Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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memory. She was strapped to cot in
q hospital.
It is probable that the great silver
mines of Creed, COL, will be closed
down on account of the low price of sill
YER unless railroads and smelling rates
are reduced.
Henry c. Hansbrough, o. S. Senator
from North Dakota, and Miss Mary
Berri Chapman, of Washington, were
married at the Hotel Burlington, in
New York, yesterday.
A train of twenty cars in going down
an incline at Hiteman, Iowa, yesterday
was wrecked on curve. The men
were crushed against the wall and in
the debris of the cars. Three will die.
1t is rumored that the death at Tehe-
ran, Persia, of DIR. Tholozan, the physi-
clan of the late Shah, was Caused by
poison administered at the instigation
of the reigning Shah, because Tholozan
knew too many state secrets.
Dispatches from various points in
New York and New Jersey state that
the electrical storm Of last Sunday
night was one of tie worst ever expert
enced thero. Great damage was done
By lightning and the high wind.
Major W. C. Wilson was murdered
in his library in Philadelphia last night.
The aged man was horribly beaten
about the face and head with tack
hammer which was found beside him.
The murderer is still at large. Plumber
was the murderer's object.
Mr.. l.. II. Davies, Canadian minister
of marine and fisheries, addressing the
London Chamber Of Commerce yester.
day, said that every vestige of feeling
in favor of Canada's union with the
United States had long disappeared in
his country. Canada, he added, had
nothing to gain by such a union.
M. Aver. real estate man of Oak
land, CAL, proposes to establish balloon
service between Juneau and Dawson
City. z. F. Hughson is with him in
the scheme. They will endeavor to
secure $4,000 capital. Aver is an old
balloonist, and says the scheme is prac-
ticable. He says the trip from Juneau
to Dawson City ought to be made in
twenty-four hours.
Narragansett Pier was swept by
storm and fire yesterday morning. a
portion of the sea wall on Ocean Road
was damaged to the extent of $500.
The Gladstone Hotel, the John Car
YER Cottage, the Anowai Cottage, the
Continental and the Chandler House
were strnck by the thunder-bOlts, but
suffered little damage. Some other
buildings were also damaged.
The first blood in the Pittsburg strike
was shed yesterday. Contrary to ex'
pectations it was not the strikers who
caused the first trouble. Two deputy
sherifs quarrelled and one shot the
other. inhicting mortal injuries. 1t is
thought the wounded man will die be-
fore morning. The wounded man is
Robert Kerr, 60 years old. His assail-
ant is Frank Anderson. Both live in
Pittsburg.
Gladys Stickney, s years old, was Ia
ken i'll with membranous Group in
Woodville, VT, several days ago, and
her parents, who believe in Christian
science, would not summon a physi-
clan. They sent to Boston for Chris
tan scientist, who came on Saturday.
The parents watched the child as she
lay dying. A few minutes before death
doctor was sent for. MIR. Stickney is
nrosnerous shOpkeeDer
On Sunday night at FranklintowD,
W. Va, while crowd of oolored men
we're gambling in a den at that place,
Joseph Ash walked in and calmly
drawing revolver shot Isaac Johnson
through the heart, killing him instant
ly. It is said that Johnson, when log
ing in a game, made a practice OF
snatching up the stakes, and it was for
such a grudge that Ash killed him.
The murderer is still at large. John
son leaves q large family of children
and a wife.
Joseph MESSING, an Italian barber, OF
Brooklyn, was shot at Bayonne, N. j.,
yesterday, by an unknown man, and
died soon afterwards. He would not
say who his assailant was, even when
told he was dying. When found he
was writhing on the ground, bleeding
to death from a bullet wound in the
abdomen. Beside him lay an open
razor, and in one of his pockets was a
Jagged stone. The police cannot I'm.
derstand the case, and they say it looks
lika q Malta murder.
The autopsy on Dora Cushmau, the
l5.year- old girl whose body was found
in a pasture at Lincoln, VT, Sunday /,
disclosed evidence that death resulted
from poisoning. The girl was in a
delicate condition. William Brittel, a
friend of Smith Davis. who disappear
ed, admitted that Davis said he had
procured some medicine which would
bring the girl out of the trouble. Brit
tel told the girl that Davis would meet
her in the woods and give her the
medicine. The girl took the dose,
which proved fatal, and Davis fled
when lie saw the effect of it.
In connection with the reports re-
garding the Indictment by the Ameer
of Afghanistan of the Mohammedans of
India to revolt against the rule Of the
British, it is said that the Pan-Islamic
Synod, at Constartinople, finding that
the Ameer hesitates to follow its. orders,
has determined to force his hand. A
parsonage who is connected with the
Synod. in compensation with friend
eaid: "We have now induced the Brah-
mans to join US in working against the
British yoke. The war of the Koran
aro;not tho Go5nal 10 hapinninp No