Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-16
NEWS OF THE Day.

NLhA VI IHE UA1.
TIN House committee on the elev-
enih census viii report in favor ola
permanent census bureau.
Senator Hill says the story that he
mas made combination with Mr.. Muir
ply to oppose Mr.. Cleveland is absurd.
The effort 10 arouse feeling against
President Carnot has fallen fiat. and
the situation in France is much i'm
proved.
The remains fthe late Senator Ken
ma, of West Virginia, were buried IN
Mount Olive cemetery, near Charles
ton or Saturday.
Gen. Joseph ]. Bartlett, a distinguish
ed [. :. soldier in the late civil war,
died at the Maryland University Hos
pital. Baltimore, on Saturday.
a terrible storm OH the British coast
has done great damage to shipping.
Five pilots were drowned off Dart
mouth Yesterday.
Three girls were baptized in Jones
Fails. at Woodberry. near Baltimore.
Yesterday morning by Elder Emanuel
Babylon. dunkard. from Westmin-
ster
President Harrison has decided not
10 sign the new quarantine circular
which substitutes a seven days quaran-
tine for the twenty days clause hereto
fore required.
Governor Buchanan, CT Tennessee,
on Saturday signed an act enabling
Governor Turney to be inaugurated at
his home, in Winchester, where he IS
sick, and the ceremony took place
to-day
Thomas Rodgers, aged twenty-four
wears. of Chester, Pa, on Saturday,
Shot and MORALLY wounded his father,
mother and sister The father had
reprimanded him because he would not
90 to work.
An order was promulgated by the Of
fcials of the Santa Fe Saturday that all
of the employees Of the road must eth
or resign their positions or withdraw
from the Order OF Brotherhood OF sta
tionmen. They withdrew from the
order.
The Kansas Senate on Saturday re-
cognized the populist wing ofthe House
after long, lively, and ut times excit-
ing debate. The Governor has also
recognized the populist House. The
populsts and democrats in that body
have split.
Mohammed Beniveda, governor Of
the city of Morocco, has caused several
Jews to be cruelty dashed, fined and
imprisoned for no other reason than to
compel them to pay him money. The
representatives of foreign countries are
preparing protest.
Gen. W. II. /. Barnes, one Of the
most prominent attorneys of san Fran
cisco, was attacked and severely beaten
By garroters rs he was entering his
house Saturday night. Gen. Barnes
made desperate resistance ard drove
the men off. Barnes received two scalp
wounds and was otherwise bruised.
A shocking accident occurred at the
Nelson Paper Company's mill. in Min
neapolis on Saturday. 4 workman,
named John Fueller, fell into vat of
scaldng lime water. He was hauled
out almost Instantly, but it is thought
that he will not recover. He was so
badly burned that his flesh fell oil in
chunks.
The recent speech OF Chancellor Won
/ Caprivi on the German governments
demands has aroused the patriotism OF
the Germans, and there is no longer
any doubt as to the passage ofthe army
bill by the Rcicbstag. The Car is not
very tavorably impressed with the war
like tone OF the Chancellor's speech,
but the Austrian government is pleased
with it.
Private funeral services over the re-
mains Of Cen Benjamin f. Butler were
held in his late home. Lowell, Mass,
yesterday. The body was placed in
Huntington Hall, where it will lie in
state until to-day. The mass Of people
that crowded into the hall to look at
the remains was beyond the control OF
the police. 1t was mob that had no
respect for the dead or the living.
Mr.. Cleveland will this week begin
work on his inaugural address, and
will, it is thought, make the announce
ment through Daniel Lamont, or
William C. Whitney, as to the
men who have accepted places
in the Cabinet, beside Senator John G.
Carlisle. According to the statement
of man who has an Office near Mr..
Cleveland's in the Mills Building, the
President-elect was nearly run out Of
New York by the hords of democrats
who besieged the Office.