Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-31
NEWS OF H DAY.

last week was not satisfactory.
There is some talk among the church
people of New York of nominating
Rev. w. s. Rainsford for mayor Of that
city.
Five men were thrown into Jamaica
Bay, n. Y, yesterday by the capsizing
of a catboat, and one of the party was
caught under the sail and drowned.
James NJ. Gordy, who is to be hang
ed at Georgetown, Del, for wife MUIR
der, has offered a Jail Waterman $1,000
if the watchman would aid him in es-
Gaping.
The Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly, which has been meeting at
Charlotte, n. c., adjourned sine die on
Saturday 10 meet next time at New
Orleans.
Secret negotiations have begun for
the return of over 81, 800, 900 in securi-
ties stolen from the Manhattan Savings
Institution, New York, nearly nineteen
years ago.
General Nelson Miles, of the United
States army, arrived on Saturday at
LAMA, visited the Greek lines, and
subsequently lunched with Crown
Prince Constantine.
Theodore Durrant will hang on June
II. Gov. Budd, OF California, yester-
day telephoned that much in effect to
Warden Hale, of San Quentin, at the
same time ordering the death watch
upon the prisoner.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker delivered an adj
dress at the iratCongregational Church
in Washington yesterday and said the
all.night meetings Of the Salvation
Army in New York would be resumed,
despite her husbands arrest and con-
victioD.
A folding he'd at the Union House,
at Montpelier, VT, closed automatical-
ly during Saturday night while Henry
Kendall, aged &c years, was asleep in
it. He was dead when taken out, hav.
ing either been smothered or died OF
heart trouble induced by fright.
The steamboat Paul Koch, with 5000
excursionists aboard, ran aground on q
reef in Long Island Sound yesterday
and took fire while fast on the shoal.
The flames were o 20 extinguished. TO
add to the alarm q thunder storm was
raging when the steamer struck.
1t is said that the reason Mr.. j. ?.
Shepherd, Of Georgetown, committed
suicide last week was that he was con
fronted by the serious dilemma of i'm
mediately raising nearlys 900 to make
good a deficit in his account as receiver
or stand branded rs an embezzler.
The twitching of au eyelid Of Loretta
Palmer, an infant, wa noticed by an
undertaken in Brooklyn yesterday
while he was preparing her supposed
dead body for burial, and she was saved
from being put in the grave alive, hav-
ing been resuscitated by the under
taker.
A peeping Tom who has kept the
women of the Sixth ward in East
Bridgeport, Conn.,, in a state of terror
for nearly a year was captured early
yesterday morning. The fellow receiv-
cd a sound thrashing from his captor.
He narrowly escaped a coat of tar and
feathers.
Broker Elverton r. Chapman's
luxurious living at the District Of Co.
lumbia jail and the discrimination in
bis favor and against other prisoners
there, practiced by the warden and his
subordinates, are to be formally brought
to the attention of the District of Co.
lumbia Supreme Court.
The town of hansen, province of
North Trondhjem, near the mouth of
the Namsen river, OF the Namsen
Fjord, west coast of Norway, has been
entirely destroyed by fire. The flames,
famed by q fierce wind, spread so rap
idly that the 1,S00 inhabitants were ur-
able to save even their furniture.
During the storm yesterday an Ar
menian called Amid Osgood ran along
Surf avenue on Coney Island with his
head bent to the ground and his arms
outstretched. AS he ran he pinchcd
tho legs of women he met in the street.
His trail was marked by screams and
shouts, and a policeman arrested him.
A complete opium smoking outfit was
found on him.
The U. s. government has accepted a
bid for 100000 pounds of foreign stan
dard g%ranulated sugar, entirely ignor-
ing offers made for supplying the home
production because the American Su-
gar Refining Company dictated the
price at which dealers in its sugars
should sell, while the importer had &
free field, and, knowing the rate fixed
by the Surgar Trust, cut under it six
teen one-hundredths of a cent a pound.