Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-29
NEWS OF THE DAT.

will be reduced elk or seven inches by
the Chicago drainage canal.
Ex.Gov. William Pinkney Whyte, OF
Maryland, announces that he will net
support the nomination OF Mr.. John +.
Hurst for Governor.
Lord Dunraven and Designer Wat
son arrived at New York yesterday,
but the owner of Valkyrie III. WIS
non-committal as to the coming yacht
race.
Judge Bischof, of the Court of Com.
mon Pleas, of New York, has decided
that the section of the Percy-Gray rae
ing bill authorizing sweepstakes is I'M
constitutional.
Harbor Master Sutton, of Washing
ton, recommends that $4,000 be asked
from Congress for the purpose of secur.
ing an iron boat, with fire pumps and
electric lights.
1t is announced in Paris that the
Duke of Orleans has decided to aban-
don the royalist propaganda in France,
being Convinced of the futility of furth-
er fighting the republic.
Colonel William Proctor Smith, a
distinguished graduate of West Point
and an engineer on General R. E. Lees
staff during the late war, died at Al
derson, w. Va, yesterday.
The factional fight between two fam
lilies in Chinatown, San Francisco, has
led to the disruption the Six Companies.
the most powerful Chinese ~organiza-
ton in the country.
For the first time in the history of
American newspapers a direct wire for
the transmission of news has been con
structed between the capital of the
United States and the capital of Mex
leo.
The bishops of Mexico have agreed
to have no pilgrimage to the town of
Guadalupe on the occasion of the
coronation of the Virgin in October,
che pilgrimages being suspended until
January.
/ It is believed in Washington that
| Secretary Carlisle will feel it his duty
to go TO Kentucky to promote harmony
among the factions, and that in a GER
tain contingency he may become a can
didaie for the Senate.
Mrs. Rosetta Sprague, a daughter of
the late Frederick Douglass, yesterday
fled a bill in equity, in Washington,
against the widow and heirs-at-law OF
the deceased, praying for a settlement
of the estate.
The London Times reports a rumor
of discussions among the Cuban insur-
gent leaders, several of them objecting
to the policy of destroying property.
There is also said to be jealousy be-
tween the white and colored leaders.
A cyclone OF hail and rain struck
Syracuse, N. Y, at 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. 1t lasted net more than q
half hour, but ia that time thousands
of dollars worth of property was de
stroyed and several persons were in.
jured.
There was a cloudburst in the dis
trict of Sidi Aich, Algeria, yesterday,
which caused enormous damage. An
Arab village was destroyed, fourteen
persons were killed and sixteen others,
severely injured, have been removed
from the ruins.
Rev. w. G. Davenport and wife will
leave Washington today for New
York city, and will sail Saturday morn
ing for Scotland by the steamer State
of California, where they go to bring
home the remains of their son, Dana
Alfred Davenport, who was killed by q
train near Ola g,w.
at Castleton, the breeding establish.
ment of Messrs. ]. R. and F. P. Keene,
of Lexington, KY, was burned to the
ground last evening. The fire spread
so rapidly that a number of horses
were burned to death, prominent
among them being imported Kallicrates
and Hyberdad. The origin of the fire
is unknown. Losses estimated at S70,-
900.
At Fleetwood Park, yesterday, Azote
trotted a mile in 2:05!, the fastest time
ever made on that track, the best pre-
vious mile having been Nancy Hanks
2O63, in 1893. The other trotters
we're Beuzetts, who trotted a fourth
hest at Buffalo in 2:062, and tine sterl-
ing campaigner, Klamath, 2 0S!. Azote
was properly the fayorite, and he won,
but only after trotting one of the great
est races on record, Beuzetta beating
klamath for second money.