Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-10-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Ex-senator Van Wyck, OF Nebrasks,
died yesterday afternoon In Washing
ton. He was stricken with paralysis
last Monday.
In Washington yesterday evening
John. alias Patsy Harris, was declared
guilty of murder the of Matthew
Spruell, a barber, July 4, last.
1t is believed that Massrs. Clarkson,
Carter and Platt have decided that the
republican national convention shall be
held in Chicago or Pittsburg about
June 10.
Brigadier. General Craighill believes
that Baltimore should be strongly forth
fed and he will present the necessity
for this work to Congress in the strong
est terms.
A violent epidemic of diphtheria is
raging in Rockland, Me. All the pub
| lie schools and places of amusement
have been closed by the local board of
health and the infected district has
been quarantined.
With regard to his Presidential pref
erence Mr.. Quay says he thinks Reed
is the preference of majority Of
Pennsylvania republicans, although
Mckinley is power in the State.
Japan's reply to Russia's demand
that the former evacutate Corea firmly
protests against Russian dictation. A
Russian squadron has left Vladivostock
for Cbemulpo. Preparations for con-
flict between Russia and Japan are said
to be plainly seen.
In the event that Brazil should be
compelled to pay what that government
regards as outrageous claims made by
European nations, it will retaliate by
an increased rate of duty upon all
goods entered at the custom-house
from countries which press their
claims.
A. K. Ward, alias Albert W. Ken
meth, the former embezzler who alb
seconded from Memphis, Tenn, with a
shortage of $500, 900, arrived at Puerto
Cortez, Honduras, on the steamer
Breakwater from New Orleans on
Monday. Ward was accompanied by
his wife.
A rear.end collision occurred at Hyde
Park, Mass, on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad at 5:18
yesterday evening, in which one man
was killed, woman fatally injured,
and twelve other passengers, including
Congressman Elijah A. Morse, more or
less seriously hurt.
Lieutenant Commander Cowles, the
naval attache OF the United States en-
bassy in London, has informed the
Navy Department that the Royal
School of Naval Architecture at Green
wich will hereafter decline to receive
any constructors of the United States
navy. No reason for this action is as
signed.
The lighthouse board will make an.
other attempt to put lighthouse on
the Diamond Shoals, off Cape Hatteras.
There is lighthouse at Cape Hatteras,
but the shoals extend seven miles out
into the ocean, and the light on the
shore is invisible on foggy nights on
board vessels passing outside the
shoals.
Henry of Navarro won the municipal
handicap at Morris Park, N. Y. yes
terday, defeating Rey Ell Santa Anita,
Clifford and Andrews. The distance
was one mile and three quarters, and
Henry of Navarro picked up $50 pounds
and ran the distance in 3:02, just one
second and quarter slower than the
best time on record.
The session of the Supreme Council,
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Masons, in Washington yesterday, was
devoted to committee work and legis-
lative business. The annual banquet
was given at the Hotel Raleigh last
night. To-day the members of the
council went in body to Arlington
Cemetery, where an Grafton was deliv-
cred over the grave of the late General
Albert Pike.
As stated in the Gazette of that date
Assistant District Attorney Piexotto
yesterday made the opening argument
for the prosection in the trial of Dur
rant in San Francisco. He closed by
asking the jury to uphold the laws of
the State by rendering verdict OF
guilty and fixing the penalty at death.
Durrant sat stolid and Indifferent in his
usual place beside his attorneys, sur
rounded by his father, mother and
plumber of friends. He betrayed no
emotion or feeling even when accused
of murders that were compared with
the crimes of Jack the Ripper in the
Whitechapel district of London.