Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-05-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NG W - VI lllI I'M.
The cruiser New York, on her unoffi-
cial trip Saturday, made POS knots an
hour
Fire in Saginaw, Mich, on Saturday
evening last destroyed 800 buildings,
causing loss of 81 100000.
Forest fires destroyed lumber camp
near Lake City, Mich, on Saturday
and ten men were burned to death.
There is rumor in New York that
the Drexel- Morgan Richmond Termin-
al scheme will be announced to-mor-
row.
Miss Rose Cleveland, sister Of the
President, arrived in New York Satur-
day from two years sojourn in Eu-
rope.
Mr.. Gladstone has expressed his de
termination to force the home rule bill
through the House of Commons by the
middle of July.
Mrs. Julia NJ. Cain, widow, fifty
seven years old, of Baltimore, died
while at mass at st. Alphonsus' Church
yesterday morning.
Secretary Carlisle has amended the
Treasury Department rules governing
examinations so as to except from ex-
animation chiefs of division in the Sec
retary's office.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly, at Little Rock, Ark, on
Saturday seated Mrs. Claggett, who
was sent as commissioner from Ken
lucky, by majority of 40.
Mrs. Marie Nevins Blaine, the form
er wife of James G.. Blaine, jr., is to
marry DR.. VIM. II. Bull, the physician
who attended her in her long illness
and saved her from being n cripple
from rheumatism.
The eight-year- daughter of H. L..
Roberts, of Naugatuck. Ct, was burned
to death yesterday. When the child's
clothing took fire from stove she ran
into room occupied by an invalid
named Mary Monroe, setting fire to
the bed and causing her death.
The most important matter discussed
by tie Pre- byterian General Assembly
in Washington, on Saturday. was the
report of the committee on ministerial
relief. Methods of management OF
church temporalities was also discuss
ed. The commissioners and visiting la
dies spent the afternoon at Mount Yer
nod.
Advices from Yokohama state that
the opposition to missionary work APP
pears to be taking on violent aspect
in Japan. Several Catholic sisters and
the children at a mission near Osakais,
were attacked recently while out walk
ing by lot of Japanese men, and one
of the sisters was nearly choked to
death.
The steamship Roanoke, of the Old
Dominion line, which left Newport
News on Thursday, arrived at New
York last hight with fire burning
fiercely in her hold. The flames were
not extinguished until nearly o'clock
this morning and then only after the
hold had been flooded. The vessel is
not damaged much at all and will sail
as usual The damage to the cargo of
cotton and silk will probably amount
to $4,000; fully insured.
A dispatch from Washington says
President Cleveland has decided on
four points in his message to Congress,
which indicate the policy of his admin
istration. They are: O An income
tax; (2) repeal OF the ten per cent. tax
on State banks; (3) repeal of the Sher-
man act; (4 modification of the tariff
act. Another dispatch says careful in
quiry among cabinet officers warrants
the statement that if the President has
decided to recommend to Congress the
imposition of an income tax on all in
comes above $1,000 year he has not
up to this time taken his official advis-
ers into his confidence.