Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The receivers of E. 8. Jaffray & Co..
of New York, have offered the credit.
ors ten per cent.
Ex-senator Irby, of South Carolina
will be candidate for the SenatorshiI
from that State.
The Turkish government has inform.
ed the ambassadors of the powers thai
it will retain possession of Thessaly.
Despite reports to the contrary, Ter
ence Y. Powderly will probably get s
good place from President Mckinley.
Mail advices from the Orient say the
plague is fast approaching Hong Kong
and the British residents are alarmed
The Treasury Department yesterday
issued warrants for 81 ,0S5, 156 in pay
ment of the bounty on sugar produced
in 1894.
A dispatch from Manila says that thu
village OF Libong has been destroyed by
volcanic eruption, and that l2O per
sons lost their lives.
The curators OF the Kentucky Uni
vsrsity met at Louisville yesterday anC
elected the Rev. R. L. Cave, of Nash
vile, president of the university.
Thomas F. Watson, late populis
candidate for Vice. President, charges
that the fusionists have entered com
pact to deliver the populist vote to tht
democrats in 1900.
Count Posadowsky.W ehner, secre
tary of the German Imperial Treasury
has been gazetted az the successor DR.
Won Boeticher, imperial secretary O
State for the interior.
The first consignment of California
green fruits to Europe this season was
made from Sacramento at midnigh
Tuesday. 1t consisted of six carloads
and is expected to reach London IN l;
days.
Mrs. John Bradbury, wife of a we'll
known millionaire of Los A1s les, Cal.
and 81. Russell Ward, young English
man, have eloped. Ward has a wifi
and two children, who are now touring
in Europe.
The President yesterday transmitted
to Congress, with his recommendation
letter from Secretary Gage urging tht
immediate appropriation of 5000, 900 fol
rebuilding the immigrant station a
Ellis Island, New York.
William M. Robinson, of Chicago, 6
civil engineer and a graduate from An
nspolis in the class of 1881, was yester
day sent to the Kaukakee Asylum by
the insanity court, his ailment being
paresis resulting from over study ant
excessive cigarette smoking.
The President yesterday nominated
George G. Bdwell, of New York, to bt
collector OF customs for New York tt
succeed Judge Kilbreth, deceased. MIR
Bidwell was Senator Platt's choice ant
was nominated against the protest o
the anti.machine New York repub
licans.
One of the important features of th'
Phi Beta Kappa exercises at Cambridge
Mass, last night was the restoration o
the original Harvard charter to Havart
chapter by Col. William Lamb, of Vir
GINA. The charter had been lost owe
one hundred years and was lately re
covered In Virginia.
The papers in the appeal of W. Fl
T. Durrant, under sentence OF death il
San Francisco for the murder o
Blanche Lamont, were received yester
day by the clerk of the U. s. Supreme
Court in Washington. The court viii
not be in session until October y, an6
the appeal cannot be argued before tha
time.
The Baltimore revised assessment
returns indicate taxable basis OF two
hundred and seventy millions of dol
lars, decrease Of about eight millions
from the sum used as q basis for the
tax levy. These figures do not include
about ffty-two million dollars of secpr'
i.ies taxable at only thirty cents on the
hundred.
The marriage of Miss Constance
Mackenzie, daughter of the late DR.. R
Shelton Mackenzie. who, until her resig
nation on Wednesday was director o.
the Porter School kindergarten, tc
John s. Durham, the first colored man
who graduated from the Univf rsity O.
Pennsylvania, took place yesterday al
the brides residence in Philadelphia
Durham is also an ex minister to Hayti
A bullet from pistol which was &C
cidentally discharged by Senator
Faulkner, of West Virginia, over &c
years ago and which has been in his
leg even since, was located by means
of the X.rays in Washington Wednes
day. The interesting experiment was
made before a party of statesmen at
Mr.. Elliott Woods laboratory. The
Senator will not have the bullet re-
moved.
At the recent reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans at Nashville,
Tenn, the question of the location oil
the proposed memorial hall, to the erec-
ton of which Mr.. Charles Broadway
Rouss has offered to contribute 500, 900,
was discussed, but no selection was
made. Richmond, Nashville, New
Orleans and other southern cities had
their advocates. The matter was re.
ferred to special committee.
The finance committee suffered sew
eral unexpected reverses during the
progress of the tariff bill in the Senate
yesterday, being defeated on three i'm
portant votes. The duty on white pine
lumber was reduced from So to 81 per
thousand. Three democratic Senators
Martin, of Virginia; Bacon, of Georgia,
and MoEnery, of Louisiana-prevented
the placing of white pine lumber on the
free list. The bill is now complete with
the exception of the reciprocity section
and some comparatively minor para,