Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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It is said the Pope is about to coz
denim the Primrose League of England.
"A decisive engagement with the Co.
lombian insurgents is expected this
week.
Appropriations by the Fifty-third
Congress will aggregate one billion
dollars.
The Michigan democrats yesterday
adopted a one-plank platform-for free
coinage.
Emperor William has conferred upon
Emperor Francis Joseph the rank OF
ield-marshal. general in the German
army.
Admiral Butler, OF the British navy,
has succeeded Admiral Freemantle in
command of the China station. The
Japs are evacuating the advanced posi-
tons about Wei-Hai-Wei.
Acting upon the advice of a commit
tee of the Church of the Epiphany,
from which he was removed by Arch
bishop Corrigan, Rev. DR.. Burtsell will
appeal to the Pope for reinstatement.
At Atlanta yesterday, Judge Lump
kin granted an injunction asked for by
the Seaboard Air Line Company against
the Southern Railway Company in the
boycott alleged to be instituted by the
latter.
Miss Washburn, daughter of the late
Rev. DR.. Edward Abel Washburn, for
many years rector of Calvary Church,
in Fourth avenue, was arrested on a
charge of shoplifting in New York yes
terday.
The discovery that John McCaffery.
the eccentric millionaire of Chicago,
had wife in Maryland, will cause ex
tensive complications in the titles to
Chicago property in which he was a
heavy dealer,
Lee Roy Fernald, who murdered his
mother in their home in East Lebanon,
Me-, and after setting the building on
fire, ran to an attic to await death in
the flames, was yesterday found dead
in his cell in the Jail. LIE Roy was in
sane.
The baseball season will open on
April 18th. Pfeffer, who had been ex-
PEELED from the league has been re-
instated on the payment of fine OF
$500. A schedule has been adopted
and Washington plays its first game in
Boston.
The Spanish troops are said to be
tha H,,ha,, N
great vigor, and it is thought the insur-
rection will soon be quelled. None OF
the expeditions which it is alleged
would start for Cuba this week have
left port.
Seth A. Crane, of New York, was en-
gagged 10 marry Miss Belle Benson, OF
Chicago. When the lady confessed
she loved Allen l.. Howard, Crane re-
leased ner and she married Howard.
The marriage created much talk in
Chicago.
The joint library committee of the
House and Senate decided yesterday to
reject the statue of Gen. Grant, pre-.
sented to the government by the Grand
Army of the Republic. 1t was decided
that the statue was not a correct repre-
N alton of Gen. Grant.
Prince Lobanoff- Rostovski, Russian
am bassador to Austria, has been ap-
pointed Russian minister of foreign at.
fairs in succession to the late Nj. de
Giers. The prince was governor OF
Bulgaria before the election of Prince
Alexander, of Battenberg.
Bishop Coke, of Western New York
has inhibited the Rev. ]. Spencer Tur-
uer, of the Protestant Episcopal Church
of the Good Shepherd, in Rochester,
from conducting services, the trouble
being caused by the high ritual prac-
tised by Father Turner.
Being somewhat run down in health
and wearied from his work in Congress,
Mr. Wilson will rest for some time,
probably for month, before assuming
the duties of Postmaster General, Part
of his vacation will be passed in West
Virginia and part oft in visiting friends
elsewhere.
Two farmers from Texas, one of
whom had big revolver conveniently
tucked away in the leg of his boot, and
who said they had come to get money
from ''green goods" men, were yester-
day arrested in Jersey City, together
with sixteen-year-old lad who acted
as 'steerer."