Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

MEMO UT LIE Uh1.
Gladys Gilmore, little girl, was
run over by an electric car and killed
instantly in Washington yesterday.
The Senate, in executive session yes
terday, ratified the treaty defining the
limits of seal fishing in Russian wa
tiers.
The President has submitted to the
Senate the correspondence relating to
Samoa, together with Secretary Ores
hams conclusions with reference TO the
tripartite agreement.
Representative W. C. P. Breckenridge
returned to Washington yesterday from
Lexington KY, and speaks with his &C
customed confidence concerning the
probabilities of his denomination and
reelection.
Marshal Thibedeau, of Orono, Me-,
who left his wife and children twenty
years ago, has returned, to learn that
his wife, who believed that ne was
dead, has been married to another man
for ten years.
General John Gill, president OF the
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company,
of Baltimore, went to North Carolina
Yesterday to look after the interests of
the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail
road Company, OF which he is the re-
ceiver.
Many thousands OF miners are on
strike in the mining districts ofAustrian
Sile5ia. a company of gendarmes fired
upon mob of strikers who were trying
TO drive workmen from the mines and
killed nine and wounded twenty Of
them.
Sheriff Bud Burnett, Of Campbell
county, Tenn, was fatally shot in try
ing to make an arrest at Montgomery,
W. Va, yesterday. His brother, John
Burnett, the former sheriff, was killed
a year ago while trying 10 arrest ar es-
capped prisoner.
At Martinsburg, W. Va. yesterday,
Rudolph Zeigler, for the killing of John
Sautters, of Morgan county, was con
victed OF voluntary manslaughter, and
sentenced TO two years in the penitenti-
ary 4 stay was granted, however,
pending action of the Court OF Appeals
on writ Of error
Stevenson Archer, who was sentenced
to the penitentiary in 1890 for five years
for the embezzemenr of State funds
while he was treasurer Of Maryland.
was yesterday pardoned by Governor
Brown. He was taken from the prison
to the City Hospital, as he is sick
man and requires constant medical at
tention.
1t Newmarket yesterday the two
thousand guineas stakes for three-year-
old colts, carrying 126 pounds, and FL
lies 12l pounds, was won by
Ladas, the properly of Lord Rose
berry, the British Premier. Ladas is 8
bay colt, By Hampton, out of Illumina-
ia, and is looked upon as being the
probable winner of the Derby.
A barrel of oil standing in front of
the Clyde line piers in South street, at
the foot of Catherine street, New York,
exploded yesterday afternoon and
started disastrous fire, which in TWEEN
ty minutes destroyed the three piers,
the freight on them, seriously damaged
the Catherine street ferry house, and
made one of the hottest fires the de-
partment has had to battle against for
years.
The naval appropriation bill was I'M
der consideration in the House yester-
day, but, as a rule, that bill received
very little attention at the hands of the
speakers. The debate soon switched
off to the tariff question. The feature
of the debate was an arraignment of
the President for his action on the Car
negie armor plate frauds by Mr.. Hau-
gen, of Wisconsin, and the defense by
Mr.. Pendlcton, of West Virginia.
The President sent to the Senate cor
respondence from Minister Willis, at
Honolulu, including resolutions adopt
ed by Hawaiian royalists in mass-meet-
ing refusing to participate in constitu-
tional convention called by the prov-
sional government Of the islands. The
administration does not anticipate
trouble OF the Hawaiian Islands when
the attempt of the provisional party
is made to form a substantial govern
nent.
AT the mass-meetlng of miners at
Knapp's Meadow, near Frostburg, Md,
Yesterday strike in the Georges creek
coal region was ordered. The meeting
was attended by nearly twelve hundred
miners. Addresses were made by Or
GAMERS Wilson and O'Malley, and del
egates were elected to the general con-
vention of miners, to begin at Clcve
land, Ohio. next Monday. TIE only
mines in ali the Maryland region at
work now are the Eckart and part of
the Allegheny mine, oftheConsolidation
Company, near Frostburg, and the
Maryland and the New Central, OF Lo-
naconing. At the same time there is
strong conservative element among the
Maryland miners who are opposed to
suspension.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The attempt to harmonic the demo-
cratic factions in Norfolk has failed and