Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-04-27
NEWS OF THE Day.

The rivers are rising in the West and
the Northwest, and the floods are still
q serious menace.
There is great opposition to the pro-
posed appointment of colored post
master for Augusta, Ga.
Southern farmers claim that railroads
are charging too much for the move
ment of early vegetables to northern
markets.
There is no improvement in the con-
Meade, who has been critically i'll at
DR.. Johnson's sanitarium, in Washing
ton
The marriage of Miss Mary Helen
Carroll, daughter of Ex-Governor John
Lee Carroll, OF Maryland, to Mr.. Her.
bert d. Robbins, of New York, was
solemnized yesterday morning in the
] Church of Saint Pierre De Challiot,
Paris.
Miss A. c. Dewey, sister in-law of
Rev. Rumsey Smithson, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South, of
Hagerstown, died suddenly Sunday
night. She had been sick only three
days. She was sixty. four years old and
was native of Fintstone, I'D. Mr..
Smithson was at one time pastor of the
NJ E. Church in Alexandria.
The damage to the Delaware straw
berry crop by the recent frosts is
much greater than was at first
supposed. Prominent peach grow
ers are of the opinion that the
damage to the peach crop is about
rs per cent. Pears and plums are as
badly injured, but the apple trees were
not in bloom, and now promise full
crop.
Matt Mckee, John Davis, and the
Misses Maggie and Minty Shepherd
were drowned at Parks Mill, ten miles
above Cumberland Falls. KY, Sunday.
They were taking pleasure ride in a
skiff when the boys, in order Lo brighten
the girls, rowed within few feet Of the
milldam. The boat was drawn under
the falls and the entire party was
drowned.
Charles W. Wolf, resident of Am
blersburg, w. Va: shot and it is sup
posed, fatally wounded Charles Will
helm, whom no accused of the betrayal
of his sister under the promise of mar
riage. He asked Wilhelm to marry the
girl, but the latter refused Wolf then
shot him four times. Wolf gave him
self up, and is in jail awaiting the re-
suit Of Wilheim's Injuries.
The woods of Mr.. John Beall, about
three miles from Rockville, Md, took
fire Sunday night and burned for six
hours. The fire ranged over space Of
about forty-fve or fifty acres of dense
woodland. The men from the sur
rounding peighborhood, after a desper-
ate struggle, succeeded in getting ii
under control. The damage sustained
by Mr.. Beall is estimated at several
thousand dollars.
A tremendous explosion in the Lon.
don underground railway at Aldersgate
station early last night wrecked first.
class coach and manned the occupants.
The glass roof of the station was blown
out The explosion is believed by some
persons to have been caused by an ac-
emulation of gas in the tunnel, and
others think bomb was placed in the
station with the intention of wreckine
it, Subsequent developments show the
latter theory to be correct.
An endless chain which caught in his
clothing carried Hugh Gallagher to al
most instant death at the Point Breeze
Gas Works, Philadelphia, yesterday
| Frha for,,,not.. man yua :
working near chain device that car
riss coal into the retorts. In some
way his clothing became entangled and
be was pinned in between the car and
the wall of the retort, crushing his
body into shapeless mass. Life was
not extinct when he was taken out,
but he died shortly after being placed
in an ambulance.
The funeral of Hon. William S. Hol.
man, who had repr ssented the Fourth
district in Congress many years, was
very largely attended at Aurora, Ind,
Sunday. The special car bearing the
remains, the family and the congress
ional committee arrived over the Balti-
more and Ohio Southwestern Railway
at 9 a. N. AT the depot the citizens
turned out en- masse and followed the
hearse to the First Baptist Church,
where the remains lay in state for three
hours. The funeral services were held
at the Holman residence.
About so girls employed in one Of
the big collar shops of Troy, N. Y,
have been made hysterical several
times lately by what they believe to be
the appariion of their forewoman, who
died few weeks ago. The girls de.
clare that the ghost appears and moves
among them or site at the desk former
ly occupied by the forewoman. To in.
duce the girls to remain at work the
firm employs men to go into the shop
each morning and remain there to
guard against the ghost. The matter
has seriously delayed business, and the
girls say they will quit work entirely if
the ghost keeps on coming.
1t mas developed that the cause OF
the tragedy at Uniontown. Pa, Sun
day night, which resulted in the MUIR
der of Frank Brown, of Morgantown,
w. Va, by Joseph McFadden, was the
maddened love OF both men for the
same woman. The men had been
partners in business at Fair Chance, a
coke town fifteen miles north OF Nor
gantown, and on account of girl had
| I;sso1va6 workmanship Thau disooroad