Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Gerry whippingpost bill has
passed the New York Senate unani-
mously.
The new treaty between the United
States and Japan has been ratified by
the latter government.
Mrs. Ballington Booth, of the Saliva
ton Army, was granted permission by
Judge Ferris, of Cincinnati, 10 perform
the marriage ceremony.
A colony Of 700 negroes has just been
located in the State of Durango, Mexico,
and is the first emigration OF the Afri-
can race to enter that republic.
Officials of the Seaboard Air Line in
Baltimore assert that the company will
have nothing to do with the Southern
Railway and Steamship Company.
Thirty-6ve peacocks were frozen 10
death in single night, during the re.
cent cold weather, at Mr.. S. H. Higin-
botham's "Wheatland Farm" near
Shepherdstown. W. Va.
J.L. Shropshire, cashier of the Cen.
trail Railway of Georgia, who was miss
ing from his Office in Birmingham, Ala,
was subsequently found to have COM
mitted suicide. His accounts were
short.
Captain General Callya, of Cub, has
demanded the recall of the American
consul general at Havana, r. 0. Will
liams, of New York, and the Spanish
Cabinet Council has agreed to support
the demand.
Rev. DR.. A. B. Kinsolving, of Brook
lyn, formerly rector San Episcopal
church in Baltimore, has been elected
secretary of the American Church Mis-
| sionary Society, to succeed Rev. DR..
Newbold, of Mont Clair, removed.
A meeting of colored men, presided
over by Perry H. Carson, was held in
Washington yesterday afternoon for
the purpose of taking formal steps to
prosecute Policeman Adwin W. Green
for killing Reuben Foster at Hillsdale
on Monday.
A majority of the special commit ee
of the New York Senate appointed to
investigate the Troy elections reported
that the political machine, headed by
United States Senator Murphy, is gross
ly corrupt and exists with the aid OIL
many so-called republicans.
Southern Railway preferred was sold
down in New York yesterday by g
clique of bear traders and was bought
on the decline by the same brokers.
The movement was based on
dispatches reporting heavy cuts in pas
senger rates by the Seaboard line.
In Washington yesterday William
Calvin Chase, colored, was convicted
of libel CD the Indictment against him
for the publications regarding the pri
vate and public life of Recorder c. H.
J. Taylor, also colored. The penalty
may be fine or Imprisonment, or both
Chase was jailed last night.
1t is reported that the heirs of Fred
Douglass will contest the will of the
deceased. 1t Is said that the feeling
between the children of the first wife
and the widow has not always beer
the most friendly, and that during the
latter days of Douglass he decided
much of his property to his wife with
out the knowledge of his children.
. A cablegram from Paris yesterday an
nounced decree of divorce to have
been granted Mr.. George A. Ballan
tine, of Newark, n. j., against his wife
upon the statutory grounds. 1t is gen
orally understood that the co-respon
dent in the case is Mr.. Newton EustiS
son ofthe United States ambassador tt
France, and at present first secretary o
that embassy.
Manuel Almagro, accountant and in
terpreter to the Argentine legation il
Washington, was yesterday arrested al
the Office of the legation and locked uI
at the request of Minister Zeballos, on
charge of embe zzling $500 of the
funds of the legation. Almaero con
fessed his guilt. He says he first lost
money not his own playing faro in
Jackson City; then he tried to win
back in New York.
Observers of passing political events
are represented as not attaching much
importance to the organization of the
bimetallic party. Its success is de-
pendent upon the result of the propos-
ed international monetary conference
if that conference shall be held. The
newly born party is said to be already
divided. Mr.. Sibley, democrat, OF
Pennsylvania, who has been recon-
mended for the presidency, is said to
be willing to withdraw in favor OF
Senator Cameron, republican, of the
same State.
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