Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Edwin Booths estate amounts TO
S672 900 after $4,000 of legacies have
been paid out of it.
The Japanese treaty was amended in
the Senate yesterday evening by modi-
tying the Objectionable clause.
There is said to be plan to organize
Tammany by making sachems OF some
of the most prominent men in the city.
J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York,
consulted with President Cleveland on
the financial situation yesterday even
ing.
The Queen Regent of Spain has sign
ed the commercial modus vivendi
agreed upon by Spain and the United
States.
Brazilian officials, alarmed at the
many plots against the government,
may cause the arrest of exPresident
PeiXoto.
Eugene Bush attempted suicide at his
home 2O23 G street, Washington, yes
terday by cutting his throat and then
his wrist.
Strikers last night attacked a car in
Brooklyn, beat a motorman and con-
ductor and were dispersed by police
men, who fired at them.
There is ample ground for the belief
that the Mexico-Guatemala affair has
now reached phase where peaceful
adjustment is about certain.
A dispatch from Shanghai states
that Wel-Hni-Wei is ia the possession
of the japanese, the Chinese defending
the place having fled to Chefoo.
Encampment No. 60, Union Veteran
Legion, in Washington las p sht adopt
ed resolution urging Congress to pro-
vide for a national park at Appomattox.
Senator Robertson, of New York,
Yesterday admitted that Recorder Golf
is the author of the bill to increase his
own salary and give him the patronage
a change has been made in the
management of Wizards Hotel, in
Washington, Mr.. Morgan B. Lewis, OF
Virginia Beach, succeeding Mr.. o. G.
Staples.
The trial of the nine colored men,
who are accused of numbering Constable
Edward Carver in Somerset county,
Md: began in the criminal court Of
Baltimore yesterday.
Crowds OF Londoners yesterday well
coined home the Princess Of Wales on
her arrival from st. Petersburg, where
she had been in attendance upon her
sister, the widow of the late Car, since
her bereavement.
The japanese northern Amy is meet
ing with increasing difficulties in its
operations about New Chwang. The
cold is intense, frequently being To- be-
low zero. The capture of Wei-HaiWe
has made a deep impression at Pekin.
The Chicago Home Saloon Associa-
ton opened the first of its saloons in
Chicago Monday night. More than a
dozen kinds Of temperance drinks, with
free lunch, were served, and there We're
newspapers, magazines and checkers
free for the use Of patrons.
Owing to the intensely cold weather
that has prevailed along the coast for
the past twenty-four hours, all the
steamships arriving at New York yes
terday presented an imposing and
beautiful spectacle, with their hulls,
decks, spars and rigging coated with
ice from six TO ten inches in thickness.
The House committee on elections
Yesterday decided the case of Belknap
against Richardson, of the Fifth Mich
igan district, in favor of Richardson,
the sitting member. The House iudici
airy committee yesterday voted to IA
vorably report the Senate bill for an
additional U. S. judge for the Ninth
judicial district.
James Mutt, who killed W. w. Duke
at Unionlown, Pa, several years ago
and subsequently, moved to Kansas.
shot Mrs. John Peyton and Leonard
Coleman yesterday near Atchison and
was himself badly wounded by Mrs.
Peytou, who chopped his head with an
axe after she had been wounded. 1t is
thought the wounds of Mr.. Mutt ami
Mrs. Peyton will prove fatal.
MURDER TRIAL.-Claus A. Blixt, one
Of the men charged with the murder of
Miss Catherine Cling in Minneapolis,
Mimi, testified yesterday against
Harry Haywood, the other one charged
with the murder Bliyt recited dra-