Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

rebels have retired into theinterior. i
Is quiet there.
Secretary Malet-P-@yost, OF the Ven
ez1elan commission, denies that the
commission mas come 10 q decision =ns-
tanning the Venezuelan claim.
Il Is denied on Official authority that
the Bancroft mas been ordered 10 pro-
ceed TO Con=tautinople, as stated IL
dispatches published Yesterday.
At Philadelphia yesterday the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania football team
defeated the University Of Virginia on
Franklin field by the score Of 10 too.
Confederate Veterans acted as hon
orary pallbearer= ? the funeral in Bal
tinore to-day OF Frederick McGinnis,
colored. a. one time q servant OF Jeifer-
son Davis.
The parade Of he Union Veteran
Legion was reyies ed by President
Cleveland and the District OF Colum-
biz commissioners in Washington yes
terday evening.
EI-Poztmaster-General Wanamaker,
10 speech at Waynesboro, Pa, yes
terday said be could more consistently
support Jefferson Davis than be could
support Bryan.
New York Catholics interpret the
visit Of Cardinal Satolili 10 Archbishop
Corrigan as meaning that the Arch
bishop is now much 10 favor with the
church authorities in Rome.
One man was killed, woman was
probably fatally injured and two others
were badly hurt by team OF runaway
horses that dashed through [ mon Hill
and West Hoboken, y. j., late yester-
day afternoon.
From careful comparison OF the
chances OF the silver men in all the
States it Is now regarded as assured
that there will be in the House at least
1870 men who will vote for free coinage
when the occasion arises.
Mr.. Norris. OF Taunton, met two
clever thieves in New York yesterday.
He started out 10 see some New York
sights with them and came to himself
without his grip2ack, which had held
Sl9, 900 in bills aud 81 000in gold.
DR.. John 3. Hamilton. OF the United
States Marine Hospital stationed at
Chicago, has wired peremptory resig-
nation to President Cleveland. He
charges that he has been forced out OF
the service by Surgeon General Wy
man.
4 smash-up occurred yesterday on
the Northern Central Railway. midway
between Brightside and Hollins' Sta
ton, and about seven miles from Balti-
more. Six men, all OF whom live in or
around Parkton. Baltimore county,
were hurt.
Three men were killed, two Others
fatally hurt and score of people in
jured in collision between locono.
tive and trolley Car at Hazleton, Pa,
yesterday evening. OF the thirty pas
sengers aboard the trolley car none es-
capped injury OF some kind, but the
above suffered the most seriously.
The Anthracite Coal Operators Asso
citation held meeting az the Waldorf,
in New York, yesterday. Airport was
read on the possibilities OF exporting
coal to Germany. At the conclusion of
the discussion which followed, the
scherne was decided to be wholly i'm
practicable, the principal reason being
the Inability Of the anthracite coal
dealers to compete with the product Of
Wales.
J. A. White, shoemaker, and Henry
White. his boy, murdered two police
men in Columbus, Ga, yesterday after
noon and fatally wounded another
shortly afterward There was no cause
for the commission of the crime other
than the fact that both men had been
summoned to appear before the record
or tomorrow for some trivial ofiense.
The men were captured after des-
perate fight.
President Jordan, Of Leland Stanford
University, California, is most promi-
nently mentioned to succeed the late
Prof. Goode as assistant secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution and director OF
the National Museum, Washington.
Professor Jordan stated last night that
while his highest mbition was to serve
in the Smithsonian Institution, ne could
not possibly consider any oier to leave
Stamford UNIVERSITY.
1t is now boldly alleged that Cardi-
nal Satoli is candidate to succeed
His Holiness, Pope Leo NH, and he
has shaped, so far, and will in the fu-
ture shape his course toward that OBJ
lective point. A resume Of the situa
ton seems to show that this fact is ap.
parent beyond question. Cardinal Sa
TOLL, it is said, stands nearer to the
reigning pontin than any other living
man.
Rev. Dir. Connolly, secretary to the
Archbishop, said in New tork
Yesterday, that the rumor that
the Archdiocese Of New York was
to be divided and that Archbishop Cor
rigan would be created cardinal were
without foundation. Only routine bust
ness, he said, was transacted at the
bishops meeting and there was noth
ing extraordinary in its convocation.
The same reports had been in circula
ton before and had as frequently been
contradicted
KNIGHTS OF GOLDEN EAGLE.-The
Supreme Castle, Knights of Golden
Eagle, in session in Reading Pa,
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