Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.


On Friday the Italian residents of
Washington will celebrate the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the unifcation of
Italy.
Yellow fever and black yomit have
appeared at Cordoba, Mexico. Efforts
are being made to keep the news out OF
the papers.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
in Lexington, Tenn yesterday, 10
lynch the two colored men arrested for
attempted assault.
At the races at Gravesend, N. Y,
Yesterday, Henry of Navarro was the
victor over Clifford. Sir Walter, Rey ell
Santo Anita and Domino.
English officials say there is no truth
in the report that the Turkish govern
ment hos accepted the plan of reform
in Armenia submitted by the Powers.
Gov. McCorkle, of West Virginia,
has been advised by the sheriff of Fay
cite county that troops may be neces-
sary to restrain the turbulent coal
miners.
Aylarge party of working people ar
rived at Clearfeld, Pa, yesterday from
Gothenburg, Neb., having travelled the
entire distance in wagons in quest of
work and homes in the East.
The Corbett- Fitzsimmons match will
come off in Dallas, Texas. In the test
glove contest case before Chief Justice
]. 81. Hurt, of the Court of Criminal
Appeals, he held that there is no law in
Texas against prize fights.
Two men were killed and five in
jured at bull fight at Sawangel, Mex
leo, on Monday on account OF floor
giving away. Sawangel is pretty
suburban town, the favorite rainy sea-
son resort of the aristocracy.
The New York republican State con-
vention, held at Saratoga yesterday, re-
nominated the present State officers
and demanded the enforcement of the
Sunday liquor law and the preserva-
ton of the American Sabbath.
A letter from Honolulu dated Sep
TENDER 3 says: There have been fifty
nine cases of cholera up to date, with
forty six deaths since the scourge broke
out. Two white people were attacked
yesterday and have since died."
The shipwrecked crew of nineteen
men from the French fishing vessel
Basquaise, which foundered on the
banks last week, have been landed at st.
Johns, N. f., after being adrift two
days in boats without food or water.
A second general advance in the
prices of anthracite coal was put into
effect yesterday In New York by the
leading companies. 1t was about rs
ton, making the schedule as follows:
1928 for stove and chestnut, $9.15 for
egg and So for broken, free on board at
tidewater, net.
Miss Julia Gillick has begun q suit
for breach of promise of marriage
against DR.. Samuel Hassel, of New
York. Miss Gulick, who is % years
old, alleges that while she was under
the influence of anesthetics DIR. Hassel
assaulted her. She alleges he after
wards promised to marry her.
In Tammany Hall, New York, it is
accepted as foregone conclusion that
Richard Croker is to take very active
part in this falls campaign, in spite of
the reports brought back from the 9TH
er side by prominent New Workers
who have talked with him. A sound
and stable currency, giving the people
q dollars worth for a dollar, is in
dorssd.
As Miss Mamie Freas couldn't again
be mistress of E. Charming Potts's mar
BILE mansion at Cedar Grove Park,
Norristown, Pa, suburb, where she
was his housekeeper for time, and
where she alleges that she was betray-
ed, she shot him three times and tried
to kill him on the road near her home
last night. Mr.. Potts, however, was
but slightly wounded.
Canoyas del Castillo, the Prime Min.
lister of Spain, has issued a manifesto,
which has been promulgated in Cuba,
and under its provisions Captain Gen.
eral Cnmpos will conduct his autumn
campaign. The manifesto says that
death or deportation awaits all rebels,
and it denounces the insurgents as in
cendiaries and assassins. It's programme
for the fall movements is that the rebels
shall be hemmed in, both by land and
sea, and then exterminated.
It is reported that Banes has been
evacuated by the Spaniards after fee
BILE resistance, that the entire northern
section of Cuba is in the hands of the
insurgents, and Gibara itself, which is
one of the strongest and best fortified
cities on the coast, is in a perilous posi-
ton, although the Spsniards have be-
tween 1000 and 5000 soldiers at that
point and two men-of-war in the bar
Dor. AS soon as the rebels found them
selves in possession of Banes, they cut
all telegraph and telephone wires and
at once began to harass Gibara, and
the commander of the fort was expect
ing an open attack at any moment.
1t is reported that two Englishmen
travelling in the Congo Free State have
been murdered and eaten by natives.
A Belgian expedition under Lieut..
Franquir, was attacked by natives on
February IL. The soldiers hastily
formed themselves into hollow
square, upon which the natives rushed
with such overwhelming force that the
Belgians were put to route within ten
minutes. Shortly afterwards it became
known, according to the correspon-
dence alluded to, that native chief.
named Ndoruma, had massacred Capt.
Hansen and the whole of his escort,
numbering sixty people.
Mr.. John E. Hurst, the democratic
candidate for Governor of Maryland,