Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

MEND VI LIZ " III.
The public White House receptions
seem 10 have been D.defiuilely post.
poned.
The naval approx ,riation bill provides
for three battle saips and twelve tor
pedo boats.
Railroad companies are considering
the question of disseminating half rates
to clergymen.
The Illinois republicans have nomi-
mated Senator Cullom for third term
in the U. s. Senate.
Target practice has been suspended
in the army because OF the exhausted
supply of ammunition.
Four young women were drowned in
the Blue river, Kansas, yesterday by
breaking through the ice.
In the German Reichstag yesterday
the SECOND reading of the motion to re-
peal the anti-Jesuit law was passed.
The bishops OF the Episcopal Church
have Issued pastoral dealing with the
incarnation and the inspiration of the
Scriptures.
NJ. Carnaud, the socialist deputy who
was recently imprisoned at Roanne,
near Lyons, FOR melting number of
weavers to go out On strike, was re-
leased yesterday.
John Burns, the English labor leader,
in an interview in London yesterday
criticised the United States and de.
clared that nowhere in the world is
there more need of the Englishmans
helping hand,
Sallie Levan, the seventeen-year-old
daughter of Jacob K Levan, died at
Obey, Pa, yesterday Of diphtheria.
This is the seventh death in that family
within two weeks. Several other mem
! hers are still ill.
William Beach was convicted yester-
day in Washington of receiving 1,S00
two-cent postage stamps September Z,
last, from VIM. B. Smith, already con-
victed of stealing them from the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing.
Fire broke out in the cellar of St.
Marks Lutheran Church, in Hagers-
town, Md, Wednesday night and
damaged the building considerably.
Prayer meeting was being held and a
small panic ensued during which a
lady's ankle was broken. All others
escaped uninjured.
The Italian consul at Charleston, S.
c., yesterday refused to permit State
dispensary officers to search the bark
Fortuna, lying in the harbor, the ere "
of which were charged with selling
liquor to citizens. Gov. Evans threat
ems to seize the vessel and cause inter
national complications.
A labor arbitration plan has been de-
vised by Attorney General O!ney and
was introduced yesterday by Chairman
Mccain, of the House committee on
labor. and is intended as substitute
for the one framed by Labor Commits
sioner Carroll d. Wright as the result
of the labors of the Chicago strike
commission. q
Reuben Shank and his wife were
awakened at their home, at York, Pa,
yesterday morning by the barking of a
dog. They discovered the house to be
in flames and barely escaped with their
lives. There was twenty years litiga-
ton over the house that was destroyed.
1t was the York furnace bridge toll
house for many years.
Mr.. LeXow. chairman of the commit
tee appointed by the New York Senate
to investigate the New York city po-
lice department, made his report to the
Senate at Albany yesterday. The re-
port TO the Senate alleges that there
have been no fair elections in New
York city for years and that bribery
and corruption are general.
The Morganfeld matter was argued
before the Circuit Court in Cincinnati
yesterday. The case was taken under
Amusement by the court. Motion 3
have been filed for judgment in the two
cases of the Adams Express Company
against Morganield and others. These
suits were to recover the 81 400 found
on the alleged train-robber when arrest
ed, and which, it is claimed, be got
from the express train in the holdup at
Aqua creek in October last
August William Stiefel, thirty years
old, son of Edward W. Stiefel the we'll
known brewer, was burned to death
last night in his plumbing and general
hardware store, near the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad station at Carroll.
The horrible accident is supposed TO
have been the result of an explosion
in the store, as the entire building,
| one story frame structure, was cOnsum-
ed, together with all the stock and fix
lures. The remains of Mr.. Stiefel were
not found until the fire was extinguish-
ed, and the people were looking over
the debris.
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.
The introduction OF financial bill
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