Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-06-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

signed an agreement to raise Chinese
loan Of Is, 900, 900 pounds under Russia's
guarantee.
At the funeral of a lady in Carroll
county, Md, yesterday her five daugh-
tiers tainted one after another on the
grass beside the grave.
Bessie Fairbanks, who some time
since shot Isaac A. Cochran because he
discarded her, was adjudged to be in
sane in New York yesterday.
George w. Mabis. proprietor of a
grocery store at 81 D street, southeast
Washington, committed suicide in
Maryland yesterday by drowning him
self in a bath tub.
At the convention of the advocates
of the free coinage of silver, which met
to-day in Memphis, Tenn, seven
United States Senators were present,
and thousand delegates are expected.
Colonel A. Loudon Snowden, former
ly Minister to Spain. was assaulted in
Philadelphia yesterday by Colonel w.
NJ. Runkel, who says that Colonel
Snowden caused his dismissal, from a
mint twenty years ago.
Two men, one white and the other
colored sprang from the roof of three
story house on Maine avenue, south
west Washington, and narrowly es
capped death during a police raid at
1890 o'clock this morning.
1t is said that the Grand Duke
George, of Russia, the Czarowitz, now
he's but one lung remaining. The
physicians in attendance declare a ca
tastrophe is inevitable. though they are
unable to say how far his life may be
prolonged.
The coroner's inquest into the death
of Miss Nellie Harrington, murdered in
her own room ten days ago, was con-
Guided in San Francisco yesterday. The
testimony of four additional witnesses
completed perfect alibi for the late
Senator Buck.
Efforts are being put forth to secure
the restoration of Miss Elizabeth How
ard Key, a granddaughter of Francis
Scott Key, to clerkship in the pen
sion bureau, from which she was re-
Gently discharged with one hundred
other clerks.
A terrible storm swept over Worth
county, in south Georgia, last night.
The peach, watermelon, and other crops
were destroyed over a large area. At
Isabella houses were blown down, and
merchants stocks were damaged by
the flood which poured into stores un-
rooted by the wind.
1t is considered probable that the
second trial, in Washington, of Capt.
Henry w. Howgate will be concluded
within week. The testimony yester-
day was very similar to that given at
the first trial, and it is believed that
Howgate will be again acquitted.
Secretary Lamont has approved the
general plans for suspension bridge
over the Hudson river at New York,
submitted by the New York and New
Jersey Bridge Company, of New York,
and in which the New York and New
Jersey Bridge Company, ofNew Jersey,
joined.
The commercial treaty between Rus
STA and Japan is similar to those pre-
viously negotiated with the United
States, Great Britain and Italy, which
recognize Japan as a modern power,
with independent rights to make her
own tariff laws and conduct her own
judicial procedure.
Senator Gibson's friends controlled
the convention in Talbot county, Md,
yesterday, and nominated legislative
and county ticket favorable to the
Senator. Resolutions endorsing Sena-
tors Gibson and German, and instruct
ing the nominees of the convention to
work for Senator Gibson's reelection,
were adopted.
Thirty-one naval cadets nave passed
successful examinations and have been
admitted 10 the Naval Academy. H.
c. Cooke is the only Virginian in the
list. The following are among the
cadets who have been appointed to the
academy subject to examination on Sep
tember 2: J. B. Gravely, 9Th Virginia
district and II. A. Wise, alternate.
It is announced that the papal num-
clos at Paris, Lisbon, Madrid and
Vienna will be created cardinals. The
news arouses much interest in vatican
circles, because it will disturb the equi.
librium of the preponderance of Italian
cardinals in the Sacred College. Cardi-
nal Gibbons is again spoken of as a
candidate for next Pope.
Senator Dubois, of Idaho, the leader
of the free.silver element in the Senate,
is now in Washington. He declares
that the free silver element of his party
will make On effort to commit the re-
publican party to free silver, and fail
ing in this, the western contingent
would support the democratic nominee
for President should he be favorable to
free coinage.
The Western Recorder, of Louisville,
contains notice of second bereaye-
ments recently sustained by the family
of the late DR.. John A. Broaddus, in
the death of his daughter, Mrs. S. Y.
Abraham, of Columbia, S. q. Mrs.
Abraham was very much like her dis
father in every respect, and
more like him in appearance than any
of his other children.
The Illinois House committee on APP
yesterday declined to re.
for passage the Senate bill ap-
$50, 900 to Isaac R. Hit and
the estates of Gen. John A. Logan and
w. w. Wiltshire for services alleged to
have been rendered by Messrs. Hit,
Wiltshire and Logan in procuring the
return of the States portion of the
direct tax levied during the war by the
general government.