Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

European cattle market has arisen in
Australia.
Yale College athletes won all but
three events in their contests with Cam
bridge, England, boys on Manhattan
field in New York on Saturday.
Fire damaged the malt house and
contents of the Globe Brewery, Baltl-
more, yesterday to the extent OF Sl0,0OO;
covered by insurance.
Citizens of Guatemala have formed a
secret compact to prevent armed or
other intervention to force the republic
to enter Central American federation.
The Baltimore Base Ball Club arrived
home last night and four hundred
rooters and reception committee were
waiting on the platform for, them.
Cleveland made it three straight on
Saturday in the wind-up of the games
for the Temple cup in Cleveland, the
score being Z to l in favor of the home
club.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage preach
ed farewell sermon to his Brooklyn
friends at the Lafayette Avenue Pres
byterian Church yesterday evening.
Mr.. Talmage will arrive in Washington
early Tuesday morning.
Fishing creek, the principal trout
stream in the Sugar valley, Clinton
county, Pa, has gone dry for distance
CT several miles. To protect the trout
the farmers have moved them to impro-
vised wells and springs on their lands.
Miss Jennie Peterson, II years old,
and DIR. Weaver, 70 years old, were
married at Spring Valley, N. Y, on
Friday, after courtship begun while
he was attending her on her fathers
farm in Pomona, N. Y.
The rectory of the Port Tobacco Pro-
testant Episcopal Church, near Port
Tobacco, Nd, has been sold by the
vestry to Sheriff John W. Albrittan. A
new rectory on land donated by DR..
Rooert F. Chapman, of New York, will
be built in the town of La Plata.
A bloody battle was recently fought
between Spaniards and insurgents in
the Holquin district of Santiago de
Cuba, in which General Maceo, the in
surgent leader, was wounded. The in
surgent loss is estimated at $50 killed
and wounded.
A dreadful cyclone and flood has oc.
Cured in the district of Yuelta AbaJo
Cuba. 1t is now known that the loss to
property amounts to millions of dollars
while forty-fve bodies have been recoy'
cred from the inundated district
Many persons, including whole fami
lies, are missing.
Kiamel Pasha, the grand vizier, viii
advise the Sulan to grant amnesty te
all the Armenians who have been ar
rested since last Mondy in the riots a
Constantinople. The bodies feighty Ar
meuians, victims of the riots, have beer
registered. Alarmed over the Ar
menian outbreaks in Constantinople
the Sultan has had his body guard in
creased, and all his Armenian servants
dismissed.
While great crowd of people wa
assembled at Logan, Ohio, yesterday
afternoon to witness the laying of TIT
cornerstone of the new st. Mary
Catholic Church, temporary floor OF
which many of the people were stand
ing suddenly gave away, precipitstinl
many men, women aud children int
the basement. One was killed out
right, ten were fatally injured and be
tween thirty and forty others were bad
ly hurt.
The record breaking train on tb,
Lackawanna Railroad, which left cas-
Buffalo at SAT a. m. Saturday, arrived
in Corning. N. Y, 100 miles distance
at 1O:49. From there to Big Flats, 1
distance of 81 miles, the run was made
in exactly four minutes, or at the rat'
of SO! miles per hour. The distance
from Corning to Elmira, 16 miles, wa
made in IL minutes. The 1919 mile
from Buffalo to Binghampton were
covered in It's minutes.
Adj. Gen. Norman, by direction of Gen
Gordon, commanding the United Con
federate Veterans, has issued an order
for the meeting of the committee con
sisting of one member from each south
ern State, in Atlanta, October 10, tc
consider matters in regard to the Rous;
memorial fund, for which Mr.. Charles
Broadway Rouss, of New York, sub
scribed 500, 900 for the purpose of build
ing Confederate memorial hall. Wash.
ington, Richmond, Atlanta, New Or.
leans, Nashville and other cities are
bidding for the location of the hall.
Don Farden, formerly an examiner
in the Pension Office, was arrested in
Baltimore yesterday afternoon, for
stealing $4,000 from the Office of the
Adams Express Company at Terre
Haute, Ind. Farden admitted that he
took the package containing the money
and implicated ]. R. Barnett, ticket
agent of the Vandalia Railroad. at
Terre Haute, in the crime. Farden
stated TO the authorities that he had
spent every cent of his share of the
SIC, 900 in fast living. He was without
cent when taken into custody.
Don Manuel Fernando, of CASTLE, q
member of one of the oldest Spanish
families and formerly Superior of the
Order of Capuchin monks, yesterday
renowned the Roman Catholic Church
and accepted the Protestant faith. By
this act he lost an important mission of
his old church and will be disowned by
his family. He was formally received
into the membership of the West End
Presbyterian Church, New York, and
will enter the ministry of the Presby.
terian Church, having been enrolled as
student at the Union Theological
Seminary.
Brrr1NA G1RARD WILL REmARRY-