Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-17
NEWS OF THE DAY,

The mercury ran up to 1852 in Dal-
las, Tex, yesterday.
Maj. Mckinley has made no change
in his plans. He will not take the
stump in this campaign.
The silver democrats under the lead
ership of John F. Salisbury, carried
Delaware with sweepat the primaries
on Saturday.
The Adams Express Company with
out trouble engaged men to take the
places of those employees who recently
went out on strike in New York on
Saturday.
The United States consul at Samoa
reports to the State Department that
the Samoan government, under the
treaty, is n failure and the islands are
rapidly declining in prosperity.
News comes from Tuscon, Arizona,
that meteor covering two acres of
ground and towering many feet fell
last Sunday week. killing herder, his
wife and three children and 1900 sheep.
John Bloodgood, of New York, died at
Great Darlington, Mass ION Saturday He
was the senior member of the banking
firm of John Bloodgood & Co., and he
was reputed to be worth several mil
lions.
Mr.. Thomas n. Carpenter, promi-
nent citizen of Charles county, Md,
who has been engaged in a general
mercantile business at Pisgah for the
past ten years, died suddenly at his
home on Wednesday evening.
Frank Jacobs was killed at Quincy,
Ill.,, yesterday by the collapse of his
balloon. He fell $50 feet. Professor
Borser was also killed at Dallas, Tex,
yesterday by falling into tree in
parachute which he had cut loose from
his balloon.
The storehouse and postoffice at
Halls station, in Prince Georges coun-
ty, Md, on the Pope's Creek line of
the Baltimore and Washington Rail
road, was burned 10 the ground Friday
night, and all the mail and goods were
totally destroyed.
Naum Feldman, young Russian
who keeps small drug shop in New
York, was arrested yesterday on COM
plant of his wife, Sophia, who says be
threatened TO kill her year-old baby.
She told the police that he was an
anarchist and had planned to blow up
the Fitch Avenue Hotel.
The change of Mr.. Bryan's itinerary
from continuation of his trip from
New York to Maine to a run from New
York up the Hudson has led some peo-
pie to think that he may not be preser'
at tie grand ratification meeting which
is 10 be held in Washington. 1t is saiu,
however, that Mr.. Bryan intends to 90
TO Baltimore aud make speeches before
going West.
The Spanish government is prepar-
ing bill of damages to be presented TO
the United States on account OF the nu-
merous expeditions alleged to have
gone from our shores to the relief of the
Cuban insurgents, and in support of lis
claim to reparation intends to invoke
the precedentS established by the United
States against Great Britain in the cele.
brated Alabama claims award made by
the Geneva arbitration tribunal.
Rev. Sehastien Martinelli, Prior
General Of the Augustinians Chausses,
who has been appointed the successor
of Cardinal Satolli in the United States,
will be consecrated as an Archbishop
August % in the Church of st. Angus
tine, Rome. Mgr Martinelli will come
10 America at the end Of September.
Cardinal Satolli will return to Rome in
November and will attend the Papal
Consistory, which is to be held in De-
cember.
Alter numbering his wife, Adelheid,
as she lay asleep, in the presence Of his
little grandchild, and attempting to
kill lodger, Alois Dinkelman, who
lived in New York, turned his pistol
against himself and committed sui
eide yesterday by sending a bullet
through his brain. The crimes were
committed while the man was insane,
made 80 by business troubles, he hav-
; H,,, in the last few years lost his small
fortune ~ unfortunate ir in eesstS1mf1ents.
1t appears settled that the Gear will
leave ST. Petersburg on August "a for a
European tour and that he will return
home on November l, the programme
being Vienna, Breslau, Copenhagen,
Balmoral, Paris and Darmstadt. The
Cars visit to Paris will last week
The programme of the fetes has not yet
been drawn up, but it will include
grand banquet, reception at the
Eysee Palace, a gala performance ct
the opera, Examinations and big re-
view of troops.
The North Carolina republican State
committee at its meeting on Saturday
nominated candidates for Governor,
Auditor, Attorney General, and one
Justice of the Supreme Court, leaving
the remainder of the ticket for the pop
ulists to fill, on basis of fusion. The
populists ignored the action of republi-
cans, and nominated a ticket with o.
H. Dockery, republican, for Lieutenant
Governor. and the committee agreed to
name Zeb Vance Walser, republican,
for Attorney General, and r. M. Doug
las, republican, for Associate Justice.
SHOT HIS Young WIFE.-Because
she had sued him for desertion, Charles