Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
1t was stated in Indianapolis, yester.
day, that General Harrison's name
would be presented to the republican
convention, but not by an Indiana
delegation.
In the House of Representatives yes
terday, the republican plan to create
three committees of nine members each
to deal with the election contests was
adopted by party vote.
Felice belong, of Pittston, Pa, yes
terday fought duel with rival fol
the affections of girl and was stabbed
to death. The other man was unin.
jured and is under arrest.
Governor-elect Lowndes, of Mary,
land, was rendered dinner last night
at the Arlington Hotel, in Washington
which was attended by about twenty
FIVE prominent republicans.
1t is believed in Conseantinople thai
the Turks are preparing for a genera
massacre of all the people of Zsitour
when the troops capture that city
which is now held by the Armenians.
Eugene V. Debs yesterday withdrew
his membership in the Brotherhood O.
Locomotive Firemen in Terre Haute
Ind. He says there was time wher
he believed in the brotherhood, but
that time has passed.
Miss Mabel Stewart, of Harper's
Ferry, W. Va. aged seventeen years
went to Baltimore on Saturday to visit
her sister. Mrs John T. Reed While
waiting at Camden station for her sis.
ter, she mysteriously disappeared, and
has not been heard from since.
The will of Allen G. Thurman will
be read in probate court at Columbus
o., tomorrow. 1t was presented in
court yesterday. The estate is worth
about 100000. There are three child
ren-Elizabeth T. Mccormack, Mary
T. Halliday and Allen w. Thurman.
The efforts of the Clothing Contract
ors' Mutual Protective Association in
New York to post its new rules in
some of the shops led to serious de-
monstratioDs of violence, in which
shears, pressing boards and sections Of
gaspipe were used as weapons.
A tall, snabbily-dressed man, who
had been lounging about the corner Of
Second avenue and Thirty-seventh
street, New York, for some hours, at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon took "a.
zor out of his pocket and drawing il
across his throat fell on the sidewalk
Before an ambulance arrived he was
dead. No one knew him.
The German ship Athena, from New
York for Bremen, was lost at sea on
Sunday, December Is, together with
the captain and thirteen men, who
were part ola crew of twenty men, the
first mate, second mate and four sea-
men being picked up by the British
steamer Tafna, bound for Philadelphia.
The awful accident was due to an e1-
plosion of the ships cargo of naphtha
and nitro elycerine. The explosion oc-
Cured while the Athena was lying in a
helpless condition at sea off Cape May,
New Jersey.
In the House of Representatives yes
terday after the reading of the Presi.
dents message on the Venezuelan ques-
ton Mr.. Crisp tried to offer the follow
ing, but was cut off: "Be it enacted
by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatiyes in Congress assembled that the
sum of 100000 be and the same is
hereby appropriated out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated to pay the expenses of COM
mission to be appointed by the Presi-
dent to investigate and report what is
the true divisional line between the re-
public of Venezuela and British Gui-
ana"
All the street car men in Philadel-
phia, with the exception of q few of the
non-union motormen and conductors,
went on strike yesterday. A number
of disturbances occurred, the most
serious being on Chestnut street, in the
crowded business district, when mob
attacked several cars, forcing the con-
ductors and motormen to fly for their
lives, and then smashing the windows
of the cars. AT one crossing up town
women plugged the switches and block
ed the cars. The mayor issued proc
Iamation asking all good citizens to as.
sist in preserving order. Never IN me
history of the city have there been WIZ Si
messed such widespread scenes Oh ai''
order as were enacted last nlghD.