Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-08-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

State to direct the campaign IN Massa-
chusetts.
Commissioners Mercer of Wyoming
and Beeson of Oklahoma, of the Chica.
90 fair, are accused of offering to sell
prize medals to fozeign exhibitors.
Pastor Edwards, of Freeport, L. l.,
has resigned from the Baptist Church
on account of book he issued annoy
mously, describing visit to the intern
al regions.
Yellow feveris to be starved out" of
Georgia. A government quarantine
camp will be opened, and all material
on which the contagion may feed Ii TO
be removed.
The final vote on the home-rule Dill
will be taken on Friday next. The
bill will be taken to the House OF LORDS
on September and rejected there on
September s, it is believed.
A cyclone passed over Eastern Sile,
sia on Thursday last. One hundred
houses at Neustadt, Kosel and Ober-
glogau were unroofed. crops were de-
stroyed and several persons were
killed
Walter s. Griffith, Washington
printer, known as Ajax" sent 3 letter
to a young lady recently, saying he
was married, but asking her to meet
him. She did so, likewise her fiance,
who pummelled him badly.
Vice President Baca, of Nicaragua, is
in Panama on his way to Guatemala to
request President Barrios to cooperate
with acting President Ielaya, of Mica
ragua, to bring about union of the
Central American republics.
The Haras National Company's
stables, in Outremont, were burned,
yesterday with large quantity of live
stock. Fortunately most of the blood
ed stock had been sent to the Worlds
Fair. Loss estimated at $50, 900.
Father Ducey of New York, confirms
the rumor of a proposed warfare against
Mgr. Satolli, to be carried on through
newspapers, by letter from well in
formed correspondent in Europe, in
which the scheme is explained.
The salmon run this year in the Fra
ger river. B. c., is larger than ever.
before. Some of the small tributaries
are so checked with fish that boats are
unable to cross. Last night the run
averaged 900 to the boat. Many boats
were swamped and one fisherman
was drowned.
In San Francisco, on Saturday the
Jury in the case of M. B. Curtis, SAM
uel of Posen," for the murder of police
man Grant, returned averdict ofacquit-
tai. The jury on the first ballot stood
9 to for acquittal. This is the third
trial of Curtis. The jury in the first
two trials disagreed.
Siam is said to be willing and anxious
to acoede promptly to the terms of the
French ultimatum, but that NJ. LeMyro
de yilels, the special French envoy,
is trying to override the terms Of the
uitimatum, which were accepted by
the Siamese government as the settle
ment Of. the dispute.
A train on the Northern Pacific was
held up by train robbers fourteen miles
west of Saltwater, Mont, yesterday.
There were five men in the gang, and
they we're, apparently, amateurs, as
they only secured $50 out of $4,000
which was in the express car, the mes
senger hiding the balance and other
Valuables.
1t is said that the reason why the
Duke of Edinburgh accepted the SAKE
Coburg- Gotha succession was to crafty
his w!fe's desire to the precedence
which the rank of reigning Duchess
would give her. The Duchess knows
full well that reigning Dukes posi-
ton is superior to that Of secondary
English Prince, and as such the chances
Of her daughters making brilliant royal
or imperial marriages are immeasura-
bly, increased.
To letter of Representative Morse,
Of Massachusetts, who has threatened
that if Commissioner Of Pensions Loeb
rem does not order review and re-ex-
animation of a particular Massachu-
sets pension case the attention of Con-
gress will be called to the matter, the
commissioner has replied in strong Ian
guage giving his reasons for not allow
Ing a re-eXamination and inviting
Mr.. Morse to bring the case before
Congress.
The debate on the repeal of the
silver purchasing clause of the
the Sherman law was closed in the
House of Representative on Saturday
aftes the GAZErTE's correspondence
closed. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, made
a good speech to empty galleries, but
they were filled again to listen to
short, but logical speech from Mr.. Will
son of West Virginia, the author OF the
pending bill. The other speakers were
Messrs. Mcmillan, Warner, Tracey,
Boutelle, Stone, Fellows, Fithian ahd
Hendrix.
Unemployed Bohemians and Poles
wound up parade in Chicago with a
riot on Saturday evening. One Of the
men in the parade tried to stop mail
wagon which was about to pass through
the line and when the police came to
the assistance of the driver they were
attacked by the rioters, Several po-
licemen were wounded. Mayor Harri
son, looking out of his Office window,
ssw the whole affair, and was fairly be-
side himself with anger at the manner
in which the police oascers were beaten,
kicked and stoned by the mob.
1t is stated that the Kaiser, in view
of certain reports made to him by the
State secret police, has ordered that the
French military ettache in Berlin be
not allowed to see the Metz manG,uvres,