Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Queen Victoria yesterday arrived at
Cimiez, near Nice.
Il is now reported that Mr.. Thomas
3. Reed is an a. P. a. man.
The Iowa State republican conven-
ton yesterday endorsed Senator ALI
son for the presidency.
John s. Hoey, the well-known sport
ing man and referee, died at Long
Branch, n. j. yesterday, OF heart
trouble.
Il is denied in London that Great
Britain is trying to mediate between
Spain and the United States az TO the
Cuban war.
The naval and military cooperative
stores in Bombay have been burned,
resulting 10 q loss of fourteen laos,
about $500, 375.
The New York Senate yesterday
passed the act providing for The consol.
idation OF New York, Brooklyn and
other cities, known as the "Greater
New York bill"
a freight elevator in the saddlery
and carriage house of W. c. Bruce &
Sons, at Memphis, fell sixty feet yester-
dav by the cables breaking. -Four men
on it were injured, one fatally.
Charles E. Hanson, of New York,
has brought suit against his wife for
divorce, making the statutory allega-
ton and naming DR.. LIE Compile Dow,
the family physician, as correspondent.
The powder magazine in the Penedo
fortress, st. Paul de Loando, Portu
guese West Africa, exploded yesterday,
resulting in nine soldiers being killed
and ten wounded. The explosion was
due to the wilful act of one of the vic
Tins.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
200 fishermen belonging to Reval,
with their horses and carts, have been
blown out to sea on piece Office. They
had only one days provisions with
them and have been missing for five
| days.
The articles of agreement for fight
at the National Sporting Club, Lon
don, which were sent to Corbett for his
signature, have been signed. Fitz-
simmons, however, refuses to sign
them. He says Corbett must first meet
Peter Maher.
At Mobile, Ala, yesterday evening
fire destroyed the fertilizer warehouse
aud elevator and upper wharf cotton
shed belonging to the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Company, and $3.50 bales Of
cotton stored in the shed awaiting ship,
ment to Liverpool.
In Washington yesterday Justice
| Cole ordered that the case of Benjamin
| Milliken, charged with housebreakins,
be postponed until Wednesday next
Mr.. Perry, as counsel for the accused
is not prepared to proceed with the
case, his services having been retained
but few days ago.
At New Rochelle, n. Y, a few days
ago while STOPPING over the coffin O
her son and kissing him Historically
Mrs. Martin Cashin suddenly groanec
and sank down dead beside the coffin
The undertaken was Just about to Gloss
the coffin and the tragedy delayed The
funeral about an hour.
A crowd of six thousand sports, al
Madison Square Garden, New York
last night, saw Jack McAuliffe, the
lightweight champion, and George
kid Lavigne, of Saginaw, Mich
meet for championship honors, but the
police stopped the contest in the sixth
round, when Lavigne had much the
better of the contest.
A violent storm of snow, sleet and
rain, accompanied by furious wind
broke off the south Atlantic coast OF
Tuesday night, and yesterday i. swept
up the coast with the seaboard as o
centre, ard covering radius of 1000
miles or more on either side. The
severity of the storm at sea is largely
copjec'ural, although the vessels re.
ported yesterday brought nothing but
bad news.
In the Baltimore Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Balti'
more yesterday resolution was adopt.
ed requesting the General Conference
to submit to the people any proposition
affecting the pastoral invitation before
taking final action thereon. Among
the most important matters to be con
sidered is that of lay representation in
the general conference, the election OF
presiding elders by the conference in
stead of their appointment by the
bishop.