Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Richard Mansfield announces that he
will leave the stage for the lecture plat
form.
The cane fields of Fernandez de Cas-
tro, in the province of Havana, Cuba,
were burned by the rebels on Thurs
day.
1t is reported in Rome that the Pope
offered to mediate in the Venezuela
boundary dispute, but England refused
to accept the offer.
Charles Atkinson, of Bridgeton, N.
J., who had convicted of criminally as
saulting his stepdaughter, has been re.
leased from prison. The girl confessed
she had sworn falsely.
The silver members of the Senate
finance committee held conference
Yesterday, but were unable to agree
upon the terms of the substitute which
they propose to report for the House
bill.
The strike ordered by a few excited
street railway men in Philadelphia
early yesterday morning was a failure,
the great body of the employees report
ing for duty. There was no Interrupt
ton to travel.
Captain Thomas Camp, of the
schooner Manaway, was brutally muir
dered at Chesapeake City, Cecil coun-
ty, Nd, on Thursday night, by some
unknown person, it is supposed tor
motives of robbery.
The republican members of the sub
committee on pensions of the House
committee on appropriations had a
conference with Commissioner Lochren
over the pension appropriation bill
yesterday. 1t is estimated that Sl4l,'
1884 $40 will be required.
Rev. Nathaniel George Clarke, for
nearly thirty years prominently identi-
fed with the management of the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners of For
eign Missions, died yesterday at his
home in Boston from heart disease, ag,
gravated by advanced age.
Mrs. Charles Schirmer, of Mount
Vernon, N. Y, was knocked down,
choked and gagged in her room yester-
day morning by tramp, who then
ransaoked the place. The outrage oc.
Cured about nine o'clock. There was
no one except Mrs. Schirmer and 8
baby in the house at the time.
A semi-official4 denial was made in
st. Petersburg yesterday of a Vienna
dispatch saying that Russia and France
had actually promised diplomatic sup
port to the United States in the Vene
zuelan question and that Russia wa:
prepared TO facilitate the United
States loan with her own gold reserve
1t is now said that there is no IN
Outstanding of any kind between the
President and the Morgan syndicate
with reference TO bond issue, and the
former, it is understood, intends to put
off the proposed loan until actual ne
cessity compels it. This is interpreted
by some in Wall street, New York, to
mean another panic.
The commissioner of the London
DaiIy Chronicle has telegraphed his
paper from Washington that the Amer
lean people would fight for arbitration
that the message to Congress was moi
for political effect, anil that England
should adopt some methods he sug'
gests to bring about peaceful solution
of the Venezuelan controversy.
The Spanish authorities in Cuba con-
fess the grave condition of affairs by
proclaiming martial law for the
provinces of Havana and Pinar Del Rio
Maxine Gomez has declared his pur-
pose to penetrate into the province o.
Pinar Del Rio. Although his forces
have not yet reached the borders o.
that province, the action of the au'
thorities is understood to indicate that
they have no hope of preventing him
from carrying out his threat.