Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

]ured by the TALL OF the Latlmer ware
house in Brooklyn yesterday.
Justice Mccarthy, chairman of the
Irish parliamentary party, has issued
an appeal to the Irish for help.
Capt. Friedrich b. Hendrix, leader of
the anti oxey army, arrived in Wash
ington yesterday with an advance
guard of six men.
Two Austrians and an Italian have
been arrested in Buenos Ayres, charged
with conspiring to blow up the Parlia-
ment House there.
Striking miners succeeded in keeping
number of men from working in the
Consolidation Company's mine at Frost
burg, Md, yesterday.
1t is said that four hundred Ohio
miners are crossing the river at Cam
den and New Haven to drive the work
ing West Virginia miners from work.
The militia have been sent to the scene.
A gasometer exploded in the mill
tary balloon department in Templehof
field in Germany yesterday, doing con-
siderable damage to stores and soldiers
barracks.
Most of the striking miners in the
Tennessee Coal Creek district returned
to work yesterday at former prices,
having been forced to by hunger and
threats from Jellico miners.
General Lord Frederick Roberts,
formerly communicative chief Of the
al IN IN fndia; will succeed General
Garnet Wolseley in the autumn as COM
mander Of the forces i'll Ireland.
Senator Hill intends making motion
in the Senate to put lead on the free
list and will attack the position of the
Senate finance committee in lcVJ ing n
duty of three-fourths OF cent per
pound on that article.
j. Armstrong, prominent architect
of Dallas, Tex, was fatally shot yester-
day by Jacob Fingers, merchant, who
discovered him in Mrs. Enger's bed
room. Mrs. Engers begged for her life,
and her husband spared her. Fingers
is in jail
The House committee on judiciary
yesterday killed the bill of Representa-
tive Morse. of Massachusetts, which
was inspired by the Pollard Breckin-
ridge trial, proposing to make seduc-
ton criminal otiense in the District OF
Columbia
Captain Sampson, chief Of the bureau
of ordnance, Navy Department, yester-
day testified before the House sub-com-
mittee investigating armor plate irreg-
ularities that the charge of secret re-
treatment of a plate which stood for q
large group was found by him to be
true.
Suit for 100000 damages was begun
in the U. S. Circuit Court at Chicago
yesterday by the French republic
against the Worlds Columbian Exposi-
ton. The litigation grows out of the
French governments claim for dam
ages to those goods of French subjects
injured during the fire in the Manufac-
turers' Building
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
has replied to the attacks made by con-
sressmen on the civil service commits
sion, and defies them to prove the
charges they have made. He denounces
as "wholly and absolutely untrue" the
statement attributed to Mr.. Stockdale
that the law fer apportioning employees
among the several States and Terrific
ries according to population is being
violated, and that the commission con-
sents to its violation.
A meeting of the democratic con-
gressonal district committee, held at
frankfort, KY, yesterday to select a
successor to Colonel Breckenridge, de-
cided on holding a primary September
10. The result was victory for Brock
inridge. r. F. Farrell, Lexington
lawyer and an Owens man, said if
Breckenridge was nominated POO Lex
ington democrats would not vote for
him. The spectators got excited over
this and the applause was drowned i'll
Kisses.