Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-01
NEWS OF hi DAY.

mills in Wisconsin.
Rebels in Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil,
have resumed fighting and are meeting
with some success.
FLYING Jib paced a mile at Chillico-
the, Ohio, yesterday, in 1851, the fast
est mile ever made in harness.
Dove. the inventor of the bullet proof
coat, has offered TO sell the invention
to the Swedish government for $4,000.
The republicans Of Kansas accuse
Gov. Lewelling of having accepted
brides from q ] lottery dealer for protect
ing his lottery business.
1t is reported at Shanghai that the
Japanese have effected a landing on the
coast of the Shang Tung promonotory
to the northward Of Che-Foo.
Gen. A. NJ. West, candidate for Vice
President on the national greenback-
labor ticket with Gen. B. F. Butler III
1854, died yesterday at Holly Spring,
Miss.
The return of Congressman Wilson
from his trip to London and his entry
into West Virginia are to be made the
occasion of a triumphal reception at
Grafton.
Mrs. Bessie It. Glenn, a faith curi,t
whose patient died at Palmyra, n. }
has been held for trial under the law
passed at the session of the New Jersey
Legislature.
The four miners who were entombed
in the slope of the Northwest Coal
Company, Pa, on Thursday, were
rescued at q late hour Saturday night.
All are alive and we'll.
The Pope's object in summoning
M%onsiguor D'Hulst, of Paris, to Rome
is to instruct him to inform the Duke of
Orleans that he does not approve of a
legitimist agitation in France.
Professor Leyden, the Berlin special
ist on brain and spinal diseases, who
was summoned to attend the Gar at
Spala, has announced that the condi-
lion of the Car is not such as to justi-
fy immediate anxiety.
While crossing the ferry at Chasta,
near Minneapolis, MIMI, on Saturday,
Louis Scharf drove his team too far on
the boat and they went overheard with
the wagon, drowning his wife and five
children, but he escaped.
In Philadelphia yesterday morning
a runaway shifting engine ran into the
New York and Washington express
train in the West Philadelphia yard OF
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, and a large
number of passengers wereipinred.
A captain of the Sixteenth Bavarian
Infanty, who was roundly hooted by
the men of his company because of his
extreme severity, was shot dead by
some unknown soldier in the ranks
during the progress of the recent ma
neuvers.
There is q movement in New York
for an Independent democratic State
| ticket to be composed of "administra-
| ton" men. Mr.. G. S. Fairchild HIM
self says he will not run, but he thinks
it is possible an independent ticket will
be nominated.
Judge B~rentano, Of the superior
court Of Chicago, and his family have
apparently been marked out for assas,
| sination, although the facts have been
kept quiet. His wife, daughter and
himself have recently been shot at by
unknown persons.
Secretary Carlisle has made o decision
that the paragraph in the new tariff
bill placing on the free list fish, frozen
! or packed in ice, fresh" does not apply
to saltwater fish, inasmucb as the latter
is specifically placed in the dutiable
schedules at the rate of one-half of a
cent.
1t is reported that the Chinese gov.
eminent has finally ratified the treaty
with the United States providing for
the exclusion of Chinese laborers from
this country and recognizing the valid
ity of the Geary law and other statutes
relating to the Chinese immigration,
but State Department has no official
notification of the act.
On Saturday evening 1873 non-com.
missioned officers belonging to the chief
gunnery- school, were arrested in
Berlin, the failure to identify n officer
who was accused of disseminating 80
cialist pamphlets having caused the au-
thorities to decide to arraign all the Of
fcers, among whom was the suspect,
before a military tribunal.
1t is reported that the Japanese 10
tend, iftheir fortune continues, to d.
vide the Chinese empire into three in
dependent kingdoms to be ruled by ma
tive princes. One kingdom is to be
given to Lii Hung Chang, who is cogni-
zant of the scheme. II Unnecessary japan
will summon a conference of the Euro
pean powers to decide as to the diyi-
sion.
Miss Belle White, twenty.four years
of age, daughter of Benjamin S. White,
a wealthy lumberman of Chicago, died
at Woods Hotel, that city, yesterday,
while under treatment for the removal
of facial blemishes. Death was caused,
it is supposed, by the use of cocaine to
deaden the pain from the application
of an electrict current, which consti-
tuted the means of treatment.
Russell Whitcomb, a Boston society
man with some money and q good deal
of brains, has founded the Community
of the Brothers of the Church, a sort Of
monkhood belonging to the Protestant
Episcopal Church, members of which
will devote their lives to improving the
moral and spiritual welfare of the poor.
Mr.. Whitcomb dedicated himself to the
work on Saturday in solemn ceremony
at St. Chrysostom's Chapel, New York.
by making the vows of poverty, chastity
and obedience, the oficiant being Bishop
Potter.