Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-11-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Mr. Thomas Young, aged seventy
four years, fell down stairs at the home
of his son, DR.. Young, in Washington.
last evening and died within a few
minutes after.
Thirty thousand Spanish tire ops,
under command of Lieutenant General
P. n 10 aud Marir, Captain Generals
Campos' newly appointed coadjutors,
have embarked for Cuba in Cadiz.
Yesterday the sentry boxes were re-
placed in the White House grounds in
Washington, and now the Presidents
mansion is the most thoroughly guard
ed building in that city.
A dispatch from Caracas, Venezuela,
says that the revolution in that Repub-
lie is practically at an end. The
insurgents are surrounded in the
mountains near the shores of the CARL .
bean Sea.
Four firemen were crushed to death,
several young women fatally hurt, and
six other girls more Or less injured at
the burning of a large building in Chi
cago, an account of which was publish
ed yesterday. <
Capt. Howgate, the ex-disbursing of
6cer of the signal service, who was SEN
fenced to eight years. imprisonment for
forgery and Justification of accounts,
was yesterday taken from Washington
to the Albany, N. Y, penitentiary.
At the Rights of Labor meeting in
Washington yesterday evening reso-
luton condemning the use of militia in
suppressing labor troubles, and recon-
mending the governmental owership of
public roads and highways, was adopt
ed.
W. II. T. Durrant, convicted of the
murder of Blanche Lamont, was
brought before Judge Murphy in San
Francisco for sentence yesterday morn
ing, but sentence was postponed till
next Wednesday at the request of his
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Eugene Debs. the A. R. U. leader,
who was released from prison at Wood
stock, ILL.,, yesterday, was escorted by
one thousand representatives Of the Va
rious labor organizations to Chicago,
where he made an address to large
meeting, denouncing monopolies.
The new Hawaiian minister to the
United States will endeavor to bring
the annexation question before Con-
gress, it is announced from Honolulu.
An insurgent force of 1900 men has
burned the villages of Guinea and Mi
randa, in the Province of Santa Clara,
Cuba.
Yesterday crowd of two hundred
excited men, led by courageous wo-
man, followed burglar, who had
invaded her home and threatened to
shoot her, across fields and over the
back fences of Harlem, N. Y, houses,
ultimately capturing him after chase
of more than mile.
News has been received in New
York of the sudden death in Beyrout.
Syria, of Rev. DR.. Cornelius V. A. Van
Dyck, the translator of the Bible into
Arabic, land perhaps the foremost
Arabic scholar in the world. Besides
the Bible, DR.. Van Dyck translated
many valuable other books into Arabic.
Mr.. Warren W. King, of Washing
ton, was held up and robbed by high
wayman on the Silver Hill road, in
Prince Georges county, just outside Of
Anacostia, Thursday night. King was
on his way home and when in lonely
spot in the road near Anacostia man
suddenly sprang from the bushes, and,
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money, and got sos.
When little Nina Shaffer went to the
stone quarry near Oakland, W. Va,
yesterday to take her fathers dinner
she found him and also her uncle, Chas
Shaffer, buried beneath tons of lime
stone. These two men we're working
alone at the quarry, aud after setting
off blast of dynamite. were caught
under the shower of falling stone and
horribly crushed to death. Both men
leave large families.
The concluding evening of the CEN
tennial celebration of the First Presby-
terian Church, Washington, was spent
last night in an informal reception to
the congregation and the pastors. After
appropriate remarks Rev. Mr.. Allen
said that he had been requested on
behalf of the congregation, to prevent
to DR.. Sunderland one gold dollar for
each year of his life. DR.. Allen then
presented seventy-si1 gold dollars to
DR.. Sunderland, who responded.
On the Both instant the Navy De-
partment will open bids for the con-
struction of two of the most powerful
battleships yet designed in this coun-
try, and intended to be the equal OF
any fighters of their displacement
afoat. One of these vessels will be
named Kearsarge, in honor of the
ship that was lost on the reefs of Ron
cador. The other may be named the
Alabama, in honor of her plucky an
but there is some objection to
this, and Secretary Herbert may leave
it 10 the next administration to select q
name.
AdYices received from Constantine.
pie from Marsan state that the Ameri-
can and other missionaries are again in
danger. The concentration of Turkish
troops at Maraeh continues. tits re-
ported that the Sultan may refuse the
demand of the powers for an order per. /
hitting the passage through the Oar
danelles to Coustantinople OF small |
gunboats, to be attached to the respec-
tive embassies for the protection of for
eigners. Twenty villages in the dis
trict of Aleppo were burned. A dis
patch receiyed in Paris says that the
Kurds are gathering on the banks of
the Enphrates preparing to march into
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