Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-14
NEWS OF THE DlT.

Attempts are said TO have been made
on the part OF the French royalists TO
induce General Saussier TO betray the
government.
Ex-Governor Robert NJ. McLane, of
Maryland, is being mentioned as the
possible Secretary OF State in Mr.. Cleve-
lands Cabinet.
Clay Hopper. the young man whose
case Of suspended animation has at
tractcd so much attention. died for the
second time in Toledo, Ohio, yesterday.
Miss Sallie Ho!ley, who was widely
known for work in behalf of colored
people during the anti-slavery agita-
ton, died in New York yesterday.
Chairman Holman, of the House ap-
preparations committee, will make q
determined effort to cat down the esti-
mates of the sundry civil appropriation
bill.
1Ir. Bourlle Cochran had long in
terviow with Mr. Cleveland yesterday
and it is said the President-elect has
been tod that Tammany will ret op-
pose his administration.
Z. Z. IIumes has begun suit in New
York for 500, 900 against Robt. B. Man
Il for alienation ofhis wife's affections.
Mr.. Humes also charges Mautell with
criminal assault upon Mrs. Humes.
The Deep Waterway convention.
which has been in session III Washing
ton this we k, after passing Ie;olutiol S
urging Congress to pass the bill for a
canal TO connect The lakes with the
ocean, adjourned yesterday.
Wadleigh's oldmill at Atkins, Tenn,
was burned Yesterday. 1t was used as
lodging house. Joe English jumped
from second story window and broke
his neck. Tom Ashton was suiiocated
while trying to escape by the elevator.
Twenty other dodgers barely escaped
with their lives.
Asstated in the GAZETTE the st. Louis
Hotel, Duluth, MINI, was burned yes
to-day morning. Men and women
partly dressed climbed down the lad
der while the thermometer was below
zero. Five employees Of the hotel are
missing. The loss is estimated at
100000.
As stated in the GAZETTE the dead
lock in the Nebraska Legislature was
broken Yesterday and the two Houses
met in joint session and canvassed
votes. Gov. james Z. Boyd's demo
craD farewell message was read and
Gov. Lorenzo Crounse Republican, was
duly installed, delivering his inaugural
address.
Leading French republicans are
alarmed at attacks made upon Prcsi-
dent Garnet by newspapers in France.
Several OF the deputies who have been
most earnest in pushing the Panama
canal investigation declare that they
will not rest until Carnot is forced to
resign. Ex-linister Of Public Works
Baihaut makes charges against Prcsi-
dent Carnot in connection with the
scandal.
Gov. Buchanan. of Tennessee, will
refuse to sign the join resolution intro
duced in the Legislature to inauguratc
Gov-elect Turney ut his home in Win
chester. The governor-elect has been
Ill IL low Sllic W lItIlli lJl SSNIi al
months, and will not be able to come
to The capital to be inaugurated. rs the
constitution requires. Gov Buchanan,
under the constitution, will hold over
until the new governor is legally in
stalled in office.
The establishment of Commission
on the subject of social evils" is contem-
plated in bill introduced yesterday by
Senator Frye. A committee Olive per-
sons is TO be created, whose duty it
hall be to investigate the social vice in
all its phases, It's relations to labor and
wages, TO marriage and divorce, its con-
neciion with pauperism, crime, etc;
also TO inquire into the practical results
of legislation for the suppression OF the
evil in various States.