Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Ohio fjt8te Senate yesterday
! passed the anti-theater hat bill and il
is now law.
"Brick" Pomeroy, the printer, editor
and promoter, is dying of dropsy al
| Blythebourne, l.. l.
The New York democrats are gain
ing confidence in their ability to carry
| the State this fall, and candidates are
becoming numerous.
Reports from northern Wisconsin
tell of complete snow blockade or
many railroads. The drifts are from
ten to twenty feet deep.
Representatives of twenty-one stee
manufacturers in the United States
met in New York yesterday and decid-
ed to sell only to consumers.
At the New York Methodist Confer
ence yesterday resolution to appoint
position that it was withdrawn.
1t is rumored in Washington thai
Mr.. William G. Whitney and Mrs
Randolph, formerly Miss Edith May
of Washington, are to be married.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson and other attrac
tive artists will appear at a performance
| to be given for the benefit of the Confed.
crate Veterans in New York next
Thursday.
Because he could not choose between
the A. P. A. and his Catholic sweet
| heart, John Schweitzer, committed sui.
eide by shooting himself in Louisville,
KY, yesterday.
Mrs. Isabella Ringgold, wife of Mr..
James T. Ringgold, the Baltimore law.
yer who became violently insane Mon
day night, died at her home in Balti.
more yesterday, aged thirty.ssven
years.
In Baltimore yesterday the jury in
the case of Frank and Matte V. An.
gelier, charged with the murder OF
Charles F. Parker, was unable to agree,
and was discharged. The Angeliers
were later released on bail.
The fiercest blizzard OF the winter
struck Cleveland, o., yesterday, and
ragged with increasing fury all day.
Last night the wind accompanied by q
dense fall of whirling, binding snow,
reached velocity of fifty-two miles an
hour.
News from Buffalo Creek, in Owsley
county, Kentucky, gives particulars Of
the drowning of nine people in Buffalo
Creek during the recent cloudburst.
Numerous narrow escapes from death
are reported, and the damage to prop
erty was enormous.
Fire which commenced at Bruins
, wick yesterday morning at 11:30 and is
now burning, destroyed fully hall
million dollars worth of property, cost
one human life, caused one man to be
mashed and crippled, and Frustrated
four men, who are suffering in various
stages.
A dispatch from Minneapolis says: A
special from Crookston states that let
tiers received there from Rainey river,
on the Canadian boundary, report the
death on Rainey river of Colonel A. F.
Naf, United States deputy marshal,
and the entire party of explorers, in
all probably eight men. They were on
their way to investigate reports of the
timber stealing by Canadians along the
boundary and tributary waters and
were ascending the Rainey by sleighs.
They are reported to have broken
through the ice and to have been lost.
The letter bringing the intelligence
came from the War Road river, near
the mouth of the Rainey river.
A dispatch from Huntington, W. Va,
says Robert K. Mccoy, relative of the
McCoys who years ago were mixed up
in feud with the Hatfelds on Big
Sandy, moved to Cabell county about
two months ago from that settlement.
He was at Huntington Wednesday night
and left at a late hour on horseback
for his home, on Merritt's creek. At
daybreak yesterday morning his horse
was found about fifteen miles south
grazing by the roadside and the saddle
blanket and sides of the horse were
covered blood. Squire Swan and
others who live in that vicinity claim
that Wednesday night they heard pistol
shots, and the supposition is that Nc
Coy was assassinated. A searching
party yesterday found tracks and blood
stains leading to the creek, and the be.
lief is that the body has been thrown
into the creek and carried away BY the
high water.