Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-27
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Archbishop Corrigan has ordered s
collection to pay for Archbishop Satoli':

Archbishop Corrigan has ordered a
collection to pay for Archbishop Satoli's
residence.
1t is said that if Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, British Minister to this country,
should be transferred to st. Petersburg,
Lord Dutierin, now in Paris, might be
sent to the United States.
At Chicago on Saturday night Schaef.
err won by five points in the billiard
match with Ives. The total score was:
Schaefer, 1000; Ives, 1906. Consider
able ill-feeling developed between the
players during the evening.
Bishop Doane, of the Albany diocese
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in
in an interview, strongly denounced
the movement for the passage of bill
by the New York legislature providing
for State aid for parochial schools.
Luther Courtney and Henry Taylor,
two condemned murderers who will
hang on the 18th of next month, made
desperate attempt to break Jail at
Princess Anne, Md, early yesterday
morning by setting fire to the building.
They were nearly sutlocated.
The issue of short-term Treasury bills
will probably be recommended by the
ways and means committee to Congress
as a means of bridging over the tempo
rary deficiency in the Treasury, in ad-
vance of the collection of new taxes
under the tariff and internal revenue
laws.
The objection of Mr.. Bourke Cock
ran, Secretary Carlisle, David A. Wells
and other leading members of the dem
ocratic party to an income tax, has re-
suited, it is understood, in deciding the
committee to limit the tax to corpora
tons, legacies and the like, instead OF
the original proposition of taxing in
comes of 900 and upwards indiscrim-
irately.
The fight against General Master
Workman Powderly, of the Knights Of
Labor, has been won. Saturday even
ing he resigned the office, but his enc
mics are not disposed to accept it.
They want to expel him from office.
Powderley's friends say that the order
will be disrupted. 1t is said that j. r.
Sovereign, of Des Moines, will succeed
Mr.. Powderly.
It is reported that battle occurred
in Boca Grande county, Mexico, last
Thursday. The Mexican troops, num-
bering several hundred, were surround
ed by the rebels in ambush, and great
slaughter ensued, the troops being ut
terly routed and fleeing for their lives.
The troops were marching from Ascen-
sion when attacked by the rebels, who
suddenly rushed on them from all
sides. The fighting continued all day.
The rebels claim the victory.
Eight men who had concealed them
selves on the fast meat train on the
Lake Shore Railroad at Elkhart, Ind,
Saturday night, attempted to capture
the train. The trainmen made des-
perate resistance and ran the train to
Goshen, where the alarm was given
and the men disappeared. The plan
was evidently to capture the meat
train and use it to wreck the New
York express, which followed. Then,
in the confusion Of the wreck, the eX
press car could have been robbed.
Along all points of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad, except Wilkesbarre and
vicinity, the strikers are quiet. In the
Wyoming division they stoned passing
trains yesterday and the crowds were
dispersed by deputy sherifis. 1t is fear
ed that more serious outbreaks may
occur to-day or tomorrow. The sec
ond Sunday of the strike passed yes
terday with marked Improvement in
the running of trains on the part OF
the company. Applications for work
keep rolling in, and last evening Mr..
Voorhees, received a telegram from
Lincoln, Neb., stating that 20 compe-
tent engineers were awaiting transpor-
tatio.i to come east and man Lehigh
Valley engines.