Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Three prisoners were publicly whip
ped at the post at Georgetown, Del,
on Saturday.
The tramp steamship Hesperides,
from Santiago, went ashore of Cape
Hatteras yesterday evening and will
prove total loss.
Four cases of yellow fever have been
discovered in Galveston. There are no
signs of abatement ofthe plague in New
Orleans and Mobile.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is said to be about to join issues with
the Seaboard Air Line in its fight
against the Southern.
The sixth anniversary of the death Of
Parnell was remem bered in Dublin yes.
terday. There was procession to the
cemetery, where flowers were placed on
the Irish leaders, grave.
Senator Fora!;rr. of Ohio, was the
principal sakrr al il republican meet.
ing in New York on Saturday evening,
which ratified 10 municipal nomins.
tions.
Charles ]. Smith, a negro, who has
just been appointed postmaster at Ra.
gantown, La, has returned his commits
sion to Washington, owing to the pres
sure brought upon him by the citizens
of the place.
Gen. Primo De Reveira, captain gen.
eral of the Philippine Islands, has
rendered his resignation to the Spanish
government, and it has been accepted
It is stated that Gen. Martinez Compos
will succeed him.
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily, has
caused to be published in London a
statement contradicting the report that
she is to be married to Prince Ester.
hazy. Her horses, it seems, are filling
larger place in her affections.
Fire which started at 2:3O O'Clock
yesterday morning, in Atkinson, Kan,
destroyed property valued at SIS 600,
about one-third of which was insured
Three thousand barrels of -four in a
mill which was burned were destroyed
The new Camden station of the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad was opened to
the public in Baltimore yesterday.
There were no formal ceremonies.
The station is located just east of the
old passenger depot, which has for 45
years been known as Camden station.
Mrs. Kate Helm, wife of Fred. Helm,
of Baltimore, was killed in a collision
between carriage, in which she was
seated, and Point Breeze car of the
Consolidated Railway Company, near
Highlandtown, yesterday. Three other
persons, her husband, son and 12-year.
old boy, were injured.
The annual meeting of the Catholic
Archbshops of the United States will
be held in Washington this week. Car
dinal Gibbons will preside, and all the
archbishops will be present but one.
Part of the proceedings will have re.
ference to new plan of administration
of Catholic Indian mission.
At Glenville w. Va, on Saturday in
the examinations in the Atkinson trial
Charles Lynch, of Clarksburg, who was
administrator OF Judge Camden's es
tate, was examined for the purpose Of
proving that Mrs Atkinson transacted
business for Judge Camden, her former
husband, and that her authority to dc
so was at all times recognized. The
statement of the witness was favorable
to the point.
A large Croton water main burst ear
ly yesterday morning at the corner Of
Madison avenue and 4Sth street, the
heart OF the fashionable New York dis.
trict, aud wrought such havoc with
property, both near and remote, that
not even partial calculation can be
made of the financial damage at pres.
ent. For blocks around scarcely a
building escaped injury by reason OF
the volumes of water which poured into
the streets, cellars and Easements. The
loss will reach far into the thousands.