Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| The Louisiana Lottery Company
have established themselves at Tampa
Fla.
A retired French naval officer has in
vented rifle that is capable of firing
two kinds of explosive bullets with i'm
mense power of penetration.
1t is believed that consideration o
the Bland bill to coin the silver seig
niorage in the treasury can hardly b.
defeated in the House of Represent
lives.
A society woman of New York la,
night swallowed her false teeth and (,
surgeon fshed them up, to the con
sternation OF her husband, who had al
ways though them genuine.
Capt. Henry R. Gibson has been ex
PEELED from the Grand Army of the Re
public at Knoxville, Tenn, on TIT
ground that he was never in the war
He is republican candidate for Con
gress.
The two houses of the Mississippi
Legislature met in joint session yester.
day and formally elected Hon. A. J
McLaurin United States Senator to sue.
coed Hon. Edward C. Walthall, re-
signed.
Five thousand strikers from the Nizh-
nee iron works, in the Ural mountains,
Russia, engaged in riots recently, which
were so desperate that several persons
were killed by the troops before order
could be restored.
A desperate fight occurred at Mount
Pleasant, in Harlan county, KY, Mon
day night, in which William and John
Turner were killed by DR.. William
Nolin, a prominent physician of that
city. The doctor was wounded.
The barn and outbuildngs of ]. l..
Ellwood, near Sycamore, ILL.,, together
with $50 imported Percheron horses,
were burned early yesterday morning.
The barn cost over $1,000, and the
horses value will bring the total loss
about $4,000.
Secretary Carlisle is opposed at this
time to the coinage ofslver seigniorage.
His conference with silver leaders was
to make the Bland silver-seignior-
age bill, if it was determined to push it
to passage, less Objectionable from the
administrative standpoint than the or
iginal bill.
1t is reported that in the revision Of
the Wilson tariff bill by the sub
committee of democratic members OF
the Senate finance committee, duty Of
| cent per pound has been placed on all
kinds of sugar, , cents per pound on
coffee aud 30 cents per ton on coal.
The income tax was allowed to remain.
Rev. Dir. Lewis Lampmann, of New
ark, n. j., caused some excitement in
the Newark Presbytery yesterday
charging that the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church had dealt
harshIy with DR.. Charles A. Briggs, Of
Union Theological Seminary, who was
suspended from the ministry for heresy.
Ithamar Howe, formerly a Boston
hotel man, and steward of the Megantic
Game and Fishing Club, at Spider Lake,
Quebec, has brought suit against Isaac
o. Woodruff for $4,000 for alternating
his wifes affections. Woodruff is the
president of the club and dealer in
physicians supplies, in New York.
Howe's wife is an attractive young wo-
man, about 20 years Gid.
The Brazilian government has decd
ed to decree that martial law shall
cease on February Goth, and that the
presidential election shall take place on
March LIST, in accordance with the con-
stitution. Dir. Prudente de Moraes,
president of the Senate, is the only can
ddate yet named for national presi-
dency. He is civilian from the state
Of San Paulo. 1t is possible that he
will be acceptable TO both sides. Peix-
OTTO is not candidate.