Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-06-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The big flood in Colorado caused loss
of life and much damage to property.
Railroad traffic in the State is paralyzed'
1t is believed the sugar schedule in
the pending tariff bill will be agreed to
in the Senate, despite any combination
that may be formed against it.
1t is understood that the Clyde
steamship line will meet the pro-
posed cut in freight rates announced by
the Merchants and Miners Transporta-
talon Company.
The New York Herald says President
Cleveland is angry at the bungling
over the tariff bill, and may make a
statement which will result in the resig-
nation Of Secretary OF the Treasury
Carlisle.
A horse walked into the billiard room
of the Hotel Brunswick, in New York,
yesterday, where a game of pool was in
progress, and was taken out without
having done any harm beyond causing
great fright to the players.
Surgeon General Wyman, OF the
Marine Hospital service, has received
a cablegram from DR.. Fairfax Irwin,
Sanitary Inspector at Berlin. stating
that cholera has broken out in Upper
Silesia, Prussia, and also in the city OF
Stettin.
At Eaton, O., yesterday two small
children OF county commissioner p. B.
Fisher wandered into the barn ut their
home and were trampled to death by
a vicious stallion, which had got loose
from his inclosed STALL The mother of
the children died only lew days ago.
President and Mrs. Cleveland gave a
reception at the White House yester-
day in honor of the delegates to the
Congress of American Physicians and
Surgeons. Mrs Cleveland will leave
Washington Thursday morning next
COR Gray Gables, her summer home, in
Massachusetts,.
Some evening in the coming week
people in radius OF twenty miles from
Sandy Hook will see strange light or
beam of light coming from the big
search light at Sandy Hook proving
grounds. This is the same as was ex-
hbited at the Worlds Fair, and is the
most complete apparatus of its kind.
Its rays have been seen in Milwaukee,
ninety-two miles distant from Chicago.
Counsel for CoXey, Browne and Jones
the Commonweal leaders now in the
District Of Columbia jail, have pre-
pared petition for writ of habeas
corpus to secure the release OF the men.
II was taken to the District jail yester-
lay evening and the signatures of the
three men secured thereto. Represen-
tative Hudson, of Kan will present
the petition to a justice OF the Supreme
Court and ask that the writ issue.
The declaration of the policy Of the
new French ministry was read in Par
lament yesterday and was favorably
received. 1t stated that the chief OBJ
cct of legislation was the financial
problem. There was an exciting de-
bate in the Chamber OF Deputies on the
question Of the refusal of General Mer-
cier to buy Turpin's war machine in
vention. MERCER stated that the in
vention was useless. A vote of conf
dence resulted 416 to 102 in favor of
the government.
The Southern immigration Congress,
at Augusta, Ga, yesterday adopted
Mr.. Atwood's plan for attracting pco-
pie to the South. The plan provides
for the formation of county organiza-
tons, the officers of which shall form
State bodies. These bodies will publish
matter relating to the resources and
attractions of the South, and the rail
roads will distribute it and run excur-
sion trains for home-seekers 1t was
proposed TO have permanent exhibit
ton at Washington of the products of
the various States
The Peabody coal miners at Shrews-
bury, 10 the Kanawha Valley, of West
Virginia, have resumed work. An
early general resumption in that region
is anticipated. At Frostburg yesterday
morning fifteen of the strikers who
formerly worked in tho Eckhart mine
applied for their old places, but found
them filled by other miners. Thirty
more of the strikers of that mine can
not work for the same reason. The
effects of the coal strike are seriously
felt in Dubuque, Iowa, among the man
ufacturing institutions and railroads.
One factory is burning corn, others are
using wood and one or two have closed
down.
The Maryland Episcopal convention
yesterday voted in favor of the division
OF the diocese. Rev. Stewart Crockett
was seated as delegate, and the p"o-
test against Delegate Ridout, of St.
Margaret's parish, was referred. Stand
ing committees for the year were named.
Washington will be the see city of the
new diocese should its establishment be
found practicable and be sanctioned by
the General Convention of the church.
to which body the question must be re-
ferred. Many of Bishop Paret's friends
express the hope that he will choose
to serve the Washington diocese if it
be established, as giving him more am
pie opportunity for the exercise of his
executive ability.