Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Rev. A. F. Ciampe, S. j., former
president of Loyola College, Baltimore,
is dying in Washington.
1t is announced that the President
will not make any further important
appointment until Congress meets.
The loss to the Bank of England
through ex-cashier Frank Mays ven ven
lures will not, it is said, exceed f25, 900.
An avalanche fell in the Ossau Val
lev. French Pyrennes, last night. Nine
farmers living at Louvie were caught ID
the avalanche and persisted.
The trial board of the q. S. cruiser
Columbia has figured out the Official
speed on her late trial trip to be 70
knots, or 264 miles an hour.
Attorney General Lamar, of Florida,
saws prizefighting is unlawful in that
State, and prizefghters and spectators
can be indicted and punished.
w. X. Yanderbilt's yacht Valiant
started from New York yesterday on
her long pleasure cruise. Her depart
ure was witnessed by crowd OF more
ludu pSoPiS'
The president of the London Board
of Trade stated yesterday in the House
of Commons that 237 lives had been lost
and 607 persons saved from shipwreck-
ed vessels on the English and Irish
coasts during the storms of the past
week.
The National Grange Patrons of
Husbandry, in session at Syracuse
Wednesday night, adopted resolution
denouncing Secretary Morton, of the
Agricultural Department, for his attack
upon the Grange in his speech in Chi
cago.
By the burning of the five-story iron
front brick building, occupied by Edison,
More & Co., wholesale dry goods in
Detroit yesterday, seven employees lost
their lives, fireman was badly injured
and the monetary loss will reach in the
neighborhood of 100000.
News received so far from Hawaii
has tended in no way to change the at
titude of the administration toward the
provisional government of the islands.
The administration feels that force will
not be necessary to restore Queen Lili-
uokalani to the thrown of Hawaii.
President Wilbur, of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad, said yesterday the road
would soon be in complete working
order, and that so far as the strikers
were concerned the company had no.
thing TO arbitrate and would concede
nothing. More trains were moving
yesterday on all divisions of the road.
A match race-$5,000 to $500
has been arranged between the trotter
Directum (2:O5i and the PAGER Saladin,
(2:053) to take place November 81 at
the Point Breeze track, the Philadel-
phia Driving Park Association to add
$4,000, The conditions call for a good
day and track. Flying Jib (2:04l will
also attempt to beat his record for a
purse of $1,000.
Prominent republicans in Washing
ton state that their party Representa-
tives in Congress will make a deter
mined attack on Secretary Smiths pen
sion policy at the coming session. The
intention of republicans to make the
pension policyof the present administra-
ton on issue is to create political CAPT
tai by having their speeches circulated
widely by the republican national COM
| mittee.
John w. Hayes was reelected gen.
eral secretary treasurer of the Knights
of Labor Yesterday at Philadelphia. 1t
was Mr.. HAYES who preferred charges
against Mr. r. V. Powderly, who was
reelected general master workman on
Wednesday. There is great contention
among the knights. 1t is charged by
Mr.. Powderly's opponents that his
election on Wednesday was accom-
plished by fraud.
Barring, perhaps, the magazines which
have exploded, the sinking of the Bra
lillian insurgent warship Javary by
guns from the Brazilian fort is probably
the most serious blow that has befallen
Admiral Mello since he declared war
Further reports from Brazil state that
the northern column of the army which
operates in Santa Catharina under CON-
mand of General Argollo destroyed the
rebel forces, which lost gun carriages,
munitions and horses, leaving many
dead and wounded.
The eighteenth session of the Italian
Parliament was opened yesterday and
the commission appointed to investi-
gate the bank scandals made its report.
The report implicated in the bank
scandals several ex-premiers, nearly all
the ministers and number of deputies
and other prominent officials. Intense
excitement followed the reading of the
report. A motion was offered to i'm
peach the ministers. The President
suspended the session. He was hooted
as he left the chamber The ministry
will be forced to resign.