Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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It is said that the Japanese army
does not want peace now, and the ne
gotiations may fail.
Hon. William Pinkney Whyte is
mentioned in connection with the dem
ocratic nomination for Governor of
Maryland.
a new invention in telegraphy, by
which, it is claimed, 200 words min
ute can be transmitted, was exhibited
in Baltimore yesterday.
General Barrios, the Nicaraguan en-
voy, is said to have sought the sympa-
thy of the United States to resist the
demands of Great Britain.
Sixty men persisted by the explosion
of gas in Rocky Mountain Mine No. .,
at Red Canyon, Wyoming, on Wednes-
day evening, mention OF which was
made yesterday.
Private advices from Hawaii state
that prominent royalists are forming
clubs among native Hawaiians with
view to annexation of the islands TO
the United States.
A letter received at Washington from
Foo Chow, China, announces the death
in that city of Rev. DR.. Nathan Sites,
the senior missionary of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in China.
Fremont and Scion McCloskey,
brothers, were arrested at Cripple
Creek, Col, yesterday, on charge OF
stealing over $50, 900 worth OF ore from
the Union Mining Company.
Three republican New York State
Senators refused to be bound by the
caucus action on the Lexow police
bills, and the attempt to pass them
in the Senate did not succeed.
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, the
well-known New York millionaire, has
almost lost his eyesight, through over
work, and his friends fear that he may
become entirely blind, unless he con-
sents to give up his set business habits,
and takes long rest.
Final notifications of the new treaty
between the United States and Japan
were exchanged yesterday and nothing
now remains to be done but to issue q
presidential proclamation putting it
into effect, when it will become law.
The Pennsylvania Canal Company,
which is owned and controlled by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has
made a proposition to the Maryland
State board of public works to restore
and operate the Susquehanna and
Tidewater canal.
In the battle between the rebels and
the government forces in Lima, Peru,
500 men were killed. Presi-
dent Caceres has resigned, and the pro
visional government is reported to
have concluded an armistice between
the government and the insurgents.
The meeting of the presidents Of the
anthracite coal carrying railroads yes
terday in New York was a disappoint-
ment, for nothing definite whatever
was done. They made no attempt to
restrict the output or advance prices,
but appointed committee to submit a
scheme at next weeks meeting.
A majority of the members of the pro.
fessional woman's league who attended
the weekly meeting in New York yes
terdav declared at the close of an ami
mated discussion their intention of ar
raging all their thought force against
"the wave of hypnotism which Is sweep
ing over the land.o This determine
ton was not reached without struggle.
A gay old deceiver known in Balti-
more as James Clark was yesterday
sentenced to five years in the peniten-
tiary. He spared the State the neces-
sity of trial by pleading guilty to the
charge of stealing two trunks contain
ing wearing apparel valued at $500
from Mrs. Sabra A. F. Field of 619
Bradford street. He is said to have
numerous wives and had a fondness for
stealing trunks.
1t is announced that Great Britain
will not attempt to seize any American
territory as a result of the Nicaraguan
trouble. Nicaragua and Venezuelan
matters were considered at the confer
ence at the White House Wednesday
afternoon, the result being embodied in
a dispatch to Ambassador Bayard, in
structing him to learn the attitude anu
intentions of Great Britain in case Mic
aragua should refuse to pay the indem-
nifty demanded for the outrage upon
Mr.. Hatch. The reply received yester-
day was most satisfactory. Whatever
else may happen, England will not
seek to acquire American territory.
Great Britain however, may lombard
Greytown if the claim for damages is
not settled, but in such case the United
States will not interfere. A war vessel
of the United States once bombarded
this very Nicaraguan town as the re-
suit of circumstances identically
similar to those which exist to-day.