Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


at Washington, owing to financial
troubles.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton has
declared himself in favor of a third term
for President Cleveland,
Ex-Gov. E. E. Jackson, of Maryland,
advocates the nomination of President
Cleveland for third term.
In the report of the Nicaraguan
Canal Commission the proposed canal
is declared impracticable upon the data
at hand.
The old Yolks Garten, on the Bow
cry, in New York, caught fire just after
6 o'clock Saturday evening and was to-
tally destroyed.
A dispatch from Vienna says that
Notwithstanding the Sultan's orders the
Inhabitants Of five more Armenian vii
lagos have been massacred.
The Pope is suffering from throat
trouble, and as measure of precaution
he has postponed the secret and public
consistories until November 20 and De-
cember 2, espectively.
The woman who shot herself at the
door of G. F. Winkemeier's house, in
Brooklyn few days ago, lived with
Winkemeier in Baltimore as his wife,
and had been discarded by him.
Miss Nora Work, Thomas Davis and
David Collum were drowned in the
Cumberland river near Pond Creek
ferry, twelve miles from Nashville,
Tenn. Saturday, while rowing in a
skiff.
Carriage charges both ways will be
paid by the government in exchanging
currency for gold, and it will accept
short weight coins at terms favorable TO
the holder. This has been resorted To
to maintain the gold seserve.
United States Minister Terrell asked
the Porte on Saturday for permit to
allow the United States cruiser Marble
head to go to Coustantinople, but the
request was refused on tile ground that
only powers signatory to the treaty Of
Paris can expect such permits.
A report comes from Vladivostock in
a dispatch from st. Petersburg to the
effect that Japan has decided 10 re
nounce all pretensions to continental
policy in Asia, and to recognize Russia's
unconditional right to influence the des
TIMES oil Corea and Manchuria.
Acting under instructions from the
imperial government, thesdministratoI
of British Guiana has made declarations
to the Legislature Indicating that I'm.
less Venezuela withdraws claims to dis
puted territory England is prepared 10
assert her rights by force of arms.
At McGregor, Iowa, on Saturday, h.
Allen, prosperous farmer, met VIM.
Gross, against whom he had grudge,
and shot him dead. A young woman
in the house at the time ran away, but
Allen followed and shot her. She may
recover. Allen then shot himself dead
Andrew Timko, Hungarian, oil
New York, ended weeks debauch
early yesterday morning by stabbine
Mary Thouokek, his ffteen-year-old
stepdaughter, whom he had attempted
to assault, cutting her with Ratchet;
firing two shots at his wife, and then
killing himself with a revolver.
Postmaster-G General Wilson in his an.
nual report indorses civil service. No.
only should all subordinates be so
classed, but he suggests the applica-
ton of the-law to the assistant post
master general. He also thinks the
government is imposed upon by people
sending second class mail matter.
In the football games on Saturday
Yale beat Princeton by score of 20 to
10 and Pennsylvania beat Harvard by
a score of II to IA. The two games were
witnessed by $4,000 people. No one
was seriously injured, and only one
man, Rosengarten, of Princeton, was
ruled of for smuggling.
Miss Narciea Bagwell. of CokesburP,
S. C., while en- route to the depot in
Greenwood, S. c., on Saturday, was
waylaid by two negroes, who killed
Ter aud then burned her body. The
negroes have been arrested and taken
to Abbeville. a mob started for the
jail in which the men were placed, aud
it is thought lynched both of the negroes.
Ambassador Pansa has telegraphed
to Rome from Constantirople the sub
stance OF an interview with Hail
Rifaat Pasha, the Grand Vizier, VINO
said that the Porte would require at
leest three months to suppress the Ar
menian uprising at Zaitoun and set the
reform machinery working. The
Grand Vizier requested Italy and the
other powers to cooperate to restrain
the Balkan States from an i'll timed
anti-Turkish agitation.
The South Carolina convention on
Saturday was engaged in reading
articles of the constitution the third
time. Senator Tillman tried to have
the section on lynching amended SO
that those engaged in it should be fined
s. 900 and imprisoned until it was paid,
but his motion failed. The constitution
provides that counties where lynchings
occur shall be subject 10 damages in
s., 900 to the legal representatives OF
The lgnched person and may recover the
amount by civil process from those en-
gagged in the lynching. Senator Till
msn introduced an ordinance provid-
ing that courts should recognize d.
vorces granted heretofore or hereafter
in other States of the Union, provided
that the marriage actually took place
outside of the State and one of the
parties was neither native of the
State nor at the time of the ceremony
was citizen of it. 1t was adopted
almost without dissent. It's passsge
hundreds of children in