Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A dispatch from Barcelona, Spain,
saws that the excitement in Spanish
cities has somewhat subsidized.
A British steamer arrived at Phila..
delphia yesterday with a cargo OF
Egyptian sugar.
Rear Admiral ellis. retired. is al,
legged to be opposing the promotion OF
Capt. Allen V. Read to the rank OF
commodore.
The Arkansas republican State con-
vention yesterday instructed It's deie-
gates to the national convention 10
vote for Mckinley.
Rev. William Tatlock, D. D., ex-sec-
,etary of the American House OF Blsh,
OBS. Protestant Episcopal Church, died
at Stamford, Conn.,, yesterday.
Mrs. w. O. Hoyt, wife of wealthy
publisher OF Danbury, Conn.,, has be-
gun an action for divorce, naming two
prominent society women as correspond
ents.
Much damage has been done along
the Hudson by the ice gorge. 1t will
be several days before the Central
R iilroad tracks arc cleared and traffic
resumed.
The floods in Maine and New Ham,
shire have partly subsidized. Ten to If
teen thousand persons are thrown out
of work temporarily by the food dam
age to the mills.
Charles S. Wright was yesterday ap.
pointed manager of freight traffic OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, to
succeed Frank Harriott, resigned to en-
ter the civil service.
The governor of Irkutsk has tele-
eraphed to the authorities at st. Peters
burg that no confirmation has been OBJ
tanned of the recent vague reports con-
corning Dr. Nansen's Arctic expedition.
Mr.. Gladstone, in an interview at
Cannes, yesterday. with President
Faure, expressed his qualification at
the Anglo. French rapprochement. and
NJ. Faure replied that desire for peace
tended to bring all nations together.
Lady Henry Somerset has sued Mr..
William Waldorf Aston in London for
500. 600 damages caused to her reputa-
ton by a remark in the Pail Nall GaS
cite not long ago that Lady Henry
Somerset would drive any one mad"
w. S. McAllister publishes CORE.
spoudence in New York between him
self and Mr.. Cleveland in 1892 which,
he says, proves that the President
wanted to pander to Southern free
silver meu and populists at that time.
A Spanish steamship company offered
all its steamers a.d coal depots to the
government, and the offer was &C.
cepted. Eight steamers will be armed
Immediately. Fifty students of the
Madrid University were arrested for
trying to renew anti-American riots.
1t is fairly possible that Mr.. Cleve-
lands Venezuelan commission may not
he called upon to decide the vexed
question of the disputed boundary be
tween the British possessions in Guiana
and the republic Of Venezuela. 1t is
authoritatively stated that the British
ambassador, in Washington, and the
Venezuelan minister have entered into
direct negotiations for settlement OF
the Yuruan incident.
President Cleveland presided at the
mass meeting in Carnegie Music Hall:
New York, last night in the interest of
the Presbyterian home missions. In
his address he pointed out the need OF
bone missions in the far west, and
made sympathetic reference to the mis-
sionaries in Armenia. Rev. DR.. Tai
mage made characteristic address and
Booker T. Washington, -colored, plead
the cause of the black belt. Every
available spot in the hall was crowded
and an overflow meeting was held in
the lower hall.