Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-06-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

harbor on Saturday.
The Kelley institute, large build
ing in the suburbs of Hagerstown, was
burned yesterday morning.
Cardinal Thomas, on assuming his
title in Rome yesterday delivered an
address on 1.-The Papacy as Democra-
tic Republic"
Two men were arrested in Chicago
Yesterday, charged with abducting a
Young woman named Rose Geinzer and
holding her for ransom. The girl had
been kept captive for several days.
A colossal statue of William E. Glad
stone was unveiled in the banqueting
hall of Donegal Castle in the Irish vii
lage in the Chicago fair grounds yester-
day.
The National Council of the Junior
Order United American Mechanics, at
Detroit, has again declined to separate
the lod ges of the District of Columbia
from the jurisdiction Of the State Coun-
ell of Virginia.
The United States government has
beaten the Washington ice companies
and has contracted with the Fairmont
Ice Company, of Philadelphia, for ice
delivered in Washington at 20 cents
per hundred pounds.
1t is said to be by no means certain
that the Rev. Samuel Hart, ID. D., OF
Hartford, Conn, who was last week
bishop of the diocese of Vermont will
accept the high Office in the church to
which he is called.
Representative Catchings, Of Missis-
sippi, says sentiment in the South,
which was strongly in favor of free
coinage, has changed so that it is about
evenly divided between that issue and
the cause of sound money.
Albert Saunders, colored, who cut
his wife's throat at Duluth, Mimi, was
captured on steamboat yesterday.
He had taken refuge in the hold and
defed the officers until the hose was
turned on and he was drowned out.
The large dairy barn of Elwood
Balderston, situated near Port Deposit,
Md, was burned Saturday evening,
together with twenty-five registered
COWS, two horses and part Of this years
crop of hay. Four other COWS and one
bull were badly burned, and will likely
die.
The friends of the Irish home-rule
bill are becoming discouraged. Glad
stones new financial scheme for Ire
land is not well received and there are
threats of government supporters break
ing from the line. The Parnelite party
has issued an address to Irish Ameri-
cans.
The funeral of Senator Stanford oc-
Cured at Palo Alto on Saturday even
ing and was attended by thousands OF
the most distinguished men on the Pa.
cifc coast. The pall-bearers were all
old engineers. The body was placed
in the mausoleum Of Leland Stanford
University.
At Chicago on Saturday the great
American Derby was won by J. E.
Cushing's brown colt Boundless, with
the removed Snapper Garrison in the
saddle, after delay at the post of one
hour and thirty-seven minutes, in the
remarkable time of 2:36 fiat, thus beat
ing the previous best time for the Der,
by of 2:36l.
The fields of England, France and
Germany are brown instead of green,
and hay in England has risen to $50 Il
ton. an unprecedented figure. On the
other hand, fresh meats of all kinds
sell in England at the lowest prices
ever known, because of the animals be-
ing slaughtered Wholesale on account
of the lack of fodder. The penalty for
the latter luxury will come later. Most
crops are now beyond saving, and the
government will have q difficult prob
lem in dealing with agricultural dis
tricts in the next few months.