Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-02
NEWS OF The DAY.

distress prevail among the inhabitants
of the drouth stricken districts.
The Queen Regent of Spain has sign
ed decree appointing q commission to
revise the Cuban and Porto Rican
tariffs.
More than 10000 prisoners will be
benefited by the Cars decree Of am
nesty. Many of them have already
been liberated.
Hamilton Fish was the choice at the
caucus of the republican majority for
speaker of the New York State House
Of Representatives yesterday.
Major w. R Gaines, register of the
land office, and uperintendent of pub
lie grounds and buildings, is critically
i'll at his home in Richmond.
In New York yesterday Col. Strong,
after being sworn in as mayor, told Mr..
Gilroy, the retiring mayor, that he was
one of the best executives the city ever
had.
The loss to Florida fruit and vegeta-
BILE growers by the recent cold snap is
estimated at s5,000,0O0. One compeu-
sating fact is tho extinction of several
orange tree pests.
A despatch from Shanghai says that
the japanese, after defeating General
Sung, abstained from occupying the for
eign settlement in Difference 10 the
wishes of the consuls.
A resolution will be introduced in
the Texas legislature to request Sena-
tor Mills to resign his seat, because he
has refused to endorse Texas men for
government appointments.
At Braddock, Pa, last night all the
ore wheelers at the blast furnaces OF
the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, on
Doth the day and night turns, went oul
on a strike against a reduction in
wages.
Seventy. one tons of coal were dump
ed into the Baltimore harbor beside
pier ,, Light street wharf, yesterday.
The coal was in scow belonging to
the Weems line which sprung aleak
and upset.
Governor Pattison, in his final mes
sage to The legislature of Pennsylvania
yesterday, referred to the Improbable
ness of strikes to the laborers, as shown
by the strikes during the past year in
that State.
President Cleveland may send spec
isl mes:age to Congress urging the
necessity for harmonious and non-par-
tisan action upon some scheme for the
rehabilitation OF the decaying national
financial system.
The $1,000 bay gelding Dom Pedro, q
PAGER, while attached 10 a sleigh near
Germantown, Pa, collided with horse
attached to another sleigh yesterday,
which killed both animals and serious
y injured the drivers.
Barrett Scott, defaulting treasurer Of
Holt county, Neb., to the extent of sew
eral thousand dollars, is supposed to
have been hanged by vigilaules, who
then weighted the body and threw it
into the quicksands in the Niobrara
river yesterday afternoon.
Judge c. Clark, of Chattanooga, who
was recently appointed United States
district attorney for east and middle
Tennessee, demanded hearing cf the
charges brought against the law firm OF
which ne is member. After trial OF
two days Judge Lustou eXonerated the
firm Of any wrong-doing.
Minister Kurino. of Japan, said yes
terday that Japan was not likely to
agree to an armistice until the plenipo-
tentlAres asked for one. Mr.. Kurlno
received unofficial information yestcr-
day that manifesto had been presented
to tie japanese Parliament by the liber
al party, breathing the war spirit, and
asking the government to push on to
Pekin before consenting to an armistice.
J. F. Hileber, grand chancellor ofthe
Knights of Pythias of Minnesota. has
written letter to the bishop of Green
Bay, Wis, asking him to prove that q
radical difference exists, as intimated,
between the lower and higher degrees
of the Knights of Pythias, under which
the higher degrees are anti-Christian
aud contrary to the principles of the
Catholic Church, thus causing the
Pope to place ban on the whole order.
The order issued last Saturday by
the Commissioner of Pensions to the
effect that no employee of the pension
shall practice medicine has
caused about fifteen Washington down
town doctors to suddenly turn shingles
TO the wall and abandon their practice.
But while they have so suddenly re-
tired they are kicking against it, and
they think the commissioner has been
very harsh in his recent order.
1t is reported that NJ. de Giers, the
Russian minister of foreign affairs,
whose ill-health has frequently been
referred to recently, is dying. 1t is
also reported that the Russian ambas.
sador to Austria. Prince Lobanof- Ros-
tovski, who is now on special mission
to Rome, having been charged to an
nounce to the Pope the accession of
Car Nicholas to the throne of Russia,
will succeed NJ. de Giers as Russian
minister of foreign affairs.
J. c. Manning, populist leader Of
Alabama, has called a conference al
New Orleans, January is, for the pur-
pose of organizing a Southern Ballot
Rights League to agitate the question
of fair elections in the South. The
is supported chiefly by pop
ulists and republicans. They propose
to pass law through the North Car
DINA Legislature, aud if acceptable
will make it the basis of laws to be sub
United to legislatures Of other south
ern States.
Anderson Gray has been sentenced
to death by Judge Burnett in yelling
ton, Kan. according to the verdict Of