Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-12-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.


river on the ice 1T Port Deposit.
William Waldorf Astor has renowned
his American citizenship, and sworn
allegiance to Queen Victoria.
The ways and means committee of
the House of Representatives to-day
began series of tariff hearings, to last
twelve days.
The report of the special board shows
that defective plates were supplied by
tho Carnegie Works for the battle
ships Kentucky and Kearsage.
Over 500 of the men who took part
in the recent strike on the West End
Street Railway, Boston, have been re-
iustated in their former positions.
Rev. Samuel Shannon, pastor of the
K-street Methodist Episcopal church,
Washington, died suddenly at his resi-
dence yesterday. He was 81 years of
ags.
Charles w. Hoffman, for many years
librarian of the law department of the
Congressional Library, died yesterday
at his homs in Frederick, Md, of double
pneumonia.
Governor Stone yesterday made q
speech to mob that had gathered to
lynch Tobias Lanahan, colored, at JEFF
ferson City, Mo. His appeal caused
the mob to disperse.
Four thousand sporting men saw
Owen Zsigler, of Philadelphia, and Kid
Mcfarland, of New York, 'lightweights,
fight twenty rounds to draw at the
Broadway Athletic Club on Saturday
night.
Another commercial failure of large
proportions was recorded at Chicago on
Saturday by the appointment of the
Chicago Title and Trust Company re-
ceiver of the various properties of Nor
ton & Co, of Chicago, Lockport, Rome
and Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Otto Wasmansdorf, of the banking
firm of Wasmansdorf & Heinemann, OF
Chicago, which failed last Monday as
result of the collapse of the National
Bank of Illinois, committed suicide at
his home yesterday by shooting himself
in the right temple with a revolver.
The Atlas National Bank of Chicago
has decided to retire from business, and
the clearing house committee, at
special meeting saturday night, decided
that the associated banks of the city
would advance the amount needed to
pay its depositors in full. The amount
required is in the neighborhood OF
100000.
The feast of St. Stephen, which &C.
Cured on Saturday, was celebrated
yesterday at st. Stephens Church,
Washington, with appropriate and elab-
crate ceremonies. The chief service
was solemn high mass at IL o'clock, at
which were present Cardinal Gibbons,
Father G. F. Thomas, of the Baltimore
Cathedral, and pastors from churches
in Washington.
Senior Jose Andrade, Venezuelan
minister to the United States, has re-
turned to Washington from Caracas,
accompanied by James j. Storrow,
counsel for Venezuela before the U. S.
boundary commission. Minister An-
drade said there was no sign of disturb
ance in Venezuela; everything was very
peaceful. Venezuela, he intimates.
finds the proposed treaty satisfactory in
every respect.
When Edward Payson Weston, the
ffty-eig ht-year-old pedestrian, at 10
O'Clock Saturday night left the track In
New York on which he had endeavor-
ed to equal his record of 112 miles in
twenty-four hours he had walked 103
miles 1861 yards. The old man went to
the Office of the skating rink, in which
the track was situated, threw himself
on a cot and wept bitterly. A number
of friends gathered around and sought
to console him, but Weston refused to
be comforted and reproached himself
for his failure.
Gov. Atkinson, of Georgia, on Satur-
day pardoned Harry Hill and Sidney
Lascelles, better known as "Lord
Beresford.n These were two of the
most noted characters in the peniten-
tiary. Both were convicted of forgery.
Hill's case caused scandal involving
some prominent families. Beresford
pretended to represent English capital
lists and swindled some parties in Rome,
Ca, with whom he was negotiating
for the purchase of iron properties.
Both Hill and Beresford had sixteen
months longer to serve.
Robert Perry, one of the eight little
boys bitten by mad dog on December
1, and subsequently treated at the Pas
teur institute, New York, died on Sat-
urday near Baltimore. This makes the
third victim, Robert Henry and Conrad
Eppers having died from the same
cause within the past week. All the
boys were taken to the institute and
treated within forty-eight hours after
receiving their injuries, and all who
have thus far died were bitten in parts
of the body unprotected by their cloth
ing. 1t is now an open question
whether the boys died of hydrophobia
or of the treatment.
DEATH OF A STATE SENATOR.