Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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]. J. Miller, aged abouty sixty-seven
years, died at his residence near Beale.
ton on February Is.
Mrs. Frances Mansfield Johnston,
wife of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston,
died yesterday at her home in Balti-
more.
Mary Forward Black, widow of the
late Judge Jeremiah S. Black, aged
seventy.seven years, died at Brockie,
near York, Pa, yesterday.
1t is said that Major Mckinley will
appoint Mr.. John S. Wise, formerly OF
Virginia, United States District Attor.
ney for the Southern District of New
York.
George Frederick Harrison died at
"Longwood" his residence in Goochland
county, on Saturday, aged 76 years.
He was an honored Confederate
soldier.
A dispatch from Puerto Principe,
Cuba, says it is reported there that the
president of the Cuban republic, Saliva
dor Cisneros, Marquis of Santa Lucia,
is dead.
An engine and four freight cars Of
train eighty-four on c. & o. branch,
from Lexington to Balcony Falls, were
wrecked yesterday just east of Miller's
station. No one was injured.
The Court of Appeals of Maryland
Yesterday decided the Cecil county
race-track case that racing association
cannot operate more than q single
track and that for thirty days only.
MIR. Hanna finished his consultation
with Major Mckinley, yesterday, and
left for Cleveland that afternoon. He
says the tariff bill will be passed earlier
in the session than was anticipated.
Gov. Bushnell of Ohio, said last night
that he had received letter from Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley thanking him for
the appointment of Chairman NJ. A.
Hanna to succeed Mr.. Sherman in the
Senate, which he has promised to make.
Mr.. Allen, chairman of the Senate
appropriation committee, said yester
day that beginning to-day the Senate
would have TO sit until II or IL o'clock
at night every day until March 4. Even
then the six bills now behind could re.
ceive only one day each.
The governors palace at Canea, on
the Island of Crete, was burned yester
day, with all its archives. Fires hay
ing broken out in other parts of the
town incendiarism is suspected. A
dispatch from Berlin says the powers
have agreed that if Greece does not
yield, the powers will blockade the
port of Athens.
Fred. W. Crawford, an engineer at
the Builders Exchange, in Washington,
committed suicide about 6 o'clock
last night by drinking an ounce of car.
bolic acid, at the rooms of his daughter,
Mrs. Grimes, in the clearinghouse OF
]. P. Lawrence, No. 1856 Thirteenth
street northwest. III health and de-
spondency caused the act.
The worst of the flood seems to be
over in Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee. The damage to proper
ty in the stricken area will amount to
millions of dollars, but cannot as yet
be calculated Thousands of persons
have had their homes swept away or
rendered temporarily uninhabitable,
Hi Wang, Chinaman fifty-one years
old, wss committed to the almshouse,
in New York, yesterday, by Justice
Goetting. Hi Wang told the court that
he had been without home for three
months He had appealed to his fell
low-countrymen, but they were too
poor to help him. Wang said he had
been in this country for twenty-seven
years. Justice Goetting said after the
commitment that the case was the first
that he had ever heard of where
Chinaman was committed to the aims
house.