Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-12-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of Wayne MacVeigh to be
ambassador to Italy.
A high official in the palace of the
Sultan of Turkey died yesterday OF
cholera, causing q panic in the royal
household.
The New York bridge bill has pass
ed the House and Senate and now re-
quires but the Presidents signature to
become law.
1t is claimed that irregularities
amounting to 81 ,0O0,O 900 have been dis
covered in the New York custom
house in tobacco refunds.
President Dole has declined the offer
of armed assistance for the Hawaiian
provisional government made by GER
tain residents of Los Angeles, Cal.
Complete police returns from the
election in Chicago on Tuesday, show
that John P. Hopkins, democrat, was
chosen mayor by plurality OF al.
Ex-Minister to Hawaii Stevens de-
nounces the allegations against him in
President Cleveland's message as
grossly untrue and shamefully un-
just"
The counsel for Patrick Eugene
Prendergast, the assassin of Mayor
Harrison, announced yesterday that
the defense would accept any verdict
except one involving the death pen
atty.
The Louisiana rice mill, in New Or
leans, was completely destroyed by fire
yesterday. Chris. Huck, fireman,
was killed. The loss will reach $780,,
900, almost entirely covered by insur-
ance.
Mr.. Henry James, aged sixty-seven
years, one of the foremost and best
known of Baitimore's business men,
and the business partner Of Mr.. Enoch
Pratt, died suddenly yesterday at his
residence, in that city.
In Washington yesterday the cor
oner's jury in the case of Mrs. Fergu-
son, who was run over by cable cal {,
returned verdict of accidental death
and exonorated employees of the Ca
BILE car company from blame.
Mrs. mike" Kearney, leader of the
women who soaped the tracks of the
Lehigh railroad during the strike, yes.
terday lured Mrs. Mulligan, who had
informed the authorities about the af.
fair, to a lonely place and pounded her.
A passenger train on the Richmond
and Danville Railroad was in collision
with freight train on siding at
Graniteville, Ga, yesterday. Five per-
sons were injured. Both engines and
three freight cars were totally demol-
ished.
1t is believed some members of the
House ways and means committee,
among the them Representatives Will
son, Cochran, Bynum and Breckin-
ridge, Will prevent tax on individual
incomes, except where these be derived
from investments in securities and from
inheritances.
Old Anton Baltz, a miser, died in
Baltimore yesterday, shrieking and
and cursing in his death agonies, be-
cause ne COulu nOG carry WIFI nlu his
handbook, which he clutched in his
death grip. The handbook showed
that the old man had S46S5 in the bank
but he died of starvation.
The President sent to the Senate
yesterday the nomination of Represen-
tative William H. Brawley, of South
Carolina, to be United States district
Judge in place of Judge Simonton, who
was appointed judge for the fourth ju-
dicial circuit, vice Judge Hugh L.
Bond, of Baltimore, deceased.
The discussion in the House of Rep.
resentatives of the administrations
Hawaiian policy will be postponed I'M
til after the Christmas recess. Chair
man McCreary, of the House committee
on foreign affairs, and Chairman Will
son, of the ways and means committee,
have, it is understood, agreed that
when the session of the House is re-
sumed after the holidays the resolution
endorsing the Presidents Hawaiian
course shall take precedence over the
tariff bill and be reported at once.