Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

yesterday, said the new Spanish cabinet
will carry out its political and military
programme with 6rmness and sagacity.
The Spanish. Cuban situation was
considered by the cabinet yesterday in
connection with dispatch from Minis
ter Woodford, but no action was taken.
The Baltimores won the second game
of the Temple Cup series at Baltimore
yesterday by a score of IL to IL. They
batted Klobedanz out of the box and
out6elded the Bostons.
Attorney-G General McKenna says the
Union Pacific Railroad will be sold to
the highest bidder, and the government
is not restricted to the offer Of the reor.
ganization committee.
Henry George, at mass meeting in
Cooper Union, New York, last night,
accepted his nomination for Mayor.
The meeting was the greatest outpour.
ing of people seen in that city in the
present campaign.
Daniel S. Lamont was in New York
yesterday elected President of the
Northern Pacific Express Company,
which is an adjunct of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, of which he is d.
rector and vice President.
Capt. Robert r. Ball, assistant sur
geon, U. S. A., died at st. Elizabeth g
Hospital for the Insane near Washing
ton on Wednesday night, after weeks
illness. He was member of a distin.
guished family of Virginia.
Senior Segasta, the Spanish Premier,
was the first visitor at the U. S. Lega.
ton in Madrid yesterday. His inter
view with Gen. Woodford was cordial,
but absolute reserve is maintained as to
what passed in the conversation.
The twenty.fifth annual meeting of
the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders
Association began at Lexington yester-
day under splendid auspices. In the
Kentucky futurity, value $4,000 for
three years olds, Thorne won fourth,
fifth, and sixth heats and race. Time
PA, 2f5!, 2:l61. Preston won second
and third heats. Time 2:13f, 2174.
Thomas Adair, of San Antonio, Tex,
visited mis- old home at Elm Grove on
Sunday and attended church. During
the service no was attacked by Paul
Williams, one of his tenants. Williams
fred several shots at Adair at close
range, but none took effect. Adair
then drew his pistol and shot Williams
dead. Two brothers of the dead man
started after Adair, who fled to the
town Of Flatonia. Adair gave himself
up to officers at Flatonia.
The big Charlevoix Inn, in course of
construction at Charlevoix, Mich, col
lapsed yesterday evening in a gale of
wind, burying fifty workmen in the
ruins. The structure, 400 feet long
and of ample width, had progressed so
far that workmen were roofing it in,
while laborers and plasterers were at
work on the first and second floors.
The building was the largest of its kind
in northern Michigan. Two men were
killed outright and ten seriously hurt,
some of whom may die.
Efforts are being made to effect
compromise between the warning re.
publican factions of Greater New York.
These efforts contemplate the with
drawal of Gen. B. F. Tracy, the repub.
lican candidate for the mayoralty, and
DR.. Seth Low, the nominee of the Citi-
zens' Union, and the substitution there.
for as the representative of both the
republican and reform elements of both
the republican and reform elements of
Hon. Cornelius Bliss, Secretary of the
Interior.
Mr.. William Six pleaded guilty in
Springfield, ILL.,. yesterday afternoon to
the charge of bigamy, and was given
law, to Chester penitentiary. The com
plant was made by James Hornung,
brother of Miss Harnung, of Berry, H.,
his latest victim, whom he married last
spring, when he had ten other undi.
vorced wives living in various cities in
Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma,
and Texas. Miss HornuDg, with an
unaccountable infatuation, stuck to Six
to the last. he is veterinary surgeon,
about forty years old, and fairly good
looking.
A dispatch from Madrid says that serious
difficulty has arisen between the ministry and
the Bank of Spain. Application was made to
the bank for $4,000 600 pesetas on account
Of the Cuban administration. The com nittee
of the bank held q meeting to consider the
application and virtually refused to advance
the money. Thereupon Seror Salvador, the
new governor of the bank, demanded that the
committee resign.