Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-23
NEWS OF THE DAY.

field OF national politics.
/ France, says cable dispatch from
St. Petersburg, will have the support
of Russia on the Egyptian question.
In Washington on Saturday mol.
pros. was entered in the case of DR.. Ed
ward Leon, charged with malpractice.
Antonio Rexach's wife died in his
arms in New York yesterday and then
he tried to commit suicide by inhalipg
gas.
Mrs. John Colligan, of jersey City
last night captured burglar, who had
entered her rooms, after desperate
fight.
Friends of all the other republican
candidates for the presidential nomlna-
ton have united to try to defeat VIM.
Mckinley.
1t is reported in Berlin that Emperor
Williams approaching visit TO Italy Is
connected with the renewal OF the
Triple alliance.
Major John Cox Winder, one Of the
best. known railroad men in the South,
died at his home in Raleigh, n. C., OF
paralysis, Saturday.
The Mahdi, it is learned, has been
making secret preparations to repel the
advance of the British. Egyptian forces.
The forces at his disposal number about
100000 men.
The departure of the First battalion
of the North Staffordshire regiment
from Cairo for the Soudan was made
Yesterday the occasion Of an enthusias-
tic demonstration.
Fire at Marini Hall, Washington, &C.
cupied by the census bureau, did con-
siderable damage to the building early
yesterday morning, but only few pa
pers of value were damaged.
After another sharp discussion in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies, the cred
its bill, for fund to continue the war
in Abyssinia, was passed, and the
chamber adjourned until April rs.
William @. Judge, president of the
Theosophical Society in America and
the most conspicuous theophist in this
country since the death of Nine. Bla-
vatsky, died Of consumption, in New
York, on Saturday.
Cardinal 3atolli, assisted by Bishops
McGovern and Beaver yesterday con-
secrated Rev. DR.. Michael ]. Hoban as
coadjutor bishop of the Scranton do
cese, the ceremony being performed in
the Scranton cathedral.
In riot between the non-union men
and the striking workmen Of the
Chandler & Taylor iron works, at
indianapolis, on Saturday, three men
were shot and number of others more
OF less injured by flying stones.
The Madrid Heraldo says: "SpaiI
could never officially recognize U. S
commission of inquiry into Cuban at.
fairs. 1t is impossible that President
Cleveland should have such an idea
War between Spain and America would
be preferable"
A fire broke OUT at Natrona, Pa.
Saturday evening in the works of the
| Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Com.
pany, and for time threatened the
( destruction of the entire plant. A
rough estimate places the loss at 81 >.
t 600, 900 probably covered by insurance
Senator Chandler in a card repeats
! MS charges that there is Doodle fund
TO secure the nomination of Mckinley
: for President. He says "the interests
of the republican party demand thai
! the Ohio man should not be nominated
! through the enforced contributions O
the manufacturers"
A mob of thirty men obtained Wm
Murphy from the Scott county Jail a
Huntsville, Tenu., at midnight Satur
day night by strategem and hung him
|, pleading and praying, to locust tree
in the public square not one hundred
feet from the jail The victim was il
!, prison awaiting trial for shooting Bill
! BowlIn, a miner, at Pioneer, three
,, weeks ago.
At an early hour at Pittsburg yester
day morning fire in the Atlantic rein
o cry caused a loss of 100000 The fire
started from some unknown cause il
: the warehouse, aud before it could bt
checked had enveloped the warehouse
i and spread to the tanks. The burning
; oil rushed down from the tanks anc
+ spread in streams of fire over the track:
a of the Allegheny Valley Railroad
+ blocking the traffic.
On Saturday Bertha Mcconnell, o
Coatesville, Pa, and barely twenty
years of age, shot Harry Thompson, 6
travelling salesman fo- the Singer Sew
ing Machine Company, while in hote
7 in Lancaster. She boarded an express
5 train after the shooting and returned
t to Coatesville, where she attempted tc
end her life. The double crime is al
legged to have been the result of Thomp
sons deception and betrayal of the
young woman. Both will probably die
The President has issued compre-
hensive order extending the civil ser
vice to practically the entire Indian
service, save those officers above and
including that of agent, to which
appointments are made by the Presi'
dent, and the few minor positions of q
laboring character, like cooks and
washerwomen. indians who show their
fitness hereafter are to be allowed ap-
pointments to any of these positions,
though they cannot secure transfer to
positions in the classified service outside
of the Indian work.
METHODIST CoNFERENCE.-On next
Wednesday morning the 10th session