Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Floods srs causing considerable dam
age in MOI h srn Spain and southwestern
France.
The natives on the Island of Formosa
are beginning TO submit to the rule of
the japanese.
A Spanish gunboat has been noticed
cruising off the northern coast of Flor
ida, apparently watching for Cuban
The Cabinet decided yesterday that
there is no law to authorize the closing
of executive departments in the sum-
mer at 8 p. m.
The British steamer Davaux went
ashore on Briggs Reef, coast of Ireland,
Yesterday, and her 400 passengers were
landed by the boats of the coast guard.
George w. Hurlbut. an insane man,
on his way to Virginia from Kansas,
delayed the Memphis route train at
Ashgrove, Mo-, a half hour by clumsy
attempt to hold it up. He was cap,
tured after he had made very hard
fight with the officers.
A cyclone passed six miles west OF
Summit, S. d., yesterday, causing large
loss of property, but none of life. The
house of Peter Loudery was wrecked,
and man named Somers, who was IN
it, was badly injured.
Senator Calvin S. Brice was in
Akron, O., yesterday, and consummat-
ed deal by which he becomes owner
of the Pittsburg, Akron and Western
Railroad. The purchase price was
100000.
Lee Harris and Abe Mitchell, col
ored. murderers, highwaymen and
thieves, were hanged in the Jail yard
at Birmingham, Ala, yesterday before
two thousand people for the murder OF
grocerymen Merriweather and Thorn
ton.
A cable dispatch from Guayaquil
says General Eloy Alfaro has been pro-
claimed provisional president of Ecua.
dor, although he has not yet arrived
on Ecuadorean soil, from which he has
been an exile for the last ten years.
The Canadian minister of marine has
decided not to exact the IS anglers
license from Americans fishing in the
st. Lawrence river, provided the United
States alien labor act is not enforced
against Canadians in the Thousand
Islands.
The Circuit Court at Charlestown
w. Va, has granted Mrs. Carney
Toney. aged seyenty-two, q decree o.
divorce from her husband, aged ninety
She also gets % acres of land from hi;
l66 acre tract. The parties had beer
married but three years, and bott
seemed satisfied with the action OF the
court.
The Chinese minister, in company
with Acting Secretary of State Uhl, ant
accompanied by his secretary of lega
ton and interpreter, waited in person
upon the President yesterday and pre-
sented to him a letter from the EN-
peror of China, thanking him in grace
full terms for the kindly Offices exercised
by the United States in behalf of thu
restoration of peace between China ant
Japan.
1t was stated in Detroit, Mich, yes
terday that the London police have
located the Rev. Jonathan Bell, betray
er OF Emily Hall, and that his arres
will depend upon the proofs regarding
Miss Halls death. c. Clipperton, ,
son of the British consul at Philadel
pbia, has been looking up the evidence
against Bell in that city, and his repor
will be forwarded to the proper depart
| ment at London.
Chairman William E. Harrity, of the
democratic national committee, who
has received number of inquiries a:
to whether he intended calling meet
ing of the committee at an early day t.
decide whether or not q national con
vention should be called take to actor
on the money question, says: II do MOI
expect or intend to call meeting O.
the democratic national committee unit
next winter, when it will meet for the
purpose of fixing the time and place
for holding the democratic nationa
convention of 1896, unless / shall be
requested to do so by the requisite
number of the democratic nationa
committee. / do not believe there j:
any necessity for q convention at thi:
time. On the contrary am of The
opinion that to call one now would be
harmful to the business interests of the
country and prejudicial to the welfare
of the democratic party"