Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

At Huntington, W. Va, yesterday
DR.. John w. Cassett was sentenced to
seven years in the %penitentiary for as.
saulting his eleven-year-old step
daughter.
Mayor Strong has declared himself
in favor of the citizens union ticket,
even if q democrat is placed at the
head as a candidate for the mayoralty
of Greater New York.
Miss Eleanor Shutter, agent at an
elevated station in Brooklyn, in her
stocking feet and while the rain poured
d ,wn on Thursday, chased a thief into
the arms of q policeman and recovered
the money which he had stolen from
her Office.
A terrific wind and hail storm pre-
vailed west Of Fort Reno, O. T., yester-
day. The hurricane swept over a terri
tory five miles wide and fifteen miles
long, killing stock and sweeping vege-
tation bare. Several buildings were
wrecked, but no loss of life is reported.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says a
terrible railway disaster befell a mill
tary train Thursday evening between
Rockenhof and Eliva, on the Valki-
Jurjev line. Sixteen cars were smash
ed. Two officers and nearly one hun
dred soldiers were killed, and sixty
others seriously injured.
Dave Cotton, Berry Williams and
Sabe Stuart were hanged by mob OF
iufuriated citizens three miles from
Rosebud, Texas, Thursday night. On
Wednesday night the negroes named
entered the residence of William Coates,
living there, and attempted to assault
his daughter, Miss Lottie Coates.
Alfred B. Talcott, the aged electrician
of the House of Representatives, over
whose head the charge of assaulting five
little girls has hung for some time, was
yesterday brought before Judge Kim
ball, in the United States branch of the
Washington police court, for trial. His
lawyers will attempt to prove black
mail. The crimes are alleged to cover
a period of five years.
Max Maretzek, the we'll known oper
attic manager, died at his home at
Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, yester-
day, in the seventy sixth year of his age.
Max Maretzek was born at Brunn, Mo-
ravia, June %, 1921. He produced his
opera, Hamlet" at the age Of eigh
teen, and afterwards confessed that he
felt ashamed of the work, though he
conducted it in four cities.
Millionaire W. B. Bradbury, of San
Francisco, CAL, who was recently fined
IS for splitting on the floor of a street
car, vas arrested again Thursday night
for the same o%ffense, and yesterday was
sentenced to "a hours in Jail. His law
yer will sue out a writ of habeas copus.
Bradbury declares that the ordinance
is idiotio. and any free-born American
has a right to spit where and when he
pleases.
Ex-Postmsster General Wanamaker,
at a banquet of the Business Mems
League, In Philadelphia, last evening,
made a remarkable speech on national
and State politics. After commenting
on the failure of promised prosperity to
appear in consequence Of President
McKinley's election, MIR. Wsnamaker
said that the low state to which the DO
litical religion of the nation was brought
ny QucSA upoiOub OOooCS muSb CfcuOudlll
result in a new party.
The American sailing ship Shenan.
doah, the largest carrier under canvass
which flies the American flag, arrived
at Baltimore yesterday. She came
from Liverpool with 1900 tons of
salt, just enough to ballast her, and al
most made steamer time on the passage.
She WAS but twenty-three days to
the capes and twenty-four days to port,
and averaged twelve knots an hour
during the voyage. Her best days.
runs were SIS, 800 and $40 miles.
Bradstreet's says: "The unexpected
falling ofin the request for staple goods
within a month results in a period of
comparative calm at a time when a
general revival in demand had been
looked for. "Wholesalers report that
the volume Of business consists in
filling in orders, even Chicago not claim
ing more than to have held its own in
volume of goods distributed. R. G.
Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade
says stocks have advanced 7 cents
per 800.