Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Inpacio Herrara, the son of q veal

Ispacio Herrara, the son of wealthy
Spanard, has been kidnapped by pam
7 dts in Cuba and is held for ransom.
Miners are returning from the San
Juan fields in southern Utah in large
numbers. They say the stories OF gold
there are untrue.
John Huntington, the Standard On
millionaire, died in London yesterday.
He had been i'll but a few days with In
fammation of the lungs.
Rev. DR.. John Conway, editor OF the
st. Paul Northwestern Chronicle, charges
Archbishop Corrigan with conspiring
against the Catholic Church.
France has determined not to tole-
rate foreign intervention in Morocco or
the acquisition in that country OF any
privileges by another power.
A large sperm whale disporting HIM
self among the blocks of ice in the bay
attracted great crowds at the Battery
in New York yesterday afternoon.
Rev Bishop O'Farrell was on Tues
day presented with purse of s., 900 by
the priests of the Trenton, \. j., do,
cese as Il token Of their affection ana
esteem.
A Chicago paper says it has positive
information that all the great railroads
of this country, and the western traillc
lines in particular, are trying to effect a
dissolution of the various railway broth
erhoods.
At its annual commencement in June
the Johns Hopkins University will be-
stow the first degree it has ever allow
ed to woman, the successful candl-
date being Miss Florence Bascom, OF
Massachusetts.
Except for narrow track in the
channel kept open by State steamers
and tugboats, there is a solid mass OF
ice extending from Annapolis, Md,
harbor into the bay as far as the eye
can reach and across to Kent Island.
The U. S. Consul at Rotterdam re-
ports to the State Department that the
Netherlands American Steam Naviga-
ton Company after January LIST, 1893
will suspend the transportation Of
steerage passengers to the United
States.
The bill repeating the silver purchase
act has been reported from committee
on banking and currency by Mr.. Cate
democrat, of Arkansas, and has been
placed upon the calendar. The report
upon the measure has not yet been pre-
scented.
The House committee on election o.
the President, Ficc-President and mem
bers of Congress voted to have It's
chairman call up for consideration IL
the House on next suspension day The
Joint resolution Of Mr.. Tucker, Of Nir
einia. reported from the committee
providing for the election Of Senator:
by the direct vote of the people.
A train on the Illinois Central wa:
wrecked Tuesday morning near Beaur
ford, Miss, and the engineer, fireman
and express messenger were badly In
| jured, but no passengers were hurt. y
rail had been removed by wreckers
whose motive was robbery, but The
wreck was not complete enough for tina
and the robbers went off without max
ing an attack.
United States Treasurer Nebeker ha:
reported to Secretary Foster that thu
account of the legal tender notes of Tho
denomination of five hundred dollars
series of 1874, shows, as it stands, al
excess of $4,000 redeemed over the
issue, $ s2S; 400, 600 in all. When the
Treasurer's attention was first called t.
the condition of this account he imme
diately caused an examination Of it tc
be made, to discover, if possible, wha
was wrong. but nothing has been tount
to throw any light on the subject.
A laborer in the sub-treasury at Bos
ton, Mass, has complained that he i
compelled to work 8 hours day IL
violation of the S-hour law. Secretary
Foster has decided, in denying him re
dress, that the S-hour law does not ap
ply to employees performing duty il
public buildings, and inferentially holds
that the law applies only to men EN-
ployed in the construction of public
buildings. He also says that govern
ment employees are expected to wori
a sufficient number of hours to per
form the duties of the position they oc
cupy.