Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Japanese are reported to have
been repulsed at Malien-Lung.


Gen. Prudente Moraes was inaugural
ed President of Brazil yesterday. He
promises to respect the liberties of the
people.
Iron Nation, the head chief of the
Lower Brule Sioux, died yesterday at
his home on the Sioux reservation, of
pneumonia.
Mollie Baker was married to Addison
Smith at Huntsville, R. l., on Tuesday
night, and an hour afterwards she
elored with another man.
Cardinal Gibbons says that in his re-
mt southern trip he saw many signs
of material progress in the States
through which he passed.
Religious orders in the Protestant
Episcopal Church, to-day" was the
topic before the Episcopal Church Con-
gress in Boston yesterday.
William H. Dawson, q merchant of
Smiths Ferry, near Pittsburg, was yes
terday fatally shot by trap gun set in
his store to shoot burglars.
Twenty-Five clerks in the Census
Bureau in Washington were dismissed
yesterday. This will be followed in
few days by the dismissal of 200 more.
The cause is the completion of the work
of the eleventh census.
Fire got beyond control in the pine
timber in the mountains west of Bould-
err, Col, yesterday. The people OF
Gold Hill, mining camp, abandoned
the place after storing their valuables
in the mining tunnels.
Another organization of those in the
District of Columbia who want to be
full-fedged citizens with the right to
vote and to have voice in the man
agement of local affairs was formed in
Washington last evening.
The large breaker over No. mine,
of the Delaware and Hudson Company.
at Plymouth, Pa, was burned last
night by the upsetting of coal oil
lamp. Six hundred men are thrown
out of work. The loss is 100000.
Two New York hotel men have
leased the principal hotel at Charlotte,
N. c., and announce that they will dis
charge all the colored men employed
in that establishment as walters, and
supply their places with white girls.
DR.. ]. A. Robinson, LIB, who has
resigned from the Yale law school, with
which he has been connected for 20
years, will become dean of the new
school of philosophy of the Catholic
University of America at Washington.
Mr.. Frank Moss, junior counsel for
tic Lexow committee, intimates thai
the most prominent member of all po
lice officials in America, Superinten-
dent Byrnes, of the New York city
force, is liable to removal from office.
Seven schoolboys who, with others,
had dug cave on a vacant lot in the
northern part of St. Louis, were yester
day buried by the roof caving in, and
Henry Raedner, eight years old, was
killed Herman Walkenford, aged
twelve, was badly hurt.
VIM. II. Thomas, wealthy Bonney
Hill farmer, surprised two burglars
last night entering his house. He
drove them away, but they returned
with guns and fred about a dozen shots
at the house, breaking the windows
and splintering the doors.
Two Germans and q Frenchman, the
former supposed to be officers in the
German army, were arrested in Paris
yesterday, on the supposition of being
spies. Important documents have re
Gently been distracted from the Office
of the ministry of war.
At Alost, in east Flanders, serious
conflict occurred yesterday between the
people and the gendarmes, over an at
tempt ON the part of the mob to seize
three men charged with the murder of
an iun-keeper and lynch them. A
number OF men on both sides were
wounded.
The swearing in of military recruits
in the Berlin and Charlottenberg dis
tricts took place in the Festgarten, Ber-
lin, yesterday evening, and the EN-
peror, in an address, urged them not to
forget that it was their duty to defend
the fatherland and uphold the religion
of the country.
Miss Hannah Weaver, aged forty.
eight, was found dead in the attic of her
home in Newport, r. l., yesterday, hav-
ing hanged herself during the night.
She was one of Newport's most promi-
merit ladies, and sister of the late John
G. Weaver, of the Ocean House there,
and the Everett House, New York.
Frank Quinn was shot and killed in
lodging house, in Stockton, CAL, yes
terday, by young woman, named
Edith Elder. She subsequently shot
herself in the right side, but will re-
cover. The woman confessed that she
intended to kill Quinn, because he had
wronged her under promise of marriage.
Emanuel Otto, an aged and wealthy
farmer, north of Morton, Mimi, was
found dead in his residence yesterday
with bullet hole in his left side and
another in his ear. He lived alone
with his wife, and when the murder
was committed she was absent. Otto
was worth $4,000. In an iron chest in
his house were found $400 in cash, $3.50
in bank certificates and deeds, mort
gagesand notes.
DIsINHERITED BY HIS RICH WIFE
There was flied in New York yesterday
in the Surrogate's office, the will of a
woman who left an estate of So, 900. 0C0,
not one cent of which is to 90 to her