Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A dispatch from Berlin says that
official dispatches deny the existence of
written alliance between Russia and
France.
Mr.. James Sloan, jr., of Baltimore,
has resigned the position Of chairman of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroads f.
nance committee.
Friends of Senator Cameron of Penn
sylvania, will push his claims as a
presidential candidate in the convention
of republican league clubs in Cleve-
land, o.
Several millions of dollars of the in
demnity fund received by Japan from
China is to be devoted to the rehabili-
tation of her navy and the construction
of formidable defenses around her i'm
portant coastwise cities.
Mrs. Margaret Wickham Smith Pres
ton died at the Baltimore City Hospital
yesterday from injuries she received in
an accident nearly three weeks ago
while visiting relatives in Philadelphia,
where she fell and broke her lett thigh.
The President yesterday evening is
sued a proclamation warning all citi-
zens against violation of the neutrality
laws in the case of Cuba, and instruct
ing United States officers to vigorously
enforce the laws and punish violat-
ors thereof
A dispatch from Stuttgart, Wurtem-
burg, says in the lower House of the
Diet Yesterday DR.. Won Rieke, minister
of finance, said that the government at
Wurtemberg had pronounced in the
Bundesrath against the international
bimetallic conference.
The Spanish Senate has authorized
the government TO raise new loan to
carry on the war in Cuba. The insur-
rection has not shown itself in Cara
geux, central province of Cuba. A
number of conflicts between troops and
revolutionists were reported.
G. W. Kittelle, we'll known hotel
manager of Winston, N. c., is charged
with having used ice which had been
used in preserving the body of a dead
man, in water cooler in his hotel, and
also in ice tea on the table. He has
been forced to resign the management
of the hotel.
At Yesterdays session of the silver
convention at Memphis q permanent
organization was effected with Senator
Turpie, of Indiana, as chairman, and
addresses delivered by that gentleman
and Alex Delmar, of California; Con-
gresham Sbley, of Pennsylvania; C.S.
Thomas, of Denver, and Aaron Wal
colt, of Indiana, spoke at night.
Mr.. Henry Watterson says: eff the
Kentucky democratic State convention
ten days from now declares in favor of
the free coinage of silver at the rate of
16 to l, or any other lower ratio, from
%, 900 to 10000 democratic voters will
support the republican ticket. Every
! body knows what the detection of so
many democrats means"
Members of the class of '97 at the
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
yesterday practiced hazing on ten or
dozen freshmen. The victims were
made to sing, dance and deliver
speeches, and finally had their hands
tied behind their backs; paper bags,
with eye holes cut out, pulled over
their heads; legs oftrousers rolled up to
their knees, and then set upon the
street.
Preparations are under way in Mad
rid to have 10000 troops ready to sail
for Cuba in August, besides the 10000
men who will start for the island next
month. There are now about 10000
Spanish troops on the island. The
Senate "a, passed bill authorizing the
government to raise 600000,000 pese-
tas (nearly S12O,OoO,OOO), should the
amount be necessary to put down the
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