Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Mr.. j.. A. Thurston, present Ha-
waiian minister to the United States,
has gone back to Honolulu, it is said,
to establish Hawaiian republic.
The situation in Rio is not so favor
able to President Peixoto. Representa-
tives of foreign nations are inclined to
recognize the rebels as belligerents.
The Pope celebrated mass yesterday
morning at St. Peters in the presence
of Is 600 persons, mostly delegates and
other members of Catholic societies in
Rome.
Mr.. Richard Croker has replied to
attacks made on Tammany Hall and
asserts that there is not q public de-
partment New York that could not
stand the most rigid public investiga'
ton.
The House committee on elections on
Saturday decided the contested case OF
Wheatley against Cobb from the Fifth
Alabama district in favor of Mr.. Cobb,
the sitting member. The decision was
unanimous.
Anumber ofdynamite cartridges have
been found in Paris wrapped in copies
of an anarchist proclamation declaring
that many deputies will be slain if the
bomb-thrower Valiant is guillotined.
Schaefer defeated Ives in the final
and decisive game of the billiard tour
nament, in New York Saturday night,
making run of 500 in his sixth inning,
thereby breaking the worlds record.
Ives had fifty points.
Joseph F. Johnston, president of the
Alabama National Bank of Birming-
ham, announces himselfa candidate for
the democratic nomination for Govern
or. He is free-silver doctrinaire and
an anti Cleveland man.
The greatest flood that has struck
south Buffalo. n. Y, in score of years
occurred Saturday morning. Swelled
by the heavy rain and thaw, Buffalo
creek overaowed its banks and flooded
five square miles of territory in that
section. Five hundred houses were
inundated and $500 people rendered
homeless.
A conference of silver men at the
headquarters of the Bimetallic League,
in Washington, Saturday night adopt
ed report urging the friends of the
white metal in all parties to support
for the Fifty-fourth Congress only such
candidates as will pledge themselves in
nominating conventions and openly
and publicly in their canvass for cleo
ton in favor Of the free and unrestrict-
ed coinage of both gold and silver at
the ratio of l6 to |.
Sitting side by side in their large, old
fashioned rocking chairs by the fire,
the dead bodies of Susan and Elizabeth
Raynor, of Sugar Loaf, n. Y, were
discovered late Saturday afternoon.
The women had died twenty-four hours
before of pneumonia, and although two
other sisters and brother were in the
same house, they had been too i'll to
care for the bodies of their dead or 10
notify their neighbors. Though wealthy,
the Raynors lived like misers in seclu-
sion and filth, and did not believe in
doctors.
Mr.. Holman, chairman of the. demo
cratic caucus committee, says the eau
Gus to consider the tariff bill will
probably be postponed until after the
holiday recess. The revised bill has
not been printed and laid before the
members yet. snd he thinks that it
ought to be carefully studied by them
before it is considered in caucus. Mr..
Holman thought it would be better to
postpone the caucus until the members
had gone home and talked with their
constituents, so that they could more
intelligently represent their wishes
when the bill came before the caucus.