Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

VIM. Orion jumped from the Brook
Ign bridge yesterday and was much in.
jured.
It is believed that Hawkins, the col
ored messenger who robbed the tax col
lector's Office, in Washington, of 80 900,
has gone to Canada.
Three children of Charles Largent, of
Williamsport, Nd, nearly lost their
lives yesterday by being given insect
powder in mistake for lcorice powder.
The Pennsylvania State executive
committee of the Jeffersonian or gold
democrats yesterday decided not to
place any candidate in the field for
State treasurer and auditor-general.
William Kennedy, ship carpenter,
committed suicide by drowning at Skin
ner's shipyard, Baltimore, yesterday,
after viewing the dead body of mis- son.
He had been separated from his family.
The Carter Oil Company, of West
Virginia, yesterday cut down the wages
of its three hundred employees. Other
companies in that State will also reduce
wages.
Gov. Ellerbe, of South Carolina, has
withdrawn tho State constabulary force
from every town in the State, which &C.
ton removes the chief cause of friction
in the enforcement of the liquor law.
Competition between the Baltimore
and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Rail
roads for excursion business has reach.
ed an acute stage and the relations OF
the two big roads are somewhat
strained.
The Spanish troops have won
victories over the insurgent forces at
Joro, Pinar del Rio and Ramagosa, and
have killed ninety insurgents and
wounded q number of others in the en-
gagements.
The United Gas Improvement Com
pany has made proposition to the city
of Philadelphia for control of the city
gas works, and, under the arrangement,
the city is to be furnished free lights
for it's streets and public buildings, and
the price to private consumers is to re-.
main at one dollar, subject to changes
by City Councils.
The managers of the democratic
campaign in the Greater New YorK
have agreed on a basis of compromise
as between the gold and silver wings
of the party, end have decided that
| only by agreeing to it can they prevent
serious detection and possibly an indie.
| pendent ticket. No candidate will be
nominated on the greater city ticket
| unless he supported the Chicago ma
tional ticket in the last campaign.
There will be an effort on the part of a
great many gold men to show that they
! were really loyal to Organism.
Argument was begun yesterday be-
fore the West Virginia Court of Appeals
at Charlestown on the application for q
writ to prohibit Judge Holt, of the Cir
cult Court of Tucker county, from try
| Jug Col. Robert w. Eastman, charged
with the murder of Frank E. Thomp.
son. In connection with this case the
writ of habeas corpus sued out by Col.
Eastman, praying his discharge, was
heard. The answer of the sheriff OF
Tucker county to the writ was filed.
Subsequently he asked permission to
withdraw it and file supplemental an
swer, which motion the court took time
to consider.
Marion S. Dykes, of Worcester coun.
ty, Md, was accidentally shot and kill
ed by his brother.in-law, Jno. w Shock
ley, at the latter's residence, in the Dub
| lin district, yesterday morning. Dykes
with a friend drove to Shockley's house
aqout four o'clock that morning and
proceeded to unharness the horses.
Shockley, hearing noise at the barn,
went to the door, and asked who was
there. Dykes, in a jocular way; said ;
I'VE are right after you" Shockley,
not recognizing the voice, it being dark
again demanded to know who they
were, and what they wanted, Dykes
replied, 81 have got you," aud, with
that remark, pushed the door open.
Shockley mistaking the intruder for a
burglar instantly fired, the whole load
of shot striking Dykes in the forehead,
scattering his brains all over the room.