Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Mimi, and the Merchants National
Bank, of DEVILS Lake, N. D., closed
yesterday.
A Honolulu correspondent writing
under the the date of December IS,
says that U. S. Minister Willis, who
has been suffering from pneumonia for
some time, has been given up by his
physicians.
Samuel B. Chase, ex-recorder of
deeds of Cook county, ILL.,, a leader
among the democrats of the North
Side, is accused of gross malfeasance in
Office and OF being short in his accounts
with the county to the amount of
$50, 513.
AS stated in the GAZETTE of that date,
Mr.. Richard Cornelius. cashier of the
Farmers and Planters Bank, of Balti-
more, committed suicide yesterday by
drowning in the duck pond in Druid
Hill Park, near the Mansion House.
He was short in his accounts about
$50, 600.
The rumor has been rife for the past
several weeks in Catholic clerical Cir
Giles That Y bishop of the diocese
of Wilmington, l'oi., will be- Rev. D. J..
O'Connell, until recently the rector
of the College, and formerly the direct
representative of the liberal school of
the American church.
Thomas Bright, cake baker, of
! northeast Baltimore, committed suicide
yesterday by shooting himself in the
temple at the grave Of his grandchild-
rem, in Baltimore cemetery. The death
of grandchild which he fondly loved,
| his friends say, preyed upon his mind,
and is supposed to have led to the act.
Mrs. Cecilia Mitchell died at the
home OF her son, Dr. John w. Mitchell,
| in Pamonkey, Md, Sunday night She
was the widow of John w. Mitchell,
one of the most prominent lawyers at
the Charles county bar. She was a
daughter of the late Pearson Chapman,
and was sister-in-law of General An
drew G. Chapman.
Bob Fitzsimmons is matched to fight
Jim Corbett for purse of SIS, 900, and
side bet of s., 900, On March II. Filz-
simmons signed the articles yesterday
afternoon at Taylor's Hotel, Jersey
City. Corbett signed them three weeks
ago. Dan Stuart of Dallas, Tex, who
made the match, and claims to be able
to pull it off, was present.
The Cooper Guards of Dover, Del,
have been ordered to be in readiness
for anything that may occur at the Or
gsnization of the State Legislature to.
day. The fight hinges on the Senate
and this republicans will get by foul
means or fair. Democrats say this
J must and shall not be the case. They
threaten to barricade the legislative
chamber.
A special from Forsythe Ca, says
that John Hickerman, a young farmer,
shot his wife and then shot himself on
Sunday. Hickerman is dead and his
wife cannot recover. He said before
he died that he shot her by accident.
Mrs. Hickerman is unconscious. 1t is
believed by the family that he shot her
in fit of jealousy. She had been a
belle in the county.
The blizzard in the West and North
west is still raging. Kansas, Missouri
and Michigan have suffered severely.
The rivers are on the rampage and the
mercury has dropped 40 degrees inside
of few hours. Rut few fatalities are
reported, however, but the destruc-
ton of property will be immense. The
effects of the blizzard will doubtless be
felt in this vicinity before many hours.
Another of the boys who were bitten
by rabid dog in Baltimore county a
few weeks ago and who were treated
at the Pssteur Institute in New York,
died this morning of hydrophia. The
b,y's name is Lawrence Wilson. John
Bull, still another of the mad dogs
victims, is also reported to be in the
first stages ofhydrophobia.
Four of the FIVE train wreckers in Jail
at Birmingham, Ala, yesterday con-
fessed to the formation of the plot to
wreck and rob the Southern Railways
fast express from Washington, D. c.,
at McComb's trestle, twelve miles east
of the city on the night of December 10,
and this confession leads to the belief
that the same gang removed the rail
which wrecked the Birmingham min
eral train at Cahaba river bridge, caus-
ing the death of twenty-six people and
injuring eleven others on December 81,
although those under arrest are, as yet,
silent as to this wreck.