Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-19
NEWS OF THE day.
II is thought that Archbishop Ker
rick is dying at st. Louis.

II is thought that Archbishop Ken
rick is dying at st. Louis.
O. 81. P. Terrell, jr.. died in High
land county a few days ago aged %
wears. He was a native of Orange
county.
President Crespo of Venezuela will
send personal letter of thanks to Mr..
Cleveland for the Anglo-Venezuelan
message.
The strike of the Union Traction
Company's employees in Philadelphia
paralyzed street car traffic yesterday
and there was much disorder.
The Senate committee on foreign re-
lations will sit during the holiday re-
cess for the consideration of the Vene-
znelan question in its entirety.
General John B. Gordon, of Georgia,
has accented an invitation to deliver
the grafton in Richmond next June on
the occasion of the laying of the corner
stone of the Davis monument.
The Cuban army, under Generals Go
mez and Maceo, is said to be in crltl-
cal situation, and reinforcements have
been sent for. General Campos is post
ing his troops 80 as to catch the insur-
gents between two fires.
Miss Theresa E. Lynch, sister of
Capt. W. B. Lynch, of the Leesburg
Washingt onian, died at the residence OF
her brother, Judge John a. Lynch, In
Frederick City, Nd, on Tuesday, in the
18th year of her age.
The Illinois Steel Company, of Chica.
go, has Just closed contract with the
Pocahontas Company for the purchase
CT 500, 900 tons of coke during 1895. The
supply is to run from $1,000 to $1,000
tons per month, or about so cars per
day.
Chief Justice Fuller announced IN the
Supreme Court in Washington yesterday
that court would adjourn for the hob
days on Monday next, and that the
court would meet on Monday only for
the purpose of hearing motions and de-
ivering opinions.
The tone of the European press on
President Cleveland's Venezuelan mes
sage is generally antagonistic to the
broad claims made for the Monroe doc
trine. 1t is also intimated that the
United States may ultimately have
other countries than Great Britain to
deal with in enforcing the doctrine.
The democratic steering committee
| Of the q. S. Senate held its first meet.
ing yesterday for the consideration OF
| the republican assignment list. Moth
ing was done beyond general inspec-
| ZION of the list and the mapping out OF
the plan of operations, no effort being
made to enter upon democratic assign
ments.
Bishop Hendrix, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, who has re.
Gently returned from Japan, Corea and
China, says Ii Hung Chang, one of the
ministers of China, told him to say to
the American people that China wants
more men for schools and hospitals and
hat he will endeavor to aid and protect
them.
An epoch in the progress of metal
working is indicated in the judgment OF
United States Consul General Mason, at
Frankfort, in the development in Ger
many of process of making tubular
forms directly from hot metal ingot
confined in mold, into which suita-
BILE shaped steel mandrel is driven by
hydraulic pressure.
Burglars blew open the safe in Par
man Brothers grain warehouse, at
Franklin, Tenn, Tuesday night, and
the explosion, it is thought, knocked
down a coal stove, which fred the
building. This building, together with
Parman Brothers mill and second
warehouse belonging to them, and At
wood & Matthews warehouse, were
destroyed. Loss S34, 900; insurance,
S24, 900. The burglars escaped.
A shocking suicide occurred on Tues
| day in Prince George county. The vic
tim was James Kennedy, aged about
thirty.fve years, who killed himself
with shotgun. Kennedy went out in
to the back yard, placed the muzzle OF
the gun to the back part of his head and
pulled the trigger. One whole side of
his head was blown off. The suicide
had been widower for the past seven
years. Since the death of his wife he
had lived with his mother.