Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-01-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Astors will help Mrs. ]. Cole
man Drayton in her divorce suit.
General Canrohert, the last marshal
of Fran e, is dying. He is nearly ST
years old.
The Long Island shore and many
towns were inundated by a high tide
on Saturday.
1t is said that 10000 children in New
York will be unable to find room in
the public schools.
N. de Giers, for many years Russian
minister Of foreign affairs, died on Sat-
urday at st. Petersburg.
Sixteen persons are reported drown
ed in marine disasters off the New
England coast in the last few days.
Congressman Wilson takes a hopeful
view of the financial situation, and seys
the receipts are rapidly equaling the
expenditures.
The receips from the income tax are
placed ct $50, 100000 by Representative
Hall, of Missouri, who has given the
question close study.
In Washington on Saturday night
the Chinese minister gave a grand re-
ception TO the diplomatic corps, the Ju-
dietary and members of Congress.
Capt. John C. Herbert, prominent
merchant of St. Clements Bay, St.
Mary's county, Md, died Thursday
evening, the 9th instant. He was in
his seventy third year.
Twelve lives, including four wo-
men, were lost Friday night by the
foundering off Point Judith of three
barges, in tow of the big tug Sea King
on their way to Providence,
A bill has been introduced in the
West Virginia Legislature requiring all
foreign building and loan associations to
deposit security with the State Auditor
to protect members in the State.
Mrs. Gotel is under arrest for at
tempting to burn her infant alive in
the kitchen stove at her home in Buff
falo, n. Y, yesterday. Insanity from
spiritualism is the alleged cause.
The main building of the Fairview
Seminary at Gaithersburg, Nd, was
destroyed by fire last night. The loss
is about $4,000. The boarding pupils
escaped in safety, but lost much of their
clothing.
The House committee on foreign af-
fairs yesterday voted for resolution
requesting the President to furnish in
formation with reference to the att,
tude of Englishman in Hawaii toward
the royalists.
The eight annual convention of the
Supreme Lodge of the Improved Order
of B'nai Birth was begun yesterday at
Royal Arcanum Hall, Baltimore. Off
GERS were elected, and banquet was
held at night.
NJ. Ribot has succeeded in forming a
French cabinet. A dispatch from Paris
says that the general opinion is that the
Ribot ministry will last until Easter,
when President Faure will be forced to
dissolve the chamber.
The snow ceased falling in Iowa Sat
urday after continuing twenty-seven
hours. 1t was twelve inches deep in
Iowa and ABIDING States, and railroad
traffic was much delayed. In Ohio
the telegraph lines were greatly dam
aged.
a fire, which was started by a gaso
line explosion in the kitchen of the
American Hotel at Elmore, o, las
night, at half past seven o'clock, has
destroyed the principal part of the bus
mess section of that town, and, at least
two lives have been lost.
The Mckinley Coal Company, Of
Pittsburg, reported the loss at Hick
man, KY, last night of tow Of
eighteen coal boats, containing $4,000
bushels of coal, valued at $40, 600. The
tow was that of the Tom REESE, No. ,,
in charge of Captain w. Floyd Buress
Lawyer Scion Rothschild, of New
York, who joined the matrimonial club
Amour, says that it does not provide
heiresses for fortune hunters, as it pre-
tends to. He paid s. initiation fee and
fifty cents visit, and the ;'heiress"
worth $4,000 to whom he was intro
duced proved to be g servant girl at IS
a month. He got his money back.
Fire in the Hotel Castle, New York,
last night caused 100000 damages.
The fire originated in room occupied
by Colin ]. Fobes, the well-known
artist, and was caused by lace curtain
blowing into lighted gas jet. Forty
three families, aggregating $50 persons,
lived in the hotel. When the cry OF
fire rang through the halls scene ap-
proximating a panic ensued. All es
capped in safety.
The thirty-sixth birthday anniver-
sary of Emperor William yesterday
was more generally celebrated through.
out Germany than ever before. Near
ly all the reigning princes came to
Berlin to present in person their con-
CALCULATIONS. a felicitous letter was
received from Prince Bismarck, and a
feature of the celebration in Berlin was
an address to the army concerning its
achievements in the Franco-Prussian
war.
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