Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-03-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t is reported from Camaguay that
Salvador Sisneros, president of the re.
public, is dead.
The blockade Of Crete by the COM
bined fleets of the powers was formally
begun yesterday.
The celebration of the centenary Of
the birth of Emperor William 1 was
begun in Germany yesterday.
Gov. Pingree will not resign the gov
ernorship and will not be a candidate
for Mayor of Detroit at the specinl
election april 5.
There is chance that an English
tramp steamer bound for Glasgow has
rescued sixteen of the foundered steam
or st. Nazaire's passengers.
On his child's grave in Mt. Vernon
cemetery, Philadelphia, Andrew Soeh.
ner, aged A years, was found dead on
Saturday with bullet hole in his head.
Police Commissioner Grant made the
announcement at New York on Satur.
day, after a careful personal investiga
ton, that he had positively discovered
corruption in the police department OF
that city.
The Japanese consul in New York
says he is authorized TO say that his
government will continue the use Of
silver, and that all silver bullion now
in it's possession will be made into sub
sidiary coins.
Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of Brook
Ign, n. Y, will not be allowed to lee
ture in the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION Hall, at Philadelphia, because
of his recent utterances regarding Jonah
and the whale.
Postmaster General Gary has an
nounced that in distributing the pa
tronage of the postoflices he would
continue the old policy OF allowing
Senators to recommend postmasters
for their home Offices.
The boiler of the locomotive which
was hauling the Chicago and Boston
special on the Lake Shore and Michi
gan Southern Railroad blew up yester-
day, instantly killing the engineer and
fireman, and completely demolishing
the engine.
Gen. Joseph A. Fullerton, of St.
Louis, was killed and twelve others
wounded by the accident to the Cincin.
natl and Baltimore fast mail and passen-
ger train at the bridge over the Big
Youhiogheny river, in Garrett county, a
mile and half from Oakland, Md, on
Saturday.
The Wilmington M. E. Conference,
in session at Chestertown, Md, on
Saturday voted in favor of permitting
women to take part in the general con-
ference, and against equal representa-
ton by lay delegates. A resolution
was also passed condemning the prac-
tice of transferring ministers from one
conference to another.
In Washington on Saturday Mira e
Macomber filed suit against Mrs. Sara
A. Spencer for S25 900 for defamation of
character. Miss Macomber alleges
that while she was student at Mrs.
Spencer's business college, Mrs. Spen-
Ger, in the presence Of one or more pu-
pills, said that she was person of bad
character and that she was unfit for the
OIu6T SCuOldTS W hSSOClhU0 Will.
The long overdue American clipper
ship It. f. Cakes, which left Hong
Kong July 4, 1896, 259 days ago, with a
general cargo for New York, and which
had been given up for lost, was towed
into that port yesterday morning by the
British steamer Kasbek, Captain Muir,
which picked her up last Thursday in
latitude 1910, longitude 6S "A. The
Cakes crew was sick with scurvy, and
six had died from that disease.
Henry G. Payne, national commit
teemau of Wisconsin, has declined to
accept any of the diplomatic appoint
ments rendered to him by the Presi.
dent, and will remain in Wisconsin,
where he is in power, and where the
next legislature will elect him United
States Senator to succeed Mitchell. He
has been disgruntled ever since Mr..
Mckinley refused to make him mem.
Der of the Cabinet, and it is said has
taken this step to show his displeasure.