Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-02-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

at his rooms in Washington.
a blizzard ragged in New York and
Pennsylvania last night and there was
a heavy fall of snow in those States.
The town Of Port Deposit, Md, is
submerged by the ice gorge, which Is
still unbroken in the Susquehanna
river.
Mr.. Carlisle spent Saturday with Mr..
Cleveland at Lakewood. He does not
think there will be an extra session OF
Congress.
Irish nationalist leaders have issued
an address to their countrymen IN the
United States, asking aid in the tight
for home rule.
Services in honor of the fiftieth ami
versary OF the Pope's elevation to the
episcopacv were held in the various
Catholic churches in this country yes
terday.
Howell +. Jackson was confirmed by
the United States Senate on Saturday
evening as Associate Justice of the SUI
irene Court of the United States to
succeed L. O. c. Lamar.
Baron Won Bleichroeder, the we'll
known Berlin financier, died at his res
idence in the Behrenstrasse yesterday.
He was the richest man in Germany
and was worth $50, 900, 900.
The Alabama legislature has passed
an election law that will disfranchise
illiterate colored voters to the number
of about 10000. This bill makes ever
lasting democratic rule in Alabama.
A party of masked men yesterday en-
tered the house ofJohn Pleasnger, near
Bedford, Pa, and whipped his daugh-
ter with hickory switches, because she
had been receiving the attentions OF a
colored man.
Fifty thousand people, including 25,-
O0O pilgrims, were in st. Peters Ca
thedral in Rome yesterday at the cele-
bration of the Pope's episcopal jubilee.
The Pope was heartily checred by the
vast assemblage as he entered the
church.
Judge Hazen, of the Topeka Court,
on Saturday granted the injunction
asked for by the republicans against
the appropriation bill for the payment
of salaries passed by the populist House,
and the case now goes to the State SUI
premc Court.
Chancellor Won Caprivi, in his nego-
tiations with the Center party in the
ReicLstag on the army bill, is reported
10 have offered to readmit the Jesuts
to Germany and to promote school
law making religious instruction OF
children compulsory.
The United States Senate on Satur-
day evening by 4 vote of30 to l6 adopt
cd the Sherman amendment tothe sun
dry civil appropriation bill authorizing
the issue of three per cent. iiye-year
bonds for the redemption of the green
blck currency under the terms of the
resumption act of 1873.
1t is said that President Harrison has
concluded to fill the vacancy in the
United States Circuit Court created
by the appointment of Judge Jackson,
of Nashville to the vacancy in the Su-
preme Court made by the death of JUS
tice Lamar. The President says that
if there was any understanding among
Senators which led them to believe that
he wonld not fill the vacancy, he is not
responsible for it.
When the joint session Of the Wyom-
ing Legislature met on Saturday to bal
lot for Senator a motion to adjourn sine
die was carried by two votes. The
democrats were afraid that J. +. War
r.n. present Senator, would be elected
and the republicans were afraid that A
l.. New, democratic State chairman
would prove winner. The Governor
! will appoint Senator. Governor Us
burn is democrat and it is believed
that chairman New may be appointed
by him.
Mr.. Henry Williams, Of Baltimore,
and Representative Jones, of Virginia
had consultation Saturday with Sec.
rotary Rusk, in Washington, relative
TO the regulations issued by the Agri
cultural Department concerning cattle
transportation. They want the regu'
lations modified so that cattle can be
shipped from the places in Virgins
south Of the line laid down by the Ag
rirultural Department. Secretary Rusk
will grant the relief asked if he is sat
i.fed 10 danger will result from it.
Charles Mitchell, the English pugi-
list, has agreed to the conditions insist
ed on by James j. Corbett, that the
winner should take the entire stakes.
The articles for the proposed fight were
not signed in New York because Supt.
Byrnes declared he would arrest the
men if they did so, it being misde.
meanor under the New York penal
code to arrange a prize fight. The par
ties will meet on the Canadian side at
Niagara Falls February % TO sign arti-
Giles and deposit stakes.