Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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500 Spanish troops have routed 5000
insurgents under Gomez.
A conspiracy against the Gar was
discovered in Moscow yesterday and
leading nihilist was arrested.
Emperor William yesterday paid
visit to Prince Bismarck at the e1-
Councillors castle at Friedrichsruhe.
B. M. Kitchen, ex.member of Con-
gress from the Second West Virginia
district, died suddenly at his home in
Berkeley county on Sunday of heart
trouble, aged about eighty-three years.
Justice Field, of the United States
Supreme Court, who has been es-
tranged from the President for num-
Der of years, went to the White House
recently and greeted Mr.. Cleveland
most cordially.
The street car employees of Philadel-
phia decided last hight to strike at 4
this morning for increased wages,
shorter hours, and the privilege of be-
longing to the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Street Railway Employees.
In an alteration in Stephenville,
Tex, between Billy Kay and TT. VIII
son, Kay was stabbed, and, while bleed
ingto death, he threw Wilson to the
ground and stamped his head to pulp.
Wilson cannot live. Wilson is Rays
uncle.
The large residence and wine vaults
of Ernest A. Schmidt, of Egg Harbor
City, N. J., were totally destroyed by
fire yesterday. Fully $4,000 gallons OF
wine, and household goods, including
50, 900 worth of oil paintings, were con-
sumed.
1t is said in New York that e1-Sena.
tor Platt, Senator Quay and several
other republican State leaders have en-
tered into combination to nominate
Thomas B. Reed and William B. Ali
son as the republican national ticket
next year.
Senator Carter, of Montana, has in
troduced bill authorizing the Pacific
Cable Company to build submarine
cable from the Pacific coast to the
Hawaiian Islands and Japan. The
United States government is to pay a
subsidy for twenty years.
! In the House of Representatives yes
terday Mr.. Tyler introduced a bill ap
propriating $50, 900 to widen, deepen
/ and improve the channel of the Eliza
beth river from Hampton Roads to the
Norfolk navy yard; also appropriating
S., 900 for road to the National Gem
etery at Yorktown.
The committee appointed by the last
last Legislature to arrange, if possible,
with West Virginia for the settlement
of that States proportion of the debt OF
the old State, met yesterday, but ad-
journed over subject to the call OF the
chairman. Nothing practical has been
accomplished by the committee. Ii
will probably meet again in January,
when some proposition is expected to
be submitted.
Mrs. Harriet Huff, the aged mother
of NJ. f. Huff, well-known citizen OF
Salem, was perhaps fatally burned at
the home OF her son Sunday night.
| Her dress caught fire from an open
crate and before the flames could be
extinguished she was badly burned al
most from head to foot. Her son and
his wife were also severely burned in
their efforts to extinguish the flames
aud remove the burning clothing.
A bad wreck on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad occur.
red last night. The fast express, north
bound, crashed into local freight on a
siding at Milton, forty miles north of
Lima, Ohio. No one was killed, but
twelve persons were severely, and %
others less seriously injured. The
freight had pulled in on the siding, but
| the switch was not closed. The engine
of the express plowed through the Ca
bose and dozen or more ofthe freight
clrs.
There has been an honorable adjust
ment of the differences between Maj.
Hearsey, of the New Orleans States,
and Congressman Boatner. All arrange
| ments for a meeting on the field at IL
! o'clock Yesterday had been made when
| gentlemen OF prominence in the State
| interferred and brought such weight to
bear as to reach basis upon which a
settlement of the differences might be
made. The arrangements are under
stood to be satisfactory and the adjust
ment is honorable to both gentlemen.
The marriage of Miss Clara Hazel
Busch, daughter of Adolphus Busch,
the millionaire st. Louis brewer, to Paul
Won Gontard, of Germany, was bril-
liant event in st. Louis yesterday
evening. Immediately after the we'd
ding the bridal party and guests drove
to the Southern Hotel, where a mag
ni6cent reception was held, over 1000
guests being present. The ceremony
was one of magnifcence, as that term
is understood in practical circles there.
Thej expense was at least 500, 900. 1t
was the best money could buy. That
is the ruling comment upon everything
| connected with the ceremony. In few
days the newly married couple will
leave for a honeymoon tour of the con-
tinent and afterward Will take up their
home in Hagen, Westphalia, where the
brides father. has presented her with a
residence costing over 100000.
BANKER PAGES AFFA1Rs.-A prop
osition has been made in Richmond to
organize syndicate to assume the liza
bilities of Mr.. J. B. Pace, the president
of the Plsuters' National Bank, whose
failure Saturday caused so much sur
prise. The idea is for these capitalists
| to take the assets and realize on them
in time to pay off the debts, the balance
! To be returned to Mr.. Pace. The syn