Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-05-26
NEWS OF z DAY.

Casnell's mill, near Lewiston, Me-,
was wrecked yesterday by the X
plosion of the boilers. -Four men were
killed.
The, Southern Presbyterian General
Assembly, at Charlotte, n. c., yester-
day adopted a report recommending
the organization of an independent
colored Presbyterian church.
James F. Raymond, of New York,
was drowned yesterday, making, &C.
cordiug to q statement of his son, the
tenth member of the family who has
lost his life in the same manner
Mrs. Bridget Monahan was murder
ed at her home in Baltimore yesterday
by having her skull crushed in with SD
axe. Her husband, Peter Monahau, is
under arrest, charged with the crime.
Edward Scott Marble, the veteran
actor and dramatist, who has hitherto
been a free thinker and follower of Bob
Ipgersoll, has been converted and re-
ceived into the Catholic Church, in
Baltimore.
The democratic and bimetallic con-
gressional s-crA'aries" gave the first Of
their annual baLquets last night at the
Ebbitt House in Washington to Sena-
tor German and Representative Amos
j.. Cummings.
A rumor was circulated in Guiana
bacoa, near Havana, Cuba, yesterday,
that Gen. FitZhugh Lee, United States
consul general, had money to distribute
to the poor and about six hundred per-
sons assembled. The police were COM
PEELED to dispurse them with swords.
Two men were instantly killed and
three others seriously injured by the
explosion of o boiler in a saw mill Of
Joseph Haney, at Glen Hazel, Pa, this
morning. The mill was a new one,
having been completed but . few days
and at the time of the explosion was
shut down.
E. S. Maloney, of Tennessee, son-in.
law of Senator Mills, Of Texas, and for
twenty years q clerk in the Postoffice
Department, in Washington, expired
from heart disease while driving to the
department yesterday. He was pro-
prietor of the Mount Vernon and Cairo
livery stables.
Mrs. Minnie Boon, who is employed
as q vegetable cook in Wizards Hotel,
Washington. narrowly escaped q fright
full death last night, by falling three
floors through the elevator shaft. She
is. now lying in the Emergency Hospi-
tai suffering from a terribly lacerated
wound in the left thigh.
Samuel Rosenstein, who was recent
ly prosecuted for %practicing medicine
without q proper diploma, attempted sui.
eide in Hoboken, N. j., last night, and
will undoubtedly die. Rosenstein's
wife died recently, he was in destitute
circumstances, and determined to end
his troubles by suicide.
Henry Hopper, Of Cincinnati, Ohio,
was seized with violent cramps on a
Rock Island train last night while Oh
his way home from Denver, where he
had been visiting, and died before morn
ing. He was unaccompanied by any
one who knew him and upon the ar
| rival of the train in Chicago the body
wes removed to the morgue.
The fishing schooner Joseph R. John
son arrived at ProvincetowD, Mass,
yesterday, the captain believing that he
had lost Is of her crew. The schooner
had been fishing on the Western Banks,
and the men went astray in dories.
| To-day the members of the crew arriv-
ed at P%rovincetown on the Norwegian
bark China. All we're we'll. although
they had suffered much from hunger.
At Ell Paso, Texas, at one o'clock
yesterday morning the levee broke and
the flood in the Rio Grande rushed
through the town. A large force of
men tried to check the waters with
sacks filled with sand but a second
break above backed up the water and
they had to retire. One hundred and
sixty homes were washed away and
several hundred families are housed in
freight cars standing in two and three
f.et of water.
Charles Van Haltren, aged twenty
three years, was arrested yesterday
zeal Pikesville, Md, charged with
committing q ielonious assault on
Madaline Sullivan, aged fourteen years,
daughter of CHARLES j. Sullivan, ana
ger of Mr.. John Wards stock farm.
The victim is a prepossessing girl, and
is we'll developed for her age. Judge
Jacob Kraft, before whom the prisoner
was taken, held Van Haltren in $500
security for his appearance at the
court.
Mr.. John B Shepperd. one of the
best-known young lawyers OF Washing
ton, shot himself through the head
Monday night, killing himself almost
instantly. During the evening he was
as pleasant as usual to those
about him, and shortly before IL
o'clock babe his mother good night
and went to his room. Here
he wrote q letter to DIR. Robert S.
Mason, at the Columbia Hospital, in
forming the doctor that he intended to
kill himself.
Mrs. May Campbell, o jealous wife.
concealed herself in a closet in the
room of Maud Devere, a woman of ILL
repute, in St. Louis, yesterday, and lis
tened to her husbands professions of
love, the object of his affections being
the woman named. Wildly excited
by her spouse's pleadings with the wo-
man to elope with him, Mrs. Campbell
sprang out of the closet and emptied q
so calibre revolver at them. Camp
bell was mortally wounded and Maud
Deyere caught a flying bulletin her left
knee.
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