Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Governor Joseph F. Johnston was
inaugurated governor of Alabama at
Montgomery yesterday.
John Roam, young doctor, who was
taken before Magistrate Simms, in New
York on Saturday, is said by his friends
to have spent nearly $500, 900 for drinks
in the last FIVE years.
Strenuous efforts by hospital doctors
in New York, failed to bring to light
the diamond ring said 20 have been
swallowed by Tony Surru, and he was
held for the grand jury.
Information has been received in
Washington of the death at Cullum,
Ala, November Goth, of Rev. John ].
Dougherty, pastor emeritus of st.
Stephens Catholic Church, Washing
ton.
1t is rumored that the various electric
railway companies between Baltimore
aud Washington will be consolidated.
Efforts are being made to build an cleo
trio road from Washington to Gettys
burg through Frederick.
Three boys, six, eight and ten years
old, were arrested in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn, On Sunday, and confessed to
having broken into a hall where Il
church fair had peen held and destroy
ed S75 worth of property.
Rev. Mark S. Gross, well-known
Catholic clergy died yesterday at
the parochial residence of st. Pauls
Church, in Washington. He had been
i'll for about three weeks and his death
was attributed to exhaustion.
The annual opening of contracts for
all star and steamboat service in the
United States from Maine to North
Carolina took place at the Postotfice
Department, in Washington, ysster-
day. There were about 100000 bids.
The city election at Birmingham,
Ala, yesterday, resulted in the election
of Frank V. Evans, den, ocr.3'ic nomi.
nee for Mayor, and his full ticket of al
dermen, in opposition to the reform
ticket. Two years ago the reformers
won.
A conference of business men from
| a number of States to discuss plans for
currency reform began at Indianapolis
yesterday. A call to business men was
issued for national monetary confer.
ence to be held on January 5, 1897, at
Indianapolis.
General Weyler continues his march
in Pinar del Rio without apparent
opposition from the insurgents. Reports
from Spanish sources give details of
more encounters of other Spanish
commands with rebels which resulted
adversely to the insurgents.
General Diaz took the oath of Office
] yesterday as President of the republic
! of Mexico for the fourth consecutive
term, making five terms in the chief
magistracy. TIE ceremony was wit
messed by brilliant assembly of for
eign dilomats and distinguished peo-
pie
The debt statement issued yesterday
afternoon shows net increase in the
public debt less cash in the Treasury
during November of IS, 200, 333l6. The
interest bearing debt increased $50; the
non-interest bearing debt decreased
Sl5, 800, and cash in the Treasury de-
creased IS, 215, 663,16.
In Washington yesterday the Court
OF Appeals in the suit of Joseph Ferer-
70 against the Western Union Telegraph
Company reversed the judgment of the
lower court and found for the plaintiff,
who claimed damages from an alleged
incorrectly written telegram from a
business house in New York.
Two fremen were severely injured
last night at fire in the four-storv
brick building No. TAT Broadway and
extending through to Mercer street,
New York, which did 500, 900 damage.
Two men were knocked down By a
stream OF water from a line of hose
which got loose from the firemen. The
store and cellar were occupied by the
Rothschild Sons Company, manufac-
turers of bar fixtures and billiard ia
bles, and several other firms occupied
the remaining portions of the building.
A large St. Bernard dog, of the
rough coated species, which was either
suffering from rabies or distemper,
lacerated eight boys yesterday by
springing on them as they were walk
ing along the roads between Waverly
and Woodberry, near Baltimore. Some
of the children were terribly bitten and
it is feared that some of the cases may
prove fatal. The dog travelled along
the roads and viciously attacked every
one he met The animal was run down
and killed by two policemen.
While hundreds of persons were pass
ing by him and hundreds more crowd
ed above him, fair-haired, blue.eyed
lad, dressed in sailor suit. put pistol
to his head at the New York entrance
OF the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday after
noon and shot himself in the right tenn
Pile. He is now in the Hudson street
Hospital and, it is said, will die. The
boy was revived just long enough to
say that his name was Charles Olsen,
eighteen years old, of Brooklyn. The
motive for the suicide is unknown.
The STATE CANyAssING Board
The board of State canyassers met