Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Four Mormon elders have been noti-
fed to leave North Carolina.

TOul u1Ol AOn Ct0Cl0 1of0 bCOh hbeA-
fed to leave North Carolina.
Don M. Dickinson was yesterday de-
feated for the democratic nomination
for mayor of Detroit by Samuel Gold
water, labor candidate.
Four boys were arrested in Wash
ington yesterday evening for breaking
into the Chinese legation and stealing
watches and money. The property was
recovered.
Samuel Dawson, a prominent West
Virginian and ex-member of the State
Senate, committed suicide at the home
Of a friend near Berkeley Springs, w.
Va, yesterday.
Snow to the depth of twenty two in.
ches fell in Oswego county, in New
York, yesterday. The drifts along the
roads were SO deep that sleighs were
with difficulty drawn through them.
The construction of the one hundred
or more three inch field guns lately de.
cided upon by the naval ordnance bu-
reeu, will shortly be commenced at the
gun factory at the Washington navy
yard.
The tenth annual report of Commits.
sioner Wright shows that in the thir'
teen and a half years ending June 80,
1894, the number of persons thrown
out of employment by strikes was
3,714,406.
Rev. DIR. T. Dewitt Talmage, who
tomorrow will be installed as co-pas.
tor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Washington, arrived there from New
York last night and Immediately went
to his apartments at the Arlington.
Colonel Sam Pomeroy Colt has be.
gun suit in Providence, r. l., against
James J. Van Allen for 100000, fol-
alternating his wife's affections. Mrs
Colt filed a petition for divorce from
her husband on grounds of adultery.
Mrs. Sallie Greenthal, of Arkansas
was yesterday awarded $11 900 by q
Jury in her suit against the Iron Noun.
tain Rail way fer the death of her hus
hand, who was killed by an insane
man on train of the defendant com
pany.
The entire island of Cuba has beer
affected by the cyclone. The port o.
Havana has been closed since yester'
day at noon. The Panama and other
steamers which had cleared are detain'
ed. The ferryboats have suspended
trains are delayed, exchange closed
wires down, and the trees in several
plazas felled.
A sensation in naval circles was
caused last night by the announcement
that Rear Admiral William A. Kirk.
land, commanding the European naval
station, had been detached from duty
and ordered home. 1t is expected that
Admiral Kirkland will apply at once
to be placed on the retired list. Com
modore Thomas o. Selridge, jr., will
succeed as commanding officer of the
European station. For some time pas
it has been rumored that Secretary
Herbert was not pleased with the cor
duct of Admiral kirkland and that 8
long list of ill-advised actions led to his
recall.
The full text of Senator Sherman's
reference in his memoirs to the nation.
al republican convention of 1880, which
nominated James A. Garfield for the
presidency, has been published. The
Senator repeatedly acquits General
Garfield, who managed the Sherman
forces at that convention, of any
double dealing or seeking to bring
about his own nomination, but charges
that Charles Foster, afterward Secre-
tary of the Treasury, who was one of
the delegates at large from Ohio, did
not do all in his power to secure the
nomination of Senator Sherman.