Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Kenebec river froze over yester-
day for the first time this winter.
Populists members of the U. s. Sen.
ate have decided to act together in that
body.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson says Mr.. Cleve-
land will not be a candidate for third
term.
The republicans were generally sue
cessfnl in the Connecticut city elections
yesterday.
1t is req orted from Albany that Gov
ernor Morton will soon announce that
he is candidate for the presidency.
"Kid" Lavigne was given the decis-
ion over "Joe" Walcott in the fifteenth
round in their fight at Maspeth. l.. l.,
last night.
The Powhatan Mill, at Powhatan,
eight miles northwest of Baltimore, was
destroyed by fire yesterday; loss between
$65, 900 and $4,000.
A. K. Ward, the Memphis embezzler,
has been arrested at Livingston, Guate-
mala, and is now on his way to the
United States in the custody of an
officer.
A Vienna correspondent telegraphs
tn London that he learns from Constar-
tinople that the Sultan is in daily fear
OF sharing the fate of Ismail Pasha of
Egypt.
Henry Menier, the chocolate manu-
facturer, of Paris, bought the Island OF
Apticosti, in the estuary of the st. Law
renee river Canada, yesterday, for
1000, 600 francs.
Charles NJ. Biddle, aged nineteen
years, was arrested in Baltimore yester.
day, charged with shooting at Miss Bar
bara Wernsdofer. his sweetheart, with
intent to kill.
A dispatch from Vienna says that the
Ambassadors of the great powers have
refused to withdraw the request for fir
mans authorizing extra guardships 10
pass through the Dardanelles.
A poll of the Fifty-fourth Congress
indicates that the members favor the
granting of belligerent rights for Cuba
and the passing by the House of reso
luton favoring the annexation of Ha.
wall.
Mrs. jamie Champion McAllister OBJ
tanned her first verdict at Savannah,
Ca, yesterday in her suit for divorce
against her husband, q son of the late
Ward McAllister, the New York society
leader.
Miss Bernardine Logsdon and Mr..
Arthur w. Nyce, who eloped from
Reisterstown, Md, last September, were
married yesterday. Nyce deserted a
WIFE and family and the wife recently
secured divorce.
Julio Sanguilly, who claims to be an
American citizen and who has been on
trial at Havana on the charge of aiding
aud abbetting the rebellion, was found
guilty yesterday and sentenced to life
Imprisonment at hard labor.
The great arena begun at Dallas,
Texas, for the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
fight, and which. was to have seated
$4,000 persons, is being taken down
under the direction of Secretary w. K.
Wheelock, of the Florida Athletic Club.
A committee of the Knights of Py-
thias is preparing an address to be pre-
sented to Monsignor Satolli asking for
a hearing in the case of the ban against
that order by the church that the Cath
olic members may have an opportunity
t present their side of the case.
The Empire State express over the
New York Central Railroad ran yester-
day from New York to Buffalo, 440
miles, in 494 minutes, including three
stops aud exclusive of delay of 26 min
utes in consequence of an accident. An
hourly run of over ffty-three miles was
made.
The falling of ceiling in public
school at Paterson, N. j., yesterday
resulted in the serious, if not fatal, in
jury of one little girl and the painful
injury of at least dozen other pupils
The accident occurred without warning
aud created panic throughout the
school building.
The Secretary of the Treasury yes
!erday transmitted to Congress the esti-
mates of appropriations required for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1897, as fur
uished by the several executive depart
ments, which aggregate $41S,091 ,073.
The appropriations for the present As
cal year amounted to S412, 753, 274.
Walter L. S. Langerman, who was
convicted on a charge of assault in the
first degree, preferred by Barbara Aub,
was discharged by Recorder Golf 10
New York yesterday before whom he
came for sentence. Miss Auh, as stated
yesterday, has made a full confession,
admitting that she had done LANCER
man greet wrong, and that he is not
guilty of the charge of which he was
convicted. She was held for perjury.
Mr.. Linton (republican), of Michi-
gan, introduced the first bill in the
Fifty Fourth Congress yesterday. The
measure provides for Redistribution
of railway postal checks. Under ii
they are divided into ten classes.
Those of the first-class are to receive
salary of $500 per year, from which
sum their salaries are graded up to
81. 800 per annum, for the tenth grade.
Promotions are to be based solely upon
efficiency.
By way OF change In the excite.
ment at Constantinople, a story was
circulated yesterday evening that ex-
Sultan Mohammed Murad, who was
deposed on the ground of idiocy in
1876, has escaped from the Yildiz
Kiosk, where he has been kept a close
prisoner for nineteen years. He is
said to have been intriguing with the
Young Turk party. Murad Bey, the