Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

els Xavier College, New 1ork, mas
been appointed provincial of the Jesuit
province of New York and Maryland.
Mr.. Martin R. Joyce, lawyer, and
twice member of the Maryland House
of Delegates, died suddenly after
surgical operation in Baltimore yester-
day.
Chicago detectives are all at sea con-
corning the S2l 600 robbery of John A.
Drake, treasurer ofthe Illinois, Indiana
and Iowa Railroad, in the Rookey
building.
Congressman VIM. D. Bynum, of In
dianapolis, Ind, says there is no truth
in the published statement that he had
decided lot to be candidate for re-
nomination.
The National Baseball League has
agreed that the schedule of 1894 should
be upon the same plan as that of 1893,
and that one umpire will be sufficient
for each game.
Crime is rampant in Chicago, and
any one found in the street between
one and five a. m. will have to give an
account of himself. Crooks are being
arrested by wagon loads.
While standing before the dining.
room stove yesterday, the clothing of
Miss Rena Kelly, a pretty eighteen
year-old girl of Valley View, KY, took
fire, and before assistance could reach
her she was fatally burned.
A severe wind storm visited San
Francisco, Cal, yesterday, doing much
damage to shipping. At the Midwin-
ter Exposition grounds circular build
ing being erected for the Hawaiian
panorama was blown down.
At the cabinet meeting yesterday
evening, it is said, it was decided to
make public the Blount report on Ha-
waiian affairs if there was nothing from
Minister Willis by to-day's steamer
which would justify not doing it.
Proclamstions issued by the Mexican
insurgents declare that foreigners are
gaining possession Of the land, and that
President Diaz tramples on the rights
of the people. The instruction is be-
lieved to be of small proportions.
Colonel Ernst, superintendent of the
United States Military Academy at
West Point, n. Y, says he is doubtful
if the benefits derived from the cadets
playing football are commensurate with
the risks it entails to life and limb.
Elizabeth Conway, a young married
woman, was fearfully burned last night
by yitriol which was thrown into
her face by her brother-in-law, Henry
Kinsella, in New York. The act was
the outcome OF several years OF petty
quarrelling.
Conycts employed in the Pratt
mines, near Birmingham, Ala, yester-
day saturated the bath house with coal
oil and set it on fire and attempted to
esape. Josiach Mills and Frank Nun
day were burned to death. The guards
prevented an escape.
The decision of the lower court in
New York dismissing LaidlaW's Suit
against Russell Sage was reversed yes
terday. Laidlaw sued to recover $780,
600 damages from Sage for injuries re-
ceived during the dynamite explosion
in Sage's Office. A new trial is ordered.
A bronze, life-size statue of General
James Shields, of Missouri, hero of two
wars and United States Senator from
three States illinois, Minnesota and
MissourD was received at the Capitol
and soon will be placed in Statuary
Hall, between the statues of Lincoln
and Hamilton.
The farmers in the northwest, realiz-
ing the shortage of wheat, have held
several meetings to discuss the situa-
ton and decry the causes of the un-
precedented low prices in the face OF
this shortage. As result q" hold
your wheat" circular has been issued
from Pierre.
Tie National Horse Show Associa-
ton of New York yesterday afternoon
offered 5000 as special prize for con-
test of speed between the racing mare
Alix and the stallion Directum. The
trial will take place at the horse show
this evening. The mare has record
of 2.073 and is owned by Thomas S.
Johnson, of Boston.
A number of democratic leaders in
Guiding Chairman Harrity, of the ma
tional committee, Don NJ. Dickinson,
of Michigan, Josiah Quincy, of Massa-
chusetts, B. Il. Cable, of Illinois, and
others, had conferences with President
Cleveland at the White House yester-
day, with view of having systematic
campaign made in 1894.
The President has indicated as his
desire that no delegations visit him in
the interest of any of the candidates
for United States Circuit Court judge
to succeed the late Judge Bond, of Bal
timore. He prefers that all applica-
tions and recommendations be forward
ed to him. He will not take up the
filling of the vacancy until the reas-
sembling of Congress in December.
In Baltimore yesterday the suit for
$4,000 damages brought by Frank L.
Ridgely against Edward Hyatt, because
of the latter's marrige to Mr.. Ridgely's
former wife, resulted in Mr.. Hyatt's
favor. The case did not reach the
jury. 1t was taken away from them by
Judge Richie, who granted the pray
ers of the defendant, and refused all
the prayers of the plaintiff. Judge
Richie held that the divorce obtained
in Dakota is perfectly valid, and that
no evidence was submitted to show that
Mrs. Ridgely had not acquired bona
fde residence.
SUING Mr.. PADELFoRD.-Court of
Common Pleas in Philadelphia yester-
day heard argument upon another