Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-07-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
1t is believed Congress will adjour

1t Is belleNeu congress Will auJoui
between August l and 10
A new counterfeit 81 United States
certificate has been discovered.
A large fleet of watermelon vessels
are in Albemare sound loading for the
northern markets.
One hundred and ten victims of the
earthquake in Constantinople have been
taken out of the ruins.
About four hundred coal miners en-
gagged in the recent strike in the Frost
burg region are still unemployed.
Speaker Charles +. Crisp was unani-
mously renominated for Congress from
the Third Georgia district yesterday.
A conference of foreign representa-.
tives has been held in Seoul in an effort
10 settle the dispute between China
and Japan.
Frank A. Dame yesterday shot Miss
Mary G.. Perry, who had rejected him,
in New Haven, CT. aud then commit
ted suicide.
Twenty fishing boats, which were out
| during q recent storm near Bilbao
Spain, are missing, and many lives are
probably lost.
The wife of Lieutenant Armes, of the
army, retired, has entered suit in Wash
ington for divorce on the ground of al
legged cruelty.
At Indian Head proving ground yes
terlay twelve-inch navy rifle sent a
shot through a seventeen-inch steel
plate made by the Carnegie Company
Marshal HofstetterS, of Baltimore,
Md, will to-day notify Carl Browne
and his army that they must get out OF
Baltimore. If they refuse, all will be
put under arrest.
Professor George Huntington Will
liams, of the Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, died at the home of his pa
rents, in Utica, n. Y, yesterday morn
ing, of typhoid fever.
Dispatches from North and South
Dakota indicate that yesterdays in
tel s. heat did great damage to the
growing crops. The mercury register
ed los at several places.
Mayor Stuart has vetoed the boule-
ward bill, which was recently passed by
the Philadelphia City Council. The bill
would have involved an expenditure OF
nearly $S.000,000 for the purpose of a
driveway to Paramount Park.
At the annual convention Of the
United Society of Christian Endeavor
at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, at which
twenty thousand or more persons were
present, Washington was selected as
the next place OF meeting in 1896.
The Queen reviewed 10000 troops at
Aldershot Camp, England, yesterday,
under command OF the Duke Of Con-
naught. Many royal personages wit
messed the review, among them being
the Czarewitch and his fiancee, Princess
AliX of Hesse.
Aoco. ding to the annual report of the
bureau of statistics of Pennsylvania,
the strikes during last year numbered
IS. Not one of these strikes was sue
cessful. The number engaged in them
was about 1000. The estimated loss
in wages WAS 81 ,395, =23.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail
roed has determined TO follow up IL
victory in the A. r. L. strike by boy
cct,ing that organization. An order
has been issued that all employees con-
nected with the a. Il. L. must with
draw or leave their road. This step Is
taken because the organization is re-
garded as dangerous.
Senator Morgan opened the Alabama
campaign at Fort Payne yesterday in a
speech before 1000 people. He closed
with glowing pancgyric TO Adlal T.
Stevenson, and said that the finger o!
Providence pointed him out to be the
nominee Of the democratic party in
1896, and with him for leader, democ-
racy was assured of success.
Owning to the unyielding policy o.
the Senate conferees, tariff reformers
in the House expect nothing better
from the conference committee than q
compromise. Senator German denies
that he told tariff conferees that unless
the one-eighth of a cent diilerential on
refined sugar was retained the tariff bill
would be defeated by the Senate.
Both democratic and republican mem
bers of the House yesterday wanted
to follow the course of the Senate in
endorsing the prompt and vigorous &C.
ton of the President in regard to the
rike matters, but Mr.. LATE Pence, the
populist from Colorado, found out that
a quorum was not present, and served
notice that if any attempt was made
to endorse the Presidents conduct ht
would oppose it. The resolutions there
fore were withheld.