Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

DR. Rice was beaten by Simmonds at
St. Louis Saturday in match race.
The bill to make Good Friday legal
holiday has been defeated in the Della
ware House.
Advices from Havana state that the
Spanish forces have routed the insur-
gents in several recent engagements.
1t is announced that the Standard
Oil Company has purchased the War
rington fields in Marion county, w.
Va, for 100000.
It is said that John W. Foster will
receive more than 100000 for two
months service as a diplomatic ad-
wiser, helping Ii Hung Chang with the
japanese.
Archbishop Satolli laid the corner
stone of St. Johns German Catholic
Church at Pottsville, Pa, yesterday.
Six thousand persons were present
from all parts of the county.
Governor Morton has refused the APP
plication of DIR. Buchanan for respite.
Buchanan will be electrocuted at Sing
Sing prison during this week for the
murder of his wife by poisoning.
Elk. congressman Bynum, of Indiana,
and Wise, of Virginia, are applicants
for the position of Assistant Comp
troller of the Treasury, made vacant
by the death of Col. Mansur, OF Mis-
souri,.
A fire in the School of Arts and In
dustries at Chalons-sur- Marne, France,
yesterday destroyed the models and
machines that had been prepared for
the exhibition to be held in Paris in
1900. The loss exceeds 100000.
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, saved
woman, the cook in boarding house,
whose clothing had taken fire from a
cooking stove in Boston yesterday. He
quickly wrapped a big mat around the
woman and succeeded in extiDguishing
the fire.
Samuel E. Aymar, a brother-in law
of Samuel c. Seely, who robbed the
National Shoe and Leather Bank of
New York of 1854 900. was arrested on
Saturday on charges of embezzlement.
admitted the robbery, and said it had
been going on for years.
1t is reported that three negro men
and two women were lynched near
Greenville, Ala, on Saturday for the
murder of young white man named
Watts Murray. 1t is said that after
numbering him. the negroes placed his
body in brush heap and burned the
heap. The debris was examined and
The teeth, liver, and the heart of the
victim were found. The balance of the
body had been consumed.
The French authorities in Madagas-
car have put ex-U. S. Consul Waller,
colored, aboard a steamer and sent
him under guard to France. He is
under sentence of 20 years imprison-
ment on a charge of being a spy in the
interest of the Hovas of Madagascar,
against whom the French have been
waging war, which sentence was i'm
posed by-a court-martisl at Tamatave.
He arrived at Marseilles yesterday.
A negro, twenty years old, was ar.
rested in Frederick county, Md, yes,
terday for an attempted felonious as,
sault on Mrs. Thomas Butts, young
married lady, who was on her way
home from early mass at the Catholic
Church in Petersville. The fiend
knocked the woman down three times,
but she fought him desperately and he
finally fed. After long chase he was
caught and came near being lynched
United States Consul Johnson, at
Stuttgart, reports to the State Depart
ment that the monetary, or silver
question has again been made the sub
ject ofactive discussion during the past
few weeks in Germany. Meetings
have been held in Stuttgart, Ulm,
Gallo, Heidenheim, Reuttingen and
in nearly all large towns in the king
dom, to protest against any change in
the present monetary system of the
empire.
Women residing in Chester, Pa, are
alarmed by the actions of a man, who,
claiming to represent the university
extension, enters their homes aud
proceeds to put his arm around their
waists and call them endearing terms.
He is said to be good-looking young
man, but only goes to the houses of
married women. The old maids of
Chester are naturally incensed at him
for giving them the go-by. Angry hus-
bands are hunting for the bold
stranger.
In the Louisville Courier Journal,
Senator Blackburn on Saturday, in I'M
mistakable terms, outlines his position
on the silver question, declares himself
for the unlimited coinage of silver on
an equality with gold, and throws
down the gauntlet to his opponent, Sec
rotary Carlisle, for similar candor on
the same subject. With his usual az
gressiveness, the Senator almost dares
his opponents to meet him on the issue
he presents, and it may be assumed
that the challenge will be promptly &C.
cepted.
The Emperor of Japan ratified the
treaty of peace on Saturday. The gov
ernnent has issued a statement deny
ing that it has concluded an offensive
and defensive alliance with China, and
declaring that the commercial advan-
tages secured by Japan under the
terms of the treaty will also be enjoyed
by the other powers under the most
favored nations" treatment. Russia is
still dissatisfied with the terms of the
treaty of peace between Japan and
China, but there seems to be little prob
ability of other European powers join
ing in protest.
Two children, while walking along
public street on Capitol Hill, Washing