Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The leading thoroughfares OF daVan-
ma are hung with black drapery as
sign of. mourning for Senior Canovas.
Warrants have been issued for seven
steamboat masters charged with run
ming their vessels too fast in the Balti-
more harbor.
1t was reported to the national Hay
Association, at Detroit, that this year
will see the largest hay crop ever grown
in this country.
Mr.. Charles Albert died In Rockville,
Md, Monday night after q long illness
of kidney disease, in the seventy. fifth
year of his age.
Nearly all the colored people in Clay
ton, New Mexico are preparing 10
leave. Notices have been posted warn
ing them to leave before August 18th.
The Italian police have identified
the assassin of Csnovas az Michael An
glolino, who at one time served in the
Italian army. He was an Indifferent
and disobedient soldier.
Returns from the Fourth congress
sional district election in Indiana show
democratic gains. Griffith. democrat,
carried the district by 1900. This is
Holman's old district.
The Queci Regent of Spain, in let
ter OF coincidence to the widow OF
Prime Minister Canovas, writes that
she has lost loyal counsellor, of whom
she stood much in need.
1t is reported that Minister Wood
ford has been instructed by the Presi.
dent to inform Spain that the Cuban
revolution must end by November 1st,
or withdraw her troops from that
island.
1t is reported that the Bryan demo
Gratis of New York State have organ
lied an Independent State committee,
and this committee will meet for or
ganization at the Empire Hotel, SYRIA
cuse, tomorrow.
Yesterday at Point Pleasant, W. Va,
John Harris was returning from
hunting, and leaned his gun against
his breast while talking to his sweet
heart, Mamie Preston. The gun wa:
accidentally discharged, the load enter
ing his breast and tearing of nearly
the whole left shoulder. He died two
hours later in the girls arms.
Contrary to the expectations Of
many, the Kentucky republican State
convention, which was held in Louis
Vile yesterday for the purpose Of
nominating clerk of the Court of APP
peals, was entirely harmonious in lis
work. James G. Bailey was nomi
mated. The platform favors the Ohio
civil service idea and the State and ma
tional administrations were Endorsed.
1t is reported that the President has
telegraphed First Assistant Secretary Of
State Day to return Immediately to
Washington upon business of great i'm
portance. Judge Day telegraphed the
officials of the department yesterday
evening that he would be in Washing
ton in two Gays. The President is said
to have been greatly disturbed over
statements made by secretary Sherman
since the death of the Spanish premier,
and it is asserted that Judge Day has
been ordered to Washington to pre-
vent, if possible, any remarks whatever
being made just now on the Spanish
situation.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
that Capt. Morensen, of the bark Ans
gar, which has arrived at Omega, q
port OF Russia. eighty-five miles south.
west of Archsngel, has sent q brief
dispatch to the effect that on July ID,
TWO days after Andree started from
Danes Island in balloon 10 an at
tempt to reach the North Poll, he
passed at distance of one hundred
Yards black balloon which had col
lapsed from loss of gas. The place
where the balloon was se,n was two
days journey to the eastward OF North
Cape. Capt. Morensen adds that for
some time before the balloon was sight.
ed the wind had been blowing strong
from the north.
VIM. J. Morris, who was formerly q
trusted employe of Henry Clews, and
VINO was released from Sing Sing prison
on August Q, after serving a sentence
for forgery, shot his wife Margaret in
Brooklyn, N. Y, yesterday afternoon
and then sent two bullets into bis own
brain. He was killed instantly. His
wife is in a precarious condition in the
Homeopathic hospital, Brooklyn. The
bullet struck her right arm, near the
shoulder, shattering the bone, then
went through the right lung, and, COM
ing out of the back, still had sufficient
force to bury Itself in the wall. She
says she is daughter of the late Lord
Conyers. They quarrelled, and she re-
fnsad to Iva with him longer.