Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
1t is reported that President Cleve.

1t is reported that president CleVe'
land will 60 to Europe next year.
Senator Quay is said to have gone to
Maj. Mckinley with assurances that
Mr.. Piatt would not oppose his nomi.
nation at st. Louis.
Col. Julian S. Carr has consented to
accept the democratic nomination fol-
Governor of North Carolina, if tender
ed him with practical unanimity.
The United States and the Mexican
governments have entered into an
agreement permitting the troops OF
either to cross the boundary in pursuit
of hostiles.
An unknown colored man became vi.
olently insane on an elevated train in
Brooklyn yesterday, and after almost
causing panic, he was taken from the
car and sent to an asylum.
Spanish merchants in Mexico and
South American countries have deter.
mined not to buy goods in the United
States because Of the sympathy shown
in the United States for the Cuban in
surgents.
In Havana on Saturday Mr.. Eckers
correspondent of the London Times
gave banquet at the Hotel Inglaterra
in honor of General Lee. He was as,
sisted by the English, French and Ger
man consuls and several local officials
Klein's general store, in Chicago
while crowded with people and brilliant.
ly lighted Saturday night, was robbed
by gang of West Side desperadoes
who terrorized the employees and Gus
toners with pistols and escaped with
$500 in cash.
1t was reported in st. Louis yester
day that the eastern opponents to the
domination of Maj. Mckinley as the
presidential candidate have formulated
plans to place 81, 000,0 900 in St. Louis tc
help in carrying the convention for al
eastern man.
Six persons were killed and fifty in
jured by the explosion of bomt
thrown into Corpus Christi process
sion in Barcelona yesterday. Two
dynamite petards We're exploded il
front of priests house near San Sc
bastian, on the Bay of Biscay.
Cloudbursts and floods since Satur
day have done much damage and caus
ed considerable loss of life and proper
ty in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Da
kota, Iowa and Wisconsin. DWELLING
were surrounded by water in many
towns. Chicago also suffered from the
storm.
In the United States court in Louis
vile on Saturday Judge Lurton order
ed that the Chesapeake, Ohio ant
Southwestern Railroad be sold within
, six weeks. The upset price is fixed a
81 100000. The road is now in re
ceiver's hands. 1t will be bought by
the Illinois Central.
Somebody threw cat through win
dow into the Trinity Episcopal Church
at Mount Vernon. N. Y, while servi
ces were going on last night. The ca
landed in pew between two women
and it is hard to say which of the three
was the most frightened. Services were
suspended while one of the congrega
ton with some difficulty drove the ca
| from the church.
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
in Woodside, Montgomery county
Maryland, and the library of the rector
Rev. ]. E. G. Medes, D. D., were burn
ed about $50 o'clock Saturday night
An overturned lamp in the church So
fire to the clothing of Mrs. Oscar Wood
ward, who was seriously burned. The
loss to the church and library wa!
about s., 800, partly covered by insur
ance.
The first engagement of the Nile
campaign has resulted in a victory fol
the Egyptian forces under British com
mand. They surprised and captured
the Dervish camp at Firket after s
hard fight. The Dervishers lost 6
thousand men, including Emir Ham
muda, the commander, who, with sew.
eral other important chiefs, was killed
The Egyptian loss was twenty killed
and eighty wounded.
Mr.. Arthur Padelford died in Paris
yesterday. Mr. Padelford for many
years was very prominent in social and
club circles in Baltimore, and was pos
sessed of great wealth. He became
widely known through his marriage to
Mis- Bettina Ordway, daughter of Gen
Ordway, of Washington, q very beauti'
full and dashing young woman, who,
after being divorced from MIR. Padelford
went upon the stage. Arthur Padel-
ford was thirty-seven years old, and
was born of wealthy parents in