Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Isle Will be canuluaGe LOT Uuileu
States Senator from Kentucky.
Mr.. Chauucey NJ. Depew contra
diets the report that he and the Van
derbi It's will resist payment of the in
come tax.
1t is reported that Tammany will go
into the next campaign under the lead
ership of committee with Richard
Croker as the real leader.
There yet remain but ten days of
the armistice granted by the japanese.
and it is thought that peace negotia-
tons with China will be concluded by
that time.
Rice imported from Japan is being
sold in Savannah, Ga, at two cents 8
pound, exclusive of duty. The rice
gro Sers of Georgia are uneasy at the
success of the importation.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
during the practice firing in the Woo
Sung forts yesterday magazine &C
cidentally exploded. Forty men were
killed and many more injured.
Charles Allen has instituted suit in
the United States Circuit Court in
New York to prohibit the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company from paying
the income tax, averring that it is un-
constitutional.
A British steamer carrying insurgents
was recently wrecked at the port OF
Barason, Cuba, her captain killed and
crew imprisoned. The insurgents, at
ter fight with the Spanish soldiers,
escaped to the mountains.
Joseph Briondon, the French butler
in the house of Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury Curtis, who attempted
suicide Tuesday afternoon, died at
Emergency Hospital, in Washington,
at 2:30 o'clock this morning.
In the presence of two little girls
Joseph Buck shot and kicked their
mother, Tessie Williams, in her home
in Newark, N. j., yesterday afternoon
AS she fell Buck turned the pistol upon
himself and committed suicide
Elizabeth Scheibe, German immi.
grant, was married in Brooklyn yester,
day to Frederick Vosberg, whom she
had never seen before, the wedding
being the result ofan answer to Vos.
berg's advertisement for wife.
The Interstate Building and Loan
Association, of Bloomington, ILL.,, o.
| which Vice President Stevenson is
president, was yesterday the subject o.
a sensational attack before the Illinois
House committee on building and loan
associations. Bad management is al
legged.
The story telegraphed from New
York that the recent advance in bee
was not justified and that the big Chi
cago packers were making an effort to
control the meat market of the coun
try and advance prices to consumers i;
denied by Messrs. Nelson Morris, Geo
P. Swift, Armour & Company and other
packers. The cause of the advance in
prices they say is the scarcity of cattle
The biggest freshet since the memor
able one of 1862 is now raging in the
Delaware and much damage has beer
done by high water. The flood endan
gers many towns. The Delaware and
Raritan Canal has been badly injured
and cannot be repaired inside OF two
months. Stockton, N. j., is in danger
of flood from the breaking of guard
locks. Railroad tracks are flooded al
Bordenton and other places.
A jury in Chicago yesterday gave g
verdict for $4,000 damages against
Jacob Schweinfurth, of Rockford, who
claims to be Messiah" for alternating
the affections of the wife and daughter
of George Coudrey. Schweinfurth
who has become very wealthy through
property donations from weak-minded
women who have become converts to
his alleged religion" had also gotten
a good slice of property with the Coud.
rey woman, but this will be covered by
the verdict, which was obtained after q
most sensational trial.