Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

William Brown, aged twenty.nine
wears, of Baltimore, cut his throat and
died at Johns Hopkins Hospital yester-
day.
Nikola Tesla, the famous inventor,
announces that he has completed his
devices for sending messages without
wires.
RIB. Mcconnell, the defaulting pre-
sident Of the Merchants National Bank,
Ocsla, Fla, shot and killed himself on
Saturday evening.
The worlds bicycle record was
broken at the three-lap track at Sacra-
mento yesterday. Otto Ziezler made
a mile paced in POS.
DR.. C. w. Chancellor, United States
consul at Havre, France, left for Balti-
more on Saturday, and expects to be in
the latter city on June y.
1t is rumored that Secretary of the
Treasury Sherman may retire from the
Cabinet during this year and that he
will be succeeded by Judge Day.
A fire at the Standard Biscuit Com
pan'a factory, in San Francisco, yester-
day, cost three fishermen their lives and
entailed a property loss ofSl00000.
Mormons have returned to the Cham
bersburg, Pa, region, the home o.
many of their foretathers, in force, and
are proselyting earnestly and success
fully.
Captain-General Weyler is quoted
as saying that the war in Cuba will be
ended in short time and that he has
found no native Americans destitute in
Cuba.
1t is stated in Constantinople that
the British, French and Italian ambas
sailors have made distinct declaration
against the retrocession of Thessaly to
Turkey.
Manly NJ. Hart, aged sixty-fve years
Of Baltimore, attempted to commit
suicide by nhaling Illuminating gas
yesterday and wrote letter describing
his sensation.
sensational shooting took place near
Lexington, KY, yesterday, in which J
Breckenridge Payne shot and perhaps
fatally wounded Percy Stackhouse, the
well-known trainer OF trotting horses.
Representative Joseph w. Bailey, Of
Texas, the democratic leader IN the
House, thinks it would be a serious
mistake not to renominate William j.
Bryan as the democratic presidential
candidate in 1900.
A draft for $500, 600 has been received
in New York from Baroness de Hirsch,
the money to be expended in an effort
TO thin out the crowded tenement dis
lrict OF the city, and the erection Of q
manual training school for Jews.
q, Mile. Burnett fell headlong from q
lrapezs in the Howard Athenaeum, i'll
Boston, Saturday night and landed
upon the heads of the audience, seri.
ously injuring several spectators, and,
perhaps, was fatally Injured herself.
A week ago last Friday two pro-
spectors found in the Sierra Madre
mountains in the State of Chihuahua,
Mex, all that remains OF Francis
Schlatter, the divine healer
There were no signs of violence, and
the belief is that Schlatter died of self
imposed starvation.
Rear Admiral Sam'l P Lee, U. S. N,
retired, the last of the commanders Of
The squadron during the civil war, died
at his home at Silver Springs, near
Washington, on Saturday evening after
y short illness of a stroke of paralysis.
He was Virginian by birth and di-
rect descendent of Light Horse Harry
Lee
The offer of million dollars by Mr..
c. B. Rouse, of New York, to any one
who will restore his sight has brought
to that city Divine Healer Miller, OF
Atlanta, Ca, but Mr.. Rouse turned
him over to his substitute, j. F. Mar
Tin, whose eyes are afflicted the same
way as are MIR. Rouse's. Miller mas
been operating on Martins eyes, but
without success.
The friends of Oscar Wilde, who was
released few days ago from Holloway
prison, London upon the completion OF
sentence Off years for a heinous crime,
aave subscribed the sum of f50t to en-
able him To make fresh start in life.
1t is stated that his wife will make him
a small allowance from her private in-
come. Wilde has decided to write
busily under his own name.
A young negro named Albert Benton,
residing near Lanellyn, Pa, on the
Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad, narrowly
escaped being lynched yesternoon at
the hands OF an angry mob. He is alleg-
ed 10 have attempted to commit an as.
sault on Edith Mcbride, the 7-year-old
daughter of Edward MacBride, at
Lanellyn. He was captured by con.
stable and guards and hurriedly lodged
in jsil.
After the conference with the lead
ers of all the political parties on Satur-
day, the Queen Regent of Spain urged
Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo to
withdraw his resignation, and he has
done SO. The cabinet will remain in
offics with personnel and policy un-
changed The cabinet held meeting
yesterday afternoon, after which it was
announced that the government did
not intend to make any change in the
command in Cuba.