Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-14
NEWS NJ THE DAY.
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Sena or Jones has prepared a curren-
~ bill which he hopes will be satisfac
DRY TO the bond and the silver men.
A dispatch from Bangkok states that
he King of Siam has selected the eldest
son of his second Queen as Crown
Prince.
Twelve hundred families in the
mining districts of Ohio are reported
by the relief committee to be in need Of
assistance.
According to dispatch from Berlin
Count Herbert Bismarck will become
under secretary of State for German
foreign affairs.
A blizzard prevails on the British
islands. In England the snowdrlits
are twelve feet deep, Steamers are de-
we'd in crossing the channel.
There was a report in Berlin that
Count Herbert Bismarck. eldest son OF
the ex-chancellor, would be appointed
German ambassador at Washington.
Emperor William is quoted as saying
in a recent speech that as his grand
father made the army what it is, so he
wants to make the German navy great.
A re. olution for an amendment to
the Idaho constitution, granting SUIT
frage to women, passed the Idaho Sen
ate Saturday without dissenting vote.
The report that May Yohe, the
American actress. has been married to
Lord Francis Hope brother of the
Duke of Newcastle, turns out to be
correct.
Two highwaymen boarded Burling-
ton express train near Ottumwa, Ia,
on Saturday, bound and gagged the
mail clerks and express messenger, and
riaed the safe.
The Merrimac, the largest cotton
manufacturing company in Lowell,
Mass, in addition to two other large
concerns before mentioned, is to have a
southern plant.
Freda Stockhausen, a ten-year-old
Brooklyn girl, jumped into the East
river on Saturday because, she was
afraid her mother would whip her for
playing trpant.
The members of the center party in
the German Parliament make the re-
turn of the Jesuits 10 Germany a con-
dition upon which they will support the
anti-revolutiou bill.
The Harland Shipbuilding Company
are in negotiations with a Liverpool
shipbuilding company for the construc-
tiou of TWO Atlantic line steamers, each
to be 1000 feet long.
The swapping of the pillars support.
lag the gallery of Catholic Church at
New Haven, Conn, during funeral
service Yesterday caused panic and
several personswere injured.
Il is reported that Archbishop Krat,
zer, If Milwaukee, who will make his
.;eccnnial journal to Rome next month,
will not return TO this country on &C,
count of differences with Monsignoi
Satolli.
Saturday 10 thoroughbred horses
belonging to Richard Croker and Mi
cnael f. Dywer were shipped from
New York to England TO represent
America 10 the principal events to be
decided there the coming season.
Philadelphia democrats will probably
nominate Governor Pattison for mayor
in oppo-itiun TO the republican com
niar. He has never yet been beaten,
aud they think he stands more chance
tnon any other man they can think Of
The Council of Ministers at Madrid
has agreed upon modus vivendi un'
der which the United States will OBJ
lain the second column of the Cuban
tsliffiu exchange for the concession &c
Spain and Cuba of the ''most favored
nation" treatment.
a cablegram from Naples says that
the Pope is about to announce the beat
ilication of Christopher Columbus
The proposition was seriously consid-
cred for more than year previous to
the recent anniversary of the discovery
of America, but the college of cardi-
nails advised against it.
William H. Stillwell, seventy years
old, and an ex Judge of Gravesend, was
found dead in his apartments in Brook
lyn yesterday. The gas was turned on
in the room, and it is thought that he
committed suicide. He had been sep
arated from his wife for about live
years.
C.S. Darrow, the counsel for the con-
victed A. R. U. men, had conference
with Justice Harlan, in Washington on
Saturday with view of bringing
the case to The Supreme Court. Ex-
Governor Waite of Colorado, paid a
visit to Eugene Y. Debs, in prison at
Woodstock, ILL.,, Saturday, and subse-
quently stated that he did not think
Debs had violated any law.
Another sensation has come to light
which raises a greater storm than even
the flight of State Treasurer Taylor, of
South Dakota. 1t appears that the
Commissioner of Public Lands, Col.
Thomas II. Ruth, an ex-Pennsylvanian,
who is at the head of the South Dakota
militia, has acted in gross violation OF
the statute, and has thereby cost the
State more than 100000.
Chas. W. Kellam, a son OLD. L. Kel-
lam, was taken to the district attorneys
Office in New York Saturday by a
detective charged with forgery in the
second degree. His arrest is in connec-
ton with that CT his father and VIM.
W. Weston, president of the savings
bank of Honesdale, Pa. The three are
charged with forgery on four notes for
$1,000 signed by 81. E. Simmons.
Representative Pease, elected in No
yember from Colorado, makes serious
charges against the court officials in
Cheyenne county: at the east end OF
the State. He alleges that several
hundred illegal divorces have been
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