Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Shanghai.
Twelve negroes arrived at New York
Yesterday from Savannah, as an adj
vance guard of 1000 others, who ex-
pect to found colony in Liberia.
1t is positively asserted at Washing
ton that there will be an additional
bond issue. the amount to be S1OO, O0O,-
600, the issue to be made to protect the
gold reserve.
Delegate Satolli has received a letter
from the Pope, to be sent to all the
archbishops, directing that hereafter
Peters Pence be sent to the apostolic
delegate for transmission to Rome.
NJ. J.Willett, whom Mr.. Cleveland re-
Gently appointed postmaster at Wash
ington, has appointed MIR. Sherwood,
the present republican postmaster OF
that city, his deputy.
The republicans had great demon
stration at Wheeling on Saturday over
their recent victory in West Virginia,
Hon. Stephen B. Elkins was there and
announced his candidacy for the U. S.
Senate.
A dispatch from Paris says that all
the powers are scheming to secure the
friendship of the new Car, but that it
NAV be asserted that he will in NO re-
spect alter the foreign policy inaugu'
rated by his father.
The home of John Lewis, of Robert
sonville, n. V, was burned yesterday
All the family escaped in their night
clothes, but Mrs. Lewis went back into
the burning house after q pocketbooE
containing fifty dollars and was burned
to death.
VIM. Jackson, of Greenup county
KY, who murdered his wife by giving
her strychnine for headache medicine
in order to get her out of the way SC
he could marry another woman, ha
been sentenced to ninety-nine years in
the State prison.
The final funeral ceremonies over the
Car Alexander took place in Moscow
yesterday and the remains, followed by
a brilliant military and civic pageant,
were carried to the Cathedral of ST
Michael, in the Kremlin, where they
are now lying in state.
Every democratic State which has
fallen into the hands of the republicans
is, according to the plan proposed, tc
be reapportioned both as to legislative
and congressional districts in the ex-
elusive interest of the republicans.
Gerrymandering in its worst form is tc
prevail.
In the foot ball games on Saturday
Yale defeated Lehigh at New York, by
q score of 81 to 0 and the University o
Pennsylvania defeated Princeton a
Tenton by score of II to O; The
Virginia Military Institute defeated
Washington and Lee University O
Lexington by score by l6 to 0.
An effort will undoubtedly be made
by republicans to couciliate the popu
lists and the silver men. 1t i:
limited on such authority as cal
scarcely be questioned that a silver
compromise measure will be suggested
which will suffice to bring over enough
populists to make republican control o
the Senate certain.
The London Ne,uS correspondent il
Constantipople says that it is imposes
BILE to obtain correct details of the re
cent massacre of Amenians in the Sas
SCUM region. near Moosh. He mention
a report chat 5000 were killed, includ
ing women and children. The mos
credible story, he says, ascribes th'
guilt to Turkish soldiers.
Governor Flower, of New York, ha
expressed his willingness to allow ex
perts to make test Of an electrocutior
to ascertain whether man killed il
the electrical chair can be resuscitated
Nicola Tesla and other noted electri
clans claiming that it is the autops,
after the execution and not the electri
cal shocks that makes death certain.
In letter to the press from Wash
inglon, Hon. VIM. L. Wilson, chairman
of the committee on ways and means
gives his views of the causes of demo
cratic defeat in the recent election. HI
SAYS tariff reform is not defeated. Hare
times and the delay in the Senate art
the chief causes of the disaster-by
1896 the law will be understood and re
form will triumph.
James Foley, forty-three years old
awaiting trial for the murder Of his aged
mother, whom he kicked to death while
drunk, hanged himself yesterday in hi
prison cell in Philadelphia. He left 6
letter to his sister, in which he says
You 60 to Father Nash, ask him, fol
Gods sake, to save my soul. Tell hin
killed mother, but did not know wha
I was doing also broke the pledge
A dispatch from Washington says
that the President is likely to raise 0
new issue in his annual message in De
cember, as important, in an economic
sense, as the one which he raised III
1887 in regard to the tariff. The new
measure which he will recommend to
Congress will be the radical reform Of
the currency upon democratic lines by
the substitution of credit currency is.
sued by the banks for the present sys.
tenn of forced legal tender paper.
President Cleveland has sent re-
fusal to China's request that the United
States join the European powers
in bringing about settlement
of the war by means ofinternational in
tervention, but has rendered his ser
vices as mediator. 1t is said that the
powers have urged China to negotiate
for peace directly with Japan, and that
they have secured Japan's promise to
meet the overtures in benevolent
spirit. 1t remains to be seen whether
Japan will demand too much or China
will yield too little, but the inclination
of both powers is so strongly toward
getting together that it is believed
peace will be effected on the basis OF