Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

At the democratic primaries in Anne
Arundel county, Md, on Saturday,
Senator German friends carried every
district.
A new volcano, which is emitting i'm
mense quantities of smoke, lava and
fire, has been discovered at Jalcotan,
Mexico.
The second annual convention of the
chiefs of police Of the United States
will be held in Washington, beginning
tomorrow.
The administration is determined to
administer rebuke to Rear Admiral
K. w. Meade for his attack on the pa
triotism of his superior officers.
Japan has endeavored to negotiate q
treaty with Nicaragua by which she
would secure marked privileges in the
Nicaragua canal when it shall be COM
pleted.
Mr.. Henry E. Alvord, formerly
president of the Maryland Agricultural
College, has been appointed chief OF
the dairy division of the Agricultural
Department.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States
(southern) will meet in the First Pres
byterian church, of Dallas, Tex, on
Thursday next.
Cardinal Gibbons left to-day for Bos.
ton, where he will attend the celebra-
ton of the golden jubilee of Archbish-
Cd Williams on Thursday. On Satur-
day he will sail for Rome.
Count Won Nuremberg and the
Princess Olga Youriewski, eldest
daughter by morganatic marriage OF
Car Alexander II and Princess Dol
gorouki, were married at Nice on Sat
urday.
Three grooms and eighteen race
horses from Mercer, Pa, were killed
yesterday in the wreck of q fast mail
on the western division Of the New
York and Erie Railroad. The train
was ditched by broken wheel.
In Unicol county, Tenn, on Saturday
night Governor Turney was burned in
effigy because the alleged partisan in
vestigating committee threw out ten
of the twelve districts in that county,
three-fourths of the vote of the county
being for Evans.
Ira ]. Chase, who became Governor
of Indiana on the death of Governor
Hoyey in 1891, and who was defeated
for reelection in 1892 by Claude
Matthews, democrat, the present gov
ornor, died on Saturday in Lubec, Me-,
at an advanced age.
Seneca Haselton, United States min
lister to Venezuela, is in Washington to
refute charges brought by Admiral
Meade, who accused him of drunken
ness. He is awaiting the arrival of Mr..
Smalley to make a formal reply to the
charges OF Admiral Meade.
Dispatches from points in Iowa,
South Dakota and Nebraska report
that garden truck and fruit trees in,
bloom appear to have suffered the
greatest damage from frost FRIDAY
night. In the Black Hills, in South
Dakota, four inches of snow fell. AT
Ishpemiug, Mich, there was an iuch OF
snow.
An enforced diet of muskrats and
crows fried in skunk's oil constituted
sufficient ground for the divorce Of
Ella Triplett from her husband, w. B..
Triplett. So the court in Youngstown,
O., has just decided. Triplett locked
his wife in shanty on the Ohio river,
and doomed her to such fare till she
managed to escape by night in a row.
boat.
A dispatch from Norristown Pa.
says it now seems likely that the body
of General Winfield Scott Hancock will
be removed from his native town to Ar
lington, Va. The family of General
Hancock has sanctioned the proposed
removal. which will be carried out by
the old Second Army Corps, which the
general commanded.
The U. S. Supreme Court, it is re
ported, voted on Saturday to declare the
entire income tax unconstitutional.
The nine members spent three hours
in the consultation room at the Capt..
tol, and are thought to have reached a
conclusion adverse to the entire law,
although this cannot, of course, be def
nitely known, until the court an
nounces its decision next Monday.
Another report is that the court, by o
majority of one, will render decision
sustaining the constitutionality of the
income tax law, barring the exceptions
under the first decision in the case, Mr..
Justice Jackson casting the vote which
sustains the law.