Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

I NEWS Uf lI1E Uni.
Austin Abbott, LII. D., dean of the
! New York University Law School, died
yesterday after an illness of about ten
weeks.
! Baltimore was the hottest city in the
country Saturday and yesterday, the
thermometer there registering 81 and
SO degrees as the maximums OF the
two days.
There is increased anxiety felt at Cape
Town for the safety of Buluwago, and
Governor Robinson is denounced for
informing the home government that
the town is in no danger.
Mrs. Ella Collins, of Brooklyn, yes
terday fell from window in an effort
to reach a neighbor who had abused
her, and sustained fracture of the
spine. She will probably die.
Three wharf boats and two steamers,
the Alex Perry, Cumberland river
packet, aud the A. 1. Norton, Green
river packet, burned at Evansville, Ind,
Saturday. The loss will reach 500, 900.
Arthur I. Boreman, first governor of
| West Virginia, afterwards United States
Senator and for eight years judge of
1.-The Fourth judicial circuit court of that
State, died yesterday at Parkersburg.
The Mckinley boom for President in
the Erie section of Pennsylvania was
knocked in the head by the result of
Saturdays primaries in that Congress
sional district. Quay's men won every
thing, even to the lowest county office.
The general deficiency bill, carrying
A,79l $40, which was reported to the
House on Saturday, is the last of the
regular appropriation bills, and con-
tains an item of $4,000 for indemnity
| to the heirs of Italians killed by Col
orado mob.
The General Conference the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, to meet at Cleve-
land, Ohio, May l, will receive reports
showing the defeat of the plan TO admit
women to the general conference as
delegates for the want OF constitution
al majority.
Mr.. Henry Parke Gusts Wilson, jr.,
president of the Bryan Manufacturing
Company, was accidentally drowned on
Saturday while boating in Black River,
near Miller's Island. He was educate d
at the Episcopal High School, near this
city, and at the University of Virginia.
The old Pennsylvania Railroad depot
at Thirty-second and Market streets,
Philadelphia, and the train shed, togeth.
er with eight Pullman cars and about
thirty passenger coaches, were totally
destroyed by fire Saturday night. Two
| firemen were killed by falling walls and
over dozen others were injured. The
loss is estimated at $3.50, 900.
Henry A. Anderson, the insane
Swede who arrived in Washington
from Chicago Friday evening to in
| s.ruct President Cleveland in the
science of administering the govern
ment, committed suicide by strangula.
ton yesterday morning between 2 and
$50 O'Clock in cell No. 4 at the Third
precinct police station.
tits now said that the single desire
of the administration is that the demo-
cratic national convention should
declare for sound money and put sound
money men in nomination, and the
President is ready to do all in his
power to bring about this result. He
will be satisfied if former Governor
Russell, of Massachusetts, is chosen.
Col. Robert G.. Ingersoll delivered a
lecture in New York, yesterday, on
"Why I am an Agnostic," in which he
took holder stand against religion
than heretofore. He spent about two
hours in telling how he experienced
irreligion. "Some persons" be said.
"take delight in telling how they found
religion. I am happy in telling you
how l lost it.
Nine Gloucester fishermen were lost
off Long Island on Friday when the
fishing schooner ]. w. Campbell, OF
Gloucester, was sunk in squall. The
seven survivors arrived at New Bed
ford, Mass, last night to tell the story.
They were brought into port by the tug
Gladiator from the schooner Norman,
which picked them up after they had
spent an entire night without food.
The storm in Wisconsin Friday was
more severe than first reports showed.
Railroad trseSs were washed out in
way which suggests a cloudburst.
Buildings in several places were de
stroyed by lightning, and cows, horses
and great deal of grain we're lost.
It is said that about fifty buildings
throughout the State were struck and
a number of persons were Frustrated by
lightning strokes.
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.