Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The question of destruction of seals
in the Behring sea has been again
raised.
Annie N. Brewer, who shot her lover
at Lynn, Mass, was captured yester-
CAV. She said she did not regret her
action.
The courthouse at Lewiston, Illinois,
in which Lincoln delivered his famous
speech, in 1858, was burned yesterday.
The records were saved.
The volcano on Mount Rainier, in
the State of Washington, has broken
out again and smoke is pouring from
the crater, which is also emitting jets
OF steam.
During the recent storm great dam
age was done to the lighthouse on
Tillamook Rock, in the Pacific ocean,
off the coast Of Oregon. The wind and
waves broke window glasses 1856 feet
above the water.
Samuel G. Seely, charged with en-
bezzling 1854, 900 while bookkeper of
the Shoe aud Leather National Bank,
New York, arrived there from Chicago
last night, and is in Ludlow street Jail.
His bail was fixed at $25 900.
A proposition to increase the bounty
on export sugar has been introduced in
the German Reichstag, and during the
debate yesterday it was officially stated
that the American tariff on sugar had
affected Germany more than any other
country.
Four agents of the U. S. Secret Ser
vice Bureau, of New York, went to
Bridgeport, Conn.,, last night and early
this morning captured gang of ex-
perienced counterfeiters all their
molds, dies and other apparatus and
large quantity of coin in half dollars
and dollars.
Among the laws which will become
effective in the State of New York jan
uary |, 1895, is the compulsory-educa-
ton law. Under the provisions of this
statute all children between eight and
sixteen years old, in proper mental and
physical condition, are required to at
tend upon instruction.
It has transpired that before sending
for Mr.. Bowel and asking him to form
g ministry, the Governor-General of
Canada sent for Sir Frank Smith and
offered to entrust the formation of the
new ministry to him. Sir Frank
promptly declined the honor and ad-
yised His Excellency to send for MIR.
Bowel.
MANY of the railway postal clerks re-
gard with great dissatisfaction an order
issued by the Postoffice Department in
June last, and which will go into effect
in few months. This order requires
that on and after May l, 1895, all rail
way postal clerks shall reside at some
point on the railroad route to which
they are assigned.
Captain Creeden, of the New York
police force, yesterday made full con-
fession before the Lexow committee
that his promotion had been purchased
with a fund of $4,000 raised by his
friends. John W. Reppenhagen testi-
fed that he paid $4,000 of the sum to
John j. Martin, the representative of
Police Commissioner Voorhis. The
Police Commissioners have restored
Captain Creeden to duty temporarily.
Miss Emily Suffern, daughter of the
late Judge Sufern, of Haverstraw, N,
Y, once prominent lawyer and jurist
in Rockland county, was arrested in
dry good store in New York city late
Thursday afternoon for shoplifting.
She dropped to the floor in a faint
when the store detective touched her
on the arm and she realized that she
was under arrest. The charge was not
pressed and yesterday Justice Voorhis
released her with warning.
The Porte has consented that the
consuls of Great Britain, Russia
and France shall sit with the Armenian
commission. The decision is regarded
as triumph for British diplomacy, and
it is also significant as indicating the
existence of an Anglo -Russo-Franco
entente. 1t is believed the proposition
to send Mr.. Milo A. Jewet', the U. S.
consul at Sivas, Asiatic Turkey, to in
vestigate the stories of Turkish atroci-
ties in Armenia has been abandoned,
as the Porte objected to the American
proposal of an Independent inquiry.
AN OLD DECISION CITED.-As stated
in the GAZETTE of that day Eugene V.
Debs, president of the A. R. u, and
the head of the great railroad strike
last summer, was yesterday in Chicago
found guilty of violating the injunction
issued last July by Judges Wood and
Grosscup.
Judge Woods in his decision said: