Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Attorney General Olney has decided
that nominations to the Naval Acade-
nv by members of the last Congress
after noon on March are void.
Colonel Franklin Fairbanks, presi-
dent Of the Fairbanks Scale Company,
died at st. Johnsburg, VT, Wednesday
night. He had been i'll month.
Reports sent out from Havana of en-
gagements with Cuban insurgents state
that the government troops have de-
feated the rebels in recent battles.
The Spanish frigate Isla de Luzon
has discovered the wreck of the miss
ing cruiser Reina Regente, midway he
tween Tarifa and Trafalgar, in water
600 feet deep.
Fire in Charlotte, N. c., yesterday
destroyed Sanders & Blackwood's large
brick warehouse and other property
valued at about S125,000. The loss is
partly covered by insurance.
Jake Kilrain is training for his fight
with Steve O'Donnell before the Sea-
side Athletic Club, at Coney Island, on
MAY 6. Kilrain now weighs but 21S
pounds, and by the day of the fight he
expects to be down to 200 pounds.
The refusal of the anthracite coal
carving roads in New York to accede
to Readings demand for 81 per cent.
ofthe total output has caused much un-
easiness in coal circles, and it is now
thought that it will precipitate coal
war.
Gustave Richlieu and August Bolton,
the American sailors imprisoned in
Santiago de Cuba, weeks ago on suspi
cion of helping the insurgents, were
released yesterday in Difference to
United States Consul Hyatt's urgent
representations.
Madeline Pollard, complainant in the
famous breach-of-promise suit against
ex-Congressman w. c. P. Breckenridge,
will sail for Europe Saturday on La
Champagne, and for the next four years
will be the travelling companion of
wealthy and charitable woman who has
taken an interest in her case.
The baseball games yesterday result
ed as follows At Baltimore-Book-
lyn II; Baltimore 6. At Washington
Philadelphia Is; Washington 10. At
st. Louis-Cleveland 4; st. Louis 2.
At New York-New York 3; Boston 2.
At Louisville-Louisville Is; Chicago 4.
At misunderstanding Z; Cincin-
natl 4.
The special committee appointed by
the Tennessee legislature to investigate
charges of fraud made in connection
with the purchase of site and the
building of a new State penitentiary
submitted report yesterday, finding
the charges true and recommending
the removal Of several officials.
Japan is reported to have replied to
the exactions demanded by Russia,
France and Germany in regard to the
treaty of peace with China by declining
to yield on the ground that she would
expose herself to revolution. The
correctness of the reply is questioned,
however. Great Britain is said to be
supporting Japan's position.
1t is expected that British troops will
be landed at Corinto, Nicaragua, to-
day, and take possession of the govern
ment buildings, preparatory to collect.
ing the indemnity demanded by Great
Britain. Secretary Gresham Informed
the Nicaraguan minister that the
United States would not interfere in
the dispute, as there is no ground on
which to base objection.
The board oftrustees of the Protest
ant Episcopal Cathedral, in Washing
ton, held meeting yesterday at which
Bishop Paret presided, and discussed
plans for building for the Hearst
school for girls. Ground will be brok-
en- this summer for that school, which
is to be the first of the proposed group
o. buildings of the Episcopal Cathedral
of the District of Columbia. Before
sailing for Europe, Mrs. Phoebe A.
Hearst, widow of the late Senator from
California. donated to the cathedral
trustees $4,000 to provide for the
girls school TO be called after her
name