Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NE HO VI lh1 LII
1t is reported that Gen. Harrison aas
| withdrawn as Presidential candidate
in favor of Mckinley.
Various counties in Pennsylvania
fear water famine unless there is
rain storm within few days.
Guatemala has allowed indemnity
claims of three Americans who had
been imprisoned without just cause.
It. is reported in Paris that it has
been decided to commence at an early
date the construction of 8 ship canal to
connect the Rhine and the Elbe rivers.
The alligator which escaped at Wake
field, the annexed district of New York.
and which caused so much apprehen-
sion, has been caught in a whisky bar
rel in cellar.
Spence, w., the British half-rater,
yesterday came in twenty-three sec
onds ahead of Ethel Wynn in the Sec
ond race for the Seawanka challenge
cup at Oyster Bay, N. Y.
Lieut.. Peary's critics do not agree as
to the value of his explorations. En-
gineer Melville does not think he ac-
compIished anything, while Gen. Gree
ly is of a contrary opinion.
1t appears that there has been added
to the pension rolls during the year
about a thousand names in excess Of
those that have dropped out, so there
has been an increase instead OF de-
crease.
The Valkyrie will not sail for Eng
land after all, at least not until the
spring. Captain Cranield received or
ders yesterday morning to put the
yacht in berth for the winter in New
York.
Married four times, arrested once,
charged with victimiziug rich old
man, and now defendant in $4,000
suit for goods obtained by her, is the
rather remarkable record of Connec-
ticut woman Of the town OF Monroe.
After the Grace.F airchild delegates
withdrew from the State democratic
convention in Syracuse, N. Y, yestei-
day, Mr.. Fairchild said his organization
would nominate local ticket. They
W Il support the State ticket. however.
A young woman giving the name of
Mary Smith, and her place of residence
Elston, Nd, gave birth to baby girl
on the steamer Gratitude just before it
arrived at Baltimore yesterday. Quite
sensation was caused among the pas
sengers.
At the convention of the hish ma
lionalists held in Chicago yesterday
Chairman Finerty made speech in
.vor of the establishment of an Irish
American army, and to attack Eng
land whenever the opportunity pre-
sented itself.
A terrific wind, hail. and rainstorm
passed over Burlington, Iowa, yesterday
afternoon. Barnum & Bailey's circus
was giving a performance and dismissed
the audience. The main tent, animal
tent, and boarding tent were blown 10
strips and completely wrecked. No
one was injured.
The conference of Episcopal Workers
Among Colored People, in session in
Washington, gave much time yester-
day to the Church Commission on Col
ored Missions and the question OF
whether co!ored bishop should be ap
pointed. Much difference of opinion
was developed.
The Baltimore market for soft crabs
was glutted yesterday and dealers said
they were selling them for whatever
the crabs would bring-12al5 cents
a dozen. There were also heavy re-
ceipts of trout, nearly all the boats
from the lower part of the bay bringing
barrels of that fish. The price of trout
fell from four to two cents dozen.
The governing committee of the New
York Stock Exchange at its regular
meeting yesterday expelled John B.
Manning for fraud. He has been q
member since 1869. He is q millionaire
and an extensive dealer in investment
securities, at No. Is Wall street. Serious
charges were made, alleging that he
had knowledge of the erasure of it,
dorsements on certain Union Pacific
Railway bonds.
After the adjournment of the New
YORK State democratic convention yes
terday Senator Hill said II think we
have done admirably. The convention
has been wise, temperate and consider
ate. We have strong ticket, COM
posed for the most part of young men,
who are also men of character and ca
pacity, and it is bound to grow by con-
trast of the other ticket as the cam
paign advances"
Fully 10000 of New York's citizens
who proclaim themselves lovers of lib
erty and against the enforcement of
the excise laws on Sunday, joined in
parade yesterday with brass bands and
American flags end with allegorical
floats showing liberty in mourning and
workman in the hands of the police
for drinking beer on Sunday, while
millionaire tipples in his club. Mr..
Roosevelt bad been invited to review
the procession, and, to the surprise of
every one he did so.
Jesse Morningstar and Mary E. Bow
ser, of Juniata township, w. Va, were
married at 2:30 o'clock yesterday after
noon. An hour afterward, while the
bride was sitting on her husbands lap
reading the marriage certificate, one of
the guests handed the newly-msrried
man q loaded gun. In doing so the
gun was accidently discharged and the