Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The General Assembly OF the Soutn-
ern Presbyterian Church will meet at
Memphis next Thursday.
The Louisiana republican State con-
vention, at Baton Rouge, instructed the
delegates to st. Louis to vote for Nc.
Kinley.
Senator Teller reiterates his state
ment that he will not support the st.
Louis nominee on a gold standard
platform.
Mustapha Bey, under secretary in
the foreign ministry at Constantinople,
has been appointed Turkish minister at
Washington.
Henry Cuyler Bunner, editor of
Puck, died yesterday afternoon at his
residence, in Nutley, N. j., from tuber-
cular consumption.
The a. P. A., now converting in
Washington, threatens to start a third
party if neither of the great parties rec
ognizes its principles.
Among the passengers arriving at
New York yesterday by the steamer
Wilhelm H., from Genoa was Dona Ell
vira de Bourbon, Infanta of Spain.
Miss Belle Stewart, daughter of Sens
tor Stewart, will be married in "Stew-
art Castle, !" in Washington, next
Saturday. to Mr.. Payson, of New York.
Senator Cameron, while again dis
avowing free silver candidacy on his
own part, is talked of again as the
white metal mems favorite to be urged
upon both national conventions.
Eleven lives we're lost by the explo-
sion of the boilers of the towboat Harry
Brown, of Pittsburg, Pa, on the Missis-
sippi river near Vicksburg late Sunday
night, an account of which was publish.
ed yesterday.
Senator Tilman spoke at Gainesville,
Fla, yesterday on the financial ques..
ton. He denounced Cleveland and
Carlisle and referred to John Sherman
as the "arch fend of hell" who had
caused more suffering than any man on
earth.
The bill to regulate the practice OF
medicine in the District of Columbia,
which had been slightly amended in the
Senate, was passed in the House yes
terday with the Senate amendments
and will become law as coon as signed
by the President.
Responding to a resolution of inquiry
the Secretary of the Navy yesterday
sent letter to the Senate, stating that
of the 1888 sailors enlisted in the
navy, 4,4O0 are foreign.born, and that
SCI OF the 2,O17 marines were also from
outside of the United States.
Miss Frances A. Liebner, an actress
and singer known on the stage as
J Frances Booth, died suddenly in Phila-
delphia yesterday. A post.mortem
showed that death had been the result
of o criminal operation, and q Mrs.
Cleary, at whose house the girl died,
was arrested.
The north.bound New York and
Florida limited express on the Florida
Central and Peninsula Railroad, was
thrown from the track at Anderson,
Ga, yesterday, by a misplaced switch.
The entire train with the exception OF
the body of the engine, was derailed
and rolled over an embankment. One
child was killed and twenty-six people
were injured, none of them fatally.
In Washington yesterday, Irving
Ford, the murderer of Elsie Kreglo,
was arraigned in court, pleaded guilty,
and his trial was set for next Monday.
The District attorney said that in a
case of this Importance he thought q
plea of "not guilty" should be entered
by order of the court. To this the
court agreed. His case will be pushed
to an early conviction and sentence.