Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Governor Flower, Of New York, has
refused to honor the requisltion OF the
Governor of Texas for the indicted
Standard Oil officials.
Another terrific eruption of the Co
lima volcano in Mexico occurred Wed =
nesday night with severe loss of prop
erty and probably Of life.
Three negroes, confined in jail at
Polkton, n. c., tried to burn their way
out, ard were themselves burnt TO
death early yesterday evening.
Much excitement has been caused in
Frederick City, Nd, by the unproyok-
ed assault of two negroes on white
people on the street and the beating OF
a lady by one of the desperadoes.
1t is expected that the statues OF
General Grant General Starke and Dan
iel Webster will be placed in position
in Statuary Hall of the Capitol shortly
after the reassembling of Congress.
Three small children, two boys and
and girl, living near Parlarm, Ark,
were burned to death Thursday while
the mother was away from home at
work. She had locked them in the
house.
Another warehouse on the wharf at
Tacoma, Wash, slipped into Puget
sound yesterday. The giving way OF a
sea wall is tho cause of the trouble.
There was no tidal wave, as at first re-
ported.
Terms of peace between China ard
Japan bave been partially arranged
through the intervention of the United
States. A dispatch from Chefoo says
British warsbips have sailed from
Shanghai under sailed orders.
A ret stepping from one wire to anoth-
erin the Brush Electric Light Works in
Baltimore last night caused an accident
that burned out the switchboard and
extinguished all the incandescent cleo
trio lights in the centre OF the city.
A train on the South Carolina and
Georgia railroad was derail-d by train
wreckers % miles from Columbia late
Thursday night. The cars took fire
aud the whole train was destroyed.
The loss is $4,000. Nobody was hurt.
Ex-senator Joseph E. Brown died at
his home in Atlanta, Ga, yesterday.
| He had been in feeble health for many
months, but his death was not looked
Tor so soon. He was born in Pick
ins district, S. c., April 18th, 1921. he
was governor of Georgia during the
wa"
Rear Admiral John G.. Walker was
Yesterday assigned as the chairman OF
the lighthouse board, to succeed Rear
Admiral Gree +, the senior officer OF
the navy. who is transferred to the
presidency of the naval examining and
retiring board, where Walker is now
on duty.
Mr.. Eugene S. Calvert, of Prince
Georges county, Md, grandson o.
Lord Baltimore, died at Providence
Hospital in Washington yesterday in
the forty-third year of his age. He had
been sufferer from Bright's disease
for the past two months, which was the
cause of his death.
An order has been issued by the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad Company discon'
tinuing all-night passenger trains on
the Kansas and Arkansas Valley di
vision afterDecember 8. This con
dition of affairs resulted from the re-
cent hold ups by the numerous band:
of outlaws in section.
The approaching arrival of the
American ship bearing the vatican ex
exhibits at the Columbian exposition ir
Chicago is announced at Rome. II
is also said that the commander of the
vessel will deliver to thePope an auto
graph letter from the President and
will be received at the vatican. with
such honors as are reserved for the re
ception of extraordinary ambassador:
from the great powers.
Secretary OF War Lamont in his an
nual report recommends legislation te
establish the 3-battalion formation now
adopted by the armies of every other
civilized nation. To effect that change
he recommends return to the law o
1870, fixing at 10000 the limit o.
the army. 1t is proposed to add
two companies to each of the
twenty infantry regiments and two
batteries to each of the five artillery
regiments. No increase in cavalry is
proposed. Expenditures for the last
fiscal year were $50, 039, 009; appropri.
ations for the current year are $50, 429,
l12; estimates for the next year are
So, 1929.
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