Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The new Irish land bill was intrca
duced iii the House of Commons yes
terday and explained by Mr.. Morley.
The American built yacht Dakotah
beat the crack French yachts Sainot-
Martial, Bebelle and Rolla at Cannes
yesterday.
Champion Pugilist Corbett has agreed
to extend the time for the deposit OF
the balance of Filzsimmons' $4,000
side stake to May 1.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Markoe
has been nominated to command the
Fifth Maryland Regiment, succeeding
Col. William A. Boykin.
Sir William Scovell Savory, surgeon
extraordinary to Queen Victoria and
late president of the Royal College of
Surgeons, is dead, aged sixty-nine
years.
The twelve-round fight between Crit
70, the Australian, and Horace Leeds,
of Atlantic City, at the Coney Island
rink last night, was decided in favor OF
the former
Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more, students had rough and tum-
BILE fight in the gymnasium yesterday
during which one of the students was
nearly killed.
Herr Liebknecht's motion to convert
the German army into militia system
was debated in the Reichstag yesterday
and defeated. The result was received
! with roorc IF 1auuhter
William Hodgetts, who was shot by
his brother in Philadelphia because he
refused to lend him dollar, died yes
terdav. The brother is supposed to
have committed suicide.
The St. Petersburg Grashdanin says
that if Japan should insist on any par
tition of China or on acquiring Corea she
should assuredly have to reckon with
Russia as an armed antagonist.
w. c. Coup, the oldest Snowman in
the United States, who had been i'll at
st. Luke's Hospital, Fla, for several
days with pneumonia, contracted at
Tampa during the last cold snap, died
yesterday.
Among the nominations which were
allowed to fail for want of action by
the Senate was that of District Attor-
ney L. w. Marbury, of Maryland.
Mr.. Marbury was promptly reappont-
ed by President Cleveland.
John H. Vonderhorst, half owner
and manager of the Vonderhorst Brew
ing Company, died in Baltimore yester-
day ofpneumonia, aged forty-on years.
His wife died last week from the same
ailmept and was buried Sunday.
Mr. Dubois yesterday introduced in
the Senate resolution, which he will
press in the Fifty-fourth Congress, pro
viding for a distribution of several of
the appropriation bills among commit
tees having charge of the branches of
the service to which they refer.
Senior De Antonio, government sec
rotary in Cuba, says that the iDsurg-
ents already see the folly of their
curse. DR.. Massero, the rebel leader
in the province of Matanzas, surrender
ed on Saturday, and the government
expect more to surrender daily.
The total appropriations of what i
commonly known as the Reed Congress
amounted to S1,O35, 0O0,OO0 The APP
propliations of the following Congress
aggregated 81 OBS, O0O, 900, while the APP
preparations for the last Congress will
fall below the billion dollar limit.
A decision by the U. S. Supreme
Court yesterday terminates the three
Edison patents for the carbon trans
mitter owned by the American Bell
Telephone Company, by which it hop
ed to extend its control for fifteen
years more, as would have been the
C use had the decision below been re-
versed.
Thomas A. Jones, made famous dur
ing the troublous times Immediately fol
lowing the assassination of President
Lincoln, died Saturday night, near La
Plata, Charles county, Md. Jones Sc
creted John Wilkes Booth on his prem
Uses after his flight from Washington,
and kept him hidden from the officers
for seven days.
At Savannah, Ga, yesterday Judge
Fslligant, of the Superior Court, in ad.
dressing the grand jury laid especial
stress, in view of the recent events in
connection with the ex priest Slattery,
on the privileges of American citizen
ship and the rights of individuals in
this country to enjoy the freedom of
thought and speech, within the pale of
the law, without interference by VIC
lence on the part of others.
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