Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Ii Hung Chang arrived in London
yesterday, where he is the guest of the
British government.
The Pope celebrated mass in the
Pauline Chapel in the Vatican at Rome
yesterday. A large number of Ameri-
can pilgrims were present.
The Indian court, sitting at Wotump-
ka, l. T., has sentenced two men to
death for cattle stealing, and others to
undergo the whipping post for having
committed similar onenses.
A fire, supposed to be due to spon-
taneous combustion, destroyed the
paint and polishing shop at Cramps
shipyard, Philadelphia, Saturday even
ing. The loss will amount to 100000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Sunderland,
wife of the Rev. Byron Sunderland, of
Washington, died on Saturday evening
at the home of her son-in-law, MIR.
Orrin Day, Catskill, N. Y, in her 10Th
year.
Four rain and hail storms, with the
wind at sixty miles an hour, accom-
panied by terrific thunder and light
Mug, visited Cincinnati, O., Saturday
evening. The first storm came at
1890, when the clouds made the city
as dark as night. The other storms
followed with intermissions averaging
half an hour. The rain continued IN
til night. Much damage was done to
buildings in process of construction and
to suburban property. A man was
killed by an electric wire.
DR.. Joseph Meredith Toner, physic-
ian, philanthropist, and one of the most
wildly known residents of Washington,
where he had made his home for the
past forty years, died suddenly on
Thursday last at Cresson Springs, Pa,
aged II years. He had for many years
been gathering copies of every original
letter and paper of George Washington,
| which ne deposited in the Congression-
al Library, and frequently came to this
city to look over the old files of the
GAZETTE.
The report that Father Martinelli,
prior general of the Augustinians, had
been selected by Pope Leo NH. as
successor to Cardinal Satolli as papal
delegate to the Roman Catholic Church
in the United States, is declared by the
Catholic Herald, of New York, to be
untrue. The Catholic Herald asserts,
on the authority Of private advices
from the highest sources, that Mgr.
Benedict Lorenzelli is to carry on the
work which Cardinal Satolli began in
this country.
Joseph Hildebrand. alias Frederick
! Whitney, convict in the Maryland
penitentiary, committed suicide Satur-
day by jumping from window, after
I confessing to Warden Weyler that he
had murdered an aged German at AL
toona, Pa, last year, for which crime
another man is about to be hanged.
! HildebraEd was serving term OF eigh-
teen years, ten for holding up ex-City
Councilman Walter B. Swindell and
eight for shooting at George Batter.
His story is confirmed by John Will
liams, his partner in the two hold-ups.
Some of the striking tailors of the
East Side, New York city, went beyond
the pale Of law yesterday and one Of
them was sent to jail for three months.
Several small riots took place in va
rious sections, and the hostility between
the brotherhood of tailors and the con-
tractors assumed fiercer aspect than
usual. So threatening did the disturb
ances grow at one time in the early
morning that Captain Hogan had to in
tervene with his reserves to prevent
the wrecking of sweat shops, and to
make the arrests necessary in the prem
Uses.