Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Sewanee. Tenn, yesterday.
A Russian steamboat was burned Oh
the river Volga yesterday, and fifteen
of the crew and twelve passengers per-
ished.
The statement is reiterated that a
halt has been called in the enforcement
of the Chinese exclusion act pending
some further legislation by Congress.
Dir. Dalziel. liberal member of the
House of Commons, moved reduction
of the vote for the salary of the Duke
of Cambridge as commandments OF
the British army.
LOYAL land forces of Brazil yesterday
repulsed an attempt OF the navy revolt.
ers to land near Nictheroy, suburb OF
Rio. Fifty-one of the rebels were Killed
and thirty wounded.
The Prince of Wales yacht Britannia
having yesterday won the third race
with Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll's Ameri-
can Yacht Nsvahoe, now holds the gold
cup without need of further contest.
The National Board of Trade con-
vention met at Willard Hall in Wash
ington this morning Mr.. B. II. War
ner delivered an address of welcome.
Nearly one thousand delegates were
present.
LAWYER Francis II. Weeks, who fled
from New York last spring after en-
bezziinc large sums of money from es-
tates aud individuals for whom he was
trustee, has been arrested in San
Jose, Costa Rica.
A human monstrosity that creates a
sensation in the medical world is an
anatomical wonder, born in Atlanta,
Ca. on Friday and died Immediately.
1t is a child with one chest and two
pairs of perfectly developed legs and
arms.
An operation was performed at the
Garrett Hospital, in Baltimore, yester-
day on James Lee, aged thirteen, OF
Cumberland, for the removal of the
cause of paralysis. The spinal cord
was exposed for several inches and
pieces of the lamine of the vertebr9
were removed.
| In the hearing before the House of
Representative ways and means COM
mittee yesterday enough facts were
brought out TO show very clearly that
the present iron and steel tariff is so
high as to give the manufacturers COM
plete mastery of the American market
and allow them to regulate prices.
"No drunkard can enter the king
dom of heaven" preached the Rev.
William Brucker to his German Pres
bvterian congregation at Hyde Park,
Pa, a week ago. Some of his trustees
had recently been intoxicated, it was
said. So the preachers enemies drove
him from his pulpit Saturday, barricad-
ed the church doors and demanded his
resignation.
Some interest among democrats has
been excited by the exhibition on the
floor of the Senate yesterday of the fol-
lowing telegram
COLUMBUS, Sept. 9th, 1898.
Hon. F. NJ. CockreIl, Washington:
Is it possible that the United States
Senate, now democratic, is to be bull
dozed into the demonstration of silver?
ALLAN G. THURMAN.
When five.year-old Edith Payne was
enveloped in flames in New York yes
terday young hero tried to save her
by rolling her on the ground, but the
tots little seven-year-old brother, be-
: lieving his sister was being beaten,
stoned the rescuer and dragged him
away. The flames were not checked
for this reason, and Edith was so badly
burned that she died.
; Steele Kellogg, the only son of Col.
Sanford Kellogg, of the U. 5. army,
shot himself with fatal effect about )
o'clock yesterday evening while stand
ing in his room in his fathers house in
Washington, dying at midnight after
!, failure to pass his examination at the
Naval Academy is said to have been
the cause of the suicide.
The third trial race for the honor OF
defending the Americas cup off Sandy
Hook, n. j., was yesterday won by
the Vigilant by minutes and 9 sec
onds. The Colouia, Jubilee and Pill
grim finished in the order named. The
members of the America cup commit
+ tee last night formally decided upon
the Vigilant as their choice to meet
Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie.
The great diamond recently found in
the African fields, and now in the
hands of the cutter in London, has
been named the Excelsior. 1t is Of
such good shape that it is believed it
will weigh 500 carats when cut, which
is several times larger than any other
stone. The Imperial, the next largest
white diamond, was sold for 81 100000.
1t is said that the owners would accept
81 $50, 30 for the Excelsior.
The women of Peekskill, n. Y, are
no longer on visiting terms W.th one
another. This unhappy state of affairs
is not due to any GOODNESS existing
among them, but because of the pres
ence in town of an organized band of
thieves who take advantage Of the
chance when women pay visits to their
neighbors to rob their houses. Wo-
men, in consequence, unless there is.
some one else to remain in the house,
stay at home.
In the U. S. Senate yesterday even
ing when the bill for the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman law
was taken up, Mr.. Pugh, of Alabama,
member of the finance committee,
made a two-and-a-half hour speech
against it, declaring at the close that it
was the determined and unalterable pur-
pose of the opponents of repeal to OPP
nosa II until their nhvsical strength