Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Information received from China
states that the plague and cholera are
spreading.
Mr.. Harter yesterday introduced
bill which he proposes as compromise
tariff measure.
Congressman Thomas B. Reed was
renominated by the republicans in
Maine yesterday.
There was a bad freight wreck on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at
Hancock, Md, yesterday but no lives
were lost.
United States Judge Nathan Golf was
taken suddenly i'll at his home, in
Clarksburg, w Va, yesterday evening.
His condition is critical and bis frlends
are greatly alarmed.
Twenty-six tenement houses in st.
Jean Baptiste village, in the northern
part OF Montreal, were burned yester-
| dav. Four people were injured and the
property loss was 100000.
The drum shaft of q grain elevator at
Clausen 4 Prices brewery, New York,
snapped in two yesterday afternoon.
and the loaded elevator plunged down
five stories. Three men were killed
and two Others seriously injured.
Senators Mills and Smith, represent
ing the two extreme wings OF the dem
ocratic party in the Senate, yesterday
evening expressed the opinion that the
party would get together and pass
tariff bill before the fnal adjournment.
In the Senate Yesterday evening Mr..
Caifrev, of Louisiana, who followed
Mr.. Hill with brief speech, detailed
the manner in which the sugar sched-
ule had been prepared. insisting that it
was made by and in the interest OF the
sugar trust.
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and
means committee, returned to Wash
ington Yesterday from his home in
West Virginia, where he hes been since
last Thursday. His head is still bound
in cloth, but he says that the neural
gia, from which he suffered, has great
ly abated.
A new labor union has been organiz-
ed in Chicago, which, its leaders say,
will gather under one banner the whole
army OF the toiliDg masses. II was de-
cided to admit mlitiamen as members
of the new organization. which the di-
rectors claim will take the place Of the
knights OF labor.
At meeting of the cabinet yester-
day to discuss the latest phase of the
situation in Hawaii it was felt that
United States Minister Willis had been
little precipitate in formally recog-
nizing the new republic without first
consulting the Department OF State.
Before the Senate sugar investigating
committee yesterday f. J. Levy, the
representative of Wheeler & Co., Of
New York, gave q photograph of what
was said to be an order for sugar stock
drawn by Senator Camden, of West
Virginia. Senator Camden denies that
he ever gave such an order, and if such
a representation has been made TO the
committee, it was a forgery.
The democratic Senate caucus yes
terday was attended by ali the demo.
cratic members with the exception Of
Mr.. Hill, who, because of his attitude
toward the compromise bill, and Sen
ators Irby and Murphy. The eau
Gus continued for three hours,
and, without reaching any con-
clusion or taking vote on any propo-
sition, adjourned until this evening.
Five women went in bathing in the
S IN Joaquin river yesterday. One got
oeyound her depth, and in attempting
to rescue her three of the others were
carried into an eddy and drowned.
Three young men were drowned while
bathing in Snake river, three miles be-
low Penewala, Washington, yesterday.
One called for help, and the others
swan to his assistance. He grappled
with them, all three sinking simulta-
neously.
Advces from Norway indicate the
probable loss of the Wellman arctic ex-
petition. 1t is thought the vessel on
which the expedition sailed has been
crushed in the ice, which is unusually
heavy this year. Professor Oyen, the
geologist OF the expedition, was found
on Danes Island in dying condition.
II is said there is no reason for
anxiety with regard to the fate of the
party because they could, under almost
any circumstances, make good their re-
treat to Danes Island.
Eugene Y. Debs and other officers of
the American railway union met with
decided reverse in Chicago yesterday
in their fight against the prosecution
for contempt in the United States
Court. The court decided that the an
swer filed by the defendants is not
sufficient reply to the charge of con-
tempt, and the motion of their attor-
neys that they be discharged was over
ruled. Tomorrow morning the court
will hear the evidence of the govern
ment to sustain the charge of contempt,
and the defendants will be given the
opportunity to produce evidence in