Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEW VI LIE OA1.
Mr. Bryan Is confident his trip in the
West is winning victory for MIN.
Benjamin F. Say mss been appointed
keeper OF the lighthouse al Cedar
Point, Maryland, which mss just been
completed.
General Weyler has issued a procla-
nation ordering ell Inhabitants inside
the towns in Cuba occupied By the
Spanish troops.
The missionary ship Day Spring has
been wrecked on a rock north OF New
Caledonia Island Nine persons are
supposed 10 have persisted.
The town OF Kurotf, in the govern.
ment Of Lnblin, Russian Poland. has
been ain 1T totally destroyed by Ere
and 5000 .,t>5-s are left homeless.
4 drought has occurred in the north
ern part of South Australia, as q re-
suit OF which the harvest is total
failure Numbers OF farmers are desti-
tute.
Senator Butler, chairman OF the pop
ulist national committee, has issued q
circular urging the friends OF Bryan
TO De on their guard against the pur-
chase OF voters
The discovery OF an electrical battery
and wires 10 the factory al Yonkers
where H. J. Andrus was killed by the
explosion OF BON indicates that MUIR.
der was committed.
Col. W. q. Morrison, Of Illinois, de-
MES that he has repudiatei tie nomi-
nee or platform Of the democratic ns-
tional convention. He will not vote
for Altgeld, howev-r.
Rebels in the Philippine Islands are
reported to have hanged several priests,
roasted others to death, and tortured
others to death b. cutting off portions
Of their bodies piecemeal.
Gen. William Rirney, OF Washington,
famous a. al abolition leader in ante
oellum days, and steadfast republi-
can since the Fremont campaign. has
bolted Mckinley and the gold stand.
ard.
Ex-Governor Z E Pattisou, OF Penn
sylvania, and eX. GoyernorsJ. E Camp.
bell, OF Ohio, have agreed TO make
speeches in behalf OF Bryan and Sewall
in New York during the next tel
days.
A party OF Austrian scientists, head.
ed by Baron Foulton Won Norbeck, en-.
{ gagged in making Investigations in the
Solomon Islands, were recently attack.
cd by natives and the Baron and three
others were killed.
A dispatch from Summersville, ".
Va, tells OF the instant death OF three
men, the serious wounding OF another
and the severe injuring OF two others
near that place yesterday morning by
the explosion OF a aawmill boiler.
A dispatch from Havana says that
FIVE columns OF Spanish troops have
been dispatched i surround the forces
OF Maceo in the p-tvince OF Pinar del
Rio. The coluu.'.3 are marching sep.
arately, but are ac ing in concert.
Prof. Basil L Gildersleeve will be
given portrait of himself by students
of the Johns Hopkins University and
the University Of Virginia in honor OF
Prof. Gildersleeve's twentieth anniver-
-ary of his connection with the Johns
Hopkins.
The Paris Temps yesterday published
dispatch from ConstantiDople saying
nat a conflict had occurred at the
Yildiz Kiosk Che Sultan's palace be-
tween the Turkish and Albanian
guards, during which several men On
both sides were killed.
A special from Akron, Ohio, says:
The second victim of the fire which de-
atroyed the large pottery plant OF the
Whitmore-R Robinson Company here
early Wednesday morning is now
known TO be DR.. Tanner, whose right
name was Francis Harrison, whose
uame was made famous by long fast in
which he once INDUCED.
a disastrous fire occurred in Brooklyn
last night, which resulted in the loss Of
one life, the injury Of several persons,
and the destruction of property amount
ing to about $250,GO0. The fve.story
brick factory building situated on Sew
-enth street, between Second and Third
avenues, vas totally destroyed. The
building had frontage of 200 feet,
and extended back 80 feet, with
three story frame extension adjoining