Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

mas ANNOUNCED Els caDUlQacy LOT I =.
Senator Caneron's seat.
Mr. Hanna visited Major Mckinley
yesterday. This was the frat meeting
between them since election day.
The Georgia General Assembly yes.
terday elected Alexander Stephens
Clay United States Senator for the
term commencing March /, 1897.
George Matthews was yesterday ar
raigned in the Charles county court,
Md, for the murder Of James Irwin
and plead mot guilty. to the indict-
ment.
All the old officers, including Miss
Willard, President, were reelected al
| Yesterdays session of the W. c. T. [.
in St. Louis yesterday. The convention
adjourned to-day.
A Paris correspondent telegraphs
that he learns from the highest sources
that the Gar while in Paris tried 10
| reconcile France and Germany on the
basis Of a territorial adjustment.
At the meeting in Washington last
| night OF the Jackson Democratic Asso-
citation Mr.. w. ]. Bryan waa invited to
address the association on January S,
the date Of their annual banquet.
Mr. Edison has made experiments in
| dis laboratory at West Orange, n. j.,
with men, totally blind with encourag-
ing results, and predicts that within
three years, by means Of electricity, he
| will make the blind see.
At yesterdays session Of the General
Assembly of the K. OF L. at Rochester,
y. Y, J. r. Sovereign was reelected
general master workman, and General
Secretary-Treasurer Hayes was re-.
elected, both without opposition.
Mra. Mary R. Hakesley, charged
with manalaugh,er for killing her hus-
band, Marion f. Hakesley, by striking
him in the left eye with the ferrule end
OF an umbrella, was tried and acquitted
in the Criminal Court Of Baltimore yes
terday.
General Weyler continues his sd-
vance through the hills of Cuba. He
has taken many prisoners, left behind
by the retreating bands in great dis
tresa The movement is from Mariel to
Bahia Henda and thence 10 Candelaria
Maceo is retreatiDg and avoiding a
fight.
John r. Gentry, the champion pac er
and the fastest harness performer IN
the world, has been shipped to New
York, where he will be sold at auction
next Thursday. His owner, VIM.
Simpson, bought him for 81 900 year
ago and refused $4,000 for him last
summer.
Mr.. Gwinn R. Oliver, farmer near
Port Tobacco, Nd, and mem
Der of the present grand jury OF
Charles county, attempted and proba-
bly, succeeded in ending his life yester-
day by cutting his throat with razor.
He had just prepared himself, appa-
rently, to 90 to La Plata to attend
court.
Negotiations for the control OF the
Seaboard Air Line by the syndicate
headed by Mr.. Thomas F. Ryan,
of New York, came to an end
yesterday, the syndicate failing in
lIS eIOTC5 W ScCulO CODIlOI ms
result the present management re-
mains in control andi the effort Of the
Ryan syndicate to secure the property
is defeated. 1t is said that Mr.. Ryan
will institute legal proceedings to com
pei the pool committee to deliver the
3 800 shares held by it at the time the
agreement was signed at Portsmouth,
Va.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Satterlee, bishop Of
Washington, has made public the cir
cumstances in connection with his re-
cent visit to the Car OF Russia. 1t will
be remembered that the bishop pre-
sented petition to the ruler of all the
Russias, signed by representatives Of
all the English speaking Protestants,
asking him to interpose and stop as far
as possible the slaughter of the Ar
menians by the Turks. The bishop
says he was received with great courtesy
by the Gar, who listened with interest
to the matter as it was set before him.
After several postponements Star
Pointer, the Tennessee pacing wonder,
with record of 9 OBJ and champion of
the world for three successive heate,
won new laurels at Philadelphia yes
terday by defeating Joe Patchen, that
other king OF the turf, in three straight
heats, in match race for 81 900 side
at Belmont track. Besides this he sue
ceeded in running the fastest heat in
any pacing race ever run in Pennsyl-
vana. This was the first race, and Star
Pointer crossed under the wire in
2.044, beating Robert Us. record made
at Point Breeze by one and one-half