Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Chesapeake and ONO canal Will
be reopened for boats on Saturday.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta is
believed to have foundered off Tangier,
Morocco, with 42O men on board.
Kaiser Wilhelm has great surprise
in store for Prince Bismarck on the &C.
casion of the ex-Chancellor's eightieth
birthday.
The membership of the American
Protective Association in Michigan is
125, 900, according to the official report
to the State council at Saginaw.
The great trotting sire Sirathmore,
one of the few remaining soDs Of
Rysdyk's Humbletoniar, died on
Tuesday, at Elmwood Stock Farm,
near Fort Wayne, Ind.
Mss Dollie Taylor dropped her pock-
et5ook containing 81 900 in Washing
ton yesterday. She has offered re
ward of 5000 for the return of the
pocketbook and the money.
The Alabama populist executive
committee yesterday declared against
setting up dual State government,
but Endorsed Captain Kolb's plan to
call an extra session of the legislature.
The clerks and employees ofthe State
Department in Washington are in
trouble. Some of them have been tar
DIV in the morning and Chief Clerk
Renick has ordered that they be dock
ed.
The steam yacht Pedro Pablo, sus-
pected of being the instrument by
which Cuban patriots in this country
expect to supply the insurgents with
arms and ammunition, is under close
inspection in Savannah.
Thomas H. Blake, aged seventeen
years, and Clara May Willis, aged
twelve years, both colored, were
dangerously shocked by electricity
from an iron awning post On Eutaw
street, in Baltimore, yesterday.
Five Italians and one American were
killed by the mob that sought to
avenge the murder of A. ]. Hixon, at
Rouse, Col. The American was driv-
ing the wagon in which the Italians
were being taken 10 jail, and he was ac-
cidentally shot.
The Gerry whipping post bill intro
duced by Senator Edmund O'Connor
and passed without opposition by the
New York Senate was defeated after
sharp fight in the Assembly yesterday.
1t lacked 10 votes of passing, receiving
80 of the necessary 60.
Mrs. Louis D. Bahlul, of New York,
has sued her husband for divorce on
evidence she obtained by herself, she
having followed him in various dis
guises from stage doors to hotels with
dancers, to whose charms she says he
vas particularly susceptible.
On the outskirts of Baltimore on
Monday night August Gutenberg
) shot James Ware in the abdomen. He
had been caught with Oldepberg's wife,
Ware will recover. The latter being
, shot fled from Oldenberg's house at
tired only in his night clothes.
The State Department is anxious to
secure full particulars in the case of the
firing upon the American steamship
Alliance by Spanish gunboat off the
Cuban coast before it will proceed to
take further action. The exact loca.
ton of the Alliance at the time the
shots were fired is especially desired.
John J. Brennan, of Brooklyn, eX-
poets to leave the Homeopathic Hos
pital in New York in a day or two.
He was taken there unconscious and
paralyzed, with broken neck, on the
night of July 90 1894. Now the broken
bone has knitted, and Brennan walks
around the ward without any apparent
Inconvenience.
} The long deferred trial of the charge
against Dunbar Walton, alias Jacob
Calhoun; Louis z. Franks, Carrie w.
Walton, alias Horn, and E. j. Warning,
colored lawyer, of scheming to alb
duct from St. Francis Academy, Balti-
more, Mamie Toomer, quadroon girl,
the daughter of a'wealthy colored man
of Augusta, Ga, was begun yesterday
in the Criminal Court, in Baltimore,
before Judge Dennis without a jury.
The marriage of Miss Edythe Grant,
youngest daughter of the late Beach
Grant, to Mr.. Arthur Padelford, so says
letter just received from Rome, will
be celebrated in the American Chapel
in that city on March 81. Mr.. Arthur
Phdelford is a wealthy Baltimorean,
who some years ago divorced his wife,
who was the beautiful Miss Bette
Ordway, daughter of General Ordway,
of Washington, now singing in light
opera as Bettina Gerard.
"A fire which destroyed over 100000
worth of property in an hour broke out
yesterday afternoon in the four-story
building in Kansas City, occupied by
the English Supply Company, dealers
in engine supplies and wrought iron
materials. The flames were carried to
the building occupied by the Western
Newspaper Union and the Great West
ern Type Foundry. Both of these
buildings were practically destroyed.
In the foundry was great quantity of
type and type material, besides six
cylinder presses. The Western News
paper Company printed "patent in
sides" for 200 western weekly news
papers, and employed abig force.
IMPORTANT CAsE.-Major T. J. Kirk
patrick and F. S. kirkpatrick of
Lynchburg, have prepared petition to
the Court of Appeals in the case of
Commonwealth VS.. Norfolk and West