Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Va.
Secretary Gage has established SUBJ
port of entry at Dyea, Alaska, 10 &C.
commodate passengers arriving by way
of Canada.
Rear Admiral Miller has received in.
structions from President Mckinley to
resist foreign aggression and suppress
internal trouble in Hawaii.
In the factory of the American Bis
cult Company, in New York, seven
hundred barrels of -four were Destroy
ed by fire yesterday and thirteen hun.
dred injured by water.
Michael Lyons, bricklayer, fell from
the roof of six. story building in New
York yesterday to the top of small
woodshed adjoining, and aside from a
few scratches and bruises escaped seri.
Gus injury.
1t is very generally believed in Wash
ington that District Attorney Henry E.
Davis will be succeeded by republi-
can lawyer before the beginning of the
fall term of the courts. Mr.. Davis
himself shares in this opinion.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Harry Beck, of Balti-
more, are TIE proud parents of daugh-
ter who is not quite ten months old,
and who can walk and falkland talk
with the confidence of child of more
mature age. The baby weighs thirty
FIVE pounds.
Four women who were arrested at
Hobmezoe, Hungary, on the charge of
having poisoned members of their fami-
lies for the purpose ofsecuring the small
amount of insurance on the lives of
their victims, have been found guilty
and sentenced to death.
The igniting of naphtha vapor caused
an explosion on the steamer Nutmeg
State, of the Bridgeport Steamboat
Company's line, at Bridgeport, Conn,
yesterday evening, by which four men
were killed, three fatally injured and a
number of others seriously hurt.
The main building of the Peoria, H.,
Grape Sugar Company was completely
destroyed by fire yesterday evening.
The loss is $500, 900, the total insurance
carried being $3.50, 900, of which nearly
$500, 600 was on the burned building
aud contents.
Leisinring's powder magazine, 10
Gated half mile from Milnesville, Pa,
was struck by lightning yesterday af
ternoor. A ton OF powder stored in the
rear exploded with terrific force, shak-
ing the very mountain and breaking the
windows in Milnesville houses. No
one was injured.
At Palermo, Mo-, last Friday night
week, Daniel Rose found DR.. ]. w.
Norris in the bedroom of his daugh-
ter. Yesterday Rose met Norris on
the street in front of the post
office and fatally shot him with re
volver. After Norris fell he drew q re-
volver and fred two shots at Rose, but
did not hit him.
A storm did great damage to proper
ty in Philadelphis yesterday and de-
stroyed crops in the surrounding coun'
try. Lightning struck the new Trinity
Church, at Norristown, and tore the
roof of. A hail and rain storm also did
great damage at Huntington, w. Va,
and vicinity. Three children of Frank
lin Domain, a miner, were drowned.
Caspar Alt, jr., twenty years OF age,
was murdered at mis- home in Baltl-
moro yesterday by an Italian scissors
grinder, who was arrested ten minutes
after he had committed the deed, and
who gave his name as Louis Ratini.
The boy tried to protect his father in
fight.
A dispatch from Singapore says that
the Chinese steamer Srihengann, bound
from Singapore for Malaccs, with 100
passengers, was wrecked in squall oil
Malacca on June 10. One hundred and
twenty persons, including the captain
of the steamer, were drowned. The re-
mainder of the ships company were
rescued by passing steamer.
At San Francisco last night the negro,
Geo. Dixon, and Dal. Hawkins met. II
was a battle for the championship OF
the world. The betting was 10 to Z! in
favor of the negro. There was about
5000 people present. Lively but equal
fighting characterized the contest, and
at the conclusion of the twentieth
round it was declared draw.
The latest plum in the gift of the
District of Columbia Commissioners has
fallen to an Ohio Office seeker through
the influence of Senator Mark Hanna.
W. c. Haskell, prominent Ohio re-
publican, who served as sergeant-at-
arms at the last republican convention,
was yesterday appointed Sealer Of
Weights and Measures for the District
by the unanimous action of the board.
Lightning struck the floating hospi-
tai OF st. Johns Guild, New York, in
the storm yesterday afternoon and kill
ed the three months old child OF Mrs.
Amelia Ackerly in its mothers arms.
The same shock caused the premature
birth of another child not three feet
away from the child that had been
killed. Several women tainted from
fright and others were suffering from
the shock.
A young colored man named Ralph
Langston, said to be the son OF e1-Con-
gresham Langston, of Virginia, was
held for examination at the Jefferson
Market police court il New York yes
terday on the charge of assaulting and
attempting to rob Marie Preston,
lady's maid at the Madison Square the
alter. The assault occurred on the
street on Tuesday night last. Langston
denies the charge.
Representative Bailey, as the leader
of the minority, has refused to make
any recommendations for the assign