Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

terday.
By the explosion of fre-damp in
mine at Troppau, Austrian Silesia, on
Saturday, nearly fifty miners were
killed.
Jasper Smith YVES arrested in New
York, yesterday, and taken to Jersey
City on the charge of abducting his
own wife.
Much wreckage has come ashore
near Tarifa, and the supposition is that
it came from the missing Spanish cruiser
Reina Regente.
H. Rider Haggard, the author, has
been selected as the Conservative mem
Der of Parliament to represent the con-
stitueucy of East Norfolk.
The entire supply of provisions for
three months of the Chinese troops in
Manchruia has been captured near
Niuchwang by the Japanese.
No reply has been received by Secre-
tary Gresham 10 his demand for repa-
ration for the firing upon the steamship
Alliance by Spanish warship.
Little Emma Hausman, ofCleveland,
Md, who was assaulted last Wednes-
day, identified James Valentine, who is
under arrest, as her assailant.
It is believed in Washington that
Spain has replied to Secretary Gresh-
ANS demand by ordering her gunboats
in Cuban waters not to interfere with
American vessels.
The Spanish cabinet resigned yester-
day, in consequence of trouble in the
Chamber of Deputies following an at
tack upon newspaper office by a
large crowd of army officers.
Slatin Bey, who was Egyptian gov
ernor of Senaar when Khartoum fell,
eleven years ago, and has been in cap
tivily ever since, has escaped from the
| Mahdists and reached Cairo.
Ii Hung Changes negotiations with
Japan will be hampered by the ignor-
ance that prevails as to the real designs
of Russia, whose movements in the
East are being closely watched.
An expedition is about to leave New
York to search for gold and precious
stones, alleged to have been found in
fabulous quantities on the eastern slope
of the Andes mountains, in Peru.
Three Cinnamon were baptised last
night at Eut4w Place Baptist Church,
Baltimore. They are members OF the
Suuday-school connected with the
church and professed conversion.
A seven wear old colored girl who
had diphtheria was refused admission
to six hospitals in Washington yester-
day. After a delay of six hours she
was sent to the aims house hospital.
Helen Cummings, Sister De Chantal,
for sixty years nun and who for
thirty years was mother superior of the
Visitation Convent, in Washington,
died there yesterday.
The flour millers of the Red River
Valley, western Dakota and Montana
have formed an association for the pur-
chase of wheat and selling of their pro-
duct. Twenty.one mills are in the
combination.
VIM. Sauerland was shot and killed
by John NJ. Kessler yesterday in Balti,
more, where Kessler keeps saloon.
The shooting was done while Kessler
was assisting Patrolman Owen Taylor
to arrest Samuel Sapp.
Fire in the burning Withheld Build
ing, in Omaha, Neb., Saturday, cut of
egress from the upper floors, and six
teen persons, including seven young
women, were taken out by iremen on
extension ladders.
The ground was frozen hard, with
plenty of ice, at Dallas, Texas, Satur
day morning. The thermometer reg,
istered 2S' above zero. A great deal Of
vegetation was destroyed, but there
were not many fruit trees in bloom.
The Monaco regatta opened yester,
day, and the principal event--the race
for the prize offered by the Prince Of
Monaco-was won by the Prince
of Wales's cutter Britannia, which
managed to give Mr.. Walkers new
racer, the Ailsa, her first defeat.
The engagement of Miss Julia Steven
son, daughter of vice-President Steven
son, to Martin D. Hardin, son of Hon.
Watt P. Hardin, candidate for the
democratic nomination for Governor OF
Kentucky, is announced. Young BAR
din is student in the Theological
Seminary of Danville, KY.
The German Imperial State Council
on Saturday shelved the grain monop-
oily proposals, and decided not to re-
commend any new measures regarding
the prohibition of the importing of
American cattle. The council consid-
cred measures for reducing the cost Of
farming and the duties on agricultural
produce.
Stories OF strike ON the part Of the
senior students of Union Theological
Seminary in New York yesterday
against the enforcement of a feature of
its curriculum which is obnoxious to
them, have been floating through eccle-
clesiastical and educational circles for
several days. The students have en-.
tered protest against the system OF
practice sermons.
With the return of the President to
Washington many important cases will
be considered by him, notable among
which are those arising 10 connection
with the firing upon the Alliance by
Spanish warship, the extension Of Brit
ish influence into Venezuela, the killing
of Italians by mob in Colorado and
the accidental shooting ola British SUBJ
ject in New Orleans.
Viceroy Ii Hung Chang, accompanied
by the Taotais Lo Fung To and WI
Ting Flu, and ex-Secretary John w.
Foster, is expected to arrive at Simono.