Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The Iowa republicans have split and
the prohibition wing has put up State
| ticket.
The Duke of Devonshire moved the
rejection of the home-rule bill in the
British House of Lords yesterday.
Secretary Carlisle has decided to
meet the Treasury deficit by issuing
silver certificates against seigniorage
bullion purchased under the Sherman
law.
While watching for burglars in his
store, near Baltimore last night. Mr.
Charles Rawlings entered by rear
door, and was filled with bird shot by
his clerk.
At the Cabinet meeting yesterday
the matters chiefly discussed were the
problems of supplying the government
with funds and the question OF national
bank notes.
The great Butler mine at Pittston,
Pa, one of the most valuable operations
in the Wyoming region, is on fire and
it may be that the workings will have
to be flooded.
C. B. Swami, one of Governor Till
mans liquor dispensary constables, was
sentenced to fine and imprisonment by
Judge Simonton at Charleston, S. c.,
yesterday for seiziug liquor without
warrant.
Letters from Moscow say that eighty
five students, eight professors and five
women of rauk have been arrested
there, on suspicion that they were i'm
plicated in nihilist plot against the
Cars life.
Twenty-Five thousand veterans of the
Grand Army of the Republic were
marsbaled in line at Indianapolis yes
terday for the parade which marked
the twenty-seventh national encamp-
ment of the order.
A study Of the STATISTICS supplied by
acting Director of the Mint Preston to
the Senate shows there is no substan-
tial foundation for the arguments Of
silver advocates that there is not gold
enough in existence to transact the bus
mess of the world.
In the L. S. Senate yesterday Mr..
Stewart occupied the floor over three
and a-haii hours, delivering his speech
against the repeal of the Sherman sill.
yer bill from typewriter sheets, and
had not finished when the Senate
went into executive session by vote Of
80 to IS.
Capt. l.. A. Beardsley, United States
Navy, commandant of the Port Royal
naval station, South Carolina, has re-
ported to the Navy Department that
the damage TO the station from the
great hurricane is not so great as was
at first reported, and that it can be re-
paired at a reasonable outlay.
Mr.. Harter, of Ohio, has prepared a
national bank bill, under the provi-
sions of which national banks may issue
circulating notes upto seventy-fve per
cent. of their paid-in capital and sur
plus, without depositing bonds to Sc
cure it, and bonds now on deposit with
the treasurer to secure circulation may
be withdrawn. The United States is to
have a first lien on the assets of any
: failed national bank to secure its guar
antee of the banks circulation.
The steamer Falcon returned to st.
Johns, n. F. yesterday afternoon from
Bowdoin Bay, West Greenland, having
successfully accomplished the landing
of the Peary expedition at that place.
All the Peary party were well and in
good spirits at the time the Falcon left
Falcon Harbor. One incident of this
expedition will be the birth ola child.
Late in September Mrs. Peary is ex-
pected to become a mother. The in
FAINT will be the first white child born
in that latitude.
Jumping from cable car in motion,
, on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington,
last night, Commissioner of the Dis
trict John W. Ross landed in front OF
swiftly moving car coming in an OPP
posite direction and was hit by it.
knocked down, and dragged distance
of thirty feet before the gripman could
stop his train, and injured so badly
that his recovery was for time mat
ter of some doubt, though after mid
night the three physicians who exam.
ined him said he would recover and
was not so badly injured as was at first
thought. The commissioner himself
stated the accident was due to his own
carelessness,