Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

as indemnity for three Italian subjects
lynched at Hahnville, La.
A majority of the profes sors at Brown
University nave issued protest against
the action with reference to President
Andrews.
Patrick Dolan, president of the Pitts.
burg district miners, was arrested yes.
terday near Pjttsburg on charge Of
riot and unlawful assembly. He was
afterward released on bail.
The government receipts in July
were $39, OPT 1854 and the disbursements
$50, 10O,9 0S. The deficit is accounted
for by the abnormally heavy e1pendi-
lures incident to the beginning of the
new fiscal year.
The assertion was made yesterday by
one of the most prominent wholesale
whisky dealers in Baltimore that there
ia enough whisky already manufactured
in this country to-day to last the con.
sumers for twelve years to come.
The Treasury Department has modi-
fed its order to collectors of internal
revenue instructing them to seize pack.
ages of cigarettes or smoking or chew
ing tobacco conla,rirg a prize or any
promise or offer of gift or reward. No
seizures will be made for the present.
Acting Postmaster. General Merritt
has appointed John P. Green, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, stamp agent for the United
States. Greene is colored lawyer.
The appointment was surprise, as the
position of stamp agent had never before
been filled by colored man, and is
considered one of the most lucrative
sinecures in the department service.
Gregg Eichelberger, of Thurmont,
Md, while riding in wagon with
Frank Zimmerman and his daughter,
Mary, OF the same place, were all struck
by an east bound train of the Western
Maryland Railroad, about two miles
from their home, yesterday The won.
an was killed and her father seriously
injured. Eichelberger was taken to the
City Hospital, in Baltimore, in an un-
conscious condition.
Lord Salisbury made statement in
the House of Lords yesterday, in which
he outlined the state of the peace nego.
tiations between Turkey and Greece.
He admitted having some doubt
whether Turkey had really accepted
the terms of the powers. and said Crete
was in a dangerous position because OF
the division of creeds. Dispatches from
Constantinople indicate that another
ultimatum by the powers to Turkey
may be necessary.
Another heiress is announced in the
Vanderbilt family. Early yesterday
morning daughter was born 10 Mr..
and Mrs. Ernesto Fabbri, at Scarb( .
roug on, the-the Hudson. The advent
of this little one is regarded with con.
siderable interest in society. She will
inherit millions. She is great-grand.
daughter of the late VIM. II. Wander.
bilt Mrs. Fabbri is niece of Cornell
ius Vanderbilt and cousin of the
Duchess of Marlborough.
The reports Of the disastrous floods
in Prussian Silesia and Saxony received
at Berlin yesterday have created great
CONSERVATION in Berlin, and show thai
Iuo pCopio III 'dt6o oOCIiouS VI tuOSe
territories are panic-stricken at the APP
palling magnitude of the danger which
threatens them. The latest advices
report that 1913 persons have been
drowned in Silesia and Saxony, and
that the damage to property by the
rushing waters exceeds $1,000, 900
marks.
Samuel Wolf, Jersey City, N. J. con.
fectioner, yesterday afternoon offered 8
dish of cream to the boy who would hold
his arm the longest time in an ice cream
freezer. A number of boys who were
around VOLTS store contested for the
prize, but Willie Lockwood outdid
them all. Although suffering e1cruci-
ating pain, he held his arm in the
freezer for four minutes. When he
withdrew the arm it was frozen stiff.
The boy was taken to the city hospital,
| where it was said that it would be
necessary to amputate the arm.