Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Inc National Missionary council OF
the Protestant Episcopal Church will
begin its sessions in Cincinnati Tues
day.
The plan OF holding rival parades of
the gold standard and the silver men in
Chicago on the night Of October 81 has
been abandoned.
Rev. John Mary Jacauet, who was
said TO have been the oldest priest in
the United States, died Saturday in St.
Mary's Infrmary, Galveston, Texas
Postmaster. General Wilson has re-
quested the Secretary of State to
invite all of the countries of the world
to send representatives to the meeting
OF the universal postal delegates in
Washington next May.
1t is reported in New York that Miss
Alice Belknap, lighter of the late
ex Secretary of War Belknap, will
marry Paul May, cf the Belgian lega-
ton, and will adept the Hebrew faith,
which is that of Mr.. May.
Governor Lowndes, of Maryland, has
fixed December IS as the day for the
execution of James Smith, who was
convicted at Upper Marlboro on the
18th instant Of the murder OF Miss Mar
guerite Drown, in Prince Georges
county.
Miss Mamie D. Matthews and Mr..
, w. B. S. Chapman were married at
Port Tobacco, Md, on Saturday. Ri.
Rev. G.. kinloch Nelson, Bishop OF
Georgia, brother-in law of the bride, as
sisted by the rector, Rev. ]. f. Poin-
dexter, performed the ceremony.
In letter to q friend Senator Cor.
man says that he is supremely conf
dent of the outcome ofthe presidential
election. 1t is his firm belief that the
Bryan and Sewall ticket will sweep the
| country by pluralities larger than
those poled by c. veland and Steven
son in 1892.
Gustave Pats was divorced from
Margaret Math,r in secret in the Cir.
cult Court in Milwaukee, Wis, last
Tuesday. Judge Johnson granted the
divorce on the complaint by Mr.. Pabst,
which alleged that his wife was cruel
and inhuman and that she horsewhip,
ped him on the street October ,, 1895
The Right Hon. and Right Rev
Frederick Temple, D D., Bishop Of
London, provincial dean of Canterbury
and dean of the Chapels Royal, has
been appointed archbishop of Canter-
bury and primate of all England, to
succeed the Right Hon. and Most Rev.
Edward White Benson, who died sud-
denly at Hawarden, October IL.
Twenty business houses were de-
stroyed by fire at I.adonia, Texas, yes
terday morning. One-half the district
was burned three weeks ago, and yes
terday's fire leav. the town without a
store. A citizen of Ladonia says the
fires are undoubtedly sequels to the
prohibition elections of few weeks
ago, in which the liquor dealers won.
The prohbitionists were so incensed at
the success of establishing the liquor
traffic in the town that the
most extreme of the prohibition
women publicly cowhided saloon
man and destroyed much saloon prop
erty. Threats were made to burn
every saloon man out.
Shortly before ten o'clock yesterday
morning two passenger trains on the
st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
one an excursion train containing
Grand Army veterans and their fami-
lies and the other an accommodation
-collided nearly opposite Windsor
station, about thirteen miles from st.
Louis, instantly killing eight persons
and injuring more than thirty, three of
whom will probably died. The excur-
sionists were bound for St. James to
dedicate home for aged widows and
veterans. Engineer Joseph Dryden,
who is charged with the responsibility
of the collision, has disappeared and
efforts to locate him have proven IN
awaiting. His wife claims he was UNI
we'll when he left home Saturday and
fears that the result of his blunder has
driven him insane.