Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-07-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Japan is reported to be raising her
army and navy to war footing.
It is believed that the Duke of SAKE
Coburg and Gotha intends soon to re-
sign in favor of his son, Prince Alfred.
Capt. Robley Evans is an applicant
for the position of commander OF the
new battleship Indiana. He is now In
command of the New York.
Preparations are under way for cele-
brating on an elaborate scale in Ger
many the anniversaries of the big bat
ties of the Franco. German wars.
A dispatch from Berlin says that in
the opinion of a distinguished cavalry
general the Franco-Russian treaty is
prejudicial to the peace of Europe.
A careful computation placed the
number of bathers at Atlantic City, n.
j., Sunday, at II, 600 people, one bath
house keeper alone furnishing 1,75O
costumes.
Horace Daley, of London, an actor
twenty-eight years old, married Mrs.
Jane NJ. Mortimer, widow of means,
who is seventy years old, in New York
last week.
Colonel Henry T. Douglass has re-
signed as city commissioner of Balti-
more, to take effect August 1. He will
become president of the Baltimore and
Washington Boulevard Company.
The strike of the Brotherhood of
Tailors is in full swing in New York,
1000 hands being out, and they in
clude operators, tailors, fnishers, press
ers, bushellers, basters, buttonhole
makers, filters and thread-pullers.
It is reported at Milwaukee, Wis,
that Edward G. Wall, ex-chairman OF
the democratic State central committee
of Wisconsin, will shortly be appointed
minister to Japan to succeed Minister
Dur, whose resignation is to be asked
for.
Captain General Martinez de Cam
pos has pardoned all the political and
war prisoners in Cuba. Reports come
from Havana ola number of conflicts
between the revolutionis!s and the fed.
erals. Several filibustering expedi-
lions have landed.
It is asserted at Havana that An
tonic Maceo, at the head OF 5000 in
surgents, is attacking the town of
Jiguant. near Bayamo, in the province
of Santiago de Cuba. General La
chambre, with 1000 troops, has gone
to the relief of Jiguant. No details
are obtainable at pres emit.
According to present indications work
on the Panama canal is going to be
pushed with vigor. A director of the
canal has announced that $1,000
laborers are required for work on the
incomplete inter-oceanic waterway and
that the wages to be paid are $l.2O in
Colombia currency per day.
There was much excitement Sunday
night on board the cruiser New York,
which is now at the coal dock in the
Brooklyn navy yard. Two men who
tried to desert from the ship came near
drowning, and one was only saved
from death by the prompt action of
Lieutenant Dashiell, assistant naval
constructor.
Lee Sawyer killed his father in Pas
quotapk county, n. c., Sunday in q
fight between the two. The father
beat and kicked Sawyer, who seized an
axe, with which he dealt the old man a
blow on the head, finishing him with a
shotgun. After committing the MUIR
der he fled to Norfolk, and was arrest
ed there yesterday.
The huge brick vault underneath
Holiness house, in Chicago, was un-
earthed by the police yesterday, who
are still delving in the earth in and
about the cellar. The existence of this
vault had been theoretical until yester-
day. Human bones were discovered
at almost every turn of the shovel in
the cellar that has already produced so
much evidence.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Jones has been forced to retire from
the position he assumed at the begin
ming of the fiscal year, and has again
decided to install cancelling machines
in the postotiices. His decision to
discontinue the use of the machines
has already led to the needless and
useless expenditure of thousands of
dollars, and it has become apparent
| that the machines had to be replaced,
or the efficiency of the postal service
would be seriously impaired.