Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Robert Louis Stevenson, the well
known novelist, died recently of apo
plexy in Samoa, aged forfy-three years.
ri is now stated that Mr.. Harrison
will rot again be candidate for the
Presidency unless great pressure is
brought to bear npon him
All the prisoners escaped from the
Jail of Halifax county On Saturday, in
Guiding Boswell Easley, who was 10
have been hung on the 23d of January
next for brutal murder.
4 prominent Guatemalan official says
that though the war between Guate-
mala and Mexico may be delayed for g
year, it is sure to come. The Guate-
malaus are resolved that Chiapas be-
longs to them in spite ofall treaties.
1t expected that in the near future
an order will be made placing chiefs OF
divisions in the various government de-
partments under civil service laws.
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt
saws that the commission has so recon-
mended.
Mrs. Belle Parker, who died at Dan
Vile, Ills, from heart disease Saturday
morning, was six feet in height and
weighed 455 pounds. The casket was
the largest ever made in Danville and
was three feet six inches wide, two feet
deep and seven feet long.
In recent fight between the Armen-
JAMS and the Kurds, the former lost ten
warriors and the latter over five hun
dred, but the Armenians were forced to
succumb when the Turkish reinforce.
mepts arrived. The Armenian prison
ers were tortured to death.
A dispatch from London says that a
conference between Lord Rosebery
and the other members of the British
government has been held at Althorp,
Lord Spencer's country seat, as to the
advisability of an immediate dissolu-
ton and appeal 10 the country.
Mrs. Mamie wainwright, wife of the
station master at Mt. Wilson, on the
Western Maryland Railroad, was "held
up" yesterday evening by two unknown
masked men, and at the point ola pistol
was made to surrender to them all the
money there was in the station.
Col. Ingersoll made another attack
on the Bible in Washington last night.
1t was the same TRADE he delivered in
New York two or three Sundays ago.
A large audience filled the National
Theatre to listen to the agnostic, and
his satires on scripture were much ap-
pauded. Some of the Colonel's in
Weighing against holy writ were de-
cidedly blasphemous while others were
designed to promote merriment.
Samuel c. Seely, the bank book
keeper locked up at the Ludlow street
Jail in New York, charged with steal
ing 1854 900, saw his wife yesterday for
the first time since he abandoned his
home on November 18th and fled to
Chicago. His wife has been very i'll
since his fight. Their meeting was
very pathetic. The evening was we'll
advanced before Mrs. Seely went away.
Another sad scene was enacted ut their
parting. The two clung to each other
for long time without saying word.
At Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Saturday
tragedy was enacted in the private
office of the Citizens State Bank. John
Huntington, assistant bookkeeper and
collection clerk, shot C. A. Cromwell.
of Minneapolis, and NJ. F. Hayden, OF
Chicago, representative of the Fidelity
and Casualty Company of New York,
and then emptied his revolver into his
own breast iDtlicting wound from
which be died two hours later. Crom,
we'll and Hayden were cross-examin-
ing in the course ofan inquiry about
. missing check for $500.
Policeman Augustus j. Thorne, OF
New York, who was arrested for brib-
era and perjury, made full confession
on Saturday evening to Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Lindsay, in which he
explained police methods in the Leon
ard street police station as to the col
lection and distribution of protection
money. Numerous indictments and
arrests will probably follow. 1t is con-
Gdently reported that Police Captain
Strauss evidence will be the next
great sensation before the LeXow COM
mitteee, and that Superintendent
Byrnes and Inspector Williams will be
called upon to testify.
There is great polical excitement in
Italy on account of the issuing of a
royal decree proroguing Parliament.
A meeting of members opposed to the
government was held to protest against
the PROPAGATION. The royal decree
proroguing the session of the Chamber
of Deputies was published yesterday.
This is the result of the publication OF
the documents relating to the Banca
Romano scandal. These documents
are mainly those which were seized by
the police when the government decid-
ed to prosecute the officials connected
with the Banca Romano disclosures
and the rambling accusations against
notable persons made by Signor Ten
Tango, formerly director of the Banca
Romano, when he was thrown into
prison. Premier Crispi has declared
that the papers were mass of lies and
biunders.. Signor Crispi's coup has
caused the most intense excitement
throughout the country. Sensational
rumors OF all kinds are ahoat.
TORTURED BY TURKs.-A letter