Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-11-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Franklin Sugar Refinery resum-
ed operations yesterday with partial
force
The returns from the election in
Texas indicate that Charles A. Culber-
son, the democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, will have a plurality of $50, 600,
Unofficial returns from every county
in Tennessee give Evans, republican
nominee for Governor, plurality OF
1854. The official count will not ma
terially change these returns.
Lengthy cablegrams passed yester-
day between the Japanese and the
American governments concerning the
offer of the latter 10 act as mediator IN
the war between China and Japan.
Mr.. J. Hood Wright, for more than
twenty years associated with the bank
inc house of Drexel, Morgan & Co.,
died suddenly in an elevated railway
station in New York city yesterday.
He was fifly-seven years old.
Rev. ]. S. Hutchinson, presiding elder
of the Baltimore district, Methodist
Episcopal Church South, will succeed
the late Rev. DR.. Samuel Rodgers as
editor of the Christian Adcocate, In con-
nection with his official duties.
United States Consul Eckford, at
Kingston, protests against the PROPOSE
ton of MIR. Vanderbilt to import the
mongoose, small carniverous animal,
from Jamaica to be turned loose on MIR.
Vanderbilt's estate in North Carolina.
Beri beri appeared among "a negro
laborers, who fled from the Nayassa
phosphate works in the vessel r. 5.
Patterson. Three died at sea, two 9th
ers after the ship reached New York
and ten more have no chance for re-
covery.
The prospective transfer of the Sen
ate from democratic To republican con-
troll after March next will carry with
it transfer of places aggregating $685.
OH. This sum is divided up among
255 employees of all grades and re.
Enumeration, the average income of each
employee being 81 ,431.
A train on the ST. Louis and San
Francisco Railway was held up at $50
O'Clock last night at small station
named Verona, five miles east OF Mo
nett, Mo-, by two masked men. The
affair did not occupy over twenty min
utes. The amount secured by the rob
bers was not over 800.
M. de Giers, the foreign minister o.
Russia, yesterday sent circular to the
representatives of that government
abroad declaring that Car Nicholas
was resolved to follow in his fathers
footsteps, never deviating from the
policy which had hitherto so greatly
contributed to the general peace.
The Richard X. Fox diamond cham
pionship belt, exhibited by James
Corbett in the window of a Davenport
Ia, drug store, was stolen Sunday
evening by unknown men. The bel
was valued at seven or eight thousand
dollars. Corbett won the belt in fights
with Sullivan and Mitchell, but had tt
win once more before it became his per
sonal property.
The largest cotton fire in years took
place last night at the Texas and Pa
cific wharf across the river from New
Orleans, entailing loss of $4,000
The wharf is over 500 feet long and wa:
totally destroyed. About forty freight
cars loaded with cotton were also con
sumed, making about $4,000 bales o
cotton destroyed altogether. The grair
elevator was slightly damaged. Thu
cause of the fire is unknown.
Thousands of Russians yesterda!
viewed the remains of the Gar Alex
ander, lying in state at the Cathedra
of the Archangel Michael in Moscow
The golden pail was thrown half back
exposing the features of the dead man
On his breast and above the crossed
hands of the dead rested the sacred
icon of st. Alexander Newsky, the late
Cars patron saint. The leading Off
Gals were allowed to kiss the icon, ant
they all availed themselves of thi
much-coveted privilege.