Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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will soon be another bond issue.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, who has
just returned from Cuba, says that Cuba
will eventually be free and the United
States should interfere in her behalf.
BY the decision of Surrogate Fitz-
gerald, announced in New York yes
terday, the S5,0O0,00O left to George
Gould by his father. Jay Gould, is ex-
empted from the collateral inheritance
tax.
William E. Curtis, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, is said to be interested
in movement to have Mr.. Cleveland
nominated as candidate for President
by the gold democrats. This scheme
is said to be taking shape.
The State mass convention, called by
the silver men of Minnesota, was at
tended by 500 delegates. John Lind
was nominated for Governor and Bryan
was Endorsed. A fusion with demo-
Gratis and populists on the State ticket
is proposed.
General Albert Ordway, commanding
the District of Columbia militia, an
nounced yesterday afternoon that the
annual encampment of the District Ma
tional Guard for the current fiscal year
would not be held until June, 1897,
thus putting an end to long contro-
versy.
Mr.. VIM. G. Whitney has published
card in which he says: "Will you
be kind enough to correct the state
ment that 1 desire the endorsement by
the State organization of the Chicago
ticket. There are no possible condi-
tions or circumstances that would In
duce me to vote for it or assist it.
Five hundred veteran comrades of
the war called on Major Mckinley at
Canton, o., yesterday evening. Major
Mckinley made an address, in which
he urged them to rally to the defense
of the financial honor, and asked all
citizens to obliterate party lines to the
same end-honesty, not sectional.
The Higgins republicans of Delaware,
in State convention at Georgetown,
yesterday nominated John G. Higgins,
a brother of ex-senator Higgins, for
governor. and Robert G. Houston, OF
Sussex, for Congress. The only nomi.
nee of the Addicks convention endorsed
was Daniel j. Fooks, presidential
elector.
The colored people of Washington u.s.
sembled in a mass meeting last night
and formed an organization to arouse
sentiment against lynching in general
and at the same time arrange for con-
certed action in the Randolph lynching
in Montgomery county, Md John M.
J Langston presided. Several white peo-
pie were in the audience. Committees
were appointed to begin an investiga:
ton and some of the speakers declared
that they have evidence against the
lynchers.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio,
says that a gentleman who is too close.
ly allied to the administration to per.
NIT his name to be made public, stated
Yesterday that "there will be no indie.
pendent democratic gold ticket in the
field this fall by order of the admins
tration at Washington, but the support
of the gold men of the democratic party
will be thrown to the republican ticket,
and the combined and united efforts Of
that strong wing of the democratic par
ty will be thrown to aid the election OF
Major Mckinley.
Fifteen men employed as ore hand
lers at the ore docks of the Cleveland
and Pittsburg Railroad Company, at
Cleveland, Ohio, crowded into small
flat-bottomed ferry yesterday even
ing. When half way over the boat be-
gan to sink. The men rushed to the
| side and it turned over. Fifteen of the
number we're drowned. At daybreak
to-day the crew of the fire tug Cleve.
lander returned to the old river bed to
continue the search for the missing
people from the Inflated scow. Fifteen
bodies were hauled to the surface.
When the overturned scoW was right
ed hats, caps and dinner pals foated
from underneath. There were still
three bodies missing at noon.
w. T. Church, middle-aged man,
who said he was a school teacher, of
Detroit, Mich, jumped off pier TO-,
Light street wharf, Baltimore yester-
day, and ended his life by drowning.
In the pocket of his coat, which was
found on the pier early yesterday morn
ing by Patrolman Seipp, were several
letters, one of which was addressed to
Mr.. William Carey, 226 north Calvert
street, with whom Church had been
boarding for the last three months. To
this letter the announcement was made
that the writer was tired of the struggle
of life, was discouraged, disheartened
and Inundated, and intended to put an
end to his earthly woes, at least, by