Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-12-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NEWS OF THE DAY.
Frank Ern and George Dixon will
meet in ten-round boxing contest in
New York tonight.
The republicans of the Senate expect
to reorganize the officers and commit
tees of that body next week.
1t is said the republicans working in
the interest of Speaker Reed have COM
bined to prevent legislation by Con-
gress.
In the Senate yesterday Mr.. Voor.
bees introduced bill increasing all
pensions granted under the act of 1890
to $12.
A dispatch from Vienna states that
quiet is being restored in Turkey and
the Sultan will probably give way on
the firman question.
Mrs. Alice Edmondsou Groome,
widow of ex-Gov. James Black Groome,
of Maryland, was married in Paris to
Mr.. Philip Fendall Young, of Philadel-
phin, yesterday.
The republican Senators have COM
promised their differences by agreeing
that the report of the committee on
committees shall be submitted to the
full caucus for confirmation.
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Peters
burg, is to be dedicated December %,
Bishop Keaue, of Washington, and
Archbishop Kahn, Of ST. Louis, will
s.Se part in the dedication exercises.
The reply of the Marquis of Sails
bury to the note of Secretary Olney on
the Venezuelan question is that Great
Britain refuses to submit to arbitration
any eff the territory within the Schom
burg line.
Corbett will not agree to meet Fitz
simmons for the $40, 600 purse offered
by Dan Stuart, of Texas. The ulli-
lnatum was handed to Stuart in New
York last night by William a. Brady,
Corbett's manager.
Postmaster O'Donnell, of Pittsburg,
h IS resigned the Craftsmanship of the
demo cratic city committee on receipt of
letter from w. L. Wilson, Postmaster
General, saying. "You will either have
to resign that Office or the postmaster
ship."
The Virginia court clerks associa-
ton, which has been 10 session in Rich
mond, adjourned last evening. The
body recommended the Legislature to
adopt some better means of securing
the revenue received by the court
clerks.
Belgium has refused to surrender
Harry Russell, the postoffice robber,
who broke out of the Ludlow street
Jail, New York, to the United States
authorities, and he will, iu all prob
ability, never undergo trial in this
country for his crimes.
The Empire State express on the
New York Central Railroad, after two
futile attempts to reduce the running
time between New York and Buffalo,
succeeded in wiping out all previous
records by making the scheduled time
$50 per miles per hour, and arriving at
Buffalo FIVE minutes ahead of time.
The South Carolina constitutional
convention was in session for three
hours yesterday morning and disposed
ofthe report of the committee on order,
yle and revision. AT 1888 o'clock the
actual work on the new constitution
was completed. The convention then
took a recess until later hour when
the whole thing was ratified and sign
ed, and the convention adjourned sine
die.
Half dozen of the general officers of
the Southern Railway Company, in
GLIDING Second Vice President W. II.
Baldwin, General Superintendent
Green and Chief Eogineer Hudson
were in Norfolk yesterday inspecting
the terminal facilities of the Southern
Railway at Pinnel's Point and on the
side of the Elizabeth. Extensive i'm
provements, costing upwards of e mil
lion dollars, will be made in Norfolk.
and the largest yard of any deep water
terminal in the South will be located at
Primers P, int. Twenty-f: ur large
ocean going steamers have already
been engaged to load cargoes at this
port during December.
Russia is said to be in accord with
the other European powers in their de-
termination to have order restored
throughout the Turkish empire, and
The powers are said to have joined in
an ultimatum to Turkey to issue fir
mans for extra guardships within 70
hours or the passage of the Dardanelles
would be forced. Russia and Germany
have refused to interfere with England
in its demands upon Turkey, and the
Sultan will have to come to terms.
The Porte has issued a statement in re-
gard to the recent troubles in Trebi-
zond, in which it is said that the riots
were started by the Armenians, who
planned great slaughter throughout
the country.