Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Rev. Hector Papi, of Rome, has been
appointed secretary to Monsignor Sal
TOLL.
Lord Salisbury made bitter attack
upon Gladstone in the House of Lords
yesterday.
During a carnival dance in Budapest
yesterday, cask petroleum explod-
ed, and ten persons were burned TO
death.
Jim Corbett has deposited forfeit of
$4,000 to bind a match with Charlie
Mitchell, and one of $500 tor fight
with Peter Jackson.
Governor Brown, of Maryland. has
respited William Bond, colored, sen
fenced TO be hanged at Rockville on
Friday, for murder, until April 18th.
Captain John w. Moore, while tong
ing in Crisfeld harbor, Md, yesterday
drew up from fourteen feet of water, a
stove covered with oysters and contain
ing live toadlish.
The Senate committee and District
committee yesterday adopted one of the
plans submitted by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for new terminals and
depot in Washington.
NJ. Lequay, convicted of completely
in the Panama Canal frauds, was yes
terday sentenced to five years impris-
onment, and NJ. Provost, on the same
charge, was sentenced to three years.
Charles de Lesseps, accompanied by
two detectives, whom he represented
as friends, yesterday visited his old
father, the count, who is still kept in
ignorance of the judgment against him.
Otto Price, urged on by jealousy yes
terday shot his young wife Alice, with
probably fatal results, in Allegheny,
Pa. He was caught while trying to
escape in a skifl' on the Allegheny
river.
DR.. Huntington, of Grace Church,
New York, is said to have received Il
proposal from Boston to become the
successor of Bishop Brooks, and his par
ishioners are preparing amemorial urg'
ING him to remain with them.
Chief of Police Sevcy has issued a
manifesto requesting the Omaha Ath-
letic Club not to permit the DAILY
O'Donnell fight to take place, and de-
claring himself opposed to prize fight
ing in general The club will proba-
bly, call the fight oil.
Three persons were instantly killed
and % were more or less seriously in,
iured by the wrecking of an electric
car in Upper Albina. a suburb of Port
land, Oregon, yesterday. The car was
loaded with school children and q
number of laborers returning to their
homes.
Port Deposit, Md, was relieved yes.
terday of its surplus water and ice oc-
casioned by the rise in the Susquehan-
ma. Though the ice gorges had not
broken above or below the town it was
thought that the crisis had passed. The
railroad tracks were cleared and traffic
resumed.
Two more countries have declined tC
participate in the naval review, and
the general impression is that some O
the countries that have already indi.
Gated they would be represented will
withdraw unless some steps are taken
soon to demonstrate that the review
will be success and that Congress /:
going to give the money necessary tt
make it so.
The will of the late Flora Payne
Whitney, wife of ex-Secretary of the
Navy Vim. c. Whitney, was yesterday
filed for probate in New York. The
will was executed Jan. 81, 1898, anG
leaves all of her property, real and per
sonal, to her husband, and makes hin
sole executor. The personal estate is
valued in the petition of Mrs. Whitney
at S2.300,000. and the real estate al
$750,000.
In New York yesterday evening, Mr.
Jesse Seligman testified before the
Panama Investigating Committee that
J. & w. Seligman & Co., handled $40
100000 of general funds as bankers,
and that the three banking houses
comprising the american Committee
received 81 100000 for their services.
He related how it was deemed neces-
sary by the promoters of the canal to
have United States capital and United
States influence back of the enterprise,
and how the Secretary of the Navy UNI
der Hayes, Colonel Richard w. Thomp-
son, had been induced to accept the
craftsmanship of the American commit
tee after similar position had been
declined by General Grant. He ex-
planned the duties Of the committee
and said that Mr.. Thompson was paid
$4,000 for his services.