Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

King Alexander of Servia and his
father, the exKing Milan, have fallen
out.
All the ports in continental Europe
are now closed to American cattle
and beef products.
Thefts OF valuable miniatures from
the Vatican library has been detected.
Two arrests have been made.
BY the burning OF a laundry on the
Edgware road, London, yesterday
morning, lis eight inmates were burned
TO death.
Il is stated that, unless the Cuban
tariff is satisfactorily arranged soon the
President will issue a retaliatory proc
lamation.
The Chinese government, says dis
patch from Shanghai, will not cede an
inch Of territory to Japan and will Of
fer 10 buy back Port Arthur.
Rev. Father Rocker, the new secre-
tary to Archbishop Satolli, arrived in
Washington yesterday from Albany and
entered upon the duties Of his Office.
II is reported in Washington that
Japan is getting impatient at China's
delay in presenting terms of peace and
the negotiations may be declared off.
a syndicate of northern lumber men
has bought eight hundred and sixty
thousand acres of Nova Scotia timber
lands, together with sixteen lumber
mills.
The problem of cheaper telephone
service has received practical solution
in the small town of Stamford, n. Y,
where the cost to each subscriber is IS
II year.
The grand jury OF Philadelphia found
an Indictment against Charles w. Now
bray, the Eoglish anarchist, yesterday,
charging him with making seditious
speech.
The Marquise de Greville died in ex-
IRENE poverty in Morrtiania and was
buried in West Chester, n. Y, yester.
day. She was descendant of King
Louis XVI and marquise in her own
right.
Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan, the banker,
denies the report that he had called on
President Cleveland and asked him to
remove Secretary Carlisle from the
cabinet He was placed on trial to-
day and pleaded not guilty.
The President has at last disposed oil
the picture, Love and Life" present
ed to this country by f. G. Watts, the
great English painter. 1t will hereaf-
ter hang Oh the walls of the Corcoran
Art Gallery.
1t is learned that Charles Hughes.
who dropped dead il Boston of apo.
plexy just as he was about to be mar
ried to Mrs. Livermore, of that city,
has a wife and TWO children living in
Louisville, KY.
Three persons were suffocated by
smoke in tenement house fire in New
York yesterday evening. There were
also three children and two grown up
people overcome by the smoke, but
they all recovered.
Governor Mitchell, of Florida, is said
to have revoked the executive writ is
sued by him on the requstion of Gov
ernor Hogg, Of Texas, for the extradi-
ion of Henry NJ. Flagler, one of the
Standard Oil directors.
There is 10 doubt that in offering his
resignation and promising Mayor
Strong his aid, Superintendent Byrnes
had in mind the reorganized police de-
partmert of New York, and may still
hope to become its head.
1t is reported that the governor Of
Bitlis, Tansin Pasha, who commanded
,he military operations in the Sassoun
district where so many outrages have
been reported, has been assassinated by
an Armenian, who afterwards commit
ted suicide.
An unknown man attempted to 'hold
upp Miss Jessie Thompson near the ole
Waters camp ground, in Baltimore
county yesterday, but was fought of BY
Miss Thompson, who was shot in the
hand with her own pistol, with which
she tried to shoot her assailant.
Senator Cameron is reported to be
exceedingly indignant that the Blaine
property, immediately adjoining his, in
Washington, should have been disposed
of to a Chicago syndicate for the pur-
pose of erecting large theatre, on the
top of which is to be a roof garden,
with accompany ing attractions.
Gov. John Young Brown, of Ken
lucky, has refused to give a pledge to
Judge Buchwalter, of Cincinnati, that
a colored man for whom a requisition
had been made would not be lyncbed
if he was surrendered to the Kentucky
authorities. Governor Brown says the
man is in no danger of lynching, and
that the judge, in imposing such
pledge as condition of the surrender,
contravenes the constitution of the
United States.
IMpEAoHEp CHINA's EMPRESS
The censor, An-Wei-Tsin, with ten
other officials of high rank, cables the
New York Herald correspondent, re-
Gently impeached the Empress Dow
ager, on charge of exercising undue
influence upon public affairs. An-Wei-
rsin has since been punished for his
temerity.
A fortnight ago the Empress Dow
ager caused forty lashes each to be adj