Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-09-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Clifford beat Henry of Navarro in tie
second special, ut a mile and a flrlong,
at Gravesend on Saturday.
J. G. Spencer was nominated by the
democrats for Congress At Canton, Miss,
on Saturday to succeed Col. Charles E.
Hooper.
The New York democratic State con-
vep;ion will be held at Saratoga to-
morrow. No candidate for Governor
has yet been settled upon.
In a speech at Thorn, West Prussia
on Saturday, Emperor William said
only those who stood by him in his
projects could hope for bis royal favor.
The forthcoming report of the later
continental railway commission will de-
monstrate the entire feasibility OF the
project Of joining North and South
America by rail.
Three negroes, who had murdered
II. C. Patton, a white man, at McGhee,
Ark, on Saturday, were strung up to
telegraph poles and their bodies per-
forated with buckshot by a mob.
Mr.. Robert Lawson, aged seventy
nine wears, died Saturday at his home
near Baltimore, and Mr.. Chas. ]. Bak-
er, a prominent citizen of Baltimore,
died yesterday at his home in that city.
The recent army m%anoeuvres in Eu-
rope show that military b%allooning has
made such progress that new cannon
and new rifles will have to be invented
in order TO resist the new engines oil
war.
Prince Bismarck was visited by ff-
teen hundred persons yesterday at Var
Yin, and in his remarks approved the
words of the Emperor urging the peo-
pie to unite in s%uppressing the parties
Of revolution.
Judge Ariel Standish Thurston, OF
Elmira n. Y, fell down a stairway at
the residence of his granddaughter,
Mrs. James Gayley, at West Braddock,
Pa, at l O'Clock yesterday morning and
broke his neck.
The Pope has conferred the title OF
monsignor on Rev. James Mcmahon, OF
the Catholic University, at Washington,
in recognition of his gift of the McMa-
hon Hall of Philosophy to that institu-
ton.
Judge Morrow, of the United States
Court, at San Francisco, on Saturday,
decided that General Ezeta and his two
staff officers, Bolanoz and Bustemente,
Salvadoran refugees, cannot be extra
dited, as their otfenses were purely po-
litical, but Colonel Juan Cientuegos can
be extrldited on the charge of murder.
The democratic committee of the
Seventh Congressional district of Ken,
lucky, which met at Frankfort Satur-
day, at first declared Owens the nomi-
nee, but handicapped him by adopting
re resolutions to the effect that he was
nominated by fraud. He declined to
accept such a nomination, and the com
mittee then reconsidered its action and
gave him the nomination without any
fraud implication.
Reports of the destruction wrought
by Friday nights cyclone in the North.
west indicate that the loss of life will
be in the neighborhood of seventy-five,
while the injured will number several
times as many. Some of those hurt are
expected to die, and it is not unlikely
that fully 100 persons will be number
ed in the list of the cyclones fury. The
property loss is very heavy, and it is
almost Impossible at this time to obtain
anything than rough estimates of the
damage. Six towns in Minnesota and
several in Iowa were swept by the cy-
clone.
A 1900, 900 F1RE.-The most disas.
trous fire in the history of Portland
Gree, broke out yesterday afternoon in
tho dock of the Pacific Coast Elevator