Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-19
NEWS OF THE DAT.

Seven guns were spiked by some un.
known person at West Point yesterday.
The Inhabitants Of Esperanza, Cuba,
are said to be dying by hundreds OF
hunger.
The Iowa republicans yesterday NOM
mated l.. M. Shaw for Governor after
lively rarty fight.
A fierce tornado struck Lynbrook,
L. l., yesterday. Oaly one person was
Injured, but considerable property was
damaged.
M. Girard, director OF the municipal
laboratory in Paris, declares that the
bomb thrown in that city yesterday was
constructed by an expert. The tube
was cracked; otherwise the explosion
would most likely have killed or
wounded number Of persons.
Much damage has been done by q
snow storm which started near Wilmot,
5. D., Saturday noon. A terrific wind
accompanied it and by 5 O'Clock fully
Two inches OF snow stood on the level,
and all grain was more or less blown
down. This is the earliest snow storm
there.
Rev. Il. H. Burgoyne, aged sixty
years, highly respected Methodist
minister of Rulings, Tucker county, w.
Va, was murdered at $50 o'clock Tues
day morning. Coleman Pitzer, young
day laborer, has confessed to the deed.
The deceased owed Pilzer some money
which he could not pay.
Cromwell B. Eversoe, aged about
sixty years, living along the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal, about twelve
miles west of Hagerstown, Md, is
charged with attempting to assault his
two daughters, Anna, aged about seven.
teen, and Rena, aged thirteen, while his
wife was at Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore. undergoing treatment.
There are no developments in the
Hawaiian-Japanese controversy and no
reply has been received to Secretary
| Sherman's last communication. The
press opinion Of Japan has become
much more conciliatory, and the abb
tration negotiations between Japan aud
Hawaii are regarded as disposing OF
the chances of trouble between the
United States and Japan.
Officials OF the Burlington Road say
that with good weather for ten days the
corn cror - @---asLa will aggregate
$50, 100000 bushels, and that If good
weather continues until the middle OF
September the yield will be more near
ly 400, 900 bushels. Nearly every
crib at railroad stations, it is said, is
filled with last YEARS corn. The wheat
crop of the State is estimated at 40, 000,-
600 bushois.
The steamer Alki arrived at Seattle
yesterday morning from Dyea, Alaska.
On it was brought letter TO Willis
Thorp. 1t was from Edward Thorp
| and came overland, saying that he had
cleaned up $4,000 in the KIondike in
eight weeks and was coming home on
the steamer Portland, which is due in
Seattle August &c. Thorp LETT Seattle
one year ago, having gone north with a
| drove of cattle.
A cablegram was received in Boston
Yesterday from Bahia, Brazil, stating
| that the crew of the Boston schooner
Olive Pecker had mutilated and muir
dered the captain, J. w. Whitman, OF
Rockland, Me-, and tie mate, William
Marlborough, who is also supposed to
be citizen of Maine. The vessel WIS
burned, the crew escaping to the shore,
it is supposed, somewhere in the vicini-
ty of Bahia Blanca, where the cable
states they are now.
The panic caused by the recent do
ings of anarchists has spread to st.
Petersburg. A correspondent says that
score of Polish students at the uni
versity were surprised by the police
while they were discussing politics in
private house. The young men were
all arrested and hurried to Siberia. a
number of documents were seIz,d, from
which the police inferred that the stu
dents were engaged in plot 10 assassi-
nate the Gar.