Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Commander Ballington Booth, OF the
Salvation Army, is critically i'll at Chi
cago.
Bishop Paret, of Maryland, declares
his opposition to the use OF surplices
for women singing in church choirs.
Highwaymen robbed a woman in
one OF Boston's fashionable streets last
night, and one of them shot two men
who pursued him.
Earthquakes have been occurring
daily in Ecuador since November 81,
and considerable property has been des-
troyed, and many persons injured.
Miss Essie West, an actress, whose
beauty and stage presence were spoil
ed, she says, on account of an injury to
her jaw, sustained in tie dental chair,
is suing the dentists in New York for
$40, 900 damages.
Tho Alabama legislature yesterday
put check upon Captain Kolb and his
followers by promptly passing the bill
to punish usurpers of State offices.
Kolb's manifesto, advising hisfollowers
not to pay their taxes, FASTENED the
passage of the bill.
Jack Phineas, alias "Three- Fingered
Jack" one of the most noted outlaws
in Oklahoma, was killed while in bed
with his wife, near Kildare, Tuesday
night, by some person who crept into
the room and cut his throat from ear
to ear, without awakening his wife.
The President has had sentry box
built and set up in the roadway imme-
diately in front of the carriage entrance
of the White House and within fifty feet
of the front door. The box is so To-
Gated that an inmate of it can cover
every approach to the porch with his
eve, or with rifle, if he should have
one in his hands,
The reported death of 'Dovie" For
ney from opium poisoning, in Kansas
CITY prison, is pronounced untrue in
Washington. A telegram was received
from her by her father in Washington
Yesterday informing him that she is
living quietly with friends in New
York city, aud further that she is in
excellent health.
1t is rumored in Shanghai that ten
days armistice has been arranged be-
tween China and Japan. The terms OF
peace will, it is said, include buffer
state, but the rumors are not credited
in official circles in London. Dis
patches from Field Marshal Yamagata
to the japanese government, dated
December 3, stated that fighting con-
tinued. and the japanese were attacked
by large Chinese force at Tasikow and
forced to retreat.
Letters received in London state that
the favorite cavalry regiment of the
Sultan of Turkey was presented with
new gold flags after the horrible mas
sacre of the Armenians, in which these
soldiers took the leading part. The
Turkish legation at Washington has
received a statement from home deny
ing the alleged Armenian outrages
The Turkish version of the Armenian
outrages is that it was the Musselmans
who were the victims of atrocious cruel
ties.
w. K. Vanderbilt sailed yesterday
from Liverpool for New York. 1t is
surmised that Mrs. Vanderbilt has re.
fused the 100000 settlement Offered
by her husband and will bring for'r
application for divorce Mrs, Wander
bilt is now living in her town house at
Fifth avenue and Fifty-second street,
New York, and has been entertaining
quite extensively. 1t is believed that
Mr.. Vanderbilt is coming to New York
TO have an interview with his lawyers
aud see if terms cannot be arranged
rather than submit to the courts.
A dispatch from Weston, W. Va,
says that the lynching of Self, who
murdered his sweetheart, Emma Wat
son, yesterday, because she refused to
marry him, is momentarily expected.
Excitement is running high and there
are all kinds of rumors on the streets
of Weston. Self mas been removed
secretly from the Jail and the sheriff
aud number of deputies are guarding
him at place of safety. The murderer
is only twenty years of age and his
victim was fifteen. He is Indifferent
about the matter and says he would
have shot himself also but for timely
recollection of scriptural injunction
against self-murder.