Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-12-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Dir. GlaGSt0ne mas OrGeTeu Il sptcldi
meeting OF the British Cabinet TO dis
cuss the home rule bill.
Max Metzroth committed suicide in
Washington, yesterday, because he had
not means to support the girl he want
ed TO marry.
Frightened by the predictions of a
fortune teller in Nice, yesterday, wife
died in childbirth aud her husband
committed suicide.
The Chamber of Deputies of France
has invested the Panama canal inves
tigating committee with judicial powers,
despite the opposition o:tEe minister
OF justice.
Leonard Mantklow, who recently
muderously assaulted Miss Eiilda
Wood and Miss Edith Philhrick, prom
inent young ladies in English society,
was yesterday declared insane.
At the monthly meeting of the Pres
bytcry of New York yesterday COM
mittee reported that q portion of the
Roman Catholic population OF New
York was genuinely hcathcn."
Miss Susan Is. Anthony, OF Rochester,
\. y, the well-known woman-slliirage,
advocate. was yesterday appointed
manager of the New York State Indus
trial school by Governor Flower:
The will of Mr. Jay Gould was offer
ed for probate IL New York Yesterday:
The executors say in their petition that
the property in New York consists OF
$4,000 O0 in realty and $l0,00o,Ooo IN
personally.
Representative Cobb, democrat, OF
Alabama. introduced in the House yes
tcrday, by request, Il bill approprlatlng
$l5O. 900 for the purpose OF building a
national memorial home for aged and
intirm people in the District OF Column
bia.
Mr. Cleveland is said to have advised
the Reform Club to send an apology or
explanation to Speaker Crisp, and Mr..
Anderson admits that he had heard III
advance that the Speaker had prepared
an address which he expectcdto deliver
at the dinner.
Frank S. Gray testified in the New
York Supreme Court yesterday that he
had been discharged from the Mail md
Express for differences Of opinion re-
sulting from his refusal 10 offer n bride
of -, 900 to two police commissioners TO
secure political advertisements.
An extensive barn, together with Il
number of outbuidings, on the farm of
J. +. Mowrey, at Meshoppen, near
Wilkcsbame, Pa, were destroyed by
fire yesterday. twenty-five head Of
cattle, mostly of the Durham stock,
three horses and one colt persisted. The
loss is estimated at $4,000: partially
insured.
The United States Supreme Court,
by a majority decision, reversed the
Judgment of the Circuit Court Of the
United States for the Southern Dis
trict of California, and decided against
the Southern Pacific Railway Company
in four suits brought against it by the
United States to quiet title to val
liable lands lying between the Colorado
river and the Pacific ocean.
Robert Fitzsimmons and James Hall
met in New York yesterday and made
final arrangements for their fight be-
fore the Crescent City Club in New Or
lens for $4,000. The first week in
April was fixed IS the date. The
10 ser is to receive -, 800 and the Win
ner $3371.5 800 While the papers were
being drawn up the pugilists talked
in friendly mood for the first time
since they left Australia.
The iHonitem' de Rome, one of the vat
lean organs in Rome, says the Pope
and his secretary of State, Cardinal
Rompolla, are in accord with the views
of Archbishop Satolli on the school
question to The United States. The
Pope has concluded all negotiations
with European powers for the election
of archbishops to the cardinalate. The
rumors that Monsignor Satolli was sent
to the United States because he was
opposed to the French policy of the
Pope are denied Mt the Vatican. The
Pope is determined to abide by a line
of action in harmony with French re-
publicanism, and in consequence has
sent Il circular to his nuncios ordering
scrupulous respect for that policy.