Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| The Mora draft has been paid and
the money is now subject to the order
of Secretary Olney.
The drought has caused such low
water in the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal that navigation is interfered
with.
Judge Pryor said on the bench in
New York yesterday that mothers-ln-
law make much of the trouble between
married people.
DIR. William Beverly Sinclair died
Yesterday at his home in Baltimore.
| BE was seventy-six years old, and was
born at Norfolk.
The State Department was yesterday
advised of the death in Corea, from
cholera, of Mr.. Ye Sung 500, Corean
minister to the United States.
An Irish local government measure
in 1897 to be considered in the British
Parliament, will probably include the
creation OF central council in Dublin.
The British half-rater Ethelwynn
yesterday won the fourth race of the
series for the Seawanhaka, N. y,
Yacht Clubs international challenge
cup from the Spruce.
At noon Tuesday next Miss Lucille
Black burn, daughter of Senator Joe
Black burn, of Kentucky, will be mar.
ried in Washington to Hon. Edward
Lane, of New Jersey.
1t is reported that the King of Bel
GUM is trying to arrange for the sale OF
the Congo State on the basis of dipi-
sion of territories between France,
| Germany and England.
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
who was in New York yesterday, an
nounced the candidacy of Senator
Cushman Davis, of Minnesota, for the
Presidential nomination on the repub-
lican ticket.
The Treasury gold reserve has been
reduced to $40, 7O5, O67, at which figures
it. stood when the Treasury closed its
doors yesterday. These figures were
reached by withdrawal at New York
for export of 81 100000.
From Baracoa, Cuba, come reports
showing that city to be in state Of seige
and threatened with extinction. On the
18th the rebels broke the aqueduct and
burned the costly elevators which were
recently built. A reign of terror exists.
The British steamship Alene, of the
Atlas Line, was fired upon three time:
by Spanish gunboat while of Cape
A1aysi, on her voyage from New York
to Kingston. Jamaica. The Alene was
then searched and allowed to proceed.
Richard Croker yesterday dictated
the sub committees of the Tammany
general committee, making John G.
Sbeehan chairman of the finance com
mittee. The Delaney faction was de-
MED recognition and left the organize
ton.
The New York State democracy yes
terday decided to nominate the Syria
cuse State candidates by petition,
adopted the rooster as an emblem and
will fight Tammany's local ticket, with
the Syracuse ticket heading their local
candidates.
Advices received at Washington
from the Orient indicate that Russian
i nuence is supplanting that of Eng
land aud other Western nations in the
management OF the affairs of China as
we'll as in diplomatic relations with
that country,
The second annual Old Folks Day
was held at the home of DR.. G. p. Rice,
at Alliance, O., yesterday. A dinner
was served 10 the Methodist Episcopal
Church, at which were seated 80 of the
aged guests. The ages OF those present
ranged from 95 to 103.
A sensational debate was had last
night in the South Carolina constitu-
tional convention over measure that
in all elections for members OF the legis.
lalure only white citizens should be
eligible. Senator Tillman led the fight
against the measure and it was defeated.
Secretary Morton has issued an or
der directing that from and after Octo-
Der 22d next cattle may be admitted
into the United States from Mexico
fo- grazing and for immediate slaugh-
ter through the ports of San Diego,
Nogales, Ell Paso, cage Pass, Browns
vile and the sub port of Laredo.
At Buena Vista there resides Mrs.
Camden, who has reached the remark
able old age of one hundred and eight
years and is in the full possession of all
her faculties. Che has five living child
rem, the oldest of which Is seventy eight
years old. The old lady possesses a
most remarkable memory and can re-
call many cidents in her child life and
much of the early history of the Sben-
sndoah Valley.
Maggie Dalton, the alleged servant
girl thief, has made a statement to the
St. Louis police concerning the recent
management of the female hospital.
sac accuses the officials of selling the
bodies Of patients who died in the in
tuition. Coffios filed with bricks,
she says, were palmed of on the man
who buried the dead and the bodies
were shipped away from the city to va
rious medical colleges.
Capt. George A. Armes, brevet ma
jor, a retired army officer, well-known
in Washington and that vicinity vas
arrested at his home near Washington
last night on q warrant issued by au-
thori.y of the Acting Secretary of War,
and is now prisoner at the Washing
ton barracks. The Cause of the arrest
was letter written Gen. Schofield,
who was acting as Secretary of War,