Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

There were no league baseball games
played yesterday.
Ina battle yesterday between riparian
owners, of Delaware Bay and oyster
pirates three men were wounded, one
perhaps fatally.
Nearly three million quarts ofberries
were shipped from points on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, between Crisfield
and Delmar on Saturday.
Richard Bozewetter, q messenger,
was knocked down IN the streets of ST.
Louis, yesterday, and robbed of satch-
el containing 81 $50 in cash and large
amount of checks.
The father of Marshall E. Price, of
Caroline county, Md, is trying to Sc
cure signers to petition for executive
clemency for the condemned man on
the ground of insanity.
An explosion occurred yesterday on
the Turkish torpedo boat Destroyer,
which is being built at the Germania
shipyard, at Kiel, by which seven men
were killed aud twelve injured.
Thomas Byrnes, superintendent of
New York police, who was yesterday
retired by the board, was succeeded by
Peter Conlip, brother of William ].
Florence, the actor, who has been made
acting superintendent.
A violent shock of earthquake was
experienced in the village of Agikent,
10 the district of Baku, Russia, on Sun
day. Ninety, five houses were wrecked,
and many of the Inhabitants of the viii
lage were buried beneath the ruins.
The 10th General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of the United
States closed its session at Pittsburg
Yesterday, reaching final adjournment
10 the afternoon. The committee of
thirty for raising the million dollar an
niversary reunion fund was appointed,
and Saratoga was recommended as the
next place Of meeting.
A cablegram has been received at the
State Department from the United
States consul at Annoy, China, stating
that the soldiers occupying the Island
of Formosa have declared for repub-
lie. A japanese fleet has arrived off
the coast of Formosa, and vigorous
measures are expected to be taken to
suppress the disorder on the island.
The bout between Tommy Ryan, of
Chicago, and Mysterious" Billy Smith,
of Boston, which was to have gone
twenty FIVE rounds at the Seaside Club
house at Coney Island, n. Y, last night,
was declared draw after eighteen
rounds by Referee Tim Hurst when
police interfered and the gong sounded.
An agreement had been made that if
the police stopped the bout, it should be
declared draw.
The Que hundred and twelfth annual
session of the Protestant Episcopal
Convention of the Diocese of Maryland
will assemble tomorrow morning in
Epiphany Church, Washington city.
Bishop VIM. Paret will arrive in Wash
ington to day, and will preside over
the convention dnring its session, The
principal question which will come be-
fore the convention will be that of the
division of the diocese.
Arrangements are now being made
at the War Department for reduction
of the clerical force July 1st next, in
accordance with the provisions Of the
legislative, executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill for the next fiscal year
The law requires reduction of seventy
three in the present clerical force OF
the department.. There are now, how
ever, thirty vacancies in the total force,
so that the number to be displaced at
the beginning of the next fiscal year
is but forty.three.
There was a spirited scene in the
Coleman House, in New York, yester-
day, when Jim" Corbett and bob"
Fitzsimmons succeeded in meeting
Joe" Vendig, of the Florida Athletic
Club. The outcome of the conference
was that the men agreed to fight under
the auspices of the club wherever the
latter chooses to hold the contest: but
before an agreement was reached
there was a sharp verbal skrmish be-
tween the champion and the champion
that-hopes-to-be, which at times gave
promise of developing into something
more serious.