receive ten lashes at the whipping post,
was whipped yesterday afternoon.
The Progressive Farmer, the official
organ Of the National Farmers ALI
ance, in North Carolina, says editori-
ally: "Millions of populists will refuse
to support Bryan if Sewall is not taken
off the ticket. The populists have met
the silver democrats more than half
way, but if Sewall is not taken down q
presidential candidate is certain. This
feeling is in the North and West as we'll
as in the South"
William ]. Bryan opened up the po-
litical campaign in earnest Saturday
at Madalin, q town in Duchess county,
n. Y. He delivered his first actual
campaign speech since his nomination,
and showed an earnestness in delivery
closely resembling that which brought
about the great ovation he received at
Chicago the day before he was selected
as the democratic Standard bearer.
Mr.. Bryan was in excellent voice, and
evidently made good impression on
his auditors.
Bertha Cropp, aged thirteen, and
Austin Wormsley, aged fifteen, were
killed, and Blanche Cole, aged fifteen.
was badly hurt on q suburban cross OF
the Erie Railway near Meadville, n.
Y, Sunday. They were returning home
in q buggy from camp meeting, and
young Wormsley, against the pCotesta-
tions of the girls, attempted to drive
across the track ahead of an excursion
train returning from Chautauqua to
Cleveland. The horse was killed and
the buggy reduced to kindlings,
A frightful electric storm prevailed
at Bristol, Tenn, at late hour Sun
day night, and for half an hour light
ming flashes played over the town like
leaping flames. The screams of wo-
men and children were heard on every
hand and it looked as though the town
was doomed to destruction. Many
houses were struck by the lightning,
including Hotel st. Lawrence, all OF