Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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The Columbus caravels left Hampton
Roads yesterday in tow of the Spanish
war vessels for New York.
Bronze equestrian statues of Gener-
ais Hancock, Sheridan and Logan are
soon to be erected in Washington.
The Standard Oil Company has Civ
ing notice of an advance in price OF
two cents per barrel for Lima crude.
The bench and bar of Delaware on
Saturday gave dinner to Mr.. L. f..
Bayard, who will leave shortly for Eng
land.
Hugo Wagler is wanted in Toledo,
Ohio, on the charge of poisoning his
wife for the purpose of getting the in
surance money.
The total losses sustained by the ma
riue interests by Thursday nights
storm on the lakes, is estimated at
100000 so far as known.
1t is reported that President Cleve-
land may remove his business office
from the White House Compartments in
the State Department building.
Jack Brady, colored, was hanged at
Hendersonville, \. c., Saturday, for
the murder of l.. r. Taylor, a white
man, last August. Brady confessed his
crime.
MIR. Geo. c. Davis, of Front Royal,
says he is not an applicant for the posi-
ton of postmaster at Front Royal, but
for the position of recorder Of deeds of
the District of Columbia.
An express train on the Nickel Plate
Railroad ran into wagon near War
saw, Ind, Saturday, and John S.
smith, his wife and three small child
rem were instantly killed.
The Rev. DR.. T. De Witt Talmage
celebrated the twenty-fourth anniver-
sary of his passionate of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle yesterday. He says the
Tabernacle is still 100000 in debt.
The fortieth anniversary of the in
stallation of Rev. Byron Sutherland,
D. D., as pastor of the First Presby-
terrain Church, Washington, was cele-
brated at the church Friday night.
The Duke de Veragua and party, I'M
der the charge of Commander Dickens,
United States navy, attended the pom
tifical high mass at st. Joseph's Roman
Catholic Church, in Washington, yes
terday morning.
The "John Bull' train which has
been travelling from Philadelphia since
Monday over the Pennsylvania road,
arrived in Chicago on Saturday night.
The train is intended as part OF the
Pennsylvania Railroads exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
What are probably the two fastest
steamships in the world left British
ports on Saturday for New York. They
are the Paris, which holds the record
for the fastest western passage, and the
Campania, the new Cunarder, which is
on her maiden trip.
The United States grand jury at
Tenn, has returned indict-
ments againt the president and the
cashier of the Commercial National
Bank, and also against George Z. Da-
zey, of Dobbins & Darcy, whose failure
that of the bank.
Col. A. Pendleton Mason, who won
an honorable record as an officer in
the Confederate army, and who was
of the late Justice Camp
bell, died in New York Saturday. Col.
Mason during the war served on the
stats of both Generals J. Z. Johnston
and r. E. Lee.
kilograms from west Tennessee,
north Mississippi and Arkansas state
that the frost has killed the young cot
ton and strawberries pretty generally.
The high price of cottonseed Undue
ed the farmers to dispose of all they
could spare, and it will be impossible
for them to get enough to replant.
Three Brazilian men-of-war, Aquida-
ban, Tiradentez and Republica arrived
in Hampton Roads yesterday evening,
when the usual salutes and courtesies
were exchanged with the other war
vessels. All the war ships which have
been assembling in the Roads for the
past week sailed for New York this
Mrs. Gertrude Smith, of New York,
has been granted divorce, at Sioux
Falls, s. D., fromsDuke Smith, son Of
General Green Clay Smith, of Ken
lucky, and grandnephew of Henry
Clay. Mrs. Smith left her husband be-
cause he did not support her as she de-
sired. The ground of divorce was in
compatibility.
AS Miss Malatesta, the daughter of
Mark Malatesta, a well-known hotel
proprietor of Atlantic City, and Mrs.
Dannehank, of Philadelphia, were
about starting for drive yesterday at
ernoon, their horses took fright and
an away. Both ladies were thrown
rom the carriage. Miss Alalatesta
anded on her head on the curbstone,
causing conclusion of the brain. She
lived only about twenty-five minutes.
Mrs. Dannehank had her leg broken.
1t is understood that the President
1as requested the American delegates
% the international monetary confer
,nce to visit him in Washington before
;hey return to Brussels to be present at
he next session of the delegates. 1t is
believed that the purpose of the call of
,he delegates to Washington is to dis
,uss with them the present financial
situation in its relation to the silver
coinage question, and the preparation
Of some definite proposition on the coin
age of silver which the American dele
rrotav ~ N c,,hmit IN the conference