Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Judge Nathan Golf, of West Virginia,
says he is not and will not be a candi.
date for the United States Senate in
1899.
"Kid" Baldwin, the once famous
catcher of the Cincinnati Red Stock
ings, died yesterday at the Longview
Insane Asylum.
The miners officials says that the
success of the present strike depends
on the action of the West Virginia
miners who still remain at work.
John E. Davidson, third vice presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, died in Pittsburg yesterday
from the effects of an operation for ap-
pendicitis, aged So years.
Mr.. Henry Wise Garrett, a promi-
nent attorney of Washington. died on
Saturday at Clifton Springs, N. Y,
where be had been for some time past
for the benefit Of his health.
Thousands of people are famine
stricken at Jtrnco, Cuba. 1t is report
ed from Cleu.uegos that General Go
mez has left the island for a conference
with the Cuban government officials.
Emperor William was accidentally
struck on the left eye by a rope while
walking on the deck of his yacht at
Odde, Norway, yesterday, causing an
~extravasation of blood on the eye ball.
A dispatch from Berlin says that
during Emperor Williams visit to the
Car an understanding will be reached
by which Germany and Russia will act
together with a view to further isolate
Great Britain.
The rilmor that the Bradley Martins
have taken Barney Barnato's house in
London is false. The house was bought
by Hooly, the man who has promoted
most OF the greatest stock schemes Lon
don has known.
Mr.. Alfred G. Lewis, one of the pro-
prietors of Wizards Hotel, and well
known all over the country as q hotel
man, died in his rooms at Wizards
Hotel, Washington shortly after seven
o'clock last evening.
Patsy Marshall, the oldest woman in
the District of Columbia, is dying at
the Washington almshouse. Aunt
Patsy was born in Virginia in 1880, and
belonged to a wealthy family of Rich
mond county. At the liberation of the
slaves she aud her family walked to
Washington.
The conferees on the tariff bill held
q long session yesterday and though
they have given out but little informa.
ton concerning the items upon which
they have agreed, they announce that
they are making satisfactory progress
and confidently expect to report to the
Senate by Thursday.
1t is said that the chances of the re-
lease of Mrs. Maybrick from Woking
prison, England, are considered to be
more favorable than at any time dur
ing her imprisonment. Judge L. d
Yarrell, of Washington, counsel for
Mrs. Maybrick, recently called on
President Mckinley, and the President
is understood to have held out much
encouragement for the prisoner.
1t is said that the President does not
share the desire Of the House and Sen
ate leaders to have the present session
of Congress brought to a speedy
termination. On the other hand, he is
said to be much impressed with the i'm
portsnce Of securing action now upon
the currency commission proposition
and also upon the Hawaiian treaty. 1t
is not believed possible, however, that
either proposition can be brought to a
vote in the Senate without a long and
bitter fight.
Judge Golf, in the United States Cir
cult Court in Baltimore, on Saturday
signed an order granting the B. & o.
receivers permission to issue $6SO,OOO
additional receivers certificates to pur-
chase 40, 1000 tons of steel rails. De-
liveries of the new rails will begin this
week. The receivers will resist the
move to create q separate r~eceivership
for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
A union OF interests by j. P. Morgan &
Co. aud Speyer & Co., both of New
York, in the reorganization of the Bal
timore and O1io is thought likely.
At an early hour yesterday morning
q mob of several hundred masked men
took Adam Winebrenner from the
county Jail, at Beatrice, Neb., beat him
almost TO death with a bull whip and
then treated him to a coat of tar and
feathers. Winebrenner had been ar
rested Saturday afternoon for t%orturing
his pretty sixteen-year-old stepdaugh-
ter, Julia. His wife caused his arrest
and when the young lady was examined
her back and limbs were found to be q
mass of cuts and wounds. They had
been made, she claimed, by her step
father using a big bull whip on her.
She said she had been beaten and tor
tured by him daily for months.
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATEs.-Of the
1,54S delegates who will sit in the
democratic State convention that will