Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The bodies of the thirty miners who
persisted in osceola copper mine near
Calumet, Mich, have been recovered.
Chicago merchants are making grest
efforts to capture the trade of the
South from New York, and will have
large exhibits in the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton.
Lord Beaumont was found dead ON
his Yorkshire estate yesterday, his gun
having been accidentally discharged as
he was crossing stile in pursuit OF
game.
Rev. ]. G. Martin, pastor of Queen
street Methodist Episcopal Church,
and a prominent member OF the var,
GINA Conference, died in Norfolk last
night, aged So years.
Mrs. Grace Bowers, young married
woman who has been attending the
Durrant trial in San Francisco, has lett
her husband as result of her infatua-
ton for the prisoner.
Pastor McVey, of the Methodist
Church at Cold Spring Harbor, L. l.,
hearing that many members of his con-
gregation had accused him of untidi-
ness, Immediately resigned.
a dispatch from Vienna says the
skeleton found recently in the Italian
Tyrol is believed to be that of the
American artist Rudd, who was lost
while crossing the pass of Presania.
The work of changing the rig of Val
kyrie was continued at the Erie basin,
Brooklyn, yesterday. Both masts for
the yawl rig are in position, and her
cruising sails have been put aboard.
Cuban sympathizers in New York
said last night Mexico will recognize
the insurgents as belligerents within a
few days. They based their assertion
on private dispatches received from the
City of Mexico.
The Mexican Congress was opened
Yesterday and President Diaz sent his
annual message. He said that efforts
are being made to revive the extradi-
ton treaty of 1861 between Mexico and
the United States.
Senator Vest, of Missouri, who is
now in Carlsbad, has, it is said, in pri-
vate conversations with persons who
have met him in Europe, declared that
in his opinion free coinage at the old
ratio was no longer possible.
A cyclone knocked ten cars from the
Chicago and Northwestern track near
Madison, Wis, yesterday, seriously in
juring the conductor, brakeman and
baggageman, all of whom were in the
caboose, which went down 30-foot
embankment.
Senator John A. Lemon, ex-Auditor-
General of Pennsylvania, five times
elected to the State Senate from the
Blair Cambria district and leader in
the State councils of the republican
party, died at his home in Holidays.
burg, yesterday.
The rumored resignation of Rev
Byron Sutherland, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, Washing.
ton, is probably due to the fact that eff.
forts are being made to have Rev. t
De Witt Talmage associated with DIR
Sutherland as co-pastor.
The report that there may be races
off Newport between the Defender and
Valkyrie is devoid of the semblance Of
truth. No such races will take place
and have not even been considered
The Valkyrie will return to England
es soon as she can be made ready.
Michael ]. Dunn, the Capitol guide
in Washington, who was struck on the
head with loaded cane last Friday
evening by Oliver s. Florence, another
guide, during drunken wrangle, ard
taken to the Emergency Hospital. died
there yesterday evening of delirium
tremens.
In order to save herself and her three
year-old child Josephine from being
burned to death during fire at her
home in Philadelphia yesterday morn
ing Mrs. Mary Enz first threw her
child out of a third-story window and
then jumped to the ground. They
landed unframed upon mattress.
Mgr. Satolli yesterday received from
the Cardinal President of the College
of Briefs, document announcing the
appointment of Rev. John A. Forrest,
as Bishop of the diocese of San Antonio.
The appointee is at present priest in
active service, one of the three whose
names were certified to the pope by the
priests of the diocese as satisfactory
candidates for the Office.
Statistics prepared at the Treasury
Department show that there has been
decrease in customs and internal rev.
enue receipts under the operations of
the present tariff law as compared with
the Mckinley act. The decrease is at
tributed to the depressed times. With
the return of prosperity, however, it is
pointed out that the treasury receipts
are increasing and it is expected that
in the near future they will be sufi-
GENTLY large to meet all the expendi-
lures of the government.
John Robinson, an aged and wealthy
farmer, living in the interior Of Web
ster county, W. Va, eloped Saturday
with his stepdaughter, the wife of
Uriah Clifton. He was followed to
Pickens by Clifton, who secured the
arrest of the couple. They were taken
to Addison for hearing, where, after
examining the law, the local justice dis
missed them, declaring he had no juris-
diction in such cases, and forced the
injured husband to pay the costs.
Robinson and the young woman ina
mediately left for the east.
RAsEBA1L.-The baseball games of yester.
day resulted as follows: Baltimore Z, Bos-
ton 4; Cleveland z, Cincinnati o; Philadel-
phia 8, New York 5 Washington 16, Brook
lyn 12 Brooklyn IL, Washington 3; st.
Louis Louisville, rain; Pittsburg- Chicago,
rain Tho fnlloMine ia the standing of the