Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A dog attacked two horses on Long
Island yesterday and held on so firmly
that il was necessary to use an iron bar
to force his jaws apart.
Mrs. Wickes, wife of Thomas II.
Wickes, vice president of the Pullman
Palace Car Company, was granted a
divorce by a Chicago court yesterday.
TIE Dundas street Methodist Church
in London, Ont, was burned yesterday
and Firemen Mcdonald and Siddel and
Fire Chief Roe were badly hurt by fall
ing walls.
The three Hawaiian exiles have sued
the Canadian-Australian steamship
company that transported them from
Honolulu. The suit was entered in
Vancouver, B. c.
II was reported from Berlin that
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria had been
expelled from the country and had fled
to Roumania. The rumor was aseer-
tained to be unfounded.
he prosecution in the trial of Cap
tam Howgate closed its case in Wash
ington Yesterday. Captain Howgate's
counsel says it has not been determin-
ed whether or not Captain Howgate
will testify.
Mrs. Margaret A. Johnson, wife Of
Daniel johnson, dropped dead about
7:30 last evening at the corner of Thir-
ty.first and NJ streets, Washington.
Death was caused by apoplexy. She
was about fifty years old.
James Keelan, the hero who held the
bridge at Strawberry Plains, Tenn.
single-handed and alone, against a
squad of Union soldiers, died in poverty
and obscurity at his humble home, in
West Bristol, Monday morning.
The contempt rule against George
NJ. Pullman in the Debs case was dis
missed by Judge Grosscup in the
United States Court, Chicago, yester-
day, Mr.. Pullman explaining that he
meant no disrespect to the court by his
trip East.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Perkins
introduced bill providing for the ap
poiutment of a non-partisan commits
sion to collect information and to con-
slider and recommend legislation to
meet the problems presented by labor,
agriculture and capital.
Fire broke out about o'clock last
night in the basement of three-story
wooden building in Lynn, Mass, occu-
pied by w. Henry Hutchinson as q
hardware store, and spread to adjoin-
ing property, entailing a total loss OF
100000 Three men were killed, sew
eral injured and two are missing, sup
posed to be buried in the ruins.
Racing around snow-coyered circle
on track that was a yeritable quag-
mire were the strange conditions that
met the gaze of the fifteen hundred
running enthusiasts who journeyed out
to the Arlington race track yesterday,
to witness the inaugural race of the
Baltimore Jockey Club that will con-
tinue daily until March /.
The Chinese have surrendered the
warships and forts of Wei-Hai- Wei,
and the Japanese are now in full pos
session of the place. A Hong Kong
dispatch says it is supposed that the
| Japanese Will threaten rOo Cuo", cap
ital of the province of Fukien, after
they have secured Wei-Hai- Wei. The
| Chinese are preparing for the defense
of that place. The Chinese peace en-
voys have left Japan for their homes.
Mayor Strong, of New York, acting
under the power of removal bill, which
was passed by the legislature at Albany
last week, made his first important ap-
pointments yesterday and turned down
the republican leaders by putting none
but reformers on guard. His list of APP
pointments includes Francis NJ. Scott,
democrat; William Brookfeld, anti
Platt republican, and q lot of mug.
wump and independent republican civil
service reformers. A political sensa-
ton was caused by the announcement
of his policy.