Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-15
NEWS OF THE DAY.

toona, Pa, early last night, caused a
loss of about 100000.
Baroness Leonino, daughter of Baron
Gustave de Rothschild, was killed yes
terday by fall from her horse while
hunting in France.
Joseph II Choate has written a let
ter announcing that he will be a can
didate for election to the United States
Senate in succession to David B. Hill,
of New York.
Governor Morton is expected TO ap-
point Alderman William M z. Olcott,
district attorney of New York city, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Col. ]. r. Fellows.
In reply to letter from Boston banks
asking for the issue of gold certificates,
Secretary Carlisle says that be does not
! think it advisable now to increase the
volume of currency.
Alice Thomas, a colored woman, one
hundred and two years old, fell across
q stove in Washington yesterday and
was horribly burned. She died at
Freedman's Hospital.
According 10 advices received from
Berlin, Vienna and Paris, there is no
truth in the reported escape of ex Sui.
| tan Murad from his place of confne-
ment at Constantinople.
The Spanish authorities in Havana
have placed the United States consulate
under guard owing to the indignation
| expressed by Spanish sympathizera
against the United States.
The announcement is made in New
York that Miss Edith Lyman Collins,
of that city, ward of Chauncey NJ. De.
pew, is to marry Rechid Bey, council
| lor of State of the Turkish embassy al
Rome.
In the House of Representatives yes
terday evening the bill to render the
laws relating to the sale of int" xicatine
liquors in the District of Columbia
more stringent was passed. Mr.. Hull,
chairman of the committee on military
affairs, reported the army appropriation
bill.
The scafold upon which James
Smith, the murderer of Miss Margue-
rite Downs, will be executed next Fri
day was erected at the rear of the jail
in Upper Marlboro, Md, yesterday. 1t
is the same scafold on which Bar
Der and Pinkney, the Bowie murderers,
and James Allen, all of them colored
were executed.
Major T. Fielder Bowie, formerly OF
Prince Georges county, Md, died Sun
day in Washington. He was sixty-one
years old. At the commencement OIL
the civil war he entered the Confeder.
ate army as private, was promoted to
! captain on Gen. Fitzhugh Lees staff
and later, for gallant conduct on the
field, was commissioned major by Pres
ident Davis and acted as adjutant-gen.
eral on Gen. Fitzhugh Lees staff.
The Presidents party went over to the San
tee river on the launch Water Lily yesterday
! morning to try their hand with the ducks
The weather was more favorable last night
| for good shooting, and no doubt the Presiden
had fine sport. The shooting yesterday was
unsatisfactory. the weather being too mild tc
bring the ducks within range. The ducks
are numerous in the bay, aud Mr.. Cleveland
| uUptb II idlC opOiI DoAOiO NO i0o' Co L III
mayor Of Georgetown, s. C, called q meeting
of the city council last night at which reso
luton was passed inviting the President to
attend public reception in that place at such
a time as he may select. Resolutions indor-
sing his administration were also adopted.
At Vineland N. j., yesterday afternoon 8
crowd of armed men battered down the door
of the home of Luigi Jurio, cut through to the
cellar and, after terrific struggle, captured
and locked up Antonio Jurio. wno had brn
tally murdered his father In the cellar with
the murderer were his mother and brother al
insane wi h religious frenzy Antonio had
committed ,rricide during religious Graz,
The expenditures of the government for
the last yea. were S434, 679 654 being $50,
203.24 more than the receipts. Secretary
Carlisle has sent to congress estimates Of de
fici-ncies in appropriations amounting to 49,
601,6
The Pope has sent congratulations to the
Queen Of Spain, it is said. ON the recent sue
cess of the Spanish arms in Cuba, and said
that he prayed heaven for cessation of the
war at the earliest possible moment.