Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The trial of Captain Howgate is SCI
for January 81, but will be postponed
for week.
TIE Yacht to race against an Ameri-
can boat will probably be built at Glas-
,og by Henderson.
Mr.. Stephen B. Elkins was last night
nominated by the republican caucus of
the West Virginia legislature for the
Senate.
Thomas H. Carter was nominated
last-night for United States Senator by
the republican caucus of both houses Of
the Montana Legislature.
A blizzard prevails in Illinois and
throughout Minnesota, Iowa and Ne
braska. At st. Paul the thermometer
last night was ten degrees below zero.
Governor Matthews. of Indiana, in
his annual message, recommends that
prize-6ghting be made felony, and
advertising fight punishable by fine.
The Tennessee Senate voted yester-
day to postpone the canvassing of the
returns for Governor until an investi-
CATION of the charges of fraud can be
| made
William Taylor, colored, was hanged
at Richmond, KY, yesterday for
numbering David C. Doty last Decem-
her. Five thousand people, including
Taylor's brother, saw the execution.
The fusionists of the North Carolina
Senate took from the democratic Lieu
tenant Governor the appointment OF
the Senate committees and placed it in
the hands of committee OF three,
two of whom are fusionists.
The governor of the Bank of Eng
land has notified the Barring guarantors
that the Earrings have fully repaid all
advances made to them. The bank
has returned to the Earrings all the
securities that were held by it and not
realized upon, and received from them
formal release of all claims.
While inside the bucket of dredge
on the river near Savannah dol G re-
pair work. J. Chadwick, of Moorehead
City, n. c., was crushed to death yes
terday. The wheel of the engine
slightly revolved, throwing the heavy
wheels of the bucket together ond
Chadwick was crushed about the waist.
The captain and crew of the wrecked
oyster schooner Maggie Pohler, ashore
on Man .oi-War shoals, Chesapeake
Bay, mouth of the Patapsco river, were
safely landed at Sparrow's Point yes
uerday after an exciting encounter with
storm and ice. For over four hours the
eleven men clung to the rigging of the
sunken vessel, while the cold spray was
dashed over them, freezing as it struck.
Louis H. Hyde, who resides at
Orange, N. j., commenced suit in
equity in the United States Circuit
Court in New York yesterday against
the Continental Trust Company, OF
which he is shareholder, to test the
conslitutionality of the new income
tax. Mr.. Hyde prays the court to de-
clare the law unconstitutional, and to
restrain the defendant company from
complying with its provisions.
The funeral OF Ms. William Waldorf
Aston was held from Trinity Chapel,
New York, at 11:30 this morning. The
body was buried in the family plot in
Trinity Cemetery, on Washington
Heights. There were pallbearers
selected from among friends of the
family. The Rev. Morgan Dix, Rev.
w. n. Vibber and Bishop Potter Off
ciated. The church was crowded with
the wealth and fashion of New York
and adjacent cities, but the funeral
was conducted with quiet simplicity.
The Chinese army at Kaiping, near
the Manchuria frontier, has been de-
feated by the japanese, after sharp
fight. The Chinese fed, with the Jap
anese in hot pursuit. The japanese, e, do
not intend to attack Shanghai. The
Japanese are steadily advancing on
Chin Chow. The Chinese are slowly
retiring to the great wall, where it is
expected they will make stand:
Heavy SHOWS impedes the progress of
the armies. Several skirmishes have
occurred, and in their retreat the Chi
nese have LETT numbers of their wound
I'd behind