Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-05-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS VI IHE DAY.
St. Marv's Roman Catholic Church,
in Chicago, was destroyed by fire yes
terday; loss 5000, insurance s23, 1000.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, while he
does not anticipate any trouble, says
the unemployed men in the West en-
route to Washington are desperate per-
sons.
The Italian government has issued
notice warning Italians not to emigrate
to the United States, and especially to
avoid Maryland, Delaware and Pennsyl-
vania.
Princess Alix of Hesse, who is be-
trothed to the Czarewitch, will be
placed under the spiritual guidance of
the Cars confessor preparatory to be-
coming a member of the Greek Church.
Governor Rich, of Michigan, has APP
pointed John Patton, of Grand Rapids,
as United States Senator to succeed
Senator Stockbrdge, deceased, until
successor is elected by the Legislature
next January.
In fit of desperation because she
had been scolded by her parents for
stealing a penny, Emma Mark, pref
tv and impetuous little auburn-haired
girl, committed suicide on Friday even
ing by dropping herself into the Della
ware from a pier in Philadelphia.
Max Meyer, prosperous merchant
OF Selma, Ala, who had gone to New
York to be treated for nervous prostra-
ton, was killed by falling from the
fourth floor of the Graham House yes
terdav. Whether the fall was acct
dental or intentional has not been
determined
Admiral Irwin, who has just return
cd from Honolulu, is quoted as saying
that the provisional government is in q
precarous condition. The registration
Of voters showed that many Americans
had RETAINED from declaring allegiance
10 the republic for fear of losing their
American citizenship.
The attitude of Senator Hill, of New
York, in opposition to the tariff bill Is
causing anxiety among democratic Sen
ators, as it is said he proposes 10 force
his democratic colleagues to explain
what were the influences that produced
the numerous concessions in the amend
ments to the measure.
The trade in pineapples between Bal
timore merchants aud growers in the
Bahama islands opened Up Saturday
when the schooner Sarah +. Douglass
arrived from Eleuthera island, with
5000 dozen pineapples. 1t is said that
The prospects are good for the pineap-
pie trade during the next three months.
The William n. Whitley Reaper and
Mower Works at Muncie, Ind, the
largest manufacturing establishment in
eastern Indiana, was destroyed by fire
Yesterday. The loss is estimated at
$245, 600, with no insurance. Two
thousand machines were ready for ship
ment, and over 5000 we're partly COM
pleted.
In executive session OH Saturday the
Senate considered the appointment OF
George ". Wilson to be collector ofin.
ternal revenue in Florida and referred
it back to the committee. The treaty
between the United States and Russia
for the protection of Russian seals was
discussed and referred TO the commit,
tee on foreign relations.
Under the walls CT Fort Hamilton,
New York, and within hundred yards
of the government dock, the trim
French liner, Champagne, from Harve,
went ashore in the fog early Saturday
morning as she was coming into port.
All day she was viewed by throngs OF
sghtseers. No attempt was made at
high water this morning to move the
La Champagne; the discharging OF the
cargo into lighters continues.
During the past three or four weeks,
according to private cable dispatches,
important negotiations have been held
in Paris between the Standard Oil in
terests and representatives of the
Russian oil companies, resulting in the
division of the entire worlds market
between these two great distributing
and producing agents. Mr.. William
Rockefeller says the Standard Com
pany knows nothing about the deal.
At Poughkeepsie, n. Y, on Saturday
Aoualine Filler, German, twenty-five
years old, committed suicide over the
grave of his sweetheart, Mary Myer-
holtz. They were engaged, and he was
respondent over the death of the girl
from consumption. The body had just
been lowered into the grave, and the
mourners were leaving the cemetery,
when Filler pulled revolver and blew
out his brains. In a letter he said
that he did not care to live without the
girl.
JrJDCINIA NEIVC