Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

S"SO III -''h 1olh yesterday III ocS"i
ence to telegram from Mr.. Cleveland
The Governor of. New Jersey has
vetoed the race track bill which was
passed by the legislature yesterday.
1t is believed that Ex-Governor
George w. Click, of Kansas. will re-
ceivc the appointment of Commissioner
of the General Land Office.
Governor Mckinney has ordered the
Howitzers to fire a salute, at Richmond,
to-day, through respect to the memory
of Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard.
The Pope in conversing with Cardi,
nal Logue to-day, said that he approx
ed of Irish home rule. The Pope eulo-
gized Mr.. Gladstone.
The charred remains of Thomas Fox
an old bricklayer, were found lying or
the floor at his home in New York this
morning. He had been on drunken
debauch.
The postoilice at Bath Beach, L. l..
was entered by burglars last night, the
safe blown open aud its contents O
stamps and cash, amounting to about
81 ,OOO carried of.
John Haley and Daniel OLeary
while drinking together last night, il
Philadelphia, renewed an old quar-
rel, and in the fight that followed Haley
stabbed O'Leary to death.
Two hundred and fourteen out o.
464 Japanese fishermen who were
blown out to sea by the gale ofthe 2Sth
of December and given up for lost, have
reached Hachijo Island safely.
The police of Niagara Falls, Ont.
have been instructed to arrest or order
out of town the Corbett-SIitchell party.
The hotel proprietor will decline tc
permit articles for a fight to be signed
on his premises.
In a family row at West Liberty
Ky, Tuesday, Samuel w. Carkey was
shot and killed by his brother, JET
Carkey. after Samuel had shot and
probably fatally wounded Jeil' and Jes
sc Carkey. a nephew.
Mr.. Tartc has caused stir in the
Dominion Parliament by declaring
that two-thirds of the counties o.
Quebec would declare in favor of pc
litical union with the United States i
the vote were taken now.
There is row going on between the
Western Union Telegraph Company
and its force Of operators, at st. Paul
MINI. Yesterday ten operators were
discharged without notice and without
the assignment of any specific reason
Nearly year ago q stranger who haC
his life insured for $4,000 died il
Omaha, Neb., and the money was paiC
to the mans heirs in Chicago. The
body has been exhumed and was foun(
not to be that of the man to whom thu
insurance was issued.
Dan Paschall, ten-year-old boy, ha.
been convicted of murder Mt TT. Smith
Ark, for killing Arthur Berry, al
Krebs, I. r. Several boys We're pass
ing the home of the prisoner and threw
rocks at him. This so incensed the lit
tie fellow that he took his fathers gun
and fired at them, resulting in the
death of one ofthc number.
No repulse has so far marked the
march of the federals toward Port Al
gere in Rio Grand do Sol, Brazil. Adj
vices from Antigas are to the effect that
Santa Anna has practically fallen into
the hands of the federalists. Two reg
iments have revolted and marched out
of the city and into the camp of the
federals. 1t is thought the city itself
will be surrendered without any show
of resistance or bloodshed.
The election of William n. Roach.
democrat, to be United States senator
from North Dakota, delinatcly fixes
the control of the next Senate in dem
ocratic hands. The new Senate will
contain forty-four democrats thirty
seven republicans and four populists:
Wyoming, Montana and Washington
senator's are yet to be chosen. The
election of Mr.. Roach relieves the de-
mocracy from u distastcful alliance
with the populists. 1t will compel the
republicans to strike hands with the
latter if they hope to imperil demo-
cratic control.
Peter Johnson. an aged colorcd man died a
few DAYS ago at Eikton, Tenn. Friends
watched over the corpse until yesterday. One
of the women who were watching the corpse
procured a towel and some cold water and be-
gan to bathe the brow Of the supposed dead
man. She was startled TO see signs of retuin-
ing life and I'LL the colorcd people were thrown
into state of terror by the negro raising his
head from his coffin pillow and inquiring
what was the matter. The aged darkcy was
taken from the coffin and is rapidly regaining
health.
4 dispatch from New York says the Hay
tian revolutionary party is taking advantage
of the Hawaiian annexation proceedings now
going on at Washington to issue prOclama-
ton urging the people of Hayti to riso and
overthrow President 4ippolyte. The procla-