Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
1t is now said that President Cleve-
land has declared his opposition to the
income tax.
Gen. R. S. Granger. L. S. A., retired,
died at the Ebbilt House in Washing
ton yesterday.
Many fishermen were drowned and
several vessels wrecked in the rece t
storm off the southern coast OF ireland.
The Senate Committee on Naval AZ
fairs willrecommend the construction
of fifteen torpedo boats for coast de-
Tense.
Mexico contemplates retaliatory
measures against the countries that
have Disseminated against silver as a
money metal.
The California Supreme Court has
decided that Florence, the illegitilnate
daughter OF Thomas H. Blythe, is enti-
tied to her fathers millions.
Great Britain has demanded Of the
Nicaraguan government an explana-
ton OF the withdrawal of the exequa-
tur ofthe British consul at Greytown.
The thousands of people in Greece
rendered homeless by the earthquakes
are in great distress. In the Atalanti
district 23S were killed and l30injured.
Consul General Judd, ct Vienna, re-
ports that the importation of American
trotting horses for breeding purposes
has become quite a business in Austro-
Hungary.
Mrs. Nell C. Smith, the daughter Of
Gen. John r. Randall, commander Of
the Chicago Commonweal, will ride a
white horse at the head of the column
on the march to Washington.
The Indiana republican State con-
vention yesterday nominated the fol-
lowing ticket Secretary of State, A.
D. Owen; State Treasurer, f. G. Scholz;
State Auditor, A. c. Daily. The plat
form adopted ''reaffirms adherence to
the doctrine of protection"
The Boston baseball club yesterday
defeated the Baltimore team by score
Of 6 to 3. The other league games re-
suited thus: New York "A, Washing
ton ); Brooklyn S Philadelphia ,:
Cleveland -, Cincinnati 6; Pittsburg .,
Louisville ]; st. Louis IL, Chicago 3.
Sheriff Timothy Maloney, of Balti-
more, who has been i'll with inllamma-
tory rheumatism and Bright's disease
for nearly two months, died yesterday
afternoon at his homein that city. The
death of a sheriff in Office has been a
rare occurrence in the history of Balti-
more.
The proceedings in the United States
Senate yesterday showed that the re-
publicans are determined to use all the
obstructive tactics possible against the
tariff bill. 1t is said President Cleve-
land is satisfied the bill will pass the
Senate much earlier than is generally
supposed.
A terrific hail storm, preceded by
rain and wind. swept over the Shreve-
port, La, section on Tuesday morning.
1t was the severest storm since 1877.
Many of the hailstones were two inches
in diameter, breaking window glasses
and skylights, and doing great damage
to fruit trees. The Fairfield church
was blown down.
Abe Buzzard, the eX-king of Welsh
Mountain, Pa, outlaws, was arrested
Yesterday in Reading and taken to
Lancaster in shackles. He and his
companion, Dan Weinhold, are charged
with cracking the safe in the Downing
town and Lancaster railroad station
last month, and with opening many
letters in the post Office.
The miners along the Monongahela,
in West Virginia, have been ordered to
resume work by the miners committee.
At Douglass and Thomas, on the West
Virginia Central men were discharged,
andordered to vacate their houses. which
are owned by the coal companies. The
strike on the New river continues to
grow, but the strike has not encroach-
ed on the Kanawha region yet.
The opinion of Attorney General
Olney, rendered at the request of Sec
rotary Carlisle to the effect that unless
Chinese merchant trades under his
own name in the United States he can
not return to this country after having
once left it, has developed the fact that
probably not single Chinese merchant
in the United States uses his own name
in his business. lie uses title equiva-
lent to that of a corporation in the
English tongue.