Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

John R. Hicks, of Asheville, n. c..
who is wanted in that city for forgeries
to the extent of 80, 500, was arrested in
Tuscola, ILL.,, yesterday.
In an interview in Washington last
| night Senator Quay admitted publicly
that Mckinley would certainly be nom.
mated for President on the first ballot
Mrs. James G. Blaine has decided to
have the body of her husband transfer.
red from Oakland cemetery, in Wash.
ington, to Augusta, Me-, his former
home.
Senator Lodge was told yesterday by
representative of Maj. Mckinley that
the Major would be glad to have him
take the second place on the ticket
with him.
Henry Mitchell Smith, the negro who
was convicted of assaulting an aged
white woman named Mrs. May Hud.
son, near Lexington, KY, last summer,
was hanged at 11:37 o'clock this morn
ing.
The Maine republican State conven-
ton met in Bangor to-day. The plat
form favors protection and opposes free
coinage ofsilver except by information
al agreement, and favors Reed for pres
ident.
Thomas L. Barrett, president of the
Bank of Kentucky, at Louisville, KY,
and the greatest banker in the State,
died to-day of neuralgia of the heart,
aged seventy-one years. He was one
of the richest men in the State.
The Bering Sea claims matter has
been finally settled. The protocol and
convention will be signed on Wednes-
day. These claims have to do with the
alleged damages inflicted upon Canad-
ian sealers by their seizure by U. S.
vessels.
The Willamette and Columbia rivers
are rising rapidly and reports from the
interior say say that their tributaries
are overlooking. Fears are expressed
that Portland, Oregon, will undergo
another flood similar to that of two
years ago.
The New York maritime association,
at its meeting to-day, adopted resolu-
tions advocating the existing gold
standard and appealing to the govern
ment and to the great national conyen-
lions about to assemble to make mani
fest to the world the desire and the in
tention of the people of the United
States to preserve upon the highest pos
sible plane the monetary system of this
great nation.
Mai. Mckinley, who was in Cleve-
land, O., yesterday in consultation with
Mr.. Hanna, when asked to answer some
questions concerning the Quay meeting
and the money question, said 1.-THE
greatness of the American people is ev-
idenced in nothing more than in the in
terest they take in the exercise of suff-
rage. In every election they manifest
the greatest enthusiasm, and so long as
they do so, this nation is safe from its
enemies within and without. The PEG.
pie keep at it year in and year out, and
have made Office holding the servitude
of the man to the mass. Public Office
is the peoples honor. Public service
we'll done is its OWL honor"
1t is now stated in New York that the de-
pository banks yesterday turned into the sub
treasury S2,50O,O00 in greenbacks which
completed tn air payments on this call. There
are still about $4,500,000 to be paid in by
the banks and this amount will probably be
called about July 15. The American Elk
change National Bank has withdrawn $780,.
600 gold from the sub treasury.
The insanity trial of Joseph Windrath, the
convicted murderer of Carey B. Birch, was
concluded this morning in Chicago, the jury
returning verdict that the defendant was
sane. Windrath's attorney made motion for
a rehearing of the case and this will be argued
this afternoon.
Mrs. Barnes, of Trenton, N. j., has secured
a divorce in Oklahoma City, from her hus-
band who was foreman OF e1-Mayor Magow
ans factory interests at Trenton and who
recently instituted suit against Mcgowan for
alternating his wife's affections,