Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-05-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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and held him until the police arrived,
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
that the three protesting powers will
insist upon Japan's full compliance with
their demands.
An attempt was made in the House
of Commons last evening to annul the
annuity of the Duke of Edinburgh, but
it was defeated-72 to 1913.
NJ mbers of the observation-disclosures
Society last night passed resolutions in
dorsing the Baltimore exposition and
determining to invite the United Con-
federate Veterans to meet in Baltimore
in 1897.
Miss Judith E. Venable, a Virginia
born woman, and who, in October,
1861, carried dispatches in the soles OF
her shoes from Paris, France, to Rich
mond, Va, died in Shelby county, KY.
a few days since.
All legal proceedings against the
members of the American Railway
Union charged with rioting during the
great strike last summer at Oakland,
Cal, lave been dropped by order of
Attorney General Olney.
1t is announced in Paris that Japan
has decided to renounce claims to terri
tory in the Lao Tung peninsula eX-
cept Port Arthur, in return for COM
pepsation elsewhere. The Emperor
Of China, it is announced, has decided
to ratify the treaty of peace with Japan.
Theodore Durapt has been formally
held by the magistrate in San Fran
cisco who conducted the preliminary
examination in the case of Miss Marion
Williams, one of the young ladies MUIR
dered in Emanuel Baptist Church. He
is also charged with the murder OF Miss
Blanche Lamont, the other young lady
found dead in the church.
A private letter from London des-
cribes with apparent authority the pro-
liability of an approaching Ieconcilia-
ton between Mr.. and Mrs. Langtry.
The writer states that correspondence
has been going on between the two,
and that it is apparent that Mrs. Lang
try is anxious to return to her liege lord
and that he is willing to have her.
Williams Hayes two daughters, aged
sixteen and eighteen, who lived near
Hard Ridge, Daley county, Ala, while
on their way to field Thursday were
attacked by two unknown negroes and
spirited away. Since then posses have
been searching the woods. but in vain.
1t is thought the girls have been out
ragged and murdered and their bodies
sacreted in the woods.
The Southern Railway and the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
interests have settled all differences as
to the Cincinnati extension bonds and
the properties underlying them on q
basis entirely satisfactory to both par
ties. The Southern Railway has taken
control of the Alabama Great Southern
Railroad Company by the election Of
Samuel Spencer as president.
Chiffon Woods, ham Baselle, jr., and
T. ]. Goldman, three young married
men of Rock Camp, o., went fishing
Thursday night. During a storm the
party took shelter under tree, which
was struck by lightning and shattered
into fragments. Woods was killed in.
stantly. Baselle was fatally injured
and Goldman seriously shocked. Their
steel cartridge belts were torn and
twisted out OF shape.
In Leavenworth, Kas., yesterday
Judge Myers, of the Federal Court, in
granting the petition of w. F. Johnson,
of Topeka, who sued DR.. Leslie f.
Kelley for 800, 900 damages, ruled that
DR.. Kelley must make known the in
gradients of his bichloride of gold COM
pound. The court holds that the COM
pound is not property right nor q
trade secret. Johnson alleges he was
made physical wreck by the gold
treatment.
Special Government Attorney L. D.
McKissick, of San Francisco, has re-
ceived kilograms instructing him to
push the government suit for $4,000,
900 against Mrs. Jane Stanford without
delay. Mrs. Stanford was recently in
Washington. Her trip to the capital is
said to have been solely for the purpose
of urging upon the Department Of
Justice the Importance of an immediate
action on the SIS, 900, 600 claim.
A terrible thunder and lightning
storm passed over Huntington, w. Va,
beginning at 6 o'clock aud lasting until
midnight Thursday night. Just across
the river, on Simms's creek, Hamilton
Bazzell, Chiffon 0. Woods and T. ].
Bolin took shelter under a tree and
Woods was instantly killed by light
ming, and the other men so seriously
injured that they will probably die.
All are prominent in business circles
and are men of families.
The report comes from Chicago that
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and Gen.
Henry Kyd Douglas, of Maryland, are
to be married in the near future. The
wedding will occur in Washington, it
is understood, at the home of Mrs. Sar
toris, and will be very quietly conduct
ed. Only few friends and the imme-
date family will witness the ceremony,
and Gen. and Mrs. Douglas will sail
for tour abroad Immediately after.
Mrs. Sartoris denies the correctness of
the report.
Prominent members of the Grand
Army of the Republic in Chicago de-
clare impertinent the protest OF
the Massachusetts commander against
the dedication of the Chicago
Confederate monument on Decora-
ton Day. General Rollins's pro-
position that the Grand Army of
the Republic build home for aged and
in6rm -Confederates in the South
was tabled in the department encamp-
ment of Colorado aud Wyoming at