Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

ator from Indiana.
The Cuban insurgents have burned
fifty seven houses in the village of San
JuaD, province of Santa Clara.
The Postmaster General has approved
the bill for the better classification OF
the $4,000 clerks in the postal service.
! There has been an outbreak of chol-
era at Alexandria, Egypt, and an
! English merchant and several natives
have died.
I! During squall on the bay at San
Francisco, yesterday, the British snip
Blairmore was capsized and six OF her
crew wei drowned.
The Tennessee Derby, worth $4,000,
at one mile and an eighth, was cap
tured at Memphis yesterday by DIR. E..
F. McLean's bay colt Berclair.
The South Carolina and Georgia
Railroad will inaugurate q line OF
steamers between Charleston, S. c.,
and Europe on the 1st of next Septem-
Der.
Two battalions of Chinese soldiers
while killing officers and men of
another regiment were blown into
eternity by the explosion of maya
zine.
A burglar caught fumbling with the
safe of DR.. Moses J. Jackson in New
York yesterday, was not permitted to
go until he had paid fee of S. to the
physician,
1t is reported that King Menelik,
of Abyssinia, has sent messengers to
negotiate an alliance with the der
wishes, by which they will unite their
forces against the Italians and English.
The Pope has congratulated Cardinals
Gibbons, Vaughan and Logue for hav-
ing signed the appeal for Anglo-Ameri-
can arbitration and offers them encour-
agement to preserve in their noble aim.
The body of an unknown man, sup
posed to be John Randall, lies in the
morgue at Providence Hospital, Wash
ington. The man was found on the
street i'll, and died soon after he was
admitted to the hospital.
1t is reported that in an attack upon
Palma, in Pinar del Rio, the Cuban in
surgents left lis killed. A gun con-
structed of wood, which they attempted
to use. exploded. They carried away
more than 200 wounded.
Briga ler General William P. Craig
hill, U. S. A., has been appointed chair
man of the board on consulting engl-
neers of the dock board of New York
city, in place of Brigadier General
Thomas L. Casey, U. S. A., deceased.
Henry Fitch, brother of George K.
Fitch, one of the proprietors of the San
Francisco Bulletin and San Francisco
Call, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head at his home
on Capitol Hill, Washington, yester-
day.
What appears to have been fendish
attempt to poison the entire populace
of Rockville, Pa, was made there last
night. Some scoundrel put great
quantity of paris green in the village
we'll, from which nearly ali the citizens
drink.
An explosion of chemicals in tie
drug store of Edmunds & Williams,
under the Vendome Hotel, on Penn
sylvania avenue and Third street,
Washington, at 2 o'clock yesterday
evening set fire to the store. The store
was burned.
Through deal with the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad Company the
Southern Railway Company has secur-
ed possession of the Knoxville, Cum
berland Gap and Louisville Railroad,
and thereby access to the coal and iron
industries Of the Middlesboro region.
There has been no extension as yet OF
the measles among the Presidents
children at Woodlev, and the little pa
tent, Esther, is reported to be coming
along as we'll as can be expected. An
other of Mr.. Tnurber's children has
taken the disease, the third in his
family, in the person ofhis boy, Donald.
The Department of the Potomac,
Grand Army of the Republic, celebrat.
ed the anniversary of General Lees
surrender, at AppomattoX, at their hall
in Washington, last night, with grand
reception and campfire, rendered ex-
union soldiers and sailors, members OF
the United States Senate, and House OF
representatives. aHu PioHuihSAo 0iAiSoAS
of the army and navy.
The presence of Cardinal Satolli in
St. Louis at this time is said to have
more purpose than mere visiting Arch
bishop Kahn. He will meet and con-
suit with Archbishop Averardi, the
Pope's visitor to Mexico. This was ar
ranged during Archbishop Averardi's
stay in Washington, on March II last.
The significance of Archbishop Aver
ardi's appointment to Mexico is only
now beginning to transpire. 1t is said
an accredited minister to the Vatican
will be asked for.
The expulsion of Rev. George P.
Knapp, the American missionary, from
Bitlis, Armenia, is reported to be in
line with an agreement entered into be-
tween Russia and Turkey, to get rid of
the Protestant and Catholic mission
aries, and to substitute for them priests
of the Russian church. The British
government will be requested by the
Armenian relief committee to take
steps to secure the release of Rev. MIR.
Knapp. French feeling has been
aroused against the Turkish govern.
ment for its action toward the mission
aries. The Porte has given assurances
that missionaries in Asia Minor will
not be disturbed $50 long as they con-
form to the laws of the country"