Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-09-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Bishop Potter IL SuHerlpR IrOm b
severe attack of the grip at his home,
in New York.
Five men yesterday afternoon met q
horrible death from "black DAMP" the
after accumulation of fire, in the
Jermyn No. l mine, near Bendham, Pa.
At Terre Haute, Ind yesterday Star
Pointer paced mile in 2:002 in his trial
against 1851. The third quarter,
paced in 2S seconds, is the fastest on
record.
NJ. Jules Cambon, governor general
of Algeria, it is announced will sue.
coed NJ. Jules Patenotre as French
ambassador at Washirgtor, and NJ.
Patenotre will 60 to Madrid.
The Union Steamship Company's
steamer Coquitlan, just arrived at Van
couver, B. G., from Sksguay, brings the
nnconfrmed report that Dawson City,
in the Klondike, was burned about
three weeks ago.
The anti-race track gambling amend
ment to the New Jersey constitution
was defeated by 5000 majority. The
amendment giving women the right to
vote at school "'inns Is beaten worse
than t. enti gamDl,lg amendment.
Minister : wall has reported that the
Japanese cruiser Naniwa has sailed
from Honolulu for Yokohama, and that
an estimate of the terms of q settlement
of Japan's claims against Hawaii had
been agreed upon.
B. B. Lederer, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent manufacturing
jewellers in the country, was made de-
PENDANT in $50, 900 breach of promise
case in Providence, B. l., yesterday.
The plaintiff is Miss Trase Mainz,
youthful and strikingly attractive.
Mary Ann Kilmartin committed sui.
eide by drowning herself at Boston yes
terday. She was to have been married
but the groom broke his appointment.
The young woman's mother 3ecame Sc
riously i'll at the same Time, and the
dual sorrow unbalanced her mind.
Russian police were informed of a
plot against the Car during his recent
visit to Warsaw, which was frustrated
by accident. The conspirators tried to
dig a tunnel from a beerhouse to the
castle. One hundred and thirty per
sons have been arrested in connec.
ton with the plot.
State Senator Charles Carroll Croth
ers, of Maryland, died at Elkton last
night. Mr.. Crothers's trouble was due
to cancer of the lace, for which he un-
derwent three operations, the first OF
which was performed in Philadelphia
about five months ago, and the others
at Johns-Hopkins University.
The first republican convention oil
the Greater New York municipality il
Carnegiae Hall last night nominated
General Benjamin F. Tracy for mayor
The ballot stood Tracy, 297; Low 40
Schroeder, 2. Senator Platt was given
rousng reception by the convention
National committeeman Gibbs denounc
ed Seth Low as mugwump. Mr.
Lows friends refused to withdraw his
pane, and declared that he was in the
field to stay.
Robbers with hot irons Monday
night terribly tortured Isaac Alderfer
hermit, 70 years of age, and one O
the oldest residents of Shippack town
ship, Pa, who has long dwelt alone in
little house just outside of Evansbure
and two miles from Collegeville. This
6endish deed was perpetrated because
the old man did not and could no.
tell the ruffians where to find lot Of
money, that they supposed he bad con
cealed in his home. Their helpless
victim was discovered all but dead yes
terday morning by Collegeville baker
who called at his place and heard his
means.
George Fred Williams was yester-
day nominated for governor of Massa
chusetts by the democratic State con
vention, on a platform that souarely
endorses, as stated in the GAZETTE o.
yesterday, that adopted by the national
convention at Chicago last Summer
The convention was so disorderly at
times as almost to require the interven
ton of the police. MIR. Williams was
the principal figure in the convention
There was no opposition to his nomi'
nation for governor, but his insistence
on the turningdown of old party lead
ers who were lukewarm in support OF
himself and Bryan last fall created q
tumult at the outset before permanent
organization had been effected.
RIGHT TO APPOINT JUDGEs.-The
board of supervisors of Gloucester has
raised the point which has been main
tanned at various times for the past
twenty years that the Governor cannot
appoint Judge during the vacation OF