Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Sir Henry Parkes. ex-premier of New
South Wales, is dead.


Sir Henry Parkes, ex-premier of New
South Wales, is dead.
TIE Treasury deficit for the fiscal
wear ending June 80, 1896, will be ap-
proximately 100000.
The Franklin Sugar Refinery. in Phil.
adelphia, which has been idle since last
autumn, will resume operations this
week.
Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, of New
Haven, Conn.,, will sue DR.. A. G. Pull
ford for disclosing professional secrets
rejecting upon her character.
Of the delegates already elected to
the republican convention McKiDley's
friends claim 444. and Reeds friends
claim 161, but give Mckinley but 25O.
The new battleship Massachusetts,,
on Saturday, averaged 1918 knots an
hour on her trial trip, and her builders,
the Messrs. Cramp, win bonus OF
100000.
Senator John Sherman said in an in
terview, in New York, yesterday, that
the republican platform would declare
for sound money, and that Harrison
cannot honorably be candidate Tor
the nomination.
The two cattlemen who jumped over
board from a vessel in Chesapeake bay
on Friday night to escape arrest when
the vessel reached Baltimore, were
picked up by passenger boat and tax
en- to Baltimore.
Fire destroyed property valued at
nearly a million dollars in Cripple
Creek, Col, on Saturday. Several wo.
men were badly burned. Buildings
were blown up by dynamite to stay the
progress of the fire.
Sixty-seven men were buried alive
by the cavern of a silver mine in the
Santa Eulalia district, near chihuahua,
Mexico, on Thursday. Thirty.seven
were gotten out, seven of whom were
dead, and thirty terribly crushed.
The campaign managers OF ex.Gov.
Mckinley are said to have begun nego-
Citations with the representatives OF
Speaker Reed looking to the naming OF
| the latter as the Vice Presidential can
! didate on the ticket with Mckinley.
1t is believed in Paris that radical
cabinet, with M. Goblet at its head, is
inevitable, or that M. Constans or NJ.
Dupuy will be called upon to form q
ministry, and that the chambers will
be dissolved. 1t is again rumored that
President Faure meditates resigning.
Secretary Olney has made an at
tempt to bring about a settlement of
the Anglo Venezuelan boundary dis
pute by arbitration. The administra-
ton has intimated to Lord Salisbury
that the United States commissions
report will be adverse to Great Britain.
Mrs. Anne Snow, rs years old, ended
her life yesterday morning by jumping
from second-story window into the
yard at IS east Eighty-six street, New
York. On Friday night she dreamed
that the house had caught fire, and this
worried her all day Saturday. 1t is
said she was worth S75, 900.
A fire last night in the Equitable
Building, on Fourth.and-a half street,
opposite the First Presbyterian
Church, Washington, where DIR. Tai
mage was preaching to crowded con-
gregation, caused panic in the church.
The great glare of light and the rush.
ing of the engines to the scene caused
much CONSERVATION among the Doctors
hearers. The fire in the insurance
building was short-lived and was soon
extinguished.
The reunion of the United Confed-
crate Veterans, South Carolina Divis-
ion, which commenced in Charleston
on last Wednesday and ended yester-
day, was a notable event and one that
will long be remembered by the vete-
rams and others that enjoyed Charles
toms hospitality. A feature of the re-
union was the splendid ovation paid
Miss Mildred Lee, who proudly refer
red to as 1.-THE Daughter of the Confed-
eracy," and as "the daughter of the
greatest man that America has ever
known"
A cyclone of tremendous force sped
through Clay county, Kans., Saturday
night, dealing death and destruction
on every hand. As far as known five
people were killed, three fatally
wounded, and seventeen injured. A
large number of horses and cattle were
killed, and the damage to farm property
is immense. The cyclone started about
six miles south of Clinton and went in
northeasterly direction for twelve
or fifteen miles and then lost its force
by spreading. In several instances
persons were lifted into the air by the
cyclone and carried for distance and
then suddenly dropped. Buildings were
also lifted up and hurled to the ground
| with terrific force.
THE LA PLATA MURDER.
Joseph Cooking, husband of Mrs.