Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There IS said TO be 10 danger OF war
between Brazil and Italy.
Blocdgood & Co., OF the New York
Stock Exchange, have suspended.
The Treasury department has re-
jected the claim of the North American
Commercial Company for S2S3,575
damages.
Edgar Helphenstine has been ar
rested in New Haven for attempting to
pass bogus check On the National
Metropolitan Bank of Washington.
Mrs. James Hutchinson, of Roches-
ter, n. Y, on Wednesday burned her
our-months' old baby to death and ia
tally burned herself. Her husband has
been out of work for some time and this
is supposed to have impaired her mind.
Advices from Constantinople say
that many hundreds were killed in the
rioting which began there Wednesday
afternoon. The city is now more quiei,
but the excitement is intense and al
most, panic prevails. The shops are all
closed.
The new cruiser Brooklyn reeled of
during her trial trip yesterday twenty.
two kuots an hour. The builders earn
| $3.50, 900 extra. In squirt she reached
the wonderful speed of twenty-three
knots, which shows her to be queen
Of first class cruisers.
Mavoreui Bey, Turkish minister, in-
forms the State Department that Amer
lean Jews are emigrating to Turkey,
land one of them has already arrived 1T
Constantinople. The minister says His
Excellency, Tewfk Pasha, informs him
that access to the Turkish Empire is
prohibited to Jewish emigrants.
Minister Willis has resumed his du-
ties az representative of the United
States in Hawaii. He is reported to
have had conference with President
Cleveland as to the annexation of the
islands, and to have been authorized to
enter into negotiations with this object
in view. The report is denied at the
State Department..
Oscar Patterson, of Ewells, Tenn,
died at Junction City, KY, early yester-
day morning from injuries received in
head.end bicycle collision with Dr.
William B. Hum, of Shelby City, last
pight. The two men were riding in
opposite directions with their heads
down and met while going at full speed,
DR.. Hum was unconscious for some
time, but it is thought he will recover
DR.. Argyle Mackey, the young Wash
ington physician who attempted suicide
at the city hospital in Baltimore Wed
nesday by shooting himself in the left
breast, is in & very serious condition,
and little hope is expressed for his re-
covery. The bullet which he intended
to put through his heart went above
the mark, but dug huge hole in the
left lung, which, it it thought, will
prove fatal.
Thomas Black, of Chambersburg,
Pa, freight brakeman on the Western
Maryland Railroad, met with horri
bic death at Shippensburg, yesterday
morning. He fell from bis train, and
about twenty loaded cars passed over
him, severing an arm and a leg. He
died instantly. A second freight train
moving in an opposite direction passed
over Blacks body, badly mutilating it.
He was twenty-four years old, and
leaves wife and family there.
Word was received at Silver City, n.
NJ, Wednesday night that the niGe men
comprising the gang of desperadoes
who robbed the Separ postoffice, held
up the Nogales Bank and killed one
and wounded several members Of the
party which pursued them, are sur
rounded in Skeleton Canon, Cochise
county, Ariz., by posse of United
States marshals acting under Marshal
Hall, of New Mexico, and two compan-
;es of troops from Fort Bayad and Fort
Grant, and that an attack will be made
as soon as the troops and marshals have
entirely surrounded the place where
the robbers are supposed to be forti-
fed. Every member of the gang is
noted criminal and they have been
operating on the border successfully for
some months, committing crimes ofevely
description. The force under Marshall
Hall now numbers $50 men and fight
will probably occur, as the robbers have
announced their determination to never
be taken alive.