Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-03-14
gEgs OF TIE DAY.

Senator Teller says the free coinage bill
will pass the Senate By from to Is msj or.
ity.
It is reported that when the Bland free
coinage bill &C mes to vote in the Senate,
Senator Hill, Of New York, will vote for It,
It is reported that the Franklin sugar re-
Gceiy of Philadelphia has been absorbed by
the Trust.
Ia the Iowa Senate on Saturday the bill to
regulate the sale of Intoxicating liquors
was indefinitely postponed by vote OF AZ
to Al.
The Few silver halfdollars and quarters
have beeD counterfeited and lightweight
tweLt, dollar gold pieces that have heen
"sTeated" are being received In New YORK
from California.
Senator Morrill,. OF Vermont. Is critically
Ill Of pneumonia in Washington. He ID 81
years old, and has recently been In feeble
health. He has been in the Senate since
1866
Tom A. Gaffnsy. In jail In Fort Dodge,
Iowa, for numbering Ell Buggy, tried to
commit eulcids yett.yday by battering his
head against the iron bars OF the cage. Doc
tors say he will die.
The House committee on foreign fails
has nearly completed tho diplomatic ana
consular appropriation bill, which cuts do|n
! the pay and number OF United s .at,s foreign
| representatives.
Senator Hill left Washington on bis south.
ern tour at eleven O'Clock last night over
the Baltimore and Obi, and the Nor
folk and Western Railroads. and will be ab-
cent from Washington about week.
The works OF the Colville & Oollins NoE-
| way Bolt Company, In Pi'tsbarg, were
burned to the ground at al early hour sat-
urdey morning The loss on buildings, ma
ohinery ard stock Ia at least 100000.
Weylon A Swarz, a farmer If Westm!E-
ster, Ont, who had met with heavy hnan-
cial lossee, yesterday became despondent.
saturet.d bis clothes with coal oil snd 81 t
| fire TO himself, meeting with horrible
dsath,
a ergs number Of members of the Texas
| Legislature, which convened at Austin to
day, declare their inte, ton to vote Tor Rep
reeeptst tive Mills for U aited States Ser ator
| The probabilities last night were that MILE
will be elected.
George w. Knox, prominent citizan OF
| Washington, we'll known as the founder OF
one Of tho largest private express com
panies IN the United States, died In thst
city yesterday evening In the aixty-third
year Of his sga.
| The Duke of Cumberland. 10 ie TOR to
Emperor William, declares bis sdher.
enos to the Fa,hsrland, and requests
the Emperor to give his confederation
to the execution Of the treaty dealing vito
the property of the late King George OF
Hanover.
The B.. Ray. Gregory Thurston Bedsll,
Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF Ohio, died
Friday night Ia Nss York, aged 70 years
His theological tt1dles were pursued at the
Episcopal Theological Seminary. near this
city, and In 1910 he was ordained deacon.
After Is years. work he became Assistant
Bishop of Ohio. IL 1873 Bishop McIivatDe
disd end DR. Bsdell succeeded him.
President Hsriison's proclamation to the
effaor thst Nicaragua had ayr. ed To reel
proclt7 treaty under the provisions Of the
Mckinley set made public to-day. 1t fol
lows closely the treaties made With TIE
other Sou b American republop, and sd.
mills free OF duty nearly all agricultural ard
many manufactured products. The treaty
goes into effsot on April IT,
The Greud Duke of Hesse died yesterday
The official Darnstadi Gazette announces
the accession OF tho de,eased's SOD, Ernest
Ludwig, to the grand dukedom. Ludwig
Nv the reiQnIpg Grand Duke ofHesse. king
over 5000 quhre miles and abouts million
neope, was born September 12 1887. 10
1862 he married Princess A ice, second
daughter of Qaeen Victoria.
AtLarsdo, Tex, Mexican has reported
fading, Monday last. the dead body OF o
man hanging from tree on Ell PATIO ranch.
Near the body were several empty Win
chester shells. Another Mexican reported
fading another body not far from the one
mentioned 10 much the same condition. Il
Ia thought the men were killed by CARA
sympathizsr ara for aiding U. 8. troops In the
rscent campaign.
MARRIED UNDER AaE.-A sensation was