Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-08-07
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

the house 10 which he formerly lived
at Canton, Ohio.
The comDositors and stereotypers OF
the New York Sun, 100 in number,
went on strike Saturday night.
The company of marines from the
barracks in Washington city will start
for Manila tomorrow morning at nine
o'clock.
Secretary Iddings, of the United
States embassy, yesterday gave ban.
quet at Naples in honor OF Admiral
Dewey.
President Kruger has notified Sir
Alfred Miner OF his Willingness 10 lis
ten to any friendly suggestion from the
British government.
Having broken a promise of total abb
stinence, Mayor James G. Woodward,
| of Atlanta. Ga, has teen asked by the
City Council to resign.
A leading Havana merchant says
that, with universal suffrage, Cuba
would soon be black republic, with
100000 negroes and 100000 whites.
General Jiminez, who left his home
in Havana Saturday to join his adher.
ents in Ssnto Domingo, returned at
| night, after finding that he was closely
watched.
A gang Off employed by citizens
of Pontiac, Mich, on Saturday tore up
| the street car tracks in that city be-
/ cause the company would not pave the
street according to charter,
Herbert Miles Cole, the 2-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Cole, Of
Verona, near Baltimore, was choked TO
death by small piece of an apple
which he ate Friday night.
Consul General Goodnow, United
States official at Shanghai, has render
ed decision to the effect that China
will be liable if arms are shipped to the
Filipinos from Chinese ports.
After making an address on the un-
certainly of life at Hostetter's Meeting
house, near Hanover, Pa, yesterday,
Rev. Samuel B. Myers, aged seventy
eight, sank into chair and expired.
4 Near Chattanooga, Tenn, yesterday
I Afternoon, Capt. A. B. Watkins, well
known citizen and county officer, was
stabbed to death by his 11.year old
son, Clarence, who has been jailed.
Watkins was whipping the boy Oh &C
count of breach of family discipline,
when the lad became enraged, drew
his knife and plugged the blade through
his fathers heart.
An express train crashed into local
train at Juvisy, twelve and hall miles
from Paris Saturday evening, complete
ly wrecking the local. Seventeen per-
sons were killed and seventy.fve in
jured, several very severely. Nearly
all the killed aud injured were resi-.
dents of Paris. The passen gers on the
express train were badly shaken up,
but beyond this none was injured. TIE
disaster is attributed to storm, which
disarranged the semaphores.
Robert M. Eierhsrt, pIasterer, OF
Baltimore yesterday shot at Harry R
Wilson, saloon-keeper, while riding
with his (Eierhsrt's) wife in the suburbs,
wounding the latter. The two men
were arrested. The woman was taken
to hospital. Her condition is not SER
ious. AS Mr.. Wilson aud Mrs. Elerhart
were driving. Mr.. Eierhart appeared
upon the scene, and took exception to
Mr.. Wilson taking his wife out driving.
Some warm words ensued, and the
shooting followed.
While sitting with his wife in the
dining room of their home in Phila-
delphia shortly after l O'Clock
yesterday morning, George n. Pad
dock took revolver from drawer in
his desk and deliberately blew his
brains out. He fell forward almost in'
to the arms of his Mortified wife,
whose clothes were spattered with his
blood. The cause of the suicide is a
mystery, although It was reported that
the wife had been upbraiding him for
being out so late. A brother of the
dead man WAS visiting him, and for
several days, it is said, the two were
taking ir the sights of the city and
staying out rather late at nights.
In spite OF the protests of thoughtful
white and colored persons in Boston,
Miss Lillian Clayton Jewett has taken
to that city the family of the late Post
master Baker, colored, who was lynch.
ed at Lake City, S. G., in 1897, with
the intention of exhibiting them
throughout the north and thus arous
ing public sentiment against the south.
1t remains to be seen how far she will
succeed in doing this. Miss Jewett ar
rived at Charleston, S. c., Friday morn
ing, accompanied by her mother and
Young man named r. G. Larsen, who
| is a Boston journalist. She had fire.
quent conferences with the Baker wom-
an and her friends, aud as result left
there for Boston Saturday afternoon,
accompanied by the entire Baker fami-
| ~, the mother and five children.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENTAL trolley car
on the Shelton street railway filed
with passengers jumped the track just
at the south end of the long, high
bridge over Peck's stream, about mile
and o half beyond Stratford, Conn.,, at
yesterday afternoon. 1T ran 2longt he
heavy plsnking of the bridge for about
seventy.6ve feet and then toppled of
the east side and fell fifty feet to the
valley below. 1t turned completely
oyer in the decent, and the heavy mo
tors on tie bottom of the car drove the
bottom and top Of the car together,
crushing the passengers between them
and holding them as in wise. As near
as can be aecertained there were forty
five persons Oh the car OF these thirty
are dead. Only one person in the car,