Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-01-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The number of pensioners on the
rolls have increased from 243,7 in
1879 to 966, OLE in 1898.
1t is reported that F. A. Crandall, of
Buffalo, n. Y, will receive the appoint
ment of public printer.
1t is stated in Rome that Mgr. Satolli
Was nominated cardinal at the recent
consistory, and that the nomination will
soon be made public.
AT the meeting of the Republican
Senatorial Committee on Saturday it
was decided not to oppose the admis-
sion of Utah into the Union as State.
Mrs. leila Nicolaus, who recen ly
sued George J. Gould for the recovery
of $40, 900 check, has returned from
Europe accompanied by A. III. Rub
man.
1t will require forty-iive democratic
votes, together with every republican
vote in the House, to have the tariff
bill recommitted to the ways and means
committee.
In Rome on Saturday the congrega-
ton of the sacred rites pronounced
Joan of Arc worthy of veneration. Six
hundred documents were submitted to
the congregation.
Congressman John M. Allen, of Mis-
sissippe on Saturday withdrew from the
senatorial race on the twenty-ninth
ballot taken in the democratic caucus
of the legislature.
Congressman VIM. c. Oates, of the
third Alabama district has formally an
nounced his candidacy for Governor OF
Alabama. Joseph Johnson, of Birming-
ham is his strongest opponent.
The Pope, in an address delivered in
st. Peters Cathedral on the recent dis
turbancies to Italy, declared that the
presence Of the Popes in the past gave
Rome for centuries tranquil prosperity.
Corbelt, the champion pugilist, gave
an exhibition of boxing in Madison
Square Garden, New York city, on
Saturday night. He was enthusiast
cally welcomed by crowd of about ten
thousand persons.
Charley Mitchell says he does not
know what he will do, but is positive
he will never fight again-that is, to
IL finish. He is willing, he says, to en-
gage in a friendly bout with Corbett,
and give the receipts to the poor.
1t is reported that L. S. Minister
:Smythe recently sent note to Presi-
dent Hippolyte, of Hayti, telling him
how to run his government, and that
the latter has demanded his recall
General Manigat and many fellow ex-
lies have sailed from jamaica for Hayti
in an attempt to overthrow IIippolyte's
power,
Ex-Governor James f. Campbell,
who left the gubernatorial chair OF
Ohio in January, 1892, and has been re-
siding in New York most of the time
since, is in straitened financial circun :
stances, and is unable to meet judg
ment for 5000 obtained by q Chicago
bank, which has been pending against
him for some months.
A man named Leary, q northern
man, who has been residing in King
George county at intervals for the past
two years, has left the county. 1t is
reported that his Indebtedness to in
dividuals in the county is about $500.
He was Il dealer in timber. The sheriff
has levied on a lot of timber at one Of
the wharves to protect Mr.. Whithouse,
0 lie of Lcary's creditors
The thirty-f(th anniversary Of the
birth of Emperor William was made the
occasion for a grand celebration in
Berlin and other parts of Germany on
Saturday. The Emperor went out Of
his way to show his regard for Chan
cellor Won Caprivi with the obvious in
tention of silencing the political gossips
in the significance they had attached
to the visit of Prince Bismarck.
The reconciliation between Kaiser
Wilhelm and Prince Bismarck is re-
garded in Vienna as likely to increase
tie chances for European complica-
tons. 1t is s, i'd there is little likelihood
of Prince Bismarck being asked to
share the office of Chancellor with Cen
eral Caprivi. No meeting took place
between Bismarck and Won Caprivi, the
former having declined to see the pres
ent Chancellor of the Empire.
The great mob of miners which
swept over the Mansfield, Pa, region
Saturday, burning property and sack
ing stores and houses, was quiet last
night. There is lookout posted on
every tipple in the broad district, and
the mouth of every mine is guarded by
squad of armed men. The loss in
money to the mine owners and the
railroad is estimated at from $40, 900 to
$4,000. In the fight at the Beading
Brothers mine with the strikers, one
of the latter was killed and two others
were wounded Another serious dis
turbance occurred to-day at Ridgeway
mines, on Miller's run, six miles from
Mansfield.