Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

for a stable and flexible currency which
will be presented to Congress in his
annual report.
DIR. Jas. McCosb, the venerable ex.
president of Princeton University, and
a leading educator of the age, died last
night, aged SO years.
At the Episcopal Church Congress at
Boston yesterday the topic was, The
Argument from Design as Affected by
the Theory of Evolution"
It is stated in Denver that g big syn
,licate is scheming to obtain control OF
the silver market and dictate the price
of the metal to all silver using coun-
tries.
For cowardice at the battle of Ping
Yang, where the Chinese were utterly
defeated, with heavy loss, General Wei,
one of the Chinese commanders, has
been beheaded.
The New York Herald says Senator
German and other democrats are try
ing to find some plan by which the
democrats can organize the next Senate
of the United States.
Rev. Richard Carroll, prominent
Baptist preacher, hung himself near
Maynorchville, KY, yesterday, He
was eighty nine years old, and had been
preaching sixty-tve years.
Elk United States Senator Robert e.
Winthrop died last night at his Mari.
borough street residence, Boston, aged
81 years. He was Webster's successor
in the Senate and the Washington
Monument orator.
Congressman Holman, of Indiana,
saws "There were just three causes OF
the late revolution. They were Cleve-
lands miserable foreign policy, the
hard times and the objectionable delay
of Congress in passing tariff BILL"
The initial steps looking towards the
curtalment of the -four output, by a
six.weeks' suspension of the merchant
mills of the country, and the consequent
advance in prices, were taken at a
meeting of millers in Chicago yester-
day.
The cruiser Cincinnati, which left
the Brooklyn navy yard at dawn yes
terday, struck sunken wreck and was
badly damaged. She is now in the dry
dock and it has been discovered that
she has hole entirely through her
false bottom.
Representative-elect Howard, of
Alabama, populist, says that he will in
troduce resolution in the House in
curing how President Cleveland be-
came the pOssessor of $4,000,000. Mr..
Howard is the author of ''If Christ
Came to Congress.
A severe earthquake was felt through
out the province of Messina, and also
in Calabria yesterday. Much damage
was done. Churches of masonry fell,
and the walls of number OF houses
cracked. The upper part of the light
house collapsed and the keeper was in
jured.
Mr.. Frederick c. Waite, in his paper
before the National Statistical Associa-
ton, in Washington, showed that
100000 democrats remained away
from the polls at the recent election.
The democratic vote in North Carolina
at the recent election was 10000 short
of the party's strength.
A letter was sent to Lord Kimberly,
! Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
of Great Britain, giving the details of a
} fearful butchery of Armenian men and
women at Bittis, Asiatic Turkey, the
humiliation of several villages and the
rape of women by soldiers under orders
from Constantinople.
At Atlanta, Ca, yesterday VIM. j.
Myers, the boy still in his teens, who
was charged with the murder of Forest
L. Crowley, was found guilty. There
was no re recommendation to mercy. The
prisoner took the verdict without ap-
parent emotion. His father, who sat
beside, him, held the boy by one hand.
An unknown colored man entered
the houses of four highly respected
white ladies in Atchison, Kan, yester-
day and assaulted them. Searching
parties are out and there are threats OF
lynching. The negro was evidently &C.
ouainted with the habits of the male
members of the families, as at each
place they were absent at the time.
The executive committee of the COM
mittee of seventy of New York city
have made application to Governor
Flower for the assignment of the Attor-
ney General or deputy to prosecute
election cases and those against other
public officials in that city. The Gov
ernor refused to grant this request, on
the ground that there was no proof that
District Attorney Fellows would not
conscientiously perform the duty.
Martin V. Strait, well-known flour
and feed dealer, of Emira, N. Y, yes
terday afternoon fatally shot his wife,
put one bullet in the body of Mrs.
VIM. Whitford, which may cause her
death, and then turning the revolver
OH himself, tried three times to put q
bullet through his own heart, failing to
strike that organ, but inf1icting wounds
which will undoubtedly cause his
death. The shooting was the result of
domestic difficulty. When arrested
Strait said 81 am sorry this happened,
but they drove me to it." All of the
persons are of middle age, and have en-
ioyed the best regulations. Mrs. Strait
died last night. The physicians say
that Mr.. Strait and Mrs. Whitford can
notrecover.
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