Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-02-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Attempts 70 burn the worlds falr
buildings are made nearly every night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone have return
ed to England, benefited by their So
jonrn in BiarritZ.
Mr.. Charles ]. NJ. Gwinn. ex.attor-
n~ey-general of Maryland, died at his
home in Baltimore yesterday.
Colts fire arms factory at Hartford,
Conn.,, was partially destroyed by fire
Yesterday afternoon, involving a loss of
about $4,000.
Two hundred and fifty clerks in the
records and pension divisions, in Wash
ington. are to be dismissed at the close
o fthe fiscal year, June 30.
There are indications of a grave on
stitutional crisis in English politics, sew
eral members of the liberal cabinet IA
voring a campaign against the existence
of the House of Lords.
Representative Cobb, Of st. Louis,
after a visit to the White House, rep
resents the President as complaining
earnestly of the demands made upon
his time by the of~ice-seekers.
The Hawaiian minister of foreign af-
fairs demands explanations from the
foreign consuls at Honolulu who did
not answer the invitation to participate
in the abrogation-day celebration.
1t is said that the signing of the
Russo-German commercial treaty in the
absence of any unforeseen incident as
sures the peace of Europe and lisa great
personal success for Kaiser William.
Congressman Wilson arrived in Kan
sas City Saturday, but-in such o weak
condition that a physician forbade him
to leave his room, and he was conse-
%quently unable to attend a banquet and
reception in his honor.
The town and harbor of Diego Su-
ariez, near the north extremity of Mad
agascar, were on Saturday swept by a
cyclone, the French ship L'Eure being
driven ashore, and two-thirds of the
houses in the town were destroyed and
a number of people injured.
A severe blizzard ragged in Kansas,
Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois yester-
day. There was q heavy fall of snow
and roads were blocked. The rare case
of an ice bridge forming on two success
sive winters in the Niagara gorge below
the falls was witnessed yesterday.
A dispatch from Rome says the
op, osition to Archbishop Satolli, apos.
tolic delegate to the Catholic Church
in the United States, is ended. The
Pope was inhexible, and declared that
o always would support Archbishop
Satolli to accentuate his American
policy.
At a mining town zeal Birmingham.
Ala, on Saturday, Dennis Clements
and Will Barge, rivals for Miss Cora
Burgess, met at her house. A quarrel
ensued, and Barge drew a pistol and
sent a bullet through Clements head,
Clements falling dead in the girls arms.
In resisting arrest, Barge was shot dead.
Rev. VIM. J. Hill, pastor of St. Paul's
Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn,
n. Y, was attacked in the chancel ct
the morning service yesterday by the
Rev. DR.. Patrick V. Mcdonald, the as
sistant. DIR. McDonald's friends believe
him to be insane. The congregation,
which had gathered for Mass. was
thrown into a panic by the spectacle.
A fire in a large oil warehouse in
Paris on Saturday was promptly extin-
puished, but a workingman who &C
companied the fremen on a trip of in
spection through the building, struck a
candle against a tank filled with oil,
and in the explosion that followed, ten
iremen and seventeen w~orkingmen
we're burned, several of them fatally.
The Board Of Trade building in Du-
luth, Mimi, in which were located the
board. the North American and West
ern Union Telegraph Companies, the
Steel Barge Company, the Lake Super
ior Union Improvement and Duluth
Elevator Companies, and the Offices Of
nearly all the city grain and vessel
firms, was entirely destroyed by fire
yesterday. The total loss is $4,000,
with an insurance of $4,000.
1t is announced from Rio Janeiro that
the insurgents have been repulsed at
Nichtheroy. Many prisoners were
taken, including several naval officers.
The insurgents have captured Passofun-
da, Alegreto, Monohay, Cruzalta and
Soledad, all in Rio Grande Do Sui. A
dispatch dated at Montevideo on the
10th says that the commanders of the
government vessels Tiradentes, Santos
and Bahia have been removed, as they
were suspected of disloyalty.
A violent sensation was produced in
Honolulu among both parties by dis
. -oJo ~ tho Ouaon1c attitude
in Minister Willis's dispatch No. 3,
which was received by late mails. Her
desire to behead the leaders of the up
rising against her was a shock to both
parties. A similar feeling was pro-
duced by her insisting on December Is
on deperting the children of her enc
mics. The royalists are united in ex-
pressing their condemnation ofsuch ex-
IRENE views.