Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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/ The Paris FTgaro declares that Meth
e. France nor Great Britain will perm.
] japan to seize the Island of Formosa.
1t is stated that Cardinal Gibbons,
accompanied by Rev. c. F. Thomas,
rector of the Baltimore Cathedral, will
90 to Rome in May.
! Right. Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas.
Episcopal Bishop of Kansas, died at hi.
home in Salina, Kan, on Saturday
1 night, aged sixty-one years.
There was battle on Saturday be.
tween Colombian troops and baud OF
rebels in Bacas del Toro, in which the
revolutionary instigator, Catarina Car
"a, was killed.
Marines from the United States
cruiser Atlanta have been landed at
Bocasdel Toro, Colombia, to protect
| American interests threatened by the
revolutionists.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, OF Brooklyn,
is organizing an expedition for explor-
ing vessels will sail next September,
| pTONlSlOueU lOT luI6G NedTS.
A dispatch from Toxic says China
has been Informed of the conditions
upon which Japan will consent to peace
and that Japan has been notified that
China is willingto accept The conditions
and sign a treaty.
A letter from Monsignor Sa.olli to
the authorities OF Guatemala indicates
the Pope's desire to establish official re.
lations between the governments of the
| United States and other American re
publics and the Vatican.
The first division of the japanese
army defeated ten thousand Chinese
troops in a fierce battle at Then Chang
Tai on Saturday, in which two thous
and Chinese were killed, while the
japanese loss was only nine'y, killed
or wounded.
Secretary Smith, of the Interior De-
partment, has taken the stand that no
more patents for land granted to subsi
died railroads shall be granted until
there shall be settlement of the debt
due tie government by the railroad
companies interested
President Cleveland and his hunting
party were confined on board the light
house steamer Violet by a storm in
Pamlico sound on Saturday. No shoot
ing was attempted. Yesterday the
weather was delightful and the day
was spent in cruising in the sound.
Recent utterances of Rev. Charles II
Parkhurst rejecting upon the action OF
the New York Presbytery in ordering
the sale of the abandoned church of the
Sea and Land will be the subject Of
special consideration at the meeing Of
the Presbytery in New York to-day.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, jr., has resign
ed as pastor of the Twenty. third Street
Baptist Church, New York. The con-
sentative members Of the church have
objected to the minister's sensational
ism, and he has decided to get out
He will form new church of his own
The shaft house of the Old Abe mine
at White Oaks, New Mexico, caught
fire yesterday morning and in few
moments the flames were communicat
ed to the shafting of the mine, which
vas completely destroyed. Nine mer
were in the mine at the time, only one
of whom, G.. E. Wilkinson, escaped.
| James B. Gentry, the actor who shot
and killed Madge Yorke, four weeks az
in Philadelphia, and who has since
oeen in the German Hospital, suffering
from the injuries he received and the
exposure be endured while trying tc
escape after his crime. has so far re.
covered that yesterday he was removed
to the county prison.
The chimes of Christ Protestant
Episcopal Church, of Hackensack, n
j., which have been ruug early every
Sunday morning. have been silenced
by order of the village board of health,
and crusade has also been begun
against gongs on baker rs and butchers
wagons, and to stop the noise of freight
trains during the early morning hours.
The preparations for the opening OF
The North Sea and Baltic Canal are on
a grand scale. The activity all along
the line from Kiel to the North Sea
shows that the Emperor intends to Gel
citrate the occasion with series of
splendid fetes, lasting a week. The
Emperor is experimenting personally
most of the arrangements, which are
still incomplete.
The representatives of the railroads
interested in the bituminous coal traffic
of Ohio ended their meetings in New
York on Saturday and announced as
the result of their elaboration uuani-
nous agreement for the maintenance
of rates and for the regulation of the
bituminous coal traffic, as far as they
were concerned. The details of this
agreement were not given out. 1t is
generally understood that an agreement
will soon be formed between the rail
roads and the miDeowner5. This will
result in raising the price of coal about
40 cents ton.
The Rev. DR.. Alexander G. McAuley,
for forty-two years pastor of the Union
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia, has been adjudged guilty
of conduct unbecoming Christian. 1t
is said that the testimony showed that
DR.. McAuley had been leading double
life for nine or ten years. Upon the
occasion of his visits to resorts OF evil
r pute he wore clothing that was not in
keeping with his calling. 1t was shown
in the trial that he made one place Of
questionable repute rendezvous for
five years, and was Familiarity known
in resorls that many men of known
evil proclivities would hesitate to enter.