Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-04-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The leaders of the omnibus strike il
Paris were arrested yesterday.

The leaders of the omnibus strike in
Paris were arrested yesterday.
Rain fell at Hennessy, Oklahoma, yes
terday, for the first time since October.
President Cor.lero, of Ecuador, has
resigned, the Vice President taking his
place.
Two Cuban insurgents who have sur
rendered confirm the reports OF the
death of Jose Maceo, the rebel leader.
Oscar Wilde's home was sold out by
the sheriff yesterday, in the presence
of great crowd of curiosity mongers.
President Cleveland will not permit
oficeholders to be active in the political
conventions, even in behalf OF SOUND
money.
Reports read at the meeting Of the
Grand Lodge of the Order of B'nal
Birth at Montgomery, Ala, showed
the work to be in splendid condition.
The Russian government has expell-
ed Madame Modjeska, the well-known
actress, from Warsaw, owing to Vlo-
lent speech she made against Russia at
Chicago.
John G. Swearingen was killed in
Hdgefeld county, S. c., yesterday by
B. L. Jones. They were connected ny
marriage, and bitter feud had existed
between them. The victim is q brother
in-law of Senator Tillman.
By the collapsing of an amphitheater
which surrounded a cockpit at the VII
lage of Huitla, Mexico, yesterday, SIX
men were killed and several wounded.
The arena was crowded, and the deaths
were principally from suffocation.
Major General Heth, the Confederate
member of the Antietam Battlefield
Board, who has been critically i'll for
several weeks in Washington, Is now
convalescent, and appeared on the
streets to-day.
1t is stated that the Spanish govern
ment has decided to accede to the de-
mands of the United States in the AL
lianca affair. The captain of the Condo
de Vendito will be put on trial for his
offense of firing on an American vessel
outside the zone.
Frank Winterchief, colored, yester-
day pleaded guilty of attempted assault
upon Mrs. Butts at Broad Run, Fred,
erick county, Md, and was sentenced
by Judge Lynch to serve ten years IN
the penitentiary, the full penalty OF the
law.
The President yesterday made the
following appointments in the army :
Brigader General Wesley Merritt, to
be major general; Colonel Zenas r.
Bliss, Twenty-fourth Infantry, to be
brigadier general Colonel John J. Cop
pinger, Twenty-third Infantry, to be
brigadier general.
The baseball games yesterday result
as follows: At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
3; Brooklyn, 1. At Washington
Washington, S; Philadelphia, 4. At
New York-Boston, 5; New York, 8.
At Cincinnati-Pittsburg, s; Cincinnati,
5. At Louisville-Chicago, S; Louis
vile, 1. At st. Louis-Cleveland, u;
st. Louis, 3.
When Mrs. John Powell awoke yes
terday morning in her home at German
town. Pa, she was Mortified by the dis
coyery that her husband had died
during the night. and his body, already
grown cold, was lying at her side in the
bed. Evidently he had been dead sew
eral hours.
Five tons of nitro-glycerine at the
factory of the Ohio and Indiana Tor
pedo Company, two miles west of Lima,
Ohio. exploded yesterday. The shock
was felt for twenty miles. Over thou
sand panes of glass, including number
of large windows in business blocks,
were shivered. Two employees had
barely left the building when it went up.
Secretary Carlisle has decided to
make an address before the sound
money convention which will meet in
Memphis on the Odd of next month.
This will be his first public utterance
since the question of free coinage as
sumed such overwhelming proportions
in the West, and it will be the keynote
of the administration.
Prof. Faction, now of the Conserva-
tory of Music, in Boston, was granted
divorce in Baltimore yesterday from
his wife. Shortly after the decree was
signed Prof. David Melamet, the COM
poser. who was the correspondent in
the case, secured a marriage license.
He will be married to Mrs. Faction to-
day.
The real significance of the joint pro-
test made on Tuesday by Russia, Ger
many, and France against the ratifica-
tion of the Chino-Jspanese treaty of
peace is we'll understood in English
Diplomatic circles. It is protest
against secret British-Japanese under
standing arrived at before peace was
finally arranged.
The Russian Government has sent
note to Japan intimating that there are
various conditions to the treaty of
peace between Japan and China that
Russia cannot allow to be put into exc
cution. A dispatch from Berlin says
that the ST. Petersburg correspondent
of the Frankfort Zeitung says that it is
| firmly believed in the Russian capital
that japan has made considerable Sc
cret concessions to Great Britain.
The Priory Farm Home for Friend
less Children, at Chestnut Ridge,
Dutchess county, n. Y, was destroyed
by fire Yesterday. The children were
all taken out of the dormitories to
places of safety, and no lives were lost.
The building and contents were insured
for $50, 600, but the loss exceeded that
snm by several thousand dollars. The
home is conducted by an Episcopal
fraternity, known as the Brothers of