Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, June 8.

almost precisely similar to those OF the
Barber suicide and attempted murder
occurred this morning at $40 l4th street,
the home of Cherubino Giulianl, an
Italian fruit vender. About eight
O'Clock Tacopo Ferrari, after shooting
and stabbipg in the neck Mrs. Giuliani,
shot himself through the head and died
almost instantly. The woman was
taken to the Emergency Hospital where
it is thought she may recover, though
her first action upon arriving there was
to call for priest from whom she re-
ceived the last sacraments. Tacopo
Ferrari was about twenty-eight years
of age and had been paying 30 much at
tention to Mrs. Giuliani, who is thirty
two, that he made himself offensive
to both herself and her husband and
had been frequently warned not to visit
Giuliani's home. This morning the
husband having gone to market, Fer
rari walked through Giuliani's fruit
store to the back yard where Mrs. Giu
liani was hanging clothes on the line
and made furious assault upon her,
stabbing her in the neck with poinard
and then shooting her. he then turned
the revolver upon himself and the bull
let lodged in the brain causing almost
instant death.
The Senate judiciary committee has
considered the resolution OF Senator
Til!man concerning the South Carolina
dispensary decision by Judge Simon
ton. While no definite decision has
been reached the opinion in the COM
mittee was that South Carolina had re-
course, first by appeal to the court OF
appeals and then by appeal to the su
preme court. The opinion was ex-
pressed individually by many mem
bers of the committee that the decision
might be reversed in the higher courts.
The Senate committee on Territories
to-day agreed to report favo-ably the
nomination OF NJ. II. McCord to be
governor of Arizona.
George II. MARROW, IS years of age,
OF Montgomery county, Md, was found
dead in his room in Mades Hotel,
Third street and Pennsylvania avenue,
this morning. He hung blanket over
the door, closed all the windows and
turned on the gas.
Mr.. Calhoun, the Presidents special
commissioner to Cuba, had another
conference with President Mckinley
this morning. Owing to the fact that
b(r. Mckinley was to leave at noon on
the trip to Nashville, Mr.. Calhoun went
to the White House early by appoint
ment. Neither Secretary Sherman FOR
Assistant Secretary Day was present al
o-day's conference. After Mr.. Cal
houn's departure from the White House
he said that he should not accompany
the President on his trip to Nashville,
hut should return TO his home at Dsn
vile, ILL.,, this evening. Dir. Calhoun
Cext paid visit TO the State Depart
ment. Of the Lee report upon III Ruiz
case, which has attracted CT mucu b
tention, The Assistant secretary saio
he was not prepared to gay that tn
printed publication Was iusccurat-.
The matter will ne held III abb aLco
until the return Of Presi1eut Nc h ;Dlc,
from his Nashville trip.
Mr.. j. West Aldridge, an ex-mem
Der of Mosby's command and who has
recently leased Orkney Springs, called
at the White House yesterday and in-
vited the President and his family and
also Secretary Porter and his family
to visit Orkney this summer, and the
invitations will probably be accepted.
Mr.. Aldridge and the President had
pleasant talk about war times in the
valley of Virginia, and the latter ex-
pressed desire to revisit that section.
The President to-day sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate: To be
ministers-Henry L. Wilson, of Wash
iugton, to Chill; William F. Powell, OF
New Jersey, to Hayti; John G. A.
Leishman. of Pennsylvania, to Swift.
zerland. John F. Convey, of Washing
ton, to be consul general at Kanagawa,
Japan. Luzerne P. Harper, to be post
master at Suffolk; Verlin M. Scott, at
Saltville, and May Mosby Campbell,
daughter of Col. Mosby, at Warrenton,
Virginia. Powell is negro who lives
in southern New Jersey. He was
urged for the position by Senator Sew
ell and Representative Loudenslager.
Two Virginia fourth-class postmas
ters were to-day appointed, A. J. Nc
Coy at Millboro and A. E. Hancock at
Trevilians.
The special train conveying Presi-
dent Mckinley and his party left Wash
ington for Nashville at noon to-day
over the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad.
The private car of President M. E. H.
gals, in which Mr.. Mckinley and his
immediate party travelled, was fragrant
with gigantic pots of roses and other
flowers. There were also flowers in
the Car occupied by the Cabinet and
the invited guests.
The Secretary of the Navy to-day
sent to the Senate statement showing
that the Carnegie company has sup
piled 1927 tons of armor plate at
prices ranging from $515 to 1861 and
that the Bethlehem company has sup.
piled Is, 1902 tons within the same range
Of prices. Experts say it can be made
Tor $500.
At to-day's convention of local
freight agents associations resolution
was adopted declaring that cotton bales
md similar freight liable to have its
defaced by handling and dirt
should be marked with tin tag in
,uch a way as to avoid mixture of
OTIS. 1t was decided also that, owing
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