Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-23
Foreign News.

LONDON, April 23.-United States
Ambassador Bayard and Mrs. Bayard
arrived at Stratford this morning. to
take part in the ceremonies held on the
occasion of Shakespeare's birthday. AT
II o'clock the Ambassador unveiled
window in the Shakespeare church.
CAPE Town, April 23-The tele-
graph lines from Buluwayo TO the
southwark and eastward have been cut,
and the town is left without means of
communication.
LONDON, April 23.-The Princess of
Wales, on behalf of the Queen, held q
Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace
this afternoon. The weather was per-
feet and the attendance unusually
large.
graph. in an article appropriate to the
day-the festival of st. George-ex.
presses hope that President Cleveland
will put red rose in the lapel of his
coat for the sake of Shakespeare and
St. George. In giving both nations the
matchless possession of his genius, the
paper says, Shakespeare surely IN
tended that no serious and lasting
quarrel should ever divide the two
kindred peoples, bound so indissolubly
LONDON, April 23.-The second
spring meeting at Sandown Park open
ed today. The Walton two-year-old
race of 900 sovereigus, five furlongs,
was won by Mr.. Roebuck's Pretty Rose:
Mr.. Richard Croker's Red Banner and
West Chester were entered but did not
start. The Princess of Wales handicap
of 500 sovereigns, FIVE furlongs, was won
by Mr.. H. McCalmont's Devil-May-
Care. MIR. Richard Cookers Eau Gal
lie was one of the starters, but was not
placed.
BERLIN, April 23.-In the Reichstag
to-day Count Herbert Bismarck made
a speech in opposition to the proposal
of the government to limit the number
of working hours in the various indus
tries, upon the ground that such COM
pulsory limitation would unsettle trade.
No government, lie declared, had
done what Germany had done fer
the welfare of the working class
es within the last fifteen years. Frei-
herr Won Berlepsch, minister OF
commerce, refuted Count Bismarck's
attacks upon the government policy.
As long as he remained Minister, he
declared, he would strive to the utmost
to secure laws for the protection of the
working people and see they did not
remain a dead letter. Furthermore he
would continue his endeavors to amend
such laws wherever defects in them
were discovered.
HAVANA, April 23.-News has been
received here from Jarduco, in the
province of Havana, that the Guadala-
lara battalion while marching to San
Miguel met party of 600 rebels COM
manded by Aguirre and Morejon. A
fierce fight ensued, resulting in the
rebels being so thoroughly beaten that
they fled demoralized from the field.
The rebel loss WAS about sixty. or
these fourteen were killed. The Span
ish troops lost one officer and three
soldiers wounded. Colonel Escudero
while accommodating in the Zapata
swamps destroyed four rebel camps
and had several engagements with
rebel bands under the Socorros and
Saubria, killing four insurgents:
LONDON, April 2S.-In the House of
Commons to-day Mr.. Curzon said that
negotiations with the United States in
regard to Venezuela were still proceed
ing and that the government expected
favorable result from the negotia-
tiols.
PARIS, April % The members of the Bour-
geois ministry proceeded this afternoon to the
Elysee. the residence of President Faure, and
formally rendered their designations. RI.
Faure was awaiting their coming and accept
ed the designations as soon as they were pre-
sented.
PARIS, April 23.-The Champs de Mars sa.
lon was officially opened to-day. Changes
which have been made in the exhibits since
the publication in these dispatches of par.
tial list of the contributions have rendered
tho display far below the previous exhibitions
in point of excellence Dagnan Bouyeret's
Last Supper" is the only canvas which is
likely to be seriously discussed.