Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
The President will issue bis procla-
nation January 4, next, declaring Utah
a State of the Union.
The Protestant Episcopal Convention
of the old Texas diocese elected Rev.
A. G. Garrett bishop of the new Dallas
diocese.
Heavy rains in Missouri have caused
damaging floods in the lowlands. The
iron railroad bridge at Osceola was
washed away and the town inundated
Rev. John M. Farley was consecrat-
cd Bishop, to serve as auxiliary Bishop
to Archbishop Corrigan. in ST. Patrick's
Cathedral in New York, on Saturday.
The Central Hotel, Cohen's clothing
store, Tomney's bakery, and Evans u
Thompson's meat market at Bluefelds,
W. Va, were destroyed by fire yester-
day.
Maria Romeno, after quarrel with
her husband on the railroad bridge in
Wilmington, Del, yesterday, commit
ted suicide by leaping into the Christi
q 10 creek.
The Nor.h German Lloyd steamer
Spree, that ran on Warden Ledge, ntar
Totland bay, Isle of Wight, last Thurs
lay, was pulled off Sunday By four tugs
without any damage.
The republican members of the ways
and means committee held q secret
meeting at the Capitol Saturday even
ing and practically agreed upon bill
to relieve the treasury.
Philadelphia had its full share of the
disastrous financial depression of the
past week. The losses on all listed
stocks on the exchange is estimated
at nearly ff.y millions of dollars.
In a pistol duel between Josephine
Clark and Jennie Beard over a lover at
louisville, KY, on Saturday, Annie
Galloway, while acting as peacemaker,
received fatal wound in the abdo.
men.
Bishop Paret, of Maryland, has de-
clined the request of the convention Of
the new Protestant Episcopal diocese
of Washington to take charge of the
diocese until the bishop-elect is conse-
,ated.
The pure white population in Vene
zuela is less than 8 per cent. The vast
majority of the people are negroes, In.
dams, mulattoes and zambos. The
standing army consists of little over
5000 men.
10 Wyoming county, w. Va, on Sat-
urday, Alexander Teller was killed by
robbers, and his wife and daughter tied
and gagged, after which the house was
ransacked and robbed of a small
amount of money.
At Bowling Green, Mo-, on Saturday
the jury in the case of DR.. Hearne,
charged with the murder. seven years
ago, of Amos j. Stillwell, q wealthy
packer OF Hannibal, Mo, returned a
verdict finding the defendant mot
guilty"
Since Thursday night the Mississippi
river at st. Louis has risen twenty-five
feet, which is unprecedented in the
same length of time. The boatmeo
and dwellers on the river bank were
taken unawsres and their loss is al
ready very great.
DR.. ]. w. Herring, the democratic
candidate, was elected State Senator
on Saturday at the special election in
Carroll county, Md, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of State Senator
Bennett, democrat. The State Senate
will now stand IA democrats and IL re-
publicans.
Secretary Oluey and Senior Romero,
the Mexican Minister, on Saturday ex-
changed Publications of the treaty
extending, for one year from December
"a, the time allowed for the completion
of the survey of the water boundary
between the United States and Mexico
by the joint commission.
The coast defense ram Katahdin,
built by the Bath Iron Works, of Bath,
Me-, has been rejected by President
Cleveland. This concludes executive
action in the matter and the cost of the
vessel will be total loss to the con-
tractors unless Congressional enact
ment in the case can be secured.
The anniversary of the re-establish.
ment of the German empire, on Janu-
airy %, will be celebrated with grand
military display on Templehof field.
Prince Bismarck and all the surviving
leading statesmen, princes and generals
who figured in the war of 1901 will
be present at the imperial review.
a dispatch from Indianapolis says:
Friends of ex-President Harrison as
serted yesterday without qualification
that he had received an offer of the
of the Venezuelan commits
sion from the administration, and that
he had declined the position. Ex-
President Harrison today denied the
story.
August Brutigan, thirty-two years
old, of Hobokep, N. j., committed sui
eide Saturday night by drinking car
bolic acid. His mother, of whom ne
was very fond, died and was buried
morning. August was very
much overcome at the funeral, but
none of family suspected that he con-
taking his own life.
The large store building at No. SO,
West Baltimore street, Baltimore, oc-
cnpied by Heidelberger & Co., clothers,
and owned by the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, was Quilted by fire yesterday
Loss on building SIS, 900; in
$50, 900. The adjoining build
ings were also damaged by smoke and
water. Origin of fire unknown.
The New York Herald's correspond