Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-07-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Tories have decided upon q
policy of obstruction to force disso-
luton of Parliament.
1t is reported Russia will establish n
naval station on the eastern coast OF
the United States, with headquarters at
New York.
Emperor William is delighted at the
passage of the army bill, and rumor has
it that he will confer upon Chancellor
Won Caprivi the dignity of q prince.
Gen. John Cunningham Kelton, ex-
adjutant general of the army, and later
Governor of the Soldiers Home at
Washington, died there Saturday night.
He had been i'll for some time.
General Catchings, Speaker Crisp's
right-haud man in the House, not only
favors rule to cut of filibustering, but
says the public business cannot be
transacted without such rule.
Rear Admiral Earl English, retired.
died at his residence in Washington
yesterday, aged SO years. Admiral
English was appointed to the naval
academy from New Jersey in lS4O
and served forty-six years, retiring in
1886.
Rev. DR.. Edward McGlynn made his
first public appearance since his return
from Rome in the auditorium, at Pro-
hibition Park, Port Richmond, Staten
Island, yesterday afternoon, and re-
ceived a hearty greeting from nearly
5000 persons.
After five years of work the English
capitalists who began the projected tun-
mel under the Hudson to connect New
York and Jersey City have abandoned
the idea and receiver has been asked
for to wind up the affairs of the con-
Germ. The tunnel has already reached
about 200 feet under the bed of the
river.
Henry Clews, the New York banker,
has written letter to the comptroller
of the currency stating that the national
bank act should be amended to provide
for notes being issued up to the par
value of United States bonds, and that
it would be wise to make another
amendment providing for an issue OF
notes against IS per cent. of the surplus
capital of national banks.
Gen. John G. Walker, an ex-Confed-
crate commander of distinction, is lying
at his apartments, in Washington, in a
critical condition, the result of a stroke
of paralysis Thursday night about 8
o'clock. Gen. Walker was returning
home from call on Gen. Lomax, and
as he was ascending the steps of his
house he fell. Gen. Walker is 20 years
of age and lives in Winchester, Va.
Judge McClung, of Pittsburg, Pa, re-
fused to issue an order for the deposi-
lions of Patrick j. Gallagher and ]. NJ
Davidson, who, according to their con,
LESSONS, allege that Hugh F. Dempsey
and Robert ]. Beatty are innocent Of
the crime of poisoning workmen at
Homestead, Pa, for which they are now
imprisoned. Judge McClung said the
court had no power because no petition
for the pardon of Dempsey and Beatty
is pending before the board of pardons
A petition will be filed at once.
Rev. Henry A. Adams, pastor of the
Church of the Redeemer, New York
has abandoned the Episcopal Church
and professed the Roman Catholic faith
In letter he says, 81 have become a
Catholic at last because there is no 9th.
er logical deduction from all the facts
of which my reading and my observa
ton and my life have made me aware
And second, because there was nc
peace for me nor explanation of that
unspeakably great problem of myself
and you outside Gods church."