Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-04-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Ex-Speaker Crisp denies that he is
new convert to the silver cause.

| Ex-Speaker Crisp denies that he is
new convert to the silver cause.
! Senator Allen has declined to be q
candidate for President on the populist
ticket.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is ly.
ing i'll at his residence in Washington,
suffering from liver complaint.
Eight young ladies will graduate
! from the Woman's Medical College, at
Baltimore, at the commencement next
Tuesday.
A cablegram from Miss Clara Barton
at Constantinople states that the Red
Cross relief work is proceeding in Ar
menia without interruption.
7! The Society of the Army of the Poto-
mac will hold its twenty-seventh
annual reunion this year at Burling-
ton, VT, on September Is and II.
Secretary Hoke Smith and ex-Speak.
| er Crisp discussed the currency cues
| ton at Newman, Ga, yesterday. They
will speak in Albany on Friday.
Juan Uriald, the principal ofthe gang
of forgers who have recently been
operating in New York, swindling Au-
gust Belmont s. Co. out of $24 900, has
been arrested in Coruna.
The A. P. A. has declared war on
| Mckinley, and through the chairman
of the national advisory board, Judge
j. II. D. Stevens, who has established
headquarters in st. Louis, declares that
no step will be left undone to unmake
the Ohio man.
Two men were killed last night on
the Delaware, Lackawana and West
ern tracks at Smiths Cut, three miles
south of Halstead, Pa. From their ap.
pearance the men are supposed to be
father and son, and it is also surmised
that they were tramps.
1t is again reported that King Loben.
gula is alive, and that it is he, and not
his son, who is the principal leader OF
the Matabeles, who are now in arms
against the British authorities. 1t is
added that Lobengula is massing bis
forces in preparation for an attack upon
the British forces.
Edward Jordan, miser, died at
Helena, Mont, yesterday, from con-
tinued want and. exposure. he leaves
s10O,0O0 worth of property. For years
he had refused to spend money enough
for the proper nourishment of his body.
When sent to the hospital he was too
far gone to revive.
The number of vacancies in the navy
will exceed the number of graduates
this year at the naval academy. Elk
actly the reverse is the case at West
Point, where there there will be sew
enty-two graduates and only twelve
} vacancies in the army. At Annapolis
the southern cadets are at the head OF
their classes.
Little Esther Cleveland has the
] measles and Mrs. Cleveland and the
children have moved from the White
House to the Presidents suburban
home. Meanwhile the President and
Mr.. Thurber will remain at the White
House until the measles has run its
course in the family and the mistress
and children are back.
Contrary to all expectations, William
Biggerstaff, the colored murderer o.
Dick Johnson, died yesterday on the
gallows at Helena, Mont. He met
death with smile on his face. His
neck was broken by the fall and death
came in eight minutes. Biggerstat
killed Dick Johnson, the champion
prize fighter of Montana, on January s
| 1895, in quarrel over white woman
his mistress. Biggerstaff claimed the
killing to be accidental.