Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-23
NEWS OFF THE DAY.

/ There have been $4,000 cases of
cholera in Japan during the present ep-
idemic, and 5000 deaths from the dis
ease.
Charles R. Bishop of the Bank of
California, has contributed 100000 to
schools and societies in the Hawaiian
Islands.
The Futurity, the race of the crack
2~-year-olds for the $67, 900 stakes, will
be run at Sheepshead Bay, New York,
tomorrow.
Ex-Gov. Luzon B Morris, of Connec-
ticut, who was attacked with apoplexy
at New Haven yesterday, died during
the afternoon.
Miss Josephine Mack has sued Mil
lionaire George Law, of New York. for
breach of promise of marriage. 1t is
said that the sum named is $4,000.
The Americas cup committee have
selected September Z as the day on
which the first OF the series of races be-
tween Valkyrie III and Defender shall
be held.
In the Irish Catholic Benevolent
Union annual convention in Washing
ton a prosition to change its name by
dropping the word Iiish, was rejected
yesterday.
Less than one.third of the claims for
return of the $4,000 income tax paid
in by about 1,4O0 persons, firms and
corporations have been passed through
the auditors Office of the treasury.
Ferdinand Williams. of Cumberland,
Md, who Unsupported to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of the late
Judge Henry w. Hoffman, by Gov.
Brown, of Maryland, last night declined
the honor.
Rev. G.. S. Orne. missionary in the
Even Street Police Court, Williams
burg, N. Y, whose wife died recently,
married a widow whom he met at a
camp meeting in Maine, and his land
lady in Williamsburg, is trying to
~dispossess the couple.
A sensation was caused at yesterdays
session of the ireland building inquest
in New York by the arrest in the court
room of FIVE men implicated in causing
the death of sixteen workmen, who
lost their lives by the fall of the floor OF
the building two weeks ago.
Five freight warehouses in Milwau-
kee, Wis, owned by the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railroad Com
pany, were burned, together with their
contents. yesterday evening. A num-
Der of other warehouses were destroy
ed, the loss aggregating 100000. A
thirty mile wind was blowing, and the
flames spread with great rapidity.
Mrs. Levi NJ. Mayhem, matron of the
Cincinnati English Orphan Asylum,
went to Washington yesterday and met
her husband in the government hospital
for the insane, where he is confined as
a patient, after having been separated
from him for twenty-seyen years. He
had m~ysteriously disappeared during
the war, and it was not until q few days
ago that she learned ofhis whereabouts.
The case of Mrs. Florence Maybrick,
who is serving a term of Imprisonment
for poisoning her husband, was brought
up in the British House of Commons
yesterday, and MI. O'Connor stated
that there was much dissatisfaction
among American men and women with
the woman's trial and conviction. The
Secretary of State for the home depart
ment stated that he would inquire into
the case in view of the numerous re-
quests for her pardon.
Washington dispatches state that
much dissatisfaction is felt with Mr..
Eustis, the United States ambassador
to France, and that his resignation
would be gratefully accepted. 1t is
said that the President is much disap.
pointed in MI. Eustis's course in Paris,
not only in connection with the Waller
matter, but with other important diplo-
matte affairs with which he has had to
deal, and that the date is not far dis
tant when there will be a new
ambassador to France.
10 Patchen yesterday won the match
race against John R. Gentry in straight
heats. The race took place on the
Washington Park track, Chicago, but
as a wind that amounted almost to a
gale blew all the afternoon, a sensa-
tional time performance was out of the
question. The three heats were COW
credit 2:05}, 2:074, and 2:074. Never
theless the contest is regarded as one
of the most important that has taken
place on the trotting and pacing turf.
Patchen's victory was decisive, and
seems to put his claim to first place
among harness racers beyond dispute.
Governor Carr, of North Caroline,
has made a requisition on the Governor
of Tennessee for DR.. w. L.. Hill, who
is wanted in Stokes county. The
papers filed with the Governor state
that Hill ruined his cousin under prom
Use of marriage and afterward attempted
a criminal operation, and that after he
thought he had secured the destruction
of letters which passed between them
he told the young woman he would
never marry her, but would marry a
lady. Hill fled the county, and two
attempts were made by the unfortu-
nate girls friends and relatives to
capture him and force him to marry
her. Then he fled the State and went
to Tennessee.