Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-01-17
NEWS OF THE DAY

There are 10000 victims of the NOR
phine. opium and cocaine habits In San
Francisco.
Burglars recently ransacked the
summer home OF ex-President Cleve-
land at Gray Gables, Massachusetts.
The Agricultural Department has
made a successful test of anti-toxine
serum in the treatment of hog cholera.
Rt. Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers,
father of the House of Commons, died
in London, England, yesterday, aged
ninety six years.
That portion of the North Atlantic
Squadron which has been stationed in
Hampton Roads for some time sailed
for southern waters yesterday.
Benjamin Butterworth, United States
Commissioner OF Patents, who had been
ill at Piney Woods Hotel, at Thomas
vile, Ga, several weeks, died yester-
day afternoon.
William A. Pfaf tried to commit SUI:
eide in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore.
yesterday, by shooting himself in the
head. The bullet severed both optic
nerves, and he will be totally blind.
Tn, city Of Knoxville, Tenn, yester.
day neld an election for Mayor ofgreat-
er Knoxville, which includes North
Knoxville and other suburbs. The re.
suit was victory for the republicans.
Charles 81. Cramp, in an interview,
SAWS the Japanese cruiser Kasagi, to be
launched at Philadelphia, next Thurs
day, is type of new navy which in
two years will rank third in the world.
S. Rollins Wright, a democratic
member of the Maryland Legislature
from Queen Anne's county. died sud
denly yesterday, and his death mag
complicate political conditions at An.
napolis.
Brig Gen. Christopher Colon Augur,
who was retired from the United States
army July 10, 1895. died yesterday
evening at his residence in Georgetown,
where he had resided since his retire
ment. He was 76 years of age.
At bsptiziDg at Hamlin, Lincoln
county. w. Va, yesterday Mrs. Henry
Keck, woman weighing 200 pounds,
! was drowned. Mrs. Keck apparently
became unconscious from the cold water
and sank, and ia the excitement she
. was drowred.
Samuel Henderson, aged Is years, i:
locked up in Philadelphia on The
charge of numbering Percy Lockynr
aged years. The body OF the muir
dered child was found weighted with
stone in creek. Henderson told sew.
eral different stories about the affair.
Logan Carlisle, Chief Clerk of tbs
Treasury Department under President
Cleveland's second administration, and
son of former Secretary Of the Treasury
John G. Carlisle, died suddenly yester
day at his fathers residence, in New
York, aged IS years. The cause OF
desth was given as heart disease.
Fay Templetop, the burlesque &C.
tress, will get 100000 left her by
Howell Osborn. Justice Freedman, Of
the New York supreme court, decided
the litigation Saturday. The sisters OF
Osborn tried to break the will. Osborn
became infatuated with the actress,
and on this account was cut of by his
mother. Still he had fortune in his
possession at the time.
William Booth, general of the Saliva
ton Army, and his SOD, BalIington
Booth, commander of the American
Volunteers, met at the Windsor Hotel
in New York yesterday. Nothing
transpired calculated to lead to any
union between the two movements, but
it was agreed that all public contro-
versy in the press or otherwise between
the two movements should as far as
possible come to an end.
Mrs. Lucille Lane, wife of Mr.. Thos.
F. Lane, of Summit, N. j., and young
est daughter OF ex Senator Joseph G. S.
Blackburn, of Kentucky, received Sc
rious injury, in her apartments at the
Hotel Wellington, in Washington,
shortly before midnight Saturday.
hight. A small revolver. which she
kept in drawer in her dressing case,
was discharged while she was removing
some lace from the drawer, ths bullet
entering her left breast near the heart.
Mrs. Lane is suffering intensely from
the dangerous wound, but her ply
sicians are hopeful of her recovery.