Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The State Piedmont Bank, of Nor
gantown, N. c.. closed its doors yester-
day owing to inability to make collec.
tions.
Count Esterhazy has demanded an
investigation by court-martial of the
charges in connection with the Dreyfus
scandal.
The ravages of smallpox in San Do
mingo, Cuba, are increasing. There is
no vaccination or any effort made to
check the 6isase,
Berkeley Balch, secretary of the Gu
ban legation, yesterday submitted to
President Mckinley an argument in be-
half of the insurgents.
The Secretary of the Treasury yes
terday decided that the discriminating
duty must be imposed on sugar import
ed from the Netherlands.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies yes
terday appointed a commission to in-
vestigate charges against ex-Premier
Crispi, the veteran statesman.
NJ. n. Milliard, Senator for the De-
partment of Eure, has been appointed
the French Minister of Justice in suc.
cession to NJ. Darlan, resigned.
There will be another vacancy in the
Supreme Court next March, when JUS
tce Gray becomes 70 years of age, and
therefore eligible to retirement.
The President started from Wash
ington at 7:30 o'clock last night for
Canton, having been called there by
the serious illness of his mother.
Mr.. Allen G. Wilson, son of Hon.
VIM. L. Wilson, aud Miss Frances
Warren Simpson were married at Cam
demon. Gauley, West Virginia, yester-
day.
Bishop Capers,ss of South Carolina,
has fixed December 10 as day upon
which the Protestant Episcopal clergy
of that State are to preach against the
crime of murder.
Representative Dingley, the chair
man of the House ways and means
committee, says currency legislation
cannot be expected from the free-silver
majority in the Senate.
Prince Bismarck, in his newspaper,
commenting upon rumors of the United
States interfering in Hayti, declared it
Ia political necessity to oppose this
American arrogance"
Count de Mitkiewicz, who is wanted
on bench warrant to answer the charge
| of swiudling two Washipgtonians out
of $125, is in New York and says
he will return to Washington at once.
At meeting of the Spanish cabinet
Premier Sagasta, referring to Cuba, de
clared that Pnar del Rio was al i'm
portant centre of rebellion, and that
the instruction in the Philippine
Islands is not entirely suppre. sed.
The big furniture establishment of
the Flint Company, at Providence, R..
l., was destroyed by fire yesterday
evening. There is an estimated dam
age of S15O,0OO. One man lost his life,
and others escaped by the windows and
elevator.
At Parsons, W. Va, on Wednesday
night the twenty taiesmen necessary to
complete the panel in the case of Robt.
W. Eastman, indicted for the murder
of Frank E. Thompson, were obtained
and evidence 10 the case was com
menced yesterday.
Matilda Delilah Shields, granddaugh-
ter of Richard Henry Potomack, an
Indian chief, died IN Washington yes
terday at the age of 113 years. She
was born at Indian Head, Md. She
left one son and two daughters, thirty
grandchildren, thirty five great-grand-
children.
A sensation was caused at Pimlico
yesterday by laudanum bottle being
found in horses stall and there was a
suspicion that old Saugus was dosed,
which lead to an investigation by the
officials. The secretary of the Turf
Congress declares that all connected
with the present meeting are outlawed.
In Philadelphia last night Anna
Niggl, young married woman, muir.
dered her two younger children by IL
Eliminating gas and at the same time
attempted suicide by the same means.
She put the two children in bsthtuh
aud lay down with them, turning on
the gas. No reason for Mrs. Niggl's
action is known.
A dispatch from Waterloo, Iowa, says
the Kern murder mystery is mystery
no longer. William Kern, son of the
murdered man, has at last broken down
and made clean breast of it all. His
sweetheart, Delilah Fales, is accused
by him of the murder of Jerome Kern,
and the dead mans only son confesses
that he was her willing dupe and accom-
plice. He says she suggested and he
assented. This crime was to have been
followed by the murder of her mother.