Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-02-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

of this Congress.
Tie silver men have majority in
the Senate. The prospects of currency
legislation are reported as decreasing
day by day.
Mrs. Virginia Griffith Bowie, widow
fthe late Thomas F. Bowie. of Upper
Marlboro, Prince Georges county, Md,
died at her residence in Baltimore yes
terday.
Preparations for the issue of new
bonds are complete, but the call will
probably be delayed until the House
of Representatives has acted upon the
popular loan bill.
Madame Henri Joniaux was on Sat
urday convicted of numbering her rela-
tives at Brussels for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the insurance on their lives and
was sentenced to death.
Major John McDonough, assistant
superintendent of the city delivery de-
partment of the Boston postofiice, was
arrested Saturday, charged with steal
ing money and letters from the mail.
Rabbi Isaac Kaiser was dismissed
Saturday by the congregation Bnai
Abraham 10 Newark, The trustees of
the congregation unanimously agreed
that he "cared more for women than
for holy writ"
Mrs. Gustave S. Erlelyi, who re-
nounced the Catholic religion over her
husbands body, because priests would
not officiate at his funeral, publicly en-
braced Presby terianism in Hope Chap
ell, in New York, yesterday.
At a large meeting of the order of
railway conductors in Chicago yester-
day it was resolved to recommend that
all members be expelled who refuse to
renounce all connection with the
American Railway Union.
The wife of Peter Meterwich, of
Napa, Cal, while laboring under the
delusion that she had greatly sinned
against God and as punishment her
children were to be sold into slavery,
yesterday tried to murder the four lit
ties ones with an axe.
NJ. Henri Rochefort, the socialist
French journalist who was exiled from
France with the late General Boulanger
in 1889, returned to Paris yesterday I'M
der the permission granted by the am
nesty bill, and was given an .enthusias'
tic welcome by his admirers.
The 5000 prisoners in Belem prison,
Mexico, would have been free but for
the timely discovery of a tunnel yester,
day. The prisoners, under pretense OF
attending night school, have been at
work on the great tunnel for portion
of two years, working secretly, in regu
lar shifts.
Dispatches from Rome state upon
Vatican authority that the Pope is
making arrangements to assign special
facilities to the Apostolic delegation al
Washington, making sort OF ecclesi
astical tribunal to adjudicate the differ
ences of Catholics and deal with priests
and bishops as regards ecclesiastical
discipline.
| 1t is said that the Hawaiian Govern
ment is seriously considering the advis-
ability of putting to death the royal
lists who were prominent in the recent
revolution against the republic. 1t is
also said that Qaecn Liliuokalani will
be banished, and it is not impossible
that she will arrive in the United States
on the next steamer.
One of the boldest robberies ever per.
petrated in New Orleans occurred Sat
urday morning at 2 o'clock at the office
of the Standard Oil Company. Three
masked cracksmen held up the watch
man at the point of a pistol, and after
binding him with ropes in a chair, al
most totally demolished the safe. Two
bags OF silver amounting TO about $3.50
were stolen.
In the woman suffrage convention at
Atlanta on Saturday Mrs. Colley, in an
address, said that committee was pre-
pairing an amendment to, the Constitu
ton allowing women to vote. Pick
pockets made haul among the ladies
attending the convention, the wife Of
governor Robinson, of Kentucky,
heing robbed of a purse containing $500
worth of diamonds.
llc tTOlttN Cdt slIlheiS duu euCb
sympathizers in Brookly made Sunday
a day of disturbances. Non-union mo-
tormen were beaten and dragged from
their cars, and some Of the lines were
barricaded with boxes and building
material. A great many arrests were
made of strike sympatbizers who per-
sisted in throwing stones and waylay-
ing all the non union men in sight.
Some of those arrested were small
boys.
Henry Wallace, colored, twenty one
years old, was found on the railroad
tracks, in the extreme northeastern
part of Washington yesterday, with his
feet badly frozen. Wallace said he left
Pittsburg over week ago, to beat his
way to his home at Woodsdale, Va,
and that he had been obliged to walk a
good portion of the distance. Saturday
night he slept in an old barn, three
miles from the city, and while asleep
his feet were frozen. Yesterday he
walked until he fell from exhaustion.
The police sent him to the Emergency
Hospital.
FELL DEAD IN THE FIRE.-An aged
man named Grant, in Grayson county,
and his twelve-year-old daughter, the