Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ALI. Greenfield, ex-cbampion heavy
weight pugilist of England, is dead.
Renewed efforts are being made in
London for the release of Mrs. May.
brick.
Statistics of the Interior Department
show that there are SPAS, 255 Indians in
the u aited States.
About a hundred Roman Catholic
pilgrims sailed from New York for
Europe yesterday.
The furniture of Mrs. Katharine
Chase, daughter of the late Chief JUS
tice, has been seized in Washington for
debt.
Rev. S. b. Phillips, of Durham, Pa,
died yesterday of blood poison from a
slight pin thrust administered by q
young lady recently.
The Washington children have not
awaited themselves of the playground
in the Monument grounds, for which
provision was made by the last Con-
gress.
The Iowa republicans yesterday
nominated Gen. Francis M. Drake for
Governor. The platform ignores silver
and liquor issues and denounces the
democratic administration and endorses
Senator Allison for President.
The coal operators ut the Ehhorn
mines appealed TO Governor Nc
Corkle, of West Virginia, yesterday for
troops, claiming that reign of terror
exists at the mines. The militia are
expecting to be ordered out again to-
night.
w. G. Cochran, the republican caucus
nominee, was yesterday elected Speaker
of the Illinois House of Representatives
in place of John Myers, deceased. The
democrats presented ex-Speaker Clay.
ton 8. Crafts, though Governor Altgeld
advised them to have some other man.
Mr.. Harris Taylor, United States
minister to Spain, called on the Spanish
minister of foreign affairs at Madrid
yesterday and explicitly denied that
Mr.. Eustice, United States minister to
France, had made statements rejecting
on Spain, as reported in the Paris
Figaro. Mr.. Taylor renewed the pro-
testations of friendship toward Spain
on the part of the United States.
The military information division of
the War Department has issued bull
l,tin in regard to "the organized mill
tia of the United States in 1884," A
table is given showing the total organ
lied strength. of the militia in the sew
eral States and Territories, which
shows z total of 114,146. Virginia has
8, Ito enlisted men. The whole num-
Der of citizens in the United States liza
BILE to military duty is given at $685.
043.
A dispatch from New York announces
that at secret meeting of the Cuban
convention, Estrada Palma was unani-
mously elected as delegate to fill the
place of the deceased Jose Marti and
that Manuel Sanguilly was chosen
president of the Cuban republic and
will leave New York in few days for
Cuba. Queseda was reelected secreta-
ry of the Cuban revolutionary society
in the United States and Guerra was
reelected treasurer.
The auditing officers of the Treasury
Department have not passed upon the
accounts of Mr.. Spofford, librarian Of
the Congressional Library, for three
months. Mr.. Spoford admits a dis
crepancy in his accounts and attributes
it to faulty system of bookkeeping.
1t is the opinion of the Treasury off.
Gals that the financial affairs of the
library, which handles considerable
amount of money received from copy
rights and other sources, are not con-
Quoted in business-like manner.
At Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday Mrs.
Lena Rotsener hanged herself to q
closet door after she had hung up two
of ner children in another room. She
had been sick for long time, and it is
supposed she was insane. She sent her
eldest daughter, aged nine, to visit
relatives. Then she hung her daughter,
Ella, aged three years, to tho bedpost
and tied towel about the neck of her
baby and hung it up on the post of its
crib. After that she hung herself.
When discovered all were dead except
the hahv and IL WAS chewing the towel