Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

John Burns, NJ. p. and representative
of amalgamated labor arrived in New
York yesterday.
Col. John Carroll Walsh died at his
home 1.-The Mound" in Hartford coun-
~. Md, Saturday, from stroke Of apo.
plexy. He was rs years old.
The report of Comptroller of the Cur.
rency Eckles recommends o modified
firm of the Baltimore plan adopted by
the bankers in session in Baltimore.
1t is reported in New York that
Japan has bought the Gillian cruiser
Esmeralda for 81 900, 900 in gold. The
vessel was first sold to Ecuador, which
country has no treaty with either bel
ligerent.
The Pope, according to 9 dispatch
from Rome, is engaged in revising an
encyclical to the American bishops
making the Apostolic Delegation per.
manent and enlarging the powers OF
the delegate.
DIR. -Hanzemann, an assistant in Pro-
fessor Virchow's laboratory, sharply
criticises Professor Behring's serum the
rapeutics, and declares that no sufficient
proof of its curative properties in diph-
iberia has been produced.
The Foohng Suey, Capt. Daniel
Mahany.) a Hawaiian bark from Hong
Kong, China, with 16,601 rolls of mat
ting arrived at Baltimore yesterday.
She is the first craft to come to Balti-
more direct from China since 1919.
A man, who declines to give his
name, attempted suicide in Druid Hill
Park, Baltimore, yesterday afternoon,
By shooting himself in the head with a
3S-caliber revolver. There was moth
ing about him that would lead to his
Identification.
A dispatch from Paris says that it is
evident that England, Russia and
France are about to enter into an
understanding which will result in the
formation of new triple alliance as
an offset to that which now exists be-
tween Germany, Austria and Italy.
The fact that Philadelphia insurance
companies have lost about three
quarters of a million of dollars on risks
in cotton carrying steamers, on fires
in buildings where cotton is stored, etc.,
during the past five weeks, has attract
ed unusual attention to the many fires
in the South.
The State and Navy Departments are
apprehensiye that the situation in Chi
ma is very grave, and have determined
to mobolize the entire Asiatic squadron
at some point near Tien-Tsin in order
that marines may be landed to afford
protection TO American lives and H.
terests near the points OF the threaten
ed outbreaks.
Judge Mcconnell, of Fargo, N. d.,
has denied the application of Aaron
Hirschfeld, the millionaire bank
er, of Helena, Montana, to set aside
his marriage TO Dell Hogan, daughter
of Irish parents of moderate means.
Hirschfeld has refused proposition to
pay the defendant $35 900 and will APP
peal the case.
In quarrel over the possession of a
gun, Wiley Wilson was shot and in
SANITY killed by John Fox, aged nine
teen, in Caldwell county, n. c., yester-
day. The mother and sister of Fox
were witnesses of the tragedy. Wilson's
reputation was that of turbulent
person, while Fox is said to have been
quiet and law-abiding.
All is quiet at Montgomery, Ala,
since the Inauguration there Oh Satur-
day evening Of Governor Oates, as pub
lished in the GAZETTE of that date.
Colonel Oates in mis- inaugural address
denied the charges of fraud. After
Capt. Kolb, who claims that he was
elected governor, had made his inaugu-
raj address outside the capitol grounds,
all those who ran on the ticket with
him also took the oath of Office to
which they claim they were elected,
but none of them attempted to perform
any official duties. Capt. Kolb left for
Birmingham yesterday. A special bill
has been introduced in the legislature
to suppress the self-apponted governor.