Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
1t is again reported that Secretary of
State Gresham will soon retire from the
cabinet.
Mayor Strong of New York has ask
ed for the resignation of Police Com
missioners Murray and Kirwin.
Twenty thousand men of the Spanish
reserves have been called out to bring
up the strength of the army because OF
the dispatch of troops to Cuba.
The board of engineers to survey the
route of the Nicaragua canal will con-
sist of Colonel Craighill as chairman;
Lieutenant Commander Endicott and
Col. j. S. Montgomery.
War between Mexico and Guatemala
has been averted. An agreement was
signed yesterday. Guatemala finally
consented to satisfactory terms. This
agreement provides for an apology and
an indemnity to be fixed by arbitration
proceedings.
A thief VINO was being pursued
through west side streets in New York
Yesterday by a crowd of two hundred
men and boys flung carving knife at
the leaders. 1t missed them, but the
fellow made use of the momentary con-
fusion and escaped.
A sensational turn was given to the
Polish church troubles, in Omaha,
Neb., yesterday, by the arrest of Rev.
Stephen Kaminski on the charge OF
having burned the church. -Four of his
party were also arrested. Bail was re-
fused the priest, and he is now in the
city jail.
The grand jury in Washington yes
terday returned three additional in
dictments against Capt. Henry w.
Howgate, formerly disbursing officer of
the Signal Service, who was recently
acquitted on a charge of embezzllng
s1l 800 and forging voucher for that
amount during the year 1880.
An attempt to assassinate Rabbi M.
Wise, president of the Hebrew Union
College, at Cincinnati, was made last
night at his residence, So Mound street.
The venerable rabbi was entertaining
company when large vase on a ia
BILE suddenly exploded, cutting Benja-
min May badly in the face and pain
fully cutting several other guests. The
vase had been filled with gunpowder.
The affair is mystery.
The belief is firm among turfmen in
New York that there will be betting
during the spring racing meetings in
that State as result of the passage OF
the Percy racing bill now before the
legislature. There will be no regular
bookmaking as in former years in pub
lie, but a man who wishes to wager
money with the bookmakers on events
will be accommodated. He will know
the odds, and will be able to find the
man who took the bet after the race is
over.
A destructive forest fire has been
raging in Anne Arundel county, Md,
since Sunday. Beginning at Marley
bridge, which spans Marley creek, the
flames swept over Goo acres of timber
land belonging to the Curtis Creek
Mining and Manufacturing Company
and Thomas A. Cromwell and Osborne
Humphrey. No building of import
ance have been burned, although the
town of Glen Burnie was threatened.
The residents and fortunate change
of wind saved the village from destruc-
ton.
The attorneys for J. Matt Aubrey,
ir., son-in-law of Chief Justice Fuller,
admitted in Chicago yesterday that
there would be no contest when the
suit for Divorce brought by Mrs. Au-
brey came to trial. 4. settlement has
been effected, but the terms are kept
secret except that Mrs. Aubrey has
agreed to allow her husband to have
the custody of the two children two
months each year and to communicate
with them at all times. 1t is said that
money entered into the settlement,
and that Aubrey will join Richard
Mansfeld's company next season.
Among the dozen people who called
at the morgue yesterday to try to iden-
tify the woman whose mutilated body
was found in New York Sunday morn
ing was woman who gave the name
of Madeira Robinson, of II York street.
Jersey City. She positively identified
the body of the murdered woman as
that of a woman who arrived at the
Hoboken station of the Delaware,
Lackawana snd Western Railroad on
the 1917 train from Newark Tuesday
morning. The young woman told Ma.
dora that she, in company of several
other colored girls, had come from
Heathsville, w., to look for work. She
said that she had been sent North by a
white woman.
A jury empanelled by Marshal Will
son, of the District of Columbia, to in
quire into the sanity of Gen. Oliver P.
Gooding, after hearing yesterday
pronounced him insane. He will be
taken into custody and confined at st.
Elizabeth. Gen. Gooding is a West
Point graduate, and went into the war
as colonel of a Massachusetts regi-
ment, rising to the rank of brigadier
general. Some of the physicians had
made an examination of Gooding and
said his lunacy was upon the sole sub
iect of conspiracy. His latest book in
dictates q disposition to remove the
President. the only question being as to
the wickedness of the act should VIC:
lence be used. The police considered
Gooding in his present condition very
dangerous man to be abroad.
Word reached Washington yesterday
of remarkable demonstration at Ca
racas, the capital of Venezuela, e1-
pressive of the sentiment of the United
States and Venezuela in upholding the
Monroe doctrine. 1t occurred on the
visit of the United States squadron, I'M