Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-11-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS UF LIE IN L.
Colored police officers in Philadelphia
are indignant because they are put in
separate sleeping rooms from the white
officers.
Mrs. Henrietta Weidner shot herself
at the grave of her son In Greenwood
cemetery, Brooklyn, yesterday, and
will die.
Grace Episcopal Church in Memphis,
Tenn, was burned yesterday, and c. S.
]. Gilbert, the organist, was arrested on
the charge of setting it on fire.
It is now said that Minister Willis's
cipher dispatch told the administration
that the provisional government in
Hawaii was prepared to resist the res
toration of Queen Liliuokalani.
The absence from Washington of
democratic members of the ways and
means committee of the House of Rep
resentatives will cause the indefinite
postponement of the consideration of
the tariff bill.
Emperor William in opening the
Reichstag yesterday urged the adop-
ton of the governments proposed fl
nancial measures for increasing the
revenue to cover the cost of the en-
largement of the army.
Margaret Tousig, of Washington, sent
word to the authorities at Towson,
Maryland, yesterday, that she would
not prosecute Ray G. Snowden, whom
she accused of conspiring to rob her.
Snowden has been released on bail.
An amendment to the local govern
ment bill, providing for woman suf-
frage in local government and parlia-
mentary elections, was adopted in the
House of Commons yesterday by q vote
of 147 to 126, and the unionists cheer
ed the defeat of the government and
shouted Resign"
The cruiser Columbia made a splen-
did start on her official trial trip yester-
day off the Massachusetts coast, but
was compelled to give it up in quar-
ter of an hour, because the buoys and
concentrating boats had been blown
out of position by gale. In the short
run the cruisers speed was at the rate
of 223 knots an hour.
The report that Mr.. Clevelan1's
private fortune has suffered by the
shrinkage in values is generally accept
ed among men presumably close to the
administration, as plausible, and some
say this was the cause of his recent
visit to New York. The rumor is that
the sum of money which the President
has lost is in the neighborhood of
100000.
On Tuesday evening Miss Emma
Kirk, daughter of the late William
Kirk, became the wife of Harry Wash
ington Fairfax, a member of the old
Fairfax family of Virginia, and q
resident of New Orleans. The cere-
mony took place at the residence of the
BRIDES mother, in Brooklyn. Only the
immediate family were present. The
young couple will live in New Orleans.
The story of Emin Pasha's death, as
reported last September, is confirmed
again by dispatches received at Bussels
Yesterday. The only survivors of the
massacre were the Zanzibarite, Asinia,
Emin's mistress, and their child. The
Arabs spared the boy in the expecta-
ton that, if endowed with his fathers
brains and energy, he might be trained
into a great leader. All of Emin's
latest papers were received yesterday
and delivered to King Leopold.
Monsignor satolli, the papal legate,
yesterday moved into his handsome
new home at Second and I streets
northwest Washington, where he will
be henceforth established in that city.
Last night Monsignor Satolli gave
dinner to celebrate his removal to his
new home, and had as his guests sew
eral members of the faculty of the Cath
Ole University, Monsignor Sbarretti,
DR.. Papi, Mr.. Thomas E. Waggaman
and Mr.. Thomas Kirby.
President Pei1oto announces that the
situation in Brazil is unchanged. We'd
nesday being the fourth anniversary Of
the proclamation of the Republic the
President received congratulations from
the Governors of all the States, Santa
Catharina alone excepted. Santa Cath
ariua is the State which has seeded
from the Brazilian federation. Des-
terro is its capital. The insurgents at
Desterro have arrested and imprisoned
on war ship United States Consular
Agent Grant.
A socialist crank stopped in front of
Delmonico's in New York yesterday
evening when the dining rooms were
we'll filled, and fred five shots from
revolver through the Fifth avenue win
dows. He was captured and locked
up. When arranged to-day he said
81 did not set out with the intention
of shooting any one yesterday, but
when 1 saw the millionaires sitting
about Delmonico's it made me so mad
that went to q pawn shop and pur-
chased the pistol"
WILL HAVE A New NosE.-Little 2
year-old Joseph Byrne, of Philadelphia,
lost the tip end of his little nose by
peculiar accident on Monday night.
Tho Hahnemann Hosnital SURGEONS.