Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-04-01
NEWs OF TEE DAY.

Ibe Mlnneao'a democratic State ccnSe1.
ton yesterday Endorsed Cleveland.
The House committee on agriculture
will submit substitute for the anti.op.ions
bill.
Governor FloEer. of New York, yester.
day signed the bill amending the tag as
sesament law, and intended to reach psrson-
al property.
Rsv.C.A. Howels withdrew from the New
York Methoditt Episcopal Conference yes.
terday to enter tie Protestant Episcopal
Church.
Mr.. Cleveland will speak at democratic
meeting in Providence, B. /. tomorrow.
Eis principal topics wilt be the silver ques-
lion and the evils OF the present tariff sys-
tenn.
The stockholders OF the Standard Oh
Company yesterday voted to increase the
capital stock from 6ys to seven million dol
lsrs.
TIE charges against Captain Bourke are
found to have been brought by Mexican
aympathizsrs who livs in Te1as. but do not
| acknowledge allegiance to the United
States.
The Bishop OF Vivers, France. having
gone to Rome without fret obtaining per-
| mission from the government, Las been de-
prived Of hls salary during his absence from
| hs diocese.
Home Secretary Matthews. In the House
OF Commons at London, yesterday eaid that
| the neces ssry epecial medical ressons for re-,
| lease from prson did not exisb In tie case Of
Mrs. Florence Ethel Osborne.
Judge Lacombe, In the United States
Court, yesterday, granted Mrs. Davis psti.
ton restraining the Bedford Publishing Com
papy from publishing or selling the memoirs
Of her bueband, Jefferson Davis.
A statement published In some papers
| Yesterday that the Thomas.Broe party
| would take the Esst Tennessee system out
of the Richmond Terminal reorganization
ia emphatically denied In New York.
The Guelph fund bill, providing for the
removal Of the augmentation placed upon
| the property of the late KDg George of
Hanover, passed It's second reading in the
lower house of the Prussiaa Diet yesterday.
Judge George N. Lester, attorney general
of Georgia, died al his home near Marietta
Wednesday right. He was gallant Con-
federe.e soldier. and had held many posi.
lions OF prominence. He wac 10 the Con-
itdsrate Congress.
Philadelphia sugar dealers have prepared
bill to be introduced into Congress for the
repeal CT tie duty on refined grades OF
sugar, which, they claim, serves only the
purpose of allowing the trust TO control the
entire refining trade Of the country.
CARA, the so.called Mexican revolutio mist,
ia reported to be In San Antonio. He sGys
that he has besn at the head OF gang OF
smugglers or the border. but left them a
year ago. and has never been In command
OF revolutionary party.
The eteamer Golden Rule wes burned at
her wharf In Cincinnati yesterday. The
flames spread 80 rapidly that the passengers
narrowly escaped, and one lady, 10 trying to
Jump to barge lying near, fell In the water
and was drowned. The second mate, three
stevedores, four deokhands and two psssen.
gers are missing and are supposed to be
lost.
Daring the war large amount OF bombs
and other ammunition was thrown into Bnf-
falo bayou. near Houston, Texas. to avoid
capture. On Wednesday boy named
Charlie Harris got one Of the bombs out Of
bayou took 1t home and proceeded to open
it with an axe. He succeeded. Ole foot
was blown fl, he had a slug In bis groin
and another 10 his head. The stable where
be experlmel I'd was blown to ATONE.