Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-16
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Senator and Mrs. German entertain
ed the Gridiron Club in Washington
last night.
The cornerstone of the first Of the
pronosed Episcopal Cathedral buildings
ut Washington, D. c., will be laid this
summer.
Captain julius M. Rhett, gentle
man farmer of Montmorenci, near
Aiken, S. c., was killed yesterday by
Mr.. Marion Toole during quarrel.
Sir Frederick Ponsonby, private Sec
rotary to Queen Victoria, is said to be
dying from the effects of the stroke of
paralysis he sustained on January 7.
1t is reported in diplomatic circles in
Washington that Baron Fava, the
Italian ambassador at Washington,
may shortly be transferred to Europe.
Erastus Wiman has been granted a
new trial by the New York Supreme
Court. He was convicted several
months ago of forging an endorsement
upon check.
The livery stable of Alexander J.
Parlett, on Chesapeake avenue. near
the York road, Towson, Md, was burn
ed to the ground last night and nine
horses met death in the flames.
The United States Supreme Court
yesterday took recess until Monday,
the 25th inst, with the exception that
it will sit next Monday for the delivery
of opinions and to hear motions.
Judge Culberson yesterday called at
tention to the fact that President
Cleveland can only send the American
delegates to monetary conferences
called to secure fixed ratio between
gold and silver.
The dynamite factory of the Han
cock Chemical Company, at Dollar
Bay, Mich, blew up yesterday, and Of
a dozen men employed there the body
of but one has been found, that of Dom
mick Christian.
If sensational reports are true, the
Adams Express Company lost a very
large sum of money, variously estimat-
ed at from $4,000 to $4,000, in the
Yandalia passenger wreck in Terrt
Haute, Ind, yesterday.
A severe engagement with Colombian
rebels at Baranca on Monday last i:
reported. The rebels numbered 600, O
whom 100 are said to have been slain
In addition the government troop:
captured many prisoners.
Judge Brantley, in the United State:
Court at Charleston, S. c., yesterday
rendered an opinion that so much o.
the dispensary act as interferes witt
interstate commerce is obnoxious tt
the United States and void.
The committee of the Southern Pas
senger Association to nominate a com
missioner under the new agreement
met al Savannah yesterday. 1t is in
ferred that the present commissioner
Mr.. Slaughter, has been agreed upon
A dispatch from Shanghai says tina
Chinese guilds in that city have me
and agreed to subscribe to war loar
of S750,O0O. Ii Hung Chang, Chi
mas peace envoy, sailed for Japan yes
terday afternoon with his suite OF forty
persons.
James l.. Travers, the young colored
man who has been on trial for three
days before Justice Cole, in Washing
ton, for the murder of Lena Gross or
November 10 last in the Cronice woods
near Brightwood, was found guilty yes
terday by the jury as indicted.
The new organization to control the
output of Ohio coal has been complet
ed. There will be one general agency
which will sell the coal at a price moi
below a minimum agreed upon. The
operators are to be allowed minimum
net price for the coal. The railroads
are to conform their rates to the agree.
ment. Travelling statesmen and the
various agencies will be abolished.