Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-15
NEWS or THE DAY.

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Cardinal Gibbons dedicated the new
Catholic Church at Brookland, near
Washington yesterday. Bishop Keane
| preached the dedicatory sermon.
VIM. G. Whitney will not attend the
democratic convention at Chicago. In
stead he will sail for Europe on the
White Star Line steamship Teutonic
next Wednesday.
After July l the cost of sending ma
tional bank notes to the United States
Treasury for redemption will be charg-
ed against each bank Of issue, accord
ing to the amount of its notes re-
deemed.
Mai. William G. Brock, former su-
perintendent of police of Washington,
and later clerk in the War Depart
ment, died at his residence 224 Eleventh
street southwest that city, on Friday
evening.
| Arthur D. Addison, prominent
Washington attorney, while leading
colt by the halter at Rockburn, Me-,
his summer home. on Saturday, was
thrown against stone wall, fracturing
his skull. His injuries, it is stated, will
prove fatal.
| Mr.. Huxley, o nephew of Thomas
Huxley, the English scientist and nat
uralist, was immersed last night by
Rev. DR.. Charles Stakely, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, at Washington.
Mr.. Huxley was recently on the edi-
torial staff of the Catholic Mirror, pub
lished in Baltimore, and he had been a
Catholic from his cradle.
A heavy freight train on the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad parted III
the tunnel, in Baltimore, yesterday,
and twenty-five of the cars dashed
nearly two miles and into Calvert Sta
ton. E. E. Morris, a brakeman, was
killed. The runaway was not brought
to a standstill until it crashed into four
empty passenger cars at Calvert Sta
; ton.
| The Court of Appeals in Washington
on Saturday evening made an order d.
recting that Mrs. Slack be given the
custody of her children pending the
final decision; she to give bond that
she will obey the mandate of the court:
They are now under guardianship OF
Mrs. Perrine, sister of the late Major
Slack, to whom they had been left by
their fathers will.
Mrs. VIM. Richter, of Camden, N. j.,
Mrs. Kate McCue and John Brewer, OF
Philadelphia, were drowned yesterday
while crossing the Delaware river from
the Pennsylvania shore to.Gloucester
! in an open boat. All the parties were
under the influence of liquor. The
two women were accompanied by their
husbands, who succeeded in saving
themselves. Mr.. and Mrs. Richter
were married last Tuesday.
| A terrific storm of wind and rain
swept over Atlantic City, N. j., yester-
day and considerable damage was done.
The storm was the severest since that
of 1880, the wind ranging in velocity
from sixty to eighty miles an hour. The
summer pavilion at the end of the ocean
pier was picked up and blown out. to
sea. The storm also created great
havoc at Chelsea and at Long Point
where number of boats were over
turned and sunk.
Rev. William Fogarty, of Springfield,
Ohio, met with fatal accident at the
Catholic University in Washington
shortly before o'clock Saturday morn
ing. He occupied room on the fourth
floor, and having been sick for some
time, could not sleep, and had gone to
the window to get the fresh air when he
lost his balance and fell to the roof OF
the chapel below, sustaining injuries
from which he died Saturday night.
He was 26 years old.
An order was issued by the civil SER
vice commission on Saturday, the OBJ
liect of which is to break up the prac-
tice of securing governmental positions
under the name of 'workmen" and
"Iaborers" and then secure assign
ments to clerical positions. In this
way examinations and appointments
according to ability have been avoided.
The order issued Saturday puts all
so-called "laborers" in the classified SER
ice and provides that changes in their
places shall be made only under civil
service rules.
The widow of Col. John A. Cockerill,
who last Thursday became the wife OF
Walter Louis Lienau, said yesterday
that the marriage was the outcome of
sudden proposal Mr.. Lineau made while
taking q cab ride with her. Within
twenty minutes after the proposal the
ceremony had been performed. 1t is
less than three weeks ago that Colonel
Cockerill's body was buried in Belle.
fontaine Cemetery, st. Louis. He died
at Cairo, Egypt, April II. His widow
was reported to have been Frustrated
on receipt of the news and was i'll for
several days.
The inability of Jerry L. McKnew
and his wife to earn living led both
to take laudanum Saturday in q room
at the lodging house of Mrs. G. Hurley
in Washington. Much the larger guam.
tity of the drug was taken by Mrs.
McKnew, who died from its effects at 8
o'clock yesterday morning, while her
husband is now recovering at the
Emergency hospital. The couple came
from New London, Conn.,, in 1889 and
bought the hotel on B and Second
streets, now known as the State house.
The enterprise was not success, aud
after five years MIR. McKnew sold out.
He then failed in two other under
takings, becoming entirely destitute.
Two explosions OF dynamite startled
Havana yesterday. 1t is thought that
insurgent sympathiZers caused them.