Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Father Dolling, of the Church of
England, is to visit America and under
take a preaching tour in the United
States.
William Jones, white, charged with
hiring Efie Jones, colored, to murder
W. R. Stewart, of Lindale, Texas, was
shot to death in his cell by u mob from
Lindale early yesterday morning.
The struggle which Mgr. Joseph
Schroeder. professor of dogmatic theol-
ogy at the Catholic University, at
Washington, has been carrying on for
the past eight years, will be ended by
| his withdrawal from the university.
Fire destroyed the old power house
of the Louisville Railway Company,
used as a repair shop at Louisville,
| KY, at 3 O'Clock yesterday morning,
causing a loss OF 100000 and crippling
seven fremen, two of whom may die.
A fire in a furnished room establish
ment in New York early yesterday
morning resulted in the death OF Mrs.
Katherine Mossway and her 4-year-old
daughter. Three other persons were
seriously injured and several narrowly
escaped death.
Gen. Coxey is about to break loose
again with another commonweal army.
In fact he is now making preparations
at Massillon, Ohio, for a second aggre-
cation of restless radicals to march to
Washington and demand the sort Of
legislation they want.
John Garges, a young man, twenty
six years of age, entered the jewelry
store of his friend, Harry B. Koch, in
Washington yesterday morning to get a
drink of water. An old glass, contain
ing cyanide of potash, stood beside the
spigot. By mistake the young map
took a sip Of its deadly poisonous con
tents, and i'll ten minutes he was dead.
Five small boys were drowned in the
Chicago river Saturday afternoon while
trying to cross the stream on IN impro-
| vised raft. There were six on board,
but the lad who was the cause of the
disaster, from his having started a panic
among his companions, saved himself
by jumping into the water before the
craft had drifted into the deeper water.
Because her parents opposed her
marriage, Ida Jordan, aged 16 years,
attempted to commit suicide in Wash
ington last night. She was found
limp and %lifeless on the steps of a build.
ing at Tenth and F streets, with a bot
tie labeled 'laudanum" at her feet.
Under vigorous treatment at the hos
pital her life was saved.
HEr.ot Nh,-nh Of Goyannoh fho
oldest church in Georgia, founded by
John Wesley before he promulgated the
Methodist faith, was bnrned almost to
the ground shortly after midnight Sat
urdav night. The church cost about
$25, 900 and about as much more has
been spent,lon it. 1t is thei...mother
church Of the Episcopal communion in
| Georgia.
The big Rosena furnacei in Newcastle,
Pa, owned by Senator Mark Hanna
and ex-senator Cameron, collapsed yes
terday morning. and Q great volume of
| coke, iron.ore and coal came crashing
through the roof of the clearinghouse,
burying thirty men under the debris.
| Manager Refs was taken out with the
| skin hanging in shreds from his hands
and arms, and his legs terribly burned
and bruised. A dozen other men were
terribly injured.
Mrs. George w. Aires, of Washing
ton, was held up by an unknown color
ed man and robbed of a satchel contain.
ing about 500 worth of jewelry, on
New Hampshire Avenue, between
Twentieth and Twenty-6rst streets, in
that city, shortly after 10 O'Clock Sat-
urday night. The thief escaped with.
opt leaving the slightest clue to his
identity, except the meager description
which Mrs. Aires was able to give of
the man. William Brown, suspected of
the crime, is In custody.