Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-07-06
NEWS OF THE DAN


ton in the Paris poi C department.
Surgeon-General Wyman, of the ma
line hospital service, says there is not
case of yellow fever in he United
States.
is rerorted that Presid, Mt Kruger,
of the Trsnsvaal, has hcct pied new
franchise proposals and that peace Wi |
be preserved with Great Britain.
A movement has been started in Gu
ba TO buy house for General Cons z
and to present to him Il sum OF money,
all of which is of course most agreeable
to Gomez.
The board of naval experts have de-
cded to provide protective decks for
the six cruisers of the Denver class.
No change in the design of the ships
will be required
At midnight last night Ex-Governor
John Peter Richardson, Of South Care
lima, died at his rooms at the hotel
Jerome, in Columbia, S. c., very ua-
! expectedly of heart disease.
Mr.. G. Lorraine Gill, aged ffty.nine
years, member of the firm of Martin
Gillet & Co., tea importers on Exchange
Place, Baltimore, died last night, of
| Bright's disease, at his home in that
city.
/ General Julliard commander of the
troops at Rennes, France. has practi-
| cally defed the French War Minister
by issuing an order praising Colonel
Saxce, who was transferred as dis
ciplinary measure.
! At Newport R. l., on Tuesday night
W. K. Vanderbilt, ir., was thrown
from his automobile while racing with
II. r. Winthrop, of New York. He
was unconscious for some time, but
this morning was reported better.
Pleas Vim and Catlett Upton, the
white.cappers, were hanged ut SEWER
| Vile, Tenn, yesterday for the murder
of Mr.. Whaley and his wife. Mrs. Lip
ton, wife of the murderer, and his FIVE
children were present at the scafold.
The trial of Armstead Taylor and
John Alfred Brown, accused ofthe muir.
der of Louis and Dora Rosenstein, at
Slidell, Montgomery county, Md, in
May last. began in Frederick city yes
terday. States evidence weaves stout
chain of circumstance about the &C
cused.
NJ. Guenee, one of the detective
agents who testified against Dreyfus in
u the court-martial of 1894, died sudden
| ly in Paris yesterday. 1t was rumored
that he was poisoned, but the fact is
that Guenee died a natural death from
pulmonary disease complicated with in
| testiDal trouble.
Willie Porter, 9 years old, of Coats,
Kan, was playing soldier yesterday
with q pistol he found in the hired
mans room. "I'll shoot you," he said
to his baby sister, who was in her moth
er's arms. Then he pulled the trigger,
the bullet passing through both the
baby and the mother, killing them in
stantly.
The Atlantic League of Baseball
Clubs is practically no more. The dis
bandment of Scranton's club breaks
the circuit, and the league season end
ed with the games played yesterday.
Richmond will secure the champion
ship pennant for 1899, but whether
any more baseball will BIZ seen there
| this summer remains to be seen.
The work of pushing the eastern arch
of the big Pennsylvania Railroad train.
shed in jersey City toward the river, a
distance of 125 feet, was completed yes
terday afternoon. The massive steel
structure was moved forty-seven feet
and at 4 p. m was resting on the broad
stone and brick foundations prepared
for it. TWAS remarkable engineer
ing feat.
J. E. Fayer, a well TODD farmer of
Hardy county, W. Va, was shot and
instantly killed yesterday by Lemuel
Kohn, q neighbor. The tragedy &C.
Cured near Lost City. The men had
adjourning farms, and had been the best
of friends till recently, when dispute
arose over the dividing lines of their
property. Kohn became angry at q
remark made by Fayer and emptied
the contents of double. bsrreled shot
gun at close range, blowing him to
pieces. Kohn escaped to the mountains.