Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-05
NEWS OF THE Day.

The Ohio democratic State executive
committee has issued an address in ia
vor of the free coinage of silver.
Tammany Hall has made requisi-
ton on the Postoffice Department for
10000 two cent stamped envelopes.
An electric current that escaped from
an underground pipe in New York yes.
terday charged the ground and killed
two horses standing thereon.
In Baltimore yesterday the New
York BASEBALL club defeated the Balti-
mores in the first game of the Temple
Cup series by score of to l.
The Italian minister, it is reported,
has obtained pledge from Japan that
its forces will not attack Shanghai.
1t is said that the injury to the orange
crop in Florida was much less than has
been reported, and was Comparatively
insignificant.
The republicans of the Fourth Mary
land district last night nominated for
Congress Mr.. Robert H. Smith, to OPP
pose Mr.. ). K. Cowan.
A plot to assassinate the Sultan of
Turkey has been discovered, two Turks
who were arrested confessing that they
intended to kill him with dynamite
bomb.
Vice President Stevenson has return
ed to Washington from Sorrento, Maine.
He will remain there a few days and
will then go to Illinois to make several
campaign speeches, opening at Lincoln
on the 10th instant.
The first general meeting of the new
Panama Canal Company was held in
Paris yesterday. Eight hundred persons
were present, and committee was ap-
pointed to examine into the project
and to effect an organization.
At Chillicothe, Ohio, yesterday ten
thousand persons saw Flying Jib go
against the worlds racing record OF
2:01}, made by Westmont with running
mate, at Chicago, ten years ago. Fly
ing Jib made the mile in LOST.
Argument was begun before court in
Washington yesterday in the test case
of the Miles Planting and Manufactur-
ing Co. of Louisiana, which seeks to
compel Secretary Carlisle to pay boun-
ty upon the sugar crop of this year.
Reports that the Chinese minister in
London had proposed to the British
government that Russia, Great Britain
and France dispatch troops to treaty
ports in China to protect foreigners
were yesterday denied by the Chinese
officials.
The directors of the whisky trust ad
journed at Peoria, ILL.,, yesterday SUBJ
ject to the call of the president. The
business was entirely routine in char
acter. Prices of the goods were re-
iuced 10 cents and further reductions
are expected soon.
The special session Of the British cab
met yesterday was devoted to discus
sion of plans for the protection of Brit
ish residents in China. The French
cabinet, as stated yesterday, also met,
but neither, it is understood, discussed
the Madagascar question.
Frank Armitage Wilcox committed
suicide in Central Park, New York yes
terday. By his side was novel OF
illicit love. with significant passages
marked The coroner's physician, in
the autopsy, found indications in the
brain that love spurred him to suicide.
Mrs. McCurdy, wife of wealthy
farmer of Arcadia, CAL, has eloped with
Samuel Douglas, an ex-convict. Four
years ago, when girl of fourteen, she
eloped with Douglas, and was married
at sea. After living in San Francisco
some months she deserted her husband,
s, cured divorce and married Samuel
McCurdy.
A desperate walked into the Mug
Saloon, in Seattle, WASH, yesterday
al d ordered the dozen men present to
throw up their hands. Charles Fl. Biz
dell, the barkeeper, reached for his pis-
toll, but the desperate was too quick
for him, aud shot him through the heart.
The murderer was captured after des-
perate encounter.
The wooden frames used by the
coast and geodectic survey in boring to
determine the character of the founda
ton for the proposed new steel light
house off Cape Hatteras, weathered the
late hurricane without damage, fact
which has led to the belief that the
proposed lighthouse can be made per-
lectly secure under all conditions.
Captain Howgate arrived in Wash
ington yesterday evening and was
taken to the District Jail. Before be-
ing imprisoned he was taken to the City
Hall, where his daughter awaited him.
AS he saw his daughter, he greeted her
with affection, but with no more
emotion than he would have exhibited
had ne parted from her but al hour be-
fore.
The Kreuz Zeitung, of Berlin, learns
that the Gar is in a far worse state of
health than has been officially admitted,
and that his death may be expected
within few weeks. The Czarina, ac-
cording to this information, has been
made fully aware of her husbands con-
dition. The London Standards St.
Petersburg correspondent telegraphs
that the Cars symptoms are those of
cancer of the kidneys. Public rumor
ascribes the fact of his Majesty's growing
worse to DR.. Zacharin's excessive use
of the lancet.
SUING THE R. &. D. r. R.-The
request that the recent sale of the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad to the
Southern Railway Company be set
aside was argued in the Equity Court,
in Washington, yesterday before JUS