Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-04-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Henry =. Ives, VI N6N LUZ n, VIC va
poleon of Finance, died at Asheville.
n. c., yesterday of consumption, aged
IS years.
Three torpedoes fired from the Gus
tav Sampaio sank the Aquidabar,
which had been Admiral Mello's flag
ship during the rebellion.
Fr m ali the indications in the Sen
ate yesterday, it is surmised that a
conservative" combination has been
formed to defeat the pending tariff
bill.
The bill TO abolish the power of the
House of Lords to veto legislation by
the House of Commons was read the
first time in the House of Commons
yesterday.
Queen Victoria arrived at Coburg
yesterday to attend the marriage of her
grandchildren, the Grand Duke of
Hesse and the Princess Victoria of Co.
burg, which took place to day.
The new locomotive Columbia, of the
Baltimore and Ohio, has been making
fast time between Baltimore and Phila-
delphia, reeling off some spurts at the
rate Of nearly two miles a minute.
President Peixoto has granted am
nesty to the rank and file of the Bra
lillian insurgents who sought refuge at
Buenos Ayres, and the Argentine gov
eminent is now attending to their
physical wants.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, who has
an income of $50, 900 year, will make
her home permanently in Washington.
She is at present at the Arlington, where
she will remain until she can secure n
house in the fashionable northwest sec
ton.
The Spanish Consul General in New
York has discovered that sympathizers
with the Cuban revolutionary party
have been shipping arms and ammuni-
ton from that port one consignment
having already reached Cuba and hav-
ing passed the customs officials at Nue.
vitaS.
w. B. Copeland, of Madison, Ind,
shot his brother-in-law, w. H. Brun-
ming, aud Addison c. Harris in eX-
President Harrison's Office in Indianap-
oils, Ind, Yesterday. Neither wound
is fatal. Mr.. Copeland attempted to
shoot x-Attorney- General Miller, who
interfered. The shooting grew out Of
a family disagreement.
Lieutenant Commander Rafael Garcia
Mansilla, naval attache of the Argen-
tine legation, and acting secretary at
Jhc time, was thrown from his horse
while riding in the grounds of the Sol
,iers' Home, near Washington, about
10 o'clock yesterday morning, sustain
ing a fracture of the skull from which
he died at 1:45 last night.
Miss Pollard is still at Providence
Hospital, Washington, where she will
remain until she has rcgained her
strength. She says she will reside in
Washington the remainder of her life
Miss Pollard says she has no idea ofgo-
ing on the stage or on the lecture plat
form. She says she has been offered in
ducements in those lines from $50 to
81 600 night, but intends taking up
writing as profession under nom dc
| piUme.
In Baltimore Monday night John
Myers, a neighbor, charged John Bank
ert with having stolen some farm pro.
ducts from him, calling him thief and
other opprobrions names. Yesterday
Baukert and his wife decided that life
had lost its charm for them and decided
70 die together. They cut the arterie:
of their wrists, and when found BY
neighbors in the evening Mrs. Bank
ert was dead, and the physicians have
little hope of nursing Bankert back to
life.