Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-23
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

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The Senate yesterday confirmed all
the diplomatic nominations made by
the President.
Sidonia Mathews, of Annapolis, has
been arrested charged with throwing
her infant to hogs.
The president has nominated Charles
F. Markell, of Frederick, Md, to be
secretary of the legation of the United
States at Brazil.
Gus Williams, colored, one of the
three convicted murderers of August
Meyer. last January, was hanged in
Savannah. yesterday
d. Carpenter was reelected commits
sioner of the Associated Railways of
Virginia and the Carolinas at meeting
held in Baltimore yesterday.
The report of the destruction on the
Great Tangier Island, belonging to
Holland, are confirmed. Two thousand
people were killed in the volcanic
eruption.
The distributing warehouses of the
Waters Pierce Oil Company, one of the
allied companies Of the Standard Oil
Company, in St. Louis, burned yester-
day loss, 100000.
Charges of fraud are to be preferred
against Chancellor c. f. Creighton, of
the Nebraska Wesleyan University,
and the Methodists of that State are
much concerned about the affair.
Rev. DIR. Talmage was presented to
the Car and Imperial Court ut Peter
hof few days since. He was escorted
from his hotel by an equerry of the
Car who was sent to st. Petersburg
for that purpose.
Both the democratic candidates for
president and vice president posed for
photographs in New York yesterday.
Sarony was the artist, and four mega
tives were taken Of Cleveland and
Stevenson together. Then a dozen sin
gle negatives were taken of each.
The famous Myra Clark Gaines case
against the city of New Orleans will be
definitely settled in cash in full by that
city and the Gaines estate wound up.
The case, which was before the courts
for forty years, ended in judgment
more than a year ago, the amount be-
ing reduced from 100000 to about
100000. The Gaines heirs will be
paid 100000 in cash on August /.
There is a row already in the ranks
of the supporters of Mr.. Gladstone.
Some want social reforms brought to
the front and home rule kept in the
background, while the Irish members
are reserved and refuse to discuss their
intentions. 1t is thought the Salisbury
cabinet will not persist in remaining in
office after being defeated in the House
of Commons on vote Of mo conf
dence."
The Unitel States Senate yester-
day passed, without question, the
House bill authorizing commercial re-
taliation on Canada. The committee
or public lands had an hour of the time
of the House, but was peculiarly I'M
fortunate. for it was obliged to with
draw each and every one of the three
bills it had selected as most worthy of
passage. The rest of the day was con-
sumed in the discussion of the confer
ence report on the deficiency bill, upon
which another conference will be Or
dcred.
The date of the adjournment of Con-
gress is uncertain. There is 4 move
ment on foot among the leaders of both
parties for an adjournment on Wednes-
day next. but it is said that with the
Senate in an apparently interminable
debate on the anticipation bill, and the
struggle in the House which will be
made over the appropriation of So
0O0,000 for the worlds fair, together
with some points of difference, like the
French Spoliation item ofthe deficiency
bill, it is certain that Congress will be
in session all next week.