Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-09
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Pig iron and billets have jumped o
dollar ton in the last two days.
Gen. J. D. Cox, of Ohio, has been
offered the post of minister to Spain by
President Mckinley.
Fire at Gainesville, Md, yesterday
destroyed the old hotel and other build
ings, causing loss of between $1,000
| aud $1,000.
| @. W. Sparkling, q midget, died in
| Kansas City last night He was 81
years old, and was only AZ inches il
height and weighed SO pounds.
Mr.. George NJ. Luttrell, merchant
conducting business in Napjemoy
Charles county, Md, was kicked on
Saturday last by one of his horses, and
died in a short time afterwards.
On the eve of his wedding Attorney
Roberts. Kuhn, of Hooperville, commit
ted suicide at Franks Hotel in Ligopier,
Pa. He was found dead in his room
late Monday night with bullet in his
head.
Speaker Reed has intimated that II
the democrats continue to harass him
about the appointment of committees
be will appoint the committee on cleo
tons and take up some of the House
contests.
A man who declares that he is
Schlatter, the healer, who was report
cd to have starved to death in Mexico,
rs arrived at Cleveland. II he Is
Schlstter lie has shaved his beard en-
rely CT.
Commander George E. Wingate,
Uni'ed States navy. of the Charlestown
navy vArl, died at Maiden, Mass, yes
erday. He was born in Portsmouth,
n. H.. July 10, 1887, and had been in
the service since 1862.
J. NJ. Culp, traffic manager of the
Southern Il li!way, whose headquarters
are in Washington, was robbed of $500
diamond stud on Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern passenger train, near
Rollsburg, w. Va, yesterday.
Rev. DR.. Chauncey B. Brewster OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, was elected yesterday
Coadjutor Bishop to the Rt. Rev. John
Williams, the venerable Episcopal
Bishop of the diocese of Connecticut.
The election was made by the Connec-
ticut Diocesan Convention at St. Johns
Church, Waterbury, on the eleventh
ballot.
At Hagerstown, Md, yesterday Jack
Lemen, aged twenty.one years, was
found guilty of assault with intent to
kill Miss Lizzie Taylor, Of Williams.
port, Washington county, on the night
of May 6 and sentenced to the Mary
land penitentiary for twenty years.
The Lemen and Taylor families are
among the most prominent in western
Maryland.
To assure his escape from violence at
the hands of a mob of 500 citizens,
which surrounded the city hall in Og-
densburg, N. Y, in the basement OF
which Joseph Deyar was confined on
the charge of assaulting Miss Lillian E.
Ramsey, the prisoner was removed to
the county Jail at Canton, thirty miles
away, in wagon at O'Clock yester-
day morning.
Ex-Mayor G. NJ. Mosley, banker,
of Jamestown, Miss, was shot and kill
ed yesterday by Mayor G. W. Wise in
the street in front of the latter's office.
Wise is in custody. A small law suit
in which Mosley was interested was
tried before the Mayor last week and
the decision Of the latter displeased
Mosley. The ill-feellng has been grow
Ing since, eliminating in yesterdays
shooting.
A match carelessly dropped by one
of the workmen in the fireworks factory
of N. Shure, in Chicago, caused a ter.
rife explosion few minutes after 6
o'clock yesterday evening. The build.
ing Immediately caught fire and the
streets adjoining were filed with burn
ing missiles. One man was struck in
the back by candle and knocked un-
conscious. A wild panic was caused
on the street cars. The injuries were
mostly trivial. Nathan Shure made an
assignment to-day to Chas. Rosenberg.
No schedule of assets or liabilities was
filed.