Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Wash Adkins was hanged in Fayette
vile, w. Va, yesterday for the murder
of Ike Radford.
1t is prophesied on all sides that the
Southern Pacific strike is to be settled
by Monday next.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of Clifton r.. Breckenridge
of Arkansas, for minister of the United
States to Russia.
The Southern Railway and Steam
boat Association has decided to restore
the rates in existence before the recent
disastrous rate war.
A mob overpowered the .iailer il
Woodville, Texas, yesterday and took
out VIM. Griffith, accused of assaulting
little girl, and lynched him.
Mayor Gilroy or ex-Mayor Hugh J
Grant will be the Tammany candidate
for mayor of New York next fall. Thi:
is stated on the authority of q MAI
high in the councils of the organization
The Secretary of the Treasury ha:
mailed warrants for $4,000 to each o
the governors Of the forty-eight State:
and Territories having agricultural col
leges that meet the requirements OF Tho
1t of August 30, 1890.
There are grounds for the belief thai
the negotiations between the State De
partment at Washington and the Japa
nese government respecting the with
drawal of Japanese troops from Korea
are progressing toward satisfactory
determination.
Before the Senate sugar trust inves
tigation committee that reopened its
investigation yesterday S. B. Derickson
of the New York brokerage firm of w
B. Wheeler 4 Co., testified that his
firm never placed any order for sugar
stock or for any other stock for either
Senator Camden or any U. S. Senator
The determination of the Pullman
company to reopen their works and op-
crate them with force of non-union
employees if the old employees refuse to
return, has aroused the strikers to a
white heat temper, and both militia
and police are looking for trouble be-
fore Monday.
On Monday next Eugene V. Debs,
president of the American railway
union, will appear before a federal
court in Chicago to answer to an indict-
ment for contempt. Other officers oil
the union indicted with him will also
be called up to give some explanation
of their conduct or to suffer the conse-
quences.
AT Indian Head yesterday another
1S.inch Bethlehem harveyized armor
plate was fred at, the test several
weeks ago of a similar big plate having
resulted in smashing the plate and Gre
ating sensation. On this occasion the
immense plate passed practically the
same test satisfactorily, though the
plate was cracked somewhat.
Adjutant- General Tarsney, in sharp
letter to Judge Campbell, of Colorado
Springs, declined to appear before the
grand Jury there and testify in regard
to the tarring and feathering to which
he was subjected near that city. He saw
agely attacks the assistant district at
torney, sheriff and foreman of the
grand jury and says if the jury sincere
~ desired to find the perpetrators OF
the outrage, it would not have delayed
the investigation four weeks.
An explosion of four hundred pounds
of loose powder at Fort Pulaski, near
Savannah, Ga, yesterday, fatally
wounded Ordnance Sergeant William
Chinn, seriously injured Mary Wash
ington, his mother-in-la law, and set fire
to the fort, causing intermittent explo-
sions of fixed ammunition, and doing
much damage to the fort. The fort
caught fire, but the flames were extin-
guished. The first explosion. caused
by Sergeant Shinn burning powder to
drive out mosquitoes.
1t is given out in Washington bv
those conversant with the facts that
Mr.. w. L. Marbury's nomination for
district attorney of Maryland has not
been confirmed because of the express
ed determination of Senator German
to discipline the young lawyer and to
bring him to a realization of the infu-
ence OF the senior Senator from Mary
land. not only in the politics of his
State, but also in the inner councils of
the Senate Judiciary committee, to
which Mr.. Marbury's nomination was
referred over two months ago.