Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There was a severe frost throughout |
the Wheeling, W. Va, session yester-
day morning.
Barbara Ranter died at Westminster,
Md, on Sunday night and her hus-
band expired at the same moment in
an insane asylum at Harrisburg, Pa.
1t is now stated that President Nc.
Kinley is not, and never has had any
intention of, negotiating new treaty
of general arbitration with Great Brit
ain,
a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad
last Friday made the run from Chicago
to Pittsburg in nine hours and twenty.
five minutes. The run Is consider. ed
one of the best ever made on q rail 1oad.
The revenue cutter McLane arrived
at Key West yesterday witt the tug
Dauntless in tow, having forInd her off
India Key. The Dauntl ess was dis.
abled, having blown Cut the tubes of
her boiler.
More than hundred men were yes
terday laid off at the Mount Clare
shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. The B. & o. receivers have ask
ed the q. S. Court to authorize an ex-
penditure Of sS50,OOO for steel rails.
Ex-Governor E. C. Burleigh, repub.
lican, was elected yesterday to serve
out the unexpired term in Congress of
the late Seth n. Milliken, in the Third
Maine district. Burleigh's plurality,
1t is estimated, will be between 1000
and 5000.
Suit was filed at La Plata, Md, yes
terday for $25, 900 for the children of the
late Joseph Cooking, against Sheriff
Wade, OF Charles county, and his
bondsmen, for his failure to prevent
the lynching of their father, who was
accused of having murdered their
mother and her sister.
One of the large three. story ord
nance buildings at the Brooklyn navy
yard was destroyed by nro last night,
1t contained valuable machinery, small
arms, shell castings, steel guns, paints
and rigging, valued at S250,000. The
building was valued at $4,000. The
most valuable contents of the building
consisted of number of Hotchkiss,
Gardiner and Nordenfeldt rapid-fre
guns. Few of these were saved.
The reception of Queen Victoria in
London yesterday was an ovation, and
q foretaste of the great jubilee process
sion of to-day. The Queen yesterday
afternoon received the special ENJOYS
seut by the United States and nearly
every nation in the world. The event
full day closed. with grand dinner
,srsy at which the Queen entertained
Ter most distinguished guests in Buck
nRhsm Palace. and reception to the
diplomatic corps.
Thirteen colored persons who form
sd part of the 200 sent to Liberia by
he International Emigration Society
in March, 1895, arrived at New York
yesterday on board the steamship LII
IBERIA. They say that the scheme has
been total failure; that many of their
number died of starvation and fevers;
that the society did not fulfill the con-
tract, and many members of the e1-
petition are stranded in England, I'M
able to get back to their homes.
The body of the man mysterio,lsly
murdered at Sistersville, w. Va, was
exhumed yesterday evening and identi-
fed by his son, who went there from
Richmond, Va, as that of ]. M. Crull.
Late yesterday evening message was
received from Moundsville stating that
Sheriff Pyle had arrested a man giving
his name as Seth Hill, and residing
two miles from Grafton. Letters ad-
dressed to ]. M. Crull, Richmond, Va,
and a pocket-book bearing tho name of
Warren Brown, Alama, N. Y, were
found on his person.