Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
An uprising is reported to have

An uprising is reported to have oc-
| Cured in Granada, Nicaragua.
Paul Ritter's brewery, in Cumber-
land, was destroyed by Gre yesterday.
The Cuban rebels want the support
of this country and may ask recogni-
ton.
The House of Commons has adopted
q resolution to give home rule to Eng
land, Scotland and Wales.
a hot wave spread over Illinois,
Iowa and Nebraska yesterday, the
thermometer raging from II to 90o.
Senior lie LONE, the new Spanish
minister to the United States, is to stop
at Cuba and investigate the Alliance
affair.
Governor Mckinley, of Ohio, ar
rived at Savannah, Ca, from st. Au-
gustine, Fla, last night, and was cor
daily welcomed by the city officials
and representatives of commercial
bodies.
The British Court of Appeals revers-
ed the decision of the Admiralty Court
in the cast of the sinking of the yacht
Valkyrie II. by the yacht Satanita, last
July, and Lord Dunraven was awarded
$4,000 damages.
The legislative investigation into the
charges of fraud in connection with the
Evans-Turney gubernatorial election
la Tennessee has progressed so far that
it is now seid that Turney, democrat,
will be declared elected.
Charles Ross, a colored sailor, who
arrived in Baltimore from Caroline
county on the schooner William w.
Hackett yesterday, was arrested on
suspicion of being the murderer of Miss
Sallie E. Dean, of Harmony.
Seated in a friendly game of cards at
the house of o friend in Buffalo, n. Y,
last night, John Schwab, a we'll
known railroad man, played the last
card in his haud-the ace of hearts
and fell back in his chair dead.
The Earl Of Kimberly, British Secre-
tary of State for foreign affairs, in an
address to a deputation of Armenians,
said that the government was doing its
best to make the inquiry into the out
RACES as thorough and searching as
possible.
DIR. William Hotchkiss, alleged to
have reached the age of 40 years, died
suddenly yesterday at bis home in St.
Louis. A letter received from his old
home in Dinwiddie county, Va, rel a
year ago. says he was born there in
1755, and lived there for number OF
years, finally drifting West.
]. G. Gilbert, known professionally
as the "Dahomey Giant died.in New
York Yesterday. Gilbert had been on
exhibition in ~circuses and dime mu-
seums for the last ten years with his
wife, whom he first met in M%inneapo-
lis, and who was also of unusual sta
ture. He was seven feet, eight inches
high.
After the cabinet meeting yesterday
President Cleveland and all the mem
bers of the cabinet, except Secretary
Carlisle, walked from the White House
to the residence of Secretary Herbert,
Twentieth and F streets, four blocks
away. where an old-fashioned southern
luncheon was served, of which gumbo
was a feature.
A statement by Sir Edward Grey in
the House of Commons that an advance
Of the French into the territory of the
upper Nile valley, belonging to the
Royal Niger Company would be an I'M
friendly act, is causing a sensation in
France and England, and is regarded
as indicating strained relations between
the two governments.
Bishop Paret received an announce
ment..yesterday from the banking firm
of James G.. Kings Sons, of New York,
that S93, 900 was in their hands to be
given to the Protestant Episcopal Do
cese Of Maryland. The money isa leg
acy left by Mrs. c, Spaight Keerl, who
died in Baltimore n year ago last
January and will make possible a di-
vision of the diocese.
The announcement of the engage
ment of Cornelius B. Schuyler, an old
and wealthy resident of Fordham, n.
Y, to Miss Sophie Schoeers, who Is
forty years his Junior and who until
recently was a domestic, has surprised
the residents of the upper section OF
that city. They are the more sur
prised because he secured a divorce
from his first wife only last Monday.