Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The President has appointed John R.
Proctor, State geologist of Kentucky,
civil service commissioner in place OF
George D. Johnston, removed.
The German police are convinced
that combined plan of campaign is
being carried out by anarchists in all
the principal cities of Europe.
In his annual report Secretary of
War Lamont recommends that mill
tary instruction by army officers be eX-
tended to the high schools of the larger
cities.
In New York on Tuesday night an
overloaded paper stock warehouse fell
without warning and carried with it
the wall of an adjoining tenement, ex-
posing the occupants in bed.
A four-year-old daughter of James
Harbor, of near Hamlin, Lincoln coun-
ty, w. Va, was accidentally burned to
death last Wednesday, The little girls
clothing caught fire in some manner
while the mother was absent from the
house for few minutes.
The English Court of Appeals, in the
case of the suit of Miss Jenny Mighill.
of London, against the Sultan of Jo-
hore, for breach Of promise Of marriage,
decided that the English courts had no
jurisdiction over the Sultan because he
was reigning sovereign.
The lawyers of the Princess of Colon
ma, stepdaughter of Mr.. ]. w.
Mackay, have not yet prepared
the decd of separation from her
husband, and it is believed that the
princess would be willing for recon-
Citation, if the prince would make the
first advances.
Eugene Spuller, to whom President
Carnot, of France, appealed after other
more prominent statesmen had declin-
ed to undertake the task of forming a
new cabinet, has gotten together Il
ministry. The continuance of the cri-
sis is believed to have been caused by
President Camot, who is working for a
second term.
Bishop Daniel Alexander Payne, the
oldest Methodist bishop in the world,
died in Wilberforce, o., yesterday.
Bishop Payne was born in Charles
ton, S. c., February "a, 1911. On his
paternal side he was of English and
African blood; on the maternal of Indian
and African. His father was soldier
in the war of 1872.
Mrs. Kimon Nicolaides, wife of the
proprietor of the japanese store in
Washington, was before the Police
Court of that city yesterday charged
with disorderly conduct in breaking up
valuable chinaware at her husbands
store yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Nico-
ladies was released on giving $500 bail
to keep the peace.
In expectation of prolonged debate in
the Senate on the new tariff bill, there
is talk in Washington of urging the pas
sage of the measure through the House
of Representatives before the holiday
recess. Secretary Carlisle is under
stood to be opposed to the proposition
to tax individual incomes. 1t is pro-
able that compromise on the income
tax question will be made by the sub
committee of the ways and means COM
mittee have the matter in charge where
by the tax will be mainly on legacies
and corporations.
AIr. John L. Stevens, formerly United
States Minister to Hawaii, has written
a reply to the report of Hon. James h.
Blount, special commissioner appointed
by President Cleveland to Hawaii, in
which Mr.. Blount charged that the
revolution in Hawaii was brought about
by the active aid of Mr.. Stevens. Mr..
Stevens stoutly denies the statements
made by Mr.. Blount, who is characterized
as diplomatic Neophyte caught in the
snares laid for him by Liliuokalani's
advisers. He and Secretary Gresham
are accused of playing into British
hands.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad strike is
about over. The company agrees to
take back as many of its old employees
as it can find places for without any
prejudice on account of the fact that
they struck, or that they are connected
with labor organizations, that when in
the employ of the road committees of
the various classes of employees will be
received as stated in the bulletin of
November 81, and their grievances con-
sidered and justly treated, and that in
employing men in the future the COM
pany will give preference to former EN-.
ployes when the strike is declared off.