Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows will convene in Springfield,
ILL.,, next Monday.
Mr.. John Miller, of Berkeley county,
W. Va, has sold his apple crop for
over $4,000.
The Pope has appealed to France to
prevent the success of the plan to colo
nize the Jews in Palestine.
Bernard J. Tracey, the millionaire
horse breeder OF Lexington, KY, died
at the city hospital in Boston last night.
US. Senators Hanna and Foraker
opened the republican campaign In
Ohio by making speeches at the town
Of Burton on Saturday.
Harriet G. Sheldon, aged eighty.two
years, and her sister, Matilda Sheldon,
aged eighty.six, were burned to death
in their home in Lynn, Mass, yester'
day.
A cyclone which prevailed at New
Orleans yesterday has reached Florida
blowing seventy.four miles an hour.
Storm signals are displayed all along
the southern coast and vessels caution
ed not to leave port.
A hurricane swept over the city OF
Yokohama on Thursday causing floods
and loss of life. The German warship
Irene and ether large vessels were
driven ashore, but subsequently were
foated.
Mr.. f. W. Hodge, of the bureau OF
ethnology of the Smithsonian !nstltu.
ton. explored the Enchante Mesa OF
New Mexico and discovered that 1t
had once been occupied by the prehls'
toric Acoma Indians.
The great three.year-old Ornament
was badly beaten at Sheepshead Bay
Saturday in the Autumn Cup. Inc
weight told. The great two year-old
Hamburg won the Great Eastern
handicap with consummate ease.
The convention of coal miners at Co.
lumbus, Ohio, on Saturday evening set
tied the great strike by accepting the
proposition of the Pittsburg district
operators to return to work on basis
of Is cents ton.
William n. Meadowcraft, of the Cen
eral Electric Company, at New York,
has received letter from DR.. Francis
co de P. Astudillo, of Havana, descrlb-
ing a case of blindness cured by the X
rays.
Developers ts have traespired since
the execution of Horace S. Perry at De.
catur, Ca, on Wednesday, which tend
to show that II vendetta has been estab
lished between his family and that OF
Belly Laner, the man for whose murder
he suffered death.
Six of the suspicious cases in New
Orleans have been declared by the
Slate health officials to be yellow fever.
A case has also developed in another
part of the city. A number OF addl-
tional suspicious cases have been re-
ported.
A freight train on the Kansas and
Arkansas Railroad, on which fourteen
Young men of the Cherokee nation were
stealing a ride, was wrecked twenty
miles west of Fort Smith, Ark, Satur-
day night. Seven of the men were
killed and six injured. Thirteen cars
were demolished.
No new records were established in
the Star Pointer.Joe Patchen race at
the Mystic track, Bedford, Mass, on Sat
urday. Pointer won the race in two
straight heats, the time being 2:033 and
2:O4f, respectively, his fastest quarter
,einp the last one in the first heat,
which was two minute clip.
Frederick S. Coburn, the absconding
clerk in charge of the sub.station of the
CITY postofice in the Mount Vernon,
pharmacy, Washington, who secured
about So, 200 on money orders which he
made out and had cashed, was arrested
at Queenstown, Canada, on Friday
night and was brought to Washington
yesterday and jailed.
The republicans of Baltimore held on
Saturday city convention and three
legislative district conventions, but ad-
iourned them all for future meetings
after nominating William T. Malster for
the maycralty and electing delegates
to the State convention and selecting
new members of the State central COM
mittee.
DR.. William W. Ward, of Alberton,
Howard county, Md, accidentally shot
his young wife on Saturday night, at
his home, by playfully pointing shot
gun at her and swapping the trigger.
It was thought that the gun was not
loaded. Mrs. Ward was frightfully
wounded in the breast and her condi-
ton is critical.
Charles Gibson, colored, killed an
other negro in Macon, Ga, and was
shot and wounded by police officers in
trying to escape arrest on Saturday.
he was subsequently hanged to tree
by mob for criminally assaulting q
woman. The negro had been suspect
ed of having. assaulted Miss Chapman
few nights ago, and this suspicion
was confirmed by his confession.
In Warwick county, Ind, George
Slaughter, negro, criminally assault
ed Mrs. Will Jones on Thursday night,
and made his escape. Slaughter re.
turned on Saturday. James Robinson,
colored deputy sheriff, arrested
Slaughter and took him to Mrs. Jones
for Identification. When Mrs. Jones
recognized him, Slaughter pulled his
revolver and killed her and her hus-
band and escaped before Robinson
could interfere.
Miss Inez Hill, is years old, who left
her home at Browns Crossing, Ca,
September 9Th, and who the Washing
ton police were asked to find, was To-
Gated at the Central Union Mission, in
that city, this morning. She was es-