Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

An Italian anarcnlSG, VINO mas lately
arrived in this country, 1t is alleged, in.
tends to assassipate President Diaz of
Mexico.
Brigadier General David G. Swain
who died at his home in Mount Pleas.
ant Tuesday morning, was buried at
Arlington yesterday with military
honors.
The Knights of Labor of Washington
are angry with the printers and refuse
to patronize their excursion. The &C.
ton of the printers in an arbitration
matter is the cause.
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss will at.
tend the Winchester fair on the 18th
of September, the date when the North
Carolina monument will be dedicated
in Stonewall Cemetery.
A dispatch from Christiansburg says
the condition of Judge Waller R. Sta
Piles is becoming serious, and the state
of his health is such as greatly to alarm
his family and friends.
The Irish Catholic Benevolent
Unions national convention at Scran.
ton, Pa, yesterday adoped resolution
extending sympathy to the striking
miners in western Pennsylvania.
General Woodford, q. S. Minister to
Spain, has been unable to obtain any
satisfactory answers from the powers
as to the degree of neutrality they will
assume in case of difficulty between
this country and Spain.
A skeleton, the skull of which was
fractured and the wrists encased in
handouts, was dug up recently on the
premises of DR.. Cocker, Queenstown,
the site of the frat jail in Queen Anne'f
county, Md, erected in the last cen.
fury, when Queenstown MAS the coun.
ty seat.
Mrs. Mary B. Thompson, the divorced
wife of a prominent Terre Haute, Ind,
farmer, was arrested yesterday for at
tempted murder. 1t is claimed that
she took her two.weeks-old boy out in.
to the woods and buried it alive. The
child was found by detectives. 1t ii
still alive.
While flying kite during heavy
electrical storm few days ago, Wal
ter Vinson, a 12.year-old boy, who
lived in Chelsea place, Kansas City,
Kan, was struck by lightning and in'
stantly killed. The fluid ran down the
string, and the lads hands were burn.
ed to crisp. The body was burned
black all over.
Secretary Sherman has replied to
the note of Mr.. Toru Hoshi, the Japan
csc minister, which protested against
the annexation of Hawaii. The an
swer was sent yesterday, and it is be-
lieved contained strong intimation to
the minister that it closed the CORE
spondence between this government
and that of Japan relative to Hawaii.
Before the week closes the Depart
ment of State will send to CoDsul Gen
eral Lee another installment from the
$4,000 appropriated by Congress fol-
the relief of American citizens in Cuba
Gen. Lee has already expended SlO,
900 of the amount appropriated, and
according to his report the results were
such as to warrant him in continuing to
afford assistance.
The first century plant known to
have blossomed at the White House is
in full bloom now. The plant is To-
Gated where all visitors may see it, il
being at the northeast corner of ting
building. 1t is ofthe Agavy Americana
variety, which are abundant in Centre.
America. The first three branches o.
the stock to bloom were sent to Mrs
Mckinley. The flower hangs in q glo
bose cluster and is in color dark vel.
low.
Relations between this government
and Peru are badly strained, and it is
within the range of possibilities, indeed
of probabilities, that it may become
necessary for the United States to make
demonstration against this South
American republic. The trouble grows
out of an attempt of the United States
to collect claim against Peru on be.
halt of Victor II. McCord, citizen Of
Pennsylvania. This is claim for $50
900. The present administration has
assumed the attitude Of backing it, and
of enforcing it's collection. Secretary
Sherman several days ago sent an ulti.
matum to Peru through the represen'
tative of the Peruvian government at
Washington. No reply has yet been
received to this communication, al
though sufficient time has elaped to
have heard from Peru.
At Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, q
pretty girl, about eighteen years old,
on the beach of the lake at Doans
street, suddenly waded, fully dressed,
into the water. When she had gotten
into deep water she sprang forward and
disappeared. Two young men plunged
in, and, though the girl fought desper-
ately, they succeeded in dragging her
ashore. The girl pleaded to be allow
ed to die. She was taken to the near
east police station, and there refused to
speak word for some time. Finally
she said: "Bring Rev. NOakes here,
and I'll talk to him." Rev. B. F.
Noakes Is pastor of the Epiphany Epis-
copal Church in Euclid avenue, Cleve.
land. He was summoned and had q
talk with the girl, and soon after took
her to his carriage and drove rapidly
away. He refused to tell who the girl
is or why she wanted to die.
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