Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.

| Mrs. Benson, vile OF Rev. joshua
L. Benson, died in the fifth district of
Baltimore county on Sunday.
The postoffice of Rockville, Md was
Yesterday morning robbed of $50 in
money and several hundred stamps.
The provision for three new dry
docks has been dropped from the
House committees naval appropriation
bill.
1t is reported in Paris that other
powers besides France and Russia will
demand guarantee for the evacuation
of Egypt.
The House committee on naval at
fairs have decided to have one of the
four new battleships provided for built
on the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Harvey Middleton yesterday as.
sumed the duties of superintendent of
motive power of the B. & o. R. R., sue
ceeding Mr. G. B. Hazlehurst.
It has been decided that hereafter
the city of Baltimore will pay not more
than 4 per cent. interest on money
which it may be compelled to borrow.
Major William II. Webster, chief ex-
aminer of the Civil Service Commits
sion, died suddenly at his home in
Washington yesterday evening from
heart disease.
Mrs. Charles F. Mayer, wife of ex-
President Mayer. of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, died last evening at the
Hotel Richmond in Washington, from
an attack of paralysis.
Saturday there will be launched from
Cramps sbipyard, at Philadelphia, the
Iowa, the most powerful battleship ever
c ,mpleted for the navy, and one of the
heetest of her class in the world.
Ballington and Mrs. Booth issued a
statement in New York, yesterday, to
the effect that they will under no Cir
cumstances again take command Of the
Salvation Army in the United States.
DR.. A. P. T. Grove, of Dallastown,
York county, Pa, committed suicide
by taking a dose of poison and also
shooting himself through the head at
the Eutaw house, in Baltimore, yester-
day.
Mayor NJ. L. Keedy, republican, was
Yesterday re elected in Hagerstown
over ex-Mayor R. ]. Hahn, democrat,
by 112 majority. The new City Coun-
ell will stand three democrats to two
republicans, gain of one republican.
Rev. ]. D. Thornton, a preacher liy-
ing near. Saron, Tex, was warned
to preach no more in that section. He
refused to obey the order, and Sunday
| night he was taken out by a mob, who
whipped him severely with switches.
A contract for the reconstruction OF
the famous old Dismal Swamp Canal has
been awarded by the Lake Drummond
Canal and Water Company to Patricius
McManus, of Philadelphia. The week
is to begin within thirty days and to be
completed by January, 1898.
Dispatches which have arrived at
Cairo, from the front, state that the
vanguard of the Egyptian army, under
Collision Bey, occupied Akashen on
Friday, the Dervishes having evacuated
the town and fallen back to concen.
trate on Dongola.
The city of Colon on the Isthmus Ct
Panama has been swept by fire. The
loss is estimated at $1,000, 600. Sol.
diers, as we'll as fremen, were ordered
out to fight the fire. Among the build
ings burned was the magnificent new
station of the Palmyra Railroad Com
pany.
Senator Stuart, of Nevada, spoke on
silver at the Town Hall in Warrenton
yesterday. The crowd was large and
seemed to be in sympathy with bis
views. He was introduced by Captain
Charles Gordon. He declared that
the United States was in financial
crisis still, and that it was all due to
the demonetizing of silver.
The steamship Warrimoo, which ar
rived at Victoria, B. c., yesterday,
brings news of the destruction of Suva,
the capital of FIJI, by hurricane on the
9th instant. 1t was the most tremen-
dous storm ever known in the south
ern seas. The loss OF the ferry steamer
Pearl in Brisbane river, by which thir-
ty-seven persons lost their lives, is also
reported.