Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

dent to succeed the late President
Hippoltye.
The London Standards story about
the cession of Port Arthur to Russia is
officially denied, says dispatch from
st. Petersburg.
The President has signed the act re-
pealing the statute prohibiting the APP
pointment to the army and navy piper
sons who held Confederate commissions.
| A serious explosion of gas occurred
| in No. 9 shaft at Sugar Notch, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, yesterday. Thomas
Burk, aged fourteen years, door boy,
was killed.
In the Rhode Island State election
yesterday the republicans won by an
overwhelming majority. There was no
contest over the State ticket, the fight
being confined to local issues.
Thieves have possession of six por-
traits in oil of members of the Carroll
family, which were stolen from the va
cant Carroll mansion, in Washington,
some night between February IA and
March %.
In New York last night in a billiard
match between Schaeier and Ives the
latter won, running out the 600 points
in nineteen innings, with the big aver
age of 81 11-19. Schaefer's total was
394 and his average 81 1918.
Frederick st. George oth-Tucker,
recently appointed by General Booth as
commander of the Salvation Army in
the United States, to succeed Balling-
ton Booth, arrived in New York last
night on the steamship Majestic.
At2 o'clock yesterday evening the
two massive boilers of the Planters oil
mill, at Greenyille, Miss, exploded,
wrecking the mill property and caus-
ing the death of five men and the SER
ious injury of half dozen others.
| A runaway cable car on Broadway,
New York, yesterday evening, caused
| a panic among the passengers and re-
suited in several collisions. Many wo-
men tainted, and everybody fought to
! get out Of the cars, but no one was
much hurt.
Miss Lottie Newport, % years
old, has married her uncle, Dennis Nc
Kinney, of Lyons, N. Y, aged 70 The
bride has step-grandchildren much
older than herself. Owing to the adj
vanced age of the bridegroom no wed
ding trip was taken.
John Turner, who is described as the
intellectual head of the anarchist move
ment in England, arrived in New York
last Saturday in the steerage of the st.
Louis, and is about to enter upon tour
] through the United States preaching
his ideas on the destruction of govern
ments and rulers.
Emanuel Ninger, for seventeen years
known to the secret service men only
as "Jim the Penman," because all Of
his work of counterfeiting $50, $40 and
so notes was done with the pen, has
been captured in New York. Merely
with pen, ink and paper he has made
counterfeits of United States bills of
large denominations so excellent in ex.
ecution as almost to defy detection ex-
cept by an expert.
The west-bound express train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, due at
Walkerton, Ind, at half-past four
o'clock yesterday morning, fell into the
hands of desperate gang of FIVE train
robbers just east of Garrett, the di-
vision point on the road. They robbed
one man, and then got on the train,
but were arrested in the Bremen, Ind,
yards after a desperate fight, during
which one of them was shot.
An engine, baggage car and one pas
senger coach went through trestle on
the Georgia and Alabama road, near
Lumpkin, Ga, yesterday evening. The
burning trestle was discovered by some
farmers, who sent negro up the track
to signal train which was about due.
The negro went in house to get out
of the rain and the train sped by be-
fore he could wave it down. No one
was killed, but ten were injured, one
perhaps fatally.
AS contirmatory OF the London Times
dispatch from Caracas, saying that 1.-The
conviction that peaceful settlement Of
the frontier dispute is at hand is spread
ing rapidly" British Guiana papers of
March is, just received in Washington,
indicate the abandonment of Great
Britain's determination to insist upon
retaining all the settlements established
by Englishmen throughout the dis
puted territory should the Venezuelan
claims be sustained.
The Mckinley Endorsement by the
Reed convention in New Hampshire on
Tuesday continued to be the absorbing
topic among among politicians yester-
day, and at Washington the chances of
the Harrison candidacy growing in
consequence were talked of. Senator
Chandler has written letter in expla-
nation of the "revolt," but he admits
that be is not satisfied with his own ex-
PLANTATION. He says he was trapped by
the Mckinley men in the New Hamp-
shire convention. It's said that General
Harrison's bride-elect, Mrs. Dimmick,
was quite ambitious to have him be-
come candidate again, as she believes
that he can easily be nominated and
elected. Mrs. Dimmick is said to be
clever woman and showed wonderful
tact and talent while General Harrison
was President, assisting him in many
respects.
A NEW DIscovERER OF AMERIcA.-The
shortest route from the old world to the new
is from Cape Verde to Brazil, says the Geo.