Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Most of the sporting men have left
Ell Paso, and very few will stay to see
the fight.
Information from Shanghai says Rus
sia supported the King of Korea in
killing the Korean ministers.
The enlisted strength of the army
has been brought up to the maximum
and recruiting will be discontinued.
A rebellion has broken out in Korea
because of a royal proclamation order
ing the natives to give up their queues.
Tammany is trying to induce William
C. Whitnev to become its candidate for
the democratic presidential domination.
Bonds of the recent issue for which
purchasers failed to make proper pay
ments will be allotted to the Morgan
syndicate.
The political crisis in France is be-
lieved 10 be growing more serious.
There is rumor that the cabinet Is
contemplating coup d'etat.
Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, yester-
day granted the requisition of the Gov.
ernor of Kentucky for Jackson and
Walling, the alleged slayers OF Pearl
Bryan.
It is said in London that the Degotia-
tons now in progress between the Uni
ted States and England will result 10
satisfactory settlement of the Venezu-
elan boundry dispute.
Local elections were held in Penn
sylvania yesterday. Several interest
ing contests were waged in the larger
cities which elected mayors. The re-
publicans were generally successful.
Bettina Gerard, the actress, who has
probably been the central figure in more
divorce suits than any other woman on
or off the stage, is lying at private
sauitarum in west Forty-third street,
New York, so broken in health that she
is literally fighting for life.
Joseph F. Lambert, clerk in the
office of the Secretary, Department OF
the Interior, in Washington, died yes
terday from fracture and conclusion
sustained By falling down stairs in the
Costello building on G between Sixth
and Seventh streets northwest.
Mr.. E. c. Benedict, of New York, is
quoted as saying "Mr. Cleveland
will answer the third term question
very distinctly at q not distant day.
He will not keep the democracy wait
ing" Friends of Mr.. Benedict believe
Mr.. Cleveland has prepared letter on
The subject.
At the residence of Mr.. W. E. Dodge
in New York last night representative
men of that city and Brooklyn took
steps to cooperate with citizens in 9TH
er cities in the agitation for a high
court of arbitration to settle disputes
between Great Britain and the United
States.
Nixon & Zimmerman, the Philadel.
phia firm of theatrical managers who
are to take charge of the Academy OF
Music, in Baltimore. after the present
season, have secured from Mr.. John W
Albaugh, of Baltimore, AN interest in tn
new Lafayette Square Opera House, in
Washington. This makes the seventh
theatre to. pass under their manage
ment.
When Mrs. Catherine Schwab, the
wife of Franz Michael Schwab, a
moulder, of Williamsburg, n. Y, left
him last May on account of his dissi-
pated habits and made her home with
her married son, Bernard Schwab, her
husband vowed that within year be
would have her life. At $50 o'clock last
night he went to her house and shot
her twice. She died within five min
utes. Schwab also shot his son Der
nard, and the nine-weeks-old son of
he latter. Both were taken to hos
pital.
A cable dispatch received at the State
Department yesterday from Mr.. Ter
rell, U. S. minister to Turkey, contained
the intelligence that efforts of Miss
Clara Barton, president of the Ameri-
can National Red Cross, to obtain the
permission of the Turkish government
to distribute relief 10 the suffering
Armenians, had been successful. Min
ister Terrell has presented Miss
Clara Barton TO the Sublime Porte and
has received assurance of full protec-
ton and aid for her agents. Her
assistants will go at once to the interior
of Turkey to dispense charity.
State Senator John James Brooke
Bond, of Calvert county, Md, died at
Annapolis last night of pneumonia.
He was fifty. four years old and was
lifelong democrat. When the war
broke out Mr.. Bond went south and
fought on the Confederate side through
out the conflict. By the death of Sena-
tor Bond neither party has q constitu-
tional majority in the upper house OF
the Maryland legislature, the vote
standing thirteen democrats to twelve
republicans. President Bruce will i'm
mediately issue warrant to the sheriff
of Calvert county for special election
to choose q successor to Mr.. Bond.
VIRGINIA NEWS.