Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-16
NEWS OF THE Day.

cardinal.
Judge John Handley, who died at
Scranton, Pa, yesterday, leaves an es-
tate valued at several million dollars,
located there and at Winchester, Va.
S. Beany. an aged and respected citi-
zen of Geneva, o., cut his throat with a
razor, this morning, dying almost in
stantly. 1t is thought he was insane
from illness.
Numerous women attend the trial of
Harry Hayward, charged with the
murder of Miss Catharine Cling at Min
neapolis, and seek his autograph and
handkerchiefs as souvenirs.
The President will be urged by
many of the Senators to appoint Sena-
tor Ransom, of North Carolina, minis
ter to Mexico, to fill the vacancy cans-
ed by the death of Minister Gray.
The committee on woman suffrage of
the Massachusetts, legislature, not
Maryland as stated yesterday, decided
IS to ITO report a bill in favor of
municipal suffrage for women.
The house of Frank Jones, near
Drennop Springs, Kentucky, was burn
ed Yesterday, and Jones's wife and two
children were burned to death. Jones
was so badly burned that he will not
recover.
Ex-Mayor James Hodges, one of the
most prominent and influential men of
Baltimore, died last night at his home
in that city. Mr.. Hodges was seventy
three years of age, and leaves three
daughters and one son.
Two school children, brother and
sister, aged ten and twelve years. were
frozen to death in Clover d strict, near
Parsons, w. Va, recently. They were
found locked in each others arms, and
the brother had wrapped his sister In
his coat.
/ Julia Marlowe-Taber, the actress,
yesterday filed suit in Indianapolis ask
ing $25 900 damages against the Journal
for an alleged libellous publication.
The publication was criticism upon
her company at her last appearance in
that city.
The great naval dry dock at Port
Royal, S. c., the largest yet completed
on the east coast, will be ready for the
reception of warships as soon as the
channel leading from the river has been
dredged out to permit the big battle
ships to enter.
The appropriations committee of the
Senate is still considering the advisa-
bility of authorizing the Secretary OF
the Treasury to Issues debt certificates
bearing per cent. interest to provide
for any temporary deficiency IT. the
revenues that may exist.
princess Pauiina,' the smallest OF
women, known as the Living Doll, u
Giied in New York Yesterday of pneu-
mouia. She weighed but eight and a
half pounds, and was only seventeen
inches tall. She was to have celebrat.
ed her nineteenth birthday on the 26th
of this month.
Count Won Mirbach in the Reichstag
esterday urged the German govern
ment to call an international monetary
conference. Count Herbert Bismarck
spoke in favor of bimetalism. and
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe was in favor
of an exchange of views between the
countries interested.
The Westchester Temporary Home,
about a mile from the County Court
House at White Plains, N. Y, was de-
stroyed by fire at 10 o'clock last night.
The building contained 200 children,
ranging from one to fifteen years Of
age. Besides these there were dozen
teachers and nurses. All got out
safely.
There is no storm in the memory OF
the present generation as severe as the
one now prevailing throughout the
South. Business was practically sus-
pended in Atlanta and Savannah yes
terday on account of the snow, which
is the heaviest in the memory of the
present generation. Two children died
in Augusta, Ga, yesterday from ex-
posure. Cattle are dying of cold.
Early vegetables have been killed.
The Joint commission of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church on the constitu
ton and canons is still in session in
New York, but it is understood that
nothing has yet been done in regard to
transplanting the primus to Washing
ton beyond the presentation of two re-
ports, one by Bishop Paret, adverse to
action and the other by DR.. Hall Har-
rison in favor. The division of the
diocese of Maryland is believed to be
very improbable.
A girl of nineteen, who is suing
| Spencer Charles Pratt, in New York,
for limited divorce, probably holds
the worlds record in matrimony for a
person of her age. She claims to have
been married on four different occasions
and every time to the same man,
and yet he denies that she is his wife.
He admits, however, that she has been
the plaintiff i'll four distinct actions
against MIN, not one of which has ever
come to trial. Besides this she figured
as correspondent in divorce suit
brought against him by another woman.
CoNGREsSIoNAL.-The Senate yester-
day passed the post-office appropriation
bill, and got half way through the
agricultural appropriation bill. Efforts
were resumed to cut down the rentals
for postal cars and for the eastern fast
mail service, North and South, but all
these amendments were defeated. Sec
rotary Morton was present during the
debate on the agricultural bill. 1t
brought out animated discussion of the
nronosition Tn amend the meat inspec-