Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

teen thousand three hundred and sixty
seven persons have assembled the Wash
ington's monumentin Washington since
its construction.
Mrs. P. r. Barnum, widow of the
famous Snowman, was married in New
York yesterday to Demetri Callias Bey,
a Greek connected with the Turkish
government in an official capacity.
Admiral Ammen, United States
navy, was seized with an attack OF
vertigo in the Navy Department yes
terday. Herecovered sufficiently to be
removed to his home at Ammendale,
Md.
The free silver convention of Texas
adjourned after passing resolutions con-
demning the financial policy of the ad-
ministratiou. The platform adopted
declares in favor of free coinage of sill
yer at Is to l.
The democratic State convention at
Jackson, Miss, yesterday nominated
ex-senator A. ]. McLaurip for govern
or, the first man ever nominated by &C.
clamation for the Office in that State.
The ex-Senator's position in favor of
free silver made him very popular.
The executor for John Augustus Pell
has applied for an Interpretation of the
will, which, among other sthings, pre-
vents his daughter, Mrs. Charles Harris
Phelps, leaving Europe so long as she
is not divorced, in pain of forfeiture of
millions left by the State of her father.
Four Centralia boys playing in an
abandoned mine, at Shamokin, Pa,
were caught under a fall of coal yester-
day morning and were imprisoned for
ten hours before a ~rescuing party reach
ed them. They were buried up to their
necks. When rescued two of them
were beyond recovery.
. The war on negroes by the Italians
of Spring Valley, ILL.,, has been de-
clared off. The Spring Valley Coal
Company will be permitted to resume
operations and the negroes to return 10
their homes. This action was taken
yesterday evening by q mass meeting
of all the white miners, which assem-
bled in the public square.
The advocates of free coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to ] were defeated
yesterday, in the Iowa democratic
State convention. The platform also
denounced the Mulct law and declared
in favor of the manufacture of liquor by
the State. Judge Babb, of Mount
Pleasant, was nominated for Governor
and Ex-Governor Bestow for Lieutenant,
Governor.
Alcohol exploded, and a fire resulted,
about $50 o'clock last night in the eel
lar of Henry Evans pharmacy, No.
93S F street northwest Washington in
which Thomas Corners, a soda fountain
attendant, was pretty severely burned.
Connors fell while bringing up q demi-
john which broke and the fluid took
fire from the candle.
Mrs. Annie B. Gardiner, of Arcadia,
Neb., who went to Boston last month
as q delegate to the Christian Endeavor
Convention, and who disappeared
m%ysteriously during the sessions of the
convention, consented yesterday to re-
urn home with J.. w. Landers, her
husbands friend, who found her living
as a domestic in Norwich, Conn. She
stoutly maintained that she is not in.
sane.
Samuel Douglass, of Washington,
married Miss Minnie Bussius recently,
and after getting possession of $500 be-
longing to his wife deserted her in Bal
timore. Douglass is also charged with
swindling a number of people in Wash
ington. The father Of the young VIC.
man was killed in the Ford's Theatre
disaster, and the $500 was part of the
money obtained from the government
on account of his death.
Miss Elizabeth M. Flagler, who shot
Ernest Green, a colored boy, in Wash
ington last week, appeared before Judge
Cole yesterday afternoon, and gave bail
in the sum of $40, 900 to appear and an
swer any action of the grand jury when
it convenes next month. 1t is stated
that this action is in accordance with
an agreement made by the prosecution
and the defense Immediately following
the verdict of the coroner's jury.
At the meeting in New York yester-
day of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union State Senator O'Sullivan spoke
and favored freer excise laws. He was
frequently Kissed. Archbishop Corri-
gan at last had to get up and say
eThere must be no marks of disappro-
baton. If there are any further marks
of disapprobation to any one who has
been invited by our committee to
speak to you, / must instantly leave
the hail."
The United States Civil Service Com
mission will hold an examination at
Washington on August 81 to fill the
vacancies in the position of State statis-
tical agent for Virginia and West Yir-
ginia Department of Agriculture. The
applicant is required to be familiar with
general agriculture, and with the agri-
culture, physical features, and geo.
graphy of Virginia and West Virginia,
with arithmetic as especially applied to
statistical work, including problems
involved in the metric system, and with
the general subject of statistics, includ-
ing the preparation and analysis Of
tables. Persons desiring to take this
examination should file application at
once with the Civil Service Commission.
Legal residents of Virginia and West
Virginia are preferred. The salary Of
the position is 5000 per annum. Wo
man will be admitted to the examina.
ton.
LEGION OF HONOR OFF1cERs.-The
following officers of the American
Legion of Honor, whose grand lodge