Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Secretary Olney has been offered the
chair of international law at Harvard
University.
G. r. Newcomer, Chicago lawyer,
was arrested yesterday on the charge of
splitting on the floor of q street Car. He
will sue for damages.
A new dispensary measure intended
to meet the recent decision OF the q. s.
Supreme Court has been introduced in
the South Carolina Legislature.
Friends of the Nicaragua canal bill
in The Senate have agreed to withdraw
that measure, az favorable action can
not be secured in the House at this ses-
sion.
The House committee favors the res
toration OF the Mckinley rates on wood
and manufactures OF wood, but the
duty on white pine il fixed at 81 a
thousand feet, double the Mckinley
duty.
1t is reported in Boston that c. z.
Clark will go out of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford and Chauncey
NJ. Depew will go out of the New York
Central and be succeeded by Samuel
Spencer.
Charles R-abourne, the noted base
ball player, for many years pitcher OF
the Boston and Providence National
League Clubs, died yesterday at Bloom
lngton, Illinois, of paresis, aged forty
seven years.
DR.. James Poindexter Hambleton
died yesterday at Providence Hospital,
Washington, to which institution he
was removed in the morning from his
late and long place of residence, the
Owen House. DR.. Hambleton was
born in Pittsylvania county, Va, No
vember l6, 1928.
At the musicale given yesterday az
ternoon by ex-Queen Liliuokalani in
her apartments at the Shoreham, in
Washington, she sang tso numbers,
one a native song and the other an
original composition. She accompa-
MED herself in each instance upon the
autoharp, which she plays with skill
Richard II. Green, jr., pleaded guilty
in the United States District Court, in
Baltimore, yesterday, to making false
entries in the books of the Farmers and
Planters National Bank of Annapolis
where he was formerly employed al
boOkkeeper. He was sentenced by
Judge Morris to five years in the peni
Tertiary, the lowest penalty.
Gov. Russell has sent special mes
sage to the North Carolina Legislature
recommending the annulment of the
lease of the North Carolina Railway to
the Southern Railway and favoriDg its
lease to the Seaboard Air Line. The
Governor also says the Seaboard can be
made to purchase or lease the Atlantic
and North Carolina Railway on terms
very satisfactory TO the State.
The republicans of South Carolina
are prepared to spring sensation al
the counting of the electoral vote in
Congress next Wednesday, by protest
ing against the counting of the vote Of
that State for Bryan and Sewall. Rep
resentative Murray, the only colored
member of the House, who represents
the Charleston district, will claim that
the election laws, and the State constl.
tuition upon which they are based, are
not in accord with the federal consti-
tuition, and that at the late election
moro than hundred thousand electors
were denied their right to express their
choice at the ballot box, while in all
less than 60, 600 votes were counted. II
the House, with it's overwhelming re.
publican majority, should sustain the
petition and the Senate, with its mar
row and uncertain majority, should
take the opposite course, deadlock in
the electoral count, similar to that
which precipitated the famous electoral
commission, might follow.