Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-30
NEWS OF THE Ds.Y.

The railroad war in the West caused
the price of soft coal in CT .icago to drop
g ton.
Andrew Cole and his four children,
suffering with rabies, were admitted
TO the insane asylum, at Lexington,
KY, yesterday.
Mr.. ". 0. Saville, ,sho to-day leaves
the steamboat inspection Office, will be-
come Inspector of boilers for the Guar
antors OF Pennsylvania.
United States Senator James II. Ber-
ry was reelected by the Arkansas leg
islature yesterday. The election will
be declared in joint session to-day.
It is reported from Tangier that
that there has been serious derange-
ment between the American consular
agent at Fee and the Moorish govern
ment.
Fifty employees of the Census Bureau
have been dismissed, to take effect
next Thursday. Most of the remaining
200 will be dropped from the rolls dur
ing February.
Deputations from the chief Russian
cities waited upon the Car yesterday,
and in his speech to the members he
told them that he was firmly resolved
TO uphold autocracy.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin-Wallace, the fa-
nous singer, is reported in critical
condition from the wounds received in
the Vandalia Railroad wreck at Coates
vile, Ind, On Monday.
The republican members of the West
Virginia legislature in caucus yester-
day decided that it would be unwise
to take up the consideration Of the
Virginia debt question at this session.
Joseph Greenhut. president OF the
Distilling and Cattle Feeding Compa-
ny, and E. 3. Lawrence, director of
the First National Bank, of Chicago,
were appointed receivers of the whisky
trust at Chicago yesterday.
Secretary Carlisle yesterday sent to
the House a statement showing that
claims aggregating $50, $50 for bounty
on domestic beet sugar manufactured
while The late bounty law was in force,
are on file in the department.
At Christ Church Cathedral, Louis.
vile, KY, Sunday, special services
were held in commemoration Of the
twentieth anniversary of the consecra-
ton to the bishopric of the Rt. Rev
Thomas U. Dudley, D. D., LII. D., d.
c. L.
WIS Stratton has shipped from the
famous Independence Mine, in Cripple
Creek district, one hundred tons of ore,
which is expected to yield $1,000 600 al
the smelter works in Denver. Some Of
the ore is rich tellurium, which runs
$780, 900 in gold per ton.
A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro Gays
the partisans of ex President Peixoto
are making manifestations daily snd
threaten TO cause trouble. The gov.
erDment is taking precautions. 1t is
rumored that the military cadets are
engaged in conspiracy.
The skirmishing for positions in the
hattie for David 3. Hills seat in the
Senate has already begun in New York
ana for the next year and half wires
will be pulled pretty industriously ior
the honor of representing the State in
the Senate of the United States.
Congressman w. Bourke Cochran,
with Mrs. Cochran, will sail for Europe
this week, to be gone q long while
The departure of the Congressman
marks his retirement from public life
for some time, and upon his return he
will settle down to the practice of law
A telegram, signed by the presidents
Of twenty leading Chicago banks.
was sent to Washington yesterday
urging the members Of the Senate and
House, irrespective ofparty, to unite in
the immediate passage of a bill
in conformity with President Cleve-
lands message.
The Lord Chancellor for the Imperial
Privy Council ofEDgland has delivered
Judgment allowing the appeal from the
Manitoba school case. The decision
favors the Catholics in their claim that
they legally possessed separate school
system prior 10 Manitoba's confedera-
ton, and permits reopening ofthe
case in the Canadian courts.
Seniors Romero and Arriaga were in
conference with Secretary Gresham
yesterday concerning a settlement Of
the dispute between Mexico and Guat-
emala. The news from Mexico indi.
Gates that the people are determined
that Guatemala most submit to Mexi-
co.'s demands or fight. The Mexican
cabinet has not reached decision upon
Guatemala's answer to Mexico's ulti.
n,atum. 1t is said that Guatemala
would not stand alone in case of a Mex
lean conflict, but would be supported
by other Central American States. A
dispatch from the City of Mexico says
The government still refuses to dis
close the tenor Of the Guatemalan note.
The IMPRESSION prevails that it has
been considered, and that Mexico has
demanded instant payment of the 81,
100000 indemnity which, if refused,
will mean war. Offers of mediation
by the Uuited States government will
not be considered, as Guatemala has
already settled the question at issue by
the treaty of 1882, which she now tries
to repudiate.