Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The apology of the Spanish govern
ment for the Alliance affair was receiv-
ed by the State Department yesterday.
Justice Harlan presided at the Fred
Douglass memorial meeting at the Me.
tropolitan A. M. E. Church in Was hing
ton last night.
Bands of Cuban insurgents have in
vaded the province ofSanta Clara. In.
surgents commanded by Maceo burned
the village of Sevilla.
Great Britain yesterday rejected the
offer of the Pope looking to settle
ment of the boundary dispute with
Venezuela by arbitration.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of Rev.
DR.. W. q. Murkland's passionate at
Franklin street Presbyterian Church,
Baltimore, was observed yesterday.
Five more passengers of the Colima
have been added to the list of the
saved. They were picked up nearly
dead by one of the rescuing crews on
the Mexican beach.
Henry P. Schwartz, prominent mer-
chant of Philadelphia, committed sui
eide on Monday night. he was the
oldest of six brothers and is the second
of the family to kill himself.
The committee appointed by the
New Jersey Senate to investigate the
State House frauds presented its re-
port yesterday, accusing officials of col.
fusion with outsiders to loot the State
treasury.
Advices from the Vatican state that
Archbishop Kenrick has not been de-
posed, but only retired from active man.
agement of the diocese of st. Louis,
Archbishop Kain's powers as coadjustor
being enlarged.
James Toner died in Baltimore yes
terday from pistol wound received
while he was being pursued by the po-
lice for alleged disorderly conduct. 1t
could not be proved at the coroner's
inquest who fired the shot.
The formal transfer of the Island of
Formosa took place at Kee Lung on
June 2. Mr.. John W. Fosters work
for the Chinese government is now COM
pleted, and he will return to the United
States by the next steamer.
La Plata was declared to be the
county seat of Charles county, Md, by
majority of 361 votes over Chapel
Point in the election held yesterday.
The total vote was 8, 103 of which 1882
were for La Plata and 1871 for Chapel
Point.
The European powers are not salts
ged with the reply of the Turkish gov
eminent to their notes in regard to pro-
posed reforms in Armenia, the Sultan
not agreeing to the principle of the con-
troll of the proposed reforms by the
powers.
Postmaster. General Wilson delivered
the annual commencement address at
the University of Mississippi at Oxford
yesterday. His theme was American
Citizenship" Among other sentences
loudly applauded was: II long to see
the south again in National leadership
There was lively tilt on the streets
of Easton, Nd, yesterday between q.
S. Senator Charles 81. Gibson and Capt.
VIM. Henry Haddaway and Preston
B. Spring, two Of the prime movers in
the anti-Gorman movement in Talbot
county. No blows were struck, how,
ever.
Miss Bridget Kelly, an invalid, aged
fifty-fve years, and her brother, John
J. Kelly, aged fifty years, were both
found dead yesterday morning at their
home in Baltimore. The sister was
found sitting on chair in the dining
room, on the first floor, and the brother
was lying on his bed on the third floor.
Coroner Davis was notified, and made
a thorough investigation. He decided
that in the case of Miss Kelly death was
caused by the heat, and that her brother
had died of apoplexy.