Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

a company has been organized Will
SIS. 900, 900 capital to build ship canal
across Florida.
An explosion occurred yesterday
evening in the Sunshine coal mine near
Glenwood Springs, Col. Eine bodies
have already been recovered.
Former Postoffice Inspector AIRING
ton, charged with embezzlement, was
released on 81, 500 bail after prelimi-
nary hearing in Washington yesterday.
Although he has not yet said it in 30
many words, it is practically assured
that E. Benjamin Andrews will not re-
consider his resignation as president OF
Brown University.
At meeting of the State Advisory
Board of the A. P. A. at Boston on
Wednesday, it was voted to prosecute
vigorous campaign this fall, and to call
out the full strength of the order.
President McKinley's visit to the
Ohio State Fair at Columbus yesterday
was marred by an anonymous letter
warning him that he was to be assassl'
mated because of the appointment OF L.
V. Powderly.
Coal operators and strikers are con-
eidering two propositions-to call the
strike off and accept IS cents or to take
81 cents pending arbitration, which
shall not make it more than SO cents
nor less than 60.
John Decker and the wife of Frank
Lane. of Canistoe, N. Y, eloped, and
were arrested in York, Pa, yesterday.
Mr.. Lane followed the pair to that city,
and after the arrest, husband and wife
became reconciled and returned to their
home.
Howell Cobb, son of Capt. John A..
Cobb, of Americas, Ga, and grandson
of Gen. Howell Cobb, one time Speak.
or of the House of Representatives and
Secretary of the Treasury in Buchan-
| ans cabinet, was intantly killed yester-
day by the explosion of an engine on
his plantation near Americus.
William Knabe & Co., of Baltimore,
have issued printed letter to each of
about $50 OF the employees of their fac.
tory, who recently were locked out. In
which they are asked to return to work
or remove their tools and benches.
Another letter, to the fourteen men
who are under the ban, told them to
remove their tools and benches by yes
terday.
Although his fortune has grown to
SIS, 600, 900 in gold during the little more
than year that he has spent in the
Yukon gold fields, Frank Phiscator,
who was 10 Chicago yesterday, and has
lust returned from the Klondike coun-
try. SAYS that this is an incommensur
| ate reward for all the hardships and
/ suffering the dreary journey to the
North entailed.
At Charter Oak Park. Hartford,
Conn.,, yesterday, Star Pointer won
( from Joe Patchen with apparent ease.
1t had been agreed that each horse
should alternate at the pole and the
toss of a penny decided which should
start in the position. Mr.. Murphy,
owner of Star Pointer, won the toss.
In the second heat, when Patchen had
the pole Pointer had to travel little
faster to get to the wire first, and that
heat was done in 2.03a. He landed
about half length ahead in each heat.
Mrs. Anna Whitmeyer, respected
resident of Newark, N, j., while re-
turning from visit at Bellevue, about
noon yesterday, was assaulted, out
ragged, robbed and left unconscious in a
dense woods by an unknown negro.
| The woman was unconscious when
found and her clothes were almost en-
tirely torn from her body. Farm
| hands at Bellevue, Bloomfield and
Mont Clair got wind of the outrage
early, and are securing the woods in
the vicinity. Should they capture the
miscreant before the police do, it is
possible that lynching bee, the first
in the history of New Jersey, will fol-
low.