Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-07
News OF THE DAY.


has beer captured by the rebels through
the treacnery Of the garrison
The bill 10 Teorganize the consular
service mas been reported 10 the Senate
ON the CON mittee on foreign relations.
The President yesterday decided the
boundary dispute between Brazil and
he Argentine Republic in favor Of
Brazil.
A furnace 10 pnbIic school at
Elrria O., exploded during the noon
recess yesterday blowing one wall out
oftbe building, bat Touring no one.
In the New York legislature bill
for opening saloons MALI Of Sunday has
beer introduced. It is proposed 70 re-
apportion the congressional districts OF
the State.
TIE Senate has confirmed the nomi-
natious OF Holmes Conrad, Of Virginia,
10 be Solicitor General and OF J. VI.
Dickinson. Of Tennessee, to be Assistant
Attorney General.
1t is proposed to remove the remains
of General Boulanger from Brussels 10
Paris for reiuterment, as the general
was included III the list Of those par
doned under the amnesty bill.
Laura U. IVickes, the wife OF the
vice president OF the Pullman Palace
Car Company, in her bill of divorce in
the Chicago courts, charges that her
husband kicked her out Of bed.
Rev. John Haizen White. CT Fati
baul,, MINI, YVES elected bishop OF the
Indiana diocese Of the Episcopal
Church Yesterday TO succeed David
BIel knickerbacker, deceased.
The three great -four mill companies
Of the Northwest are embroiled in a
war of prices that promises . bring the
commodity down to figure that from
the standpoint Of the miller will be
ruinous.
Il is said to be by DO means certain
that the favorable report Of the judici-
airy committee upon the nomination Of
Mr. w. l.. Marbury az United States
district attorney for Maryland will be
accepted By the Senate.
The Sultan Of Turkey has granted a
pension for life to the widow of Mr..
Stupe, director OF the Metropolitan
Railroad ofConstantinople, an Ameri-
can citizen who was killed OF the
street by drunken soldier.
The coolest place in The United
States yesterday WAS Hayre, Montana,
where mercury went down to twenty
eight degrees below zero. But at White
River, Ontario, the temperature was
sixty degrees below zero. For the first
time in seventy-fve years Lake Cham
plain is fiozen over its entire length.
Fire destroyed the hotel OF John Fin
lay, teo houses owned by James Fin
lay, and tenement house owned by
| Sarah Horton, in Amsterdam, y. y,
yesterday. Several residents Of the
burned houses had narrow escapes from
being burned 10 death, being Obliged to
| fee in their night clothes through tins
deep Stow with the thermometer %
degrees below zero. Two children OF
John Tallaon had their feet so badly
frozen as to necessitate amputation.
Col. II. Clay Evans, republican, took
the oath az Governor Of Tennessee al
Nashville yesterday. He claims to
have been elected over Peter Turney,
democrat, the present incumbent. After
Mr.. Evans had taken the oath of Office,
the Secretary Of State was formally re-
quested to file the oath. He smiled
and declined to do so. 11r. Evans will
apply for mandamus to compel the
Secretary OF State to file his oath OF
office. The canvass of the returns by
the legislature in joint session is in pro-
gress under special law passed at the
instance Ex-Governor Turney.
Rev.J C. Reed attempted to rob the First
National Bark OF East Portland Oregon, yes
tcrday He bound and gagged the assistant
cashier aud would have accomplished his 0. :
iect had not the cashier OF bank across the
street seen what was going on. The cashier
| took a shotgun and with crowd which had
assembled liberated the assistant cashier and
took the preacher to Jail