Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-12-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.


The President and Mrs. Cleveland
yesterday abandoned their country
home Woody for the season, and moved
into the White House.
Ex-Police Captain John T. Stephen
SOD, of New York, was yesterday found
guilty of bribery by the jury before
which he had been on trial.
A dispatch from st. Johns says The
government of this colony resigne d
yesterday, owing to the financial crisis
in which some of their members were
involved.
]. Fl. Turner, real estate dealer in
San Francisco, has been arrested for
obtaining money under false pretences.
1t is said that Turner's swindling opera.
tions will aggregate nearly S5O0,0OO
with many victims.
1t is reported in Rome that if the
document relating to the Banca
Romano scandal submitted to the
deputies by ex-Premier Giolitti should
be made public it would cause the
downfall of the ministry.
Gen. John Kennedy, who is to be
hanged at Jasper, Tenn, next Monday,
was married last night in the county
ioil to Martha Taylor. General Ken
nedy murdered the night operator and
railroad agent at Shell Mound. He is
unrepentant and blasphemous.
President Crane, of the Shoe and
Leather National Bank, of New York,
kindly greeted his defaulting book
keeper, S. G. Seely, at Chicago police
headquarters yesterday, but the prison
er declined to make any statement as
to the defalcation or where the money
had gone.
1t was reported yesterday that Rev.
DR.. Rocker, Vice Rector of the Ameri-
can College at Rome, had been appoint
ed Secretary to Mgr. Satolli to succeed
DR.. Hector Papi, who is to enter the
Jesuit order. Father Newey of the
New York cathedral said the report
was true, and that DR.. Rocker started
from Rome on Sunday.
President Cleveland yesterday issued
an order extending the civil service
law and rules to the internal revenue
service. The new extension will
embrace SIS storekeepers, SIS gaugers,
1,19O storekeeper gaugers and 15S clerks
in the offices of the collectors, making
2,l71 in all. Deputy collectors, of which
there are 963, are not included in this
order, nor are the deputies who will be
appointed to assist in the collection OF
the income tax. OF the latter there are
expected to be 1919 for field work, and
fifty three for service in the offices OF
collectors. The new order goes into
immediate effect.
Representative Wilson, of West Vir.
ginia, chairman of the house ways and
means committee, says that it is the
duty of Congress to pass the supple
mental tariff bill. The session, he says,
should not be q routine one, as the
chances of retrieving democratic
supremacy depend on full and solid
record of reform legislation. To do
little or nothing except pass the APP
preparation bills and the lean list OF
measures said to have been agreed on
hy some of the party leaders would
Justify the charge that the democratic
party is incapable of affirmative and
coherent politics.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
Li-Hung- Chang has made secret re,
port to the Pekin government to the
effect that he is unable to check the adj
vance of the Japanese. A dispatch
fromHiroshima says detachment of the
Japanese second army occupied Foo,
Chow on December 5 without meeting
any opposition. The Chinese garrison
at Foo-Chow, five thousand, strong, re-
treated TO New-Chwang. A dispatch
from Tien-Tsn that $4,000 japanese
troops have arrived atShan-Hai-Kwan.
The Chinese soldiers at We:-Hai Wei
declare that they will leave that place
Immediately upon the appearance OF
the Japanese.