Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.


| VIM. Fl. Clark was yesterday elected
grand commander of Maryland Knights
Templar.
| Mr.. Reed says the Only business of
Importance in the new Congress will
be the passage ofappropriation bills.
It's feared that the order to restore
to the Roman Catholics their parochial
schools may disrupt the Canadian
provinces.
Anuis Mathers shot and wounded
her father, while the latter was at
tempting to kill his wife, at Archville,
N. Y, on Tuesday.
| Rev. Octavius B. rockingham, the
we'll known Unitarian divine and
author, died at his home in Boston yes
terday, aged 70 years.
! Heavy reinforcements OF Spanish
troops are expected in Cuba soon, TO-
600 men being now on the sea, while
10000 more are preparing to embark.
Minister Terrell is preparing to de-
mand indemnity from the Turkish
government for the destruction of tie
American mission property at Kharput.
a correspondent in Cuba says that
Gomez has given orders that all plan
tations shall be burned where an effort
is made to save the crops, and all labor
9 shot.
Schlatter, the wonderful healer of
Denver, has been positely identified at
Green Horn, Col. He is on his way to
Albuquerque, where he will fast for
fcrty days.
All the sugar refneries in Philadel-
phia, including the Franklin, as we'll as
Tho McCahan, which is independent,
shut down last night, throwing 1000
workmen out of employment.
Rev. Julius Feicke, who left the
pastorate of the First German Evan
gelical Church, of Jersey City, because
he could rot earn enough 10 live on,
has gone into the saloon business.
President Cre>po, of Venezuela,
learns from provincial governors that
the republic can supply 100000 well
armed men with whom to resist inva-
sion from the frontier of British Guiana.
Griffin Johnson, son of Albert sgd
uey Johnson, the noted Confederate
general, died at Los Angeles, CAL, YES
terday. Several days ago ne fell from
a horse and received injuries which
caused his death.
Peter McGeoch, the extensive pork
and lard Spectator, of Milwaukee,
who committed suicide yesterday, did
so because his wife, who left him CD
Monday last, had entered divorce pro
ceedings against him.
The republican Senators in Washing
ton yesterday signed call for a eau.
Gus to be held on the adjournment oil
the Senate next Monday. This means
hat the republicans will lose no time
in finding out where they stand.
The French minister of foreign af-
fairs yesterday read in the Chamber OF
Deputies statement in regard to Mad
agascar, which, he declared, was hence
forth French possession. The decla-
ration was received with prolonged ap.
plause.
A dispatch from Odessa says that the
recent storms have caused damage on
laud alone OF 100000 rubies. Several
forts on the Black Sea were partly sub
merged, and many vessels have been
lost. The number of lives lost is placed
at eighty.
A verdict of s114,010 so in favor OF
the government against ex Superinten-
dent of the Mint Bobyshell was render
ed at Philadelphia yesterday. The
amount is the full claim for the short
age of Henry S. Cochran, ex-chiet
weigher at the mint.
Berry Stone was convicted of ma
licious cutting in Kentucky, in 1877,
and sentenced to year in the peniten-
tiary. After waiting for eighteen years
for an on officer to take him to State
prison he presented himself to the Gov
eruor, who pardoned him.
The Ohio and Indiana delegations
mad caucuses in Washington last night
and decided to support the eastern can
didates for the House Offices. This, it
is believed, virtually settles the con-
tests in favor of Mcdowell, for the
clerkship; Glenn. of New York, for the
doorkeepership; Russell, of Missouri,
for the position ofsergeant-at-arms, and
McElroy, of Ohio, for postmaster.
| A receiver was appointed yesterday
for the surviving members of the firm
of J. B. Skehan & Co., the senior mem
Der of which committed suicidein Upper
Montclair, N. j., on Tuesday morning,
and the granting of the application was
followed by statement from William
NJ. IyiDs, counsel for A. G. Bernheim's
administrator, in which he charges
Skehan with extensive blackmail and
with robbing Bernheim and the
latter's father and brothers of hundreds
of thousands of dollars.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
DR.. Ephriam c. Merriam, we'll
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