Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr.. Gladstone will not come to the
United States.
The first Maryland peaches of the
season arrived ut Baltimore yesterday.
Two children were murdered in San
Pedro yesterday for three dollars they
had secured in Il pawnahop on watch.
Congressman Henry c. Turner was
renominated for Congress by the demo-
Gratis of the eleventh congressional dis
trict of Georgia yesterday.
The second trial of DR.. Edward Leon
for malpractice and the murder of the
infant of Miss EstelIe Beach was begun
in Washington yesterday.
Thirty five carloads of bananas, being
eighteen thousand punches, passed
through Savannah, Ga, Sunday, from
Tampa, Fla, consigned to Chicago.
A case of diphthcria has developed at
the Coxey camp, near Hyattsville, Md,
and the neighborhood is considerably
alarmed for fear the disease will spread.
John G. Martin, an inmate of the Sol
diers' Home, Washington, committed
suicide in the grounds of that institu-
ton yesterday, by shooting himself
through the head.
A ferryboat on which seventy young
persons were returning from fete on
the river Jek was sunk near Buguine,
in the Russian province of Samora, yes
terday, and forty-fve of the passengers
were drowned
A tank containing 10000 gallons Of
naphtha exploded in the Equitable gas
works on the East river at New York
last night causing loss of $4,000.
The heavens were brightly illuminated
for hours by the brilliant flames from
the burning OIL
The lexington Hotel, at Third and
T streets northeast, Washington, was
destroyed by fire last night All the
guests, about 60, escaped, but many OF
them in their night clothes. The hotel
contained forty-five rooms, and was
worth about $4,000.
The report has Q n revived in Lon
don of the early retirement Of Sir Will
liam Harcourt from the chancellorship
of the exchequer and the leadership Of
the liberal party in the House of Com
mons. l. is stated that at the close Of
| the present session he will be elevated
to the peerage.
The schooner Rose, bound from Lab
rador for Conception Bay, collided with
an iceberg on Monday and went down
almost Immediately, carrying twelve
persons with her Nearly all the
drowned were relatives of each other,
and in several instances whole families
were lost, and in others the lnen that
found watery grave were the bread
winners, upon whom large families de-
pended for their support.
The proceedings of the House Of
Representative yesterday were dull in
the extreme, the entire day being given
to long speeches on the anti-option bill.
The House committee on military af-
fairs agreed to favorably report a bill
introduced by Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa,
to buy part of Shiloh battlefield for a
national park at an expense of $4,000.
The House committee on pensions rati-
fled the report of the subcommittee in
favor of Mr. Bryan's bill to pension
widows whose names were taken from
the rolls because they had remarked
and whose second husbands have died
or been divorced.
Victoria was crowned Queen of Eng
land June 20, 1887. To-day is the fifty
seventh anniversary of that event. This
reign is already longer than that of any
other English sovereign except that Of
George III. which lasted ffty-nine
years and three months. The reign OF
Victoria has not only been one of the
longest, but it has covered one of the
most momentous periods of the worlds
history. No other great European
power has enjoyed so long time of
peace and prosperity as England in
this rcigu. The Queens health is re-
ported to be excellent and she bids fair
to enjoy the longest reign in all history
perhaps, with the exception of that OF
Louis XIV, which began when he was a
child and continued seventy-two years.