Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

PRESIDENT Cleveland returned TO
Washington Saturday night from his
ducking trip near Quantico.
Mrs. Mary Buttner died in a Catholic
Church in New York yesterday just az
ter she had left a confessional.
1t is said that Gov. Bushnell. of Ohio,
will appoint 1t. Gov. Jones, and not
Mr.. Hanna, to the U. S. Senate.
Senator James u. George, of Missis-
sippi, is extremely i'll at Garfield Hos.
pital, Washington, where he has been
for three weeks past.
1t is es'501'cd that the mask ball
Mrs. Bra e., ~ n will give in New
York next mouth will cost her and
those who attend $1,000
Minister Rodriguez. of the Greater
Republic of Central America, resents
the attack which Senator Morgan made
upon him the other evening in the
Senate in reference to the Nicaragua
canal bill.
Mrs. Maria Lloyd Steele, daughter of
Francis Scott Key, author of the ma
tional song, "The Star S~pangled Ban
ner," died of bronchitis, in Annapolis,
Saturday morning, in the ninety-sec.
ond year Of her age.
Joseph l. Peyton, q patent attorney,
of Washington, committed suicide yes
terday by blowing out his hrNins. De-
s~poudency, due to physical disorder,
was, it is believed, the 'as"' f. the
act. He was forty nine ( r. # age.
1t is announced in Paris III AT the
Gar has ordered Count Muravieff, the
newly appointed Russian minister Of
foreign affairs, to visit Paris so as to be
presented to Predident Faure and enter
into relations with the French minis.
ters.
The button that for twenty days had
lodged in little Tommy Madden's gull
let was removed Saturday by a danger
Gus surgical operation, done at the Post
Graduate Hospital, in Washington. In
all human probability, so far as the
trained foresight of the surgeons can
tell, the boy will ecove from the
operation.
Helen Douglass, widow of the late
Frederick Douglass, has been granted a
dover in the estate of her deceased
husband. This action was taken Satur-
day by Judge Hagner, in Washington.
who rendered a decree appointing a
com omission to lay of dover and refer
red the cause to the auditor.
An accident Cd the Pittsburg and
Western Railway, near Clarion, Pa, on
Saturday evening resulted in the death
of three railroad men and the injury oil
several others and about fifteen pas
sengers, AS the passenger train south
from Kane, which passes Clarion juno
ton at 2:25, approached Paint Creek
trestle bridge, the airbrakes refused to
work, and the whole train, consisting
of engine, baggage and postal car and
two coaches, plunged over the trestle.
According to a Havana dispatch,
Captain General Weyler declares that
there are only a few rebels left in Ha-
vana and Matanzas provinces, and that
they can easily be dispersed. Admiral
Navarro denies the reports from Key
| West to the effect that the gunboat
Cometa has been captured by the insur-
gents. He says that the gunboat still
continues to cruise along tne south
coast of Cuba. The report of the at
tempted capture of General Weyler is
also denied.
From Henderson, KY, her home,
the death is announced of Mrs. Lucy
Thornton, widow of DR.. Churchill
Jones Thornton, who was the son Of
Col. Reuben Thornton and Anna Maria
Washington, a granddaughter of Chas.
Washington, the brother of the Presi-
dent. Her father was William Bever-
ly, of King George county. Her moth
er was Sarah Ann Posey, the youngest
daughter of General Thomas Posey, Of
the Revolution, this daughter having
been given by her mother, Mrs. Posey
(born Alexander\ to her sister, Mrs.
William Fitzhugb, of King George, as
| she had no children Of her own.