Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Senator Thurston has reported favor
ably bill appropriating 100000 for
the American exhibit at the Paris ex-
position in 1900.
The President has refused permits
sion to the French Cable Company to
land cable upon the coast of the
United States.
Ex.Queen Liliuokalani yesterday
filed formal protest with Secretary of
State Sherman against the annexation
of the Hawaiian Islands.
John Milton Bonham, well-known
lawyer and author, of Washington, died
at his cottage at Atlantic City, N. j.,
yesterday evening, aged sixty.one
years.
The body of a fashionably dressed
woman was found floating in the
Thames at London Wednesday, the
seventeenth body found in that river in
three weeks.
A north bound suburban train on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul ran
into the Chicago river last night at
Kinzie street. Six men were hurt, but
it is not thought that any of them will
die.
James S Sanford, the treasurer of
Simcoe county Ont, residing in Barrie,
is defaulter, it is said, of 500, 900 or
over, and has gone, it is believed, to
Mexico. He received a salary of s., 600
a year, but lived as if he had an income
of $4,000
At the Eureka Athletic Club in Bal
timore last night Nick Burley, of San
Francisco, outfought James Ryan, Of
New York, for twelve rounds. The
men weighed about 15S pounds each.
They mutually agreed that if both
were on their feet at the end of the
twelfth round the decision should be
draw.
A dispatch from Havana says the
train from Havana to MatanZas, which
was blown up last week by Insurgents,
between Minas and Campo Florido, car
ried $500, 900 in IS gold pieces. All this
money fell into the hands of the Cubans
and will be sent to the Cuban Junta at
New York, to be used in buying arms
and ammunition for the insurgents.
Miss Bertha II. Sessford, of Wash
ington, faith cure practitioner, was ar
rested in that city on police court
warrant yesterday, charged with prac
ticing medicine without license. The
arrest grew out OF the case of little
Morgan Owen. who died of diphthera,
at the home of his father. on Ninth
street northeast, on May 2S last, while,
it is alleged, ne was was being treated
on the faith cure plan by Miss Sessford,
without medical assistance.
The Senate made greater progress
yesterday on the tariff bill than on any
day since the debate opened. The en-
tire schedules, covering twenty pages,
were completed; namely, schedule a.,
on spirits, wines and beverages, and
schedule l, manufactured cotton goods.
Mr.. Allison secured the addition of a
new paragraph to the cotton schedule,
with view to compromising the cot
ton manufacturers for the recent action
of the Senate in placing raw cotton on
the dutiable list.
Mad with jealousy, Wau CAita, the
Japanese steward on the monitor Puri
tan, last night in Brooklyn slasned WITH
a razor the face and neck and arm OF
an American woman with whom be
WAS living, and then cut his own throat.
Both were taken to the Homeopathic
Hospital in Brooklyn, and the surgeons
were unable to tell at a late hour
whether either would recover. While
the young woman was being placed in
the ambulance she recovered conscious
ness and exclaimed repeatedly, sob,
why did you do it? loved you 3d."