Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In New York 1t is SAID tnat MT.
Choate received a fee of 100000 for
arguing the Raines liquor law case.
There was a general reduction of
Is to % cents barrel in the wholesale
prices of flour in Baltimore yesterday.
The assassin of the Shah has been
identified to be Mollah Reza, who has
several times been convicted of plotting
against the Shah's life.
Admiral Bunce has applied for per.
mission to change the headquarters OF
the North Atlantic squadron from
Hampton Roads to Tompkinsyille, S. L.
China will seek revision of the
treaties by which the treaty ports of
that country were thrown open to the
trade. An increase of import duties is
desired.
A dispatch from Santo Domingo says
that President Ulisses Heureaux has
had the minister of war, Castillo. and
Governor Estay, Of Macoris, shot for
conspiracy.
Willie Wilde, brother of Oscar
Wilde, and formerly the husband OF
Mrs. Frank Leslie, was fined recently
in a London court for being drunk and
disorderly.
A member of the foreign affairs COM
mittee of the House is authority for
the statement that John Hays Ham
mond will be pardoned by President
Kruger after serving short term OF
imprisonment.
The suit of William Graves, the New
Yark broker, against Secretary Carlisle,
to enforce the delivery of 81 800, 600 of
the last issue of per cent. thirty-year
bonds, was discontinued yesterday. No
reason was given for the withdrawal.
The Franklin sugar refinery, of Phil
adelphia, which has been shut down
since November, started up on half
time yesterday. Employment is given
to LOCO men. The Spreckels and Nc
Cahan refneries are also running on
half time.
The insurgent leaders, Mora, Villa.
nauva and Delgado, at the head of
about one thousand men, have burned
the village of Punta Bravo. near Ha-
vana. The Spanish forces from San
Quintin and the guerrilla forces from
the neighboring forts attacked the in.
surgents and repulsed them after q
hard fight, with the loss of forty killed.
Several residents of the village are said
to have been burned to death in their
dwellings.
The National Electrical Exposition,
under the auspices of the National
Electric Light Association, opened at
the Grand Central Palace in New York
last night. 1t was opened by the press
ing of q golden key by the chief execu'
tive of the State, Governor Morton,
which sent out an electric current that
discharged cannon in San Francisco,
New Orleans, st. Paul, Augusta, Me-,
and London, England, and from the
roof of the exposition building. An
immense crowd attended the opening.
Edwin Plant, resident of Clayton,
Mass, yesterday shot and instantly
killed his wife, Ada, and then fired q
bullet into the breast of his three.
weeks-old child, killing the infant. He
fed, but was discovered hiding in the
long grass of the swamp. He was or
dered to come out and surrender, but
refused, and threatened to shoot at the
first man to advance. Then began u
fusilade of shots. Plant had then but
one bullet left, and, realizing that es.
cape was impossible, he placed the re-
volver to his head, pulled the trigger
and fell back dead. On April 18th last
Plant married Ada Sanford. On the
day of the marriage child was born to
the couple. The infant has caused
Plant no little modification, and it is
supposed that in fit of anger he muir
dered his wife and child.