Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

burg yesterday LoIiiih@loN
H. Hastings for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania.
Judge John II. Reagan, ex-Confeder.
ate postmaster general, has announced
that he is candidate for Governor of
Texas.
Lord Rosebery's great colt, Ladas,
won yesterday second victory for his
owner by carrying off the Newmarket
stakes.
President Peixoto has announced 10
the Brazilian Congress that the difficult
ty between Brazil and Portugal has
been amicably settled.
T.V. Powderly has caused the arrest,
upon charge of libel. of Mr.. Martin, q
member OF the knights of labor general
executive committee.
Floods in the Yang Use Kiang river,
China, caused q loss of 900 lives, and in
a fire in the Arshin province the flames
destroyed 1900 houses.
A petition Of twenty-four thousand
persons of Rochesterin favor OF woman
suffrage was presented to the constitu-
tional convention in Albany yesterday.
Carloads of berries will rot in the
fields of Somerset CO., Md, because of the
immensely of the crop, and the low
prices not iustifying their gathering and
shipment.
The convention of the Supreme Lodge
of Knights of Honor has authorized the
supreme dictator to act in disciplinlng
lses of drunkenness ignored by the
local lodges.
The Senate yesterday confirmed G.
II. ]. Taylor, colored, of Kansas, as re-
corder of deeds for the District of Col
umbia. The vote stood 81 to 10. The
action created some surprise.
AT meeting OF the national fedora
ton in Dublin, Mr.. Michael Davitt said
that if there was an adverse vote on the
budget they might see Lord Salisbury
back in Office within two weeks.
Officers of the Supreme Lodge,
Knights OF Pythias, have effected set
Element with the bondsmen of S. J.
Wiley, of Wilmington, Del, formerly
master of exchequer of the Supreme
Lodge, for the amount of the bond,
$4,000.
Two robbers made daylight raid on
the First National Bank of Longyiew,
Texas, yesterday afternoon, securing
al 1t s., 500. a general fight between
tho robbers and citizens ensued, in
which two persons were killed and sew
eral injured.
James Middleton, Sinclair Middleton
and r. Shackleford were shot and killed
in Harlan county, KY, yesterday IN a
fight with Gilbert Saylor and Bert and
Noble Hensley. The difficulty is said
TO have occurred over the wife of one
of the men.
The House naval committee has des-
ignated Representatives Cummings, Ct
New York; Talbot. of Maryland;
Money, OF Mississippi; Dolliver, OF
Iowa, and Wadsworth, of New York,
members OF subcommittee to investl-
gate the alleged armor-plate frauds.
The Pan-American Bimetallic League
IN session in Washington, yesterday
adopted report declaring opposition
10 the further issue of Understanding
bonds and binding members of the
league to vote only for members of Con
gress who favor the free coinage OF sill
yer at the ratio of 16 TO l.
Great activity is being shown by the
volcano on the island of Stromboli. The
eruption is increasing in violence, and
there are frequent earthquakes. The
people living on the island have left
their houses in terror. The Italian
government has sent two vessels TO the
island to relieve the inhabitants in case
of need.
Soft shell crabs, which have always
been considered luxury. are so plentl-
I'll and cheap in New York at pres
ont that every one can afford to have
them. They are now coming in from
Crisfeld, on the Chesapeake, in such
abundance that they are actually flood
ing the market and can be bought any
where from fifteen to sixty cents a
dozen.
Miss Mamie Campbell, daughter of
Mr.. ]. G. Campbell, of Prince Georges
country, Maryland, was drowned yes
terday afternoon in small creek near
Westminster, while fording a stream in
buggy with Rev. Hugh t. Stevenson:
Mr.. Stevenson was rescued by several
farm hands who were in the neighbor-
hood at the time, but no assistance could
be rendered the young lady, who was
rapidly carried beyond reach.
Englishmen ell over the world will
celebrate to-day the birthday anniver-
sary of Her Most Gracious Majesty
Queen Victoria. Three-quarters OF a
century ago it is since the Queen first
saw the light of day, and on the Goth of
June next it will be 81 years since she
was called to the throne. Her Majesty
is at once the oldest of European sover-
eigns, and has enjoyed the longest and,
politically speaking, the happiest reign.
NJ. Bourgeois, who was summoned to
consult with the president of France in
regard to the formation of new cabi-
net, declined to undertake the task.
The general opinion seems to be that
Premier Casimir-P erier, aware of the at
Jacks to which he was exposed as re-
ported candidate for the presidency in
opposition to President Carnot, skillful-
" courted and accepted defeat, which
has made him much stronger man in
the presidential race than he was be-
fore his ministry's defeat.
In the Senate yesterday "compro-
misc amendments to the tariff bill
were adopted as follows: Railway bars,
I rails, ETC., seven-twentieths of q cent
per pound; black taggers, between 10
and 20 wire gauge, seven-tenths of one