Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

I'VE " y Op 1IiE In
Three thousand colonists have re-
VOTED against the wheat tax in the Ar
gentine republic.
The floods in Queensland continue
to destroy life and property, and at
marlborough alone thirty persons were
drowned.
The British forces routed the Kach-
yens in a battle in the Sima district,
India, twenty-four of the Dachchens
being killed.
The government of New Zealand has
sent q protest to the British govern
ment against the annexation OF Hawai-
by the United States.
A meeting of the Episcopal House OF
Bishops has been called for March, to
take placc in New York. Two mis-
sionary bishops will be elected.
The long overdue Pacific steamer
City of Picking arrived safe at San Fran
cisco Yesterday, the delay having been
caused by her machinery becoming dis
abled.
At. Coney Island, n. Y, last night,
Johnny Griffin, of Braintree, Mass, and
Australian Billy Murphy fought for the
feather-weight championship and a
purse of 81 900. Griffin won in the 9TH
round.
The body of a baby about three
months old, supposed to have been
thrown from train, was found on the
main tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Glenwood, Pennsylvania,
yesterday.
A subcommittee of the House COM
MERGE committee yesterday gave hear
ing to Major 2. A. Wexford, of Rich
mond, Va, and F. ]. Odenhall, of New
Orleans, La, representatives from the
New Orleans Nicaraguan convention.
The Jury in the case of Frank Lewis,
the Waverley, Kan, bank robber, who
murdered T. P Ingleman, has return
ed verdict Of guilty of murder in the
first degree. He was sentenced to the
penitentiary for one year and then to
be hanged.
Aucuste Simon claims that he was
married by civil contract to one of the
Marianite Sisters at the French Hos
pital, in New York yeaterday. and that
the girl has been taken from him by the
other nuns. When he went to get her,
he says, he was violently assaulted
Gen. Schofeld has decided on the
troops he will detail for participation in
the inaugural parade in Washington
and will recommend to the Secretary Of
War that the garrsons at Fortress
Monroe and Fort Myer, Va, Fort Nc.
Henry, Md, and the Washington bar
racks he represented in their fullest eX-
tent. These troops will number about
500 men.
The Secretary of State yesterday
transmitted to the Senate report, Civ
ing detailed information concerning
consular fees, the amount collected
rules of the department, etc. In his re
port the Secretary says the advantage:
that would accrue from legislation look
ing to q reduction of further regulation
of consular fees for official or unofficial
services is not apparent.
The Catholic hierarchy of the United
States was represented at the annua
dinner of the Catholic Club in Phila
delphia yesterday evening by its mos1
distinguished preIates. There were
present as the guests Of the club Cardi
nal Gibbons. Archbishop Corrigan
Archbishop Ryan, Bishop Keane, anc
VIM. F. Harrity, chairman of the dem
| ocrofic national committee.
There WAS Il conference at the White
House yesterday between the Presi
dent and Secretaries Foster and Tracy
on the Hawaiian question. As re
suit Of the conference it is reported
paper was drawn up in favor of annex
alton. The President sent to the Sen
ate copies of the annexation treaty ne
gotiated with Hawaii in 1854, and The
correspondence relating thereto.
Fire, caused by gas explosion in the
cellar, destroyed Il double iive-story
tenement house in New York yesterday
evening. The building was occupied
by 20 families. One man was killed
and many persons were seriously in
iured. There was wild shrek of ter
ror and on every floor women anc
children rushed TO the windows and fire
escapes. They made no effort to save
their household goods, but struggled
only for their lives.