Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-07
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their baggage.
A we'll known Boston man received
q letter yesterday from an officer on
board the flagship New York, of the
North Atlantic squadron, now at Dry
Tortugss, describing series of small
accidents to the Texas, Iowa. and Iu-
diana at Key West, which have been
suppressed by the Navy Department.
Sheriff Horton G.. Thompson arrived
in Rockville, Nd, on Saturday even
ing, having in charge Collie and Roland
Coe, two young men formerly of Lou.
| doun county, Va, who are charged
with assault on Rev. VIM. Beall and
disturbing religious meeting at Hunt
ing Hill Union Church the 9Th of De-
csmber last. They are now in Jail.
Dispatches received in Havana from
Madrid represent the Sagasta cabinet as
disguised with the Cuban autonomist
ministry, because of its neglect of mill
tary operations against the insurgents.
General Woodford, United States min
lister to spaip, is said to have presented
another note to the Spanish govern
ment to which Premier Sagasta replied
vigorously. The Spanish government
has decided to send two additional
cruisers to the United States.
In less than an hour last night fire
destroyed between $4,000 and $780,
600 worth of property 10 Savannah. Ga.
The fire originated in the grain ware.
house of the Georgia and Alabama
\ Warehouse Company. Shortly after
| midnight, and after the frat fire was
under control, the Cathedral of ST.
John the Baptist, one of the handsomest
| and most costly Catholic churches in
the South, was totally destroyed. The
| loss amounts to fully S250,000. Some
suspect incendiarism.
| The floor of the Reformed Church at
EHyndman, nine miles north of Cumber.
land, Nd, sank with crash yesterday
afternoon while the structure was
crowded with people attending the
funeral of August Fisher. A panic en-.
sued, and men, women and children
bumped through the high windows,
while hundreds damned through the
narrow door. Many were hurt. Mrs
Pizel sustained badly injured leg, and
Charles West cut hand from glass.
Rev. Mr.. Miller escaped through a
window in the rear of the pulpit.
| The mystery surrounding the death
of Bessie B. Neff, of Adelphi, Ohio, is
the prevailing sensation of that section.
The coroner's inquest closed at late
hour Saturday night, and DR.. Samson.
| at whose house she died, was held re-
sponsible. The coroner's verdict was
to the effect that the girl had met death
from asphyxiation resulting from the
administering of some unknown drug
by DR. Samson for the purpose of per-
forming q criminal operation. When
the verdict was announced bowling
! mob of 300 surrounded Samson's house,
threatening to tear it down and lynch
the doctor. The crowd was finally
driven back by the constable and about
twenty citizens armed with guns, and
Samson was landed in the Laure'vilie
Jail in default of 81 900 bonds. There
are two theories as to why the girl was
murdered. One is that she vsited
Samson with the intention of having a
criminal operation performed, and that
preparatory to so doing the man who
10 said to be quack gave her too much
chloroform. Another theory is that
the girl was enticed to Samson's place
and purposely murdered to cover up
the identity of her betrayer, whose
name has not yet come to the surface.
DR.. Samson, was yesterday removed to
the jail at Logan as precaution against
lynching.