Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-07
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

IfE WD UI LUZ Oo1.
/ Ex.President ClevelaDd's little son is
quite sick at Princeton, n. ].
Elections were held in number of
Connecticut cities yesterday. The
democrats made gains in two cities and
lost in one.
At Greensboro, N. c., Sonly Ryan,
the wife murderer, was yesterday trieo,
convicted and sentenced to death, all
in fifteen minutes.
C.B. Collins, former State treasurer
of Florida, who is accused of embez-
zling over $50, 900, was arrested yester-
dsy and will be tried at Tallahassee.
Secretary Gage transmitted to Con-
gress yesterday the estimates of appro'
priations required for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1899, amounting to
1852, 647, 1855.
A jury yesterday gave verdict for
the heirs of Jay Gould in suit in New
York instituted by Mrs. Sarah Ann
Angel to establish dover rights to the
estate of the late fnancier.
The annual report of James Il.
Eckels, comptroller of the currency,
shows that on October 81 there were
3,617 national banks in active opera
ton, with capital stock of $3.50, 230, 295.
One thousand men from New York
and surrounding towns have already
enrolled their names to participate in
the pilgrimage to Ireland in July next
to commemorate the uprising of 179S
in that country.
Baron Won Bulow, German minister
for foreign affairs, yesterday made a
statement to the Reichstag that the
government did not wish to intimi-
date or provoke China, but proposed
to obtain satisfaction for the outrages
committed.
The bill providing for the increase of
the German navy was defeated in the
Reichstag yesterday. Chancellor Won
Hohenlohe made speech on the bill.
Herr Schoenlank, social democrat, de-
nounced the measure as the outcome OF
personal rule.
George Vanderbilt, the owner OF
Biltmore, near Asheville, N. c., will
sail for Europe in few days on his
way to India. He will be accompanied
by William B. Osgood Field, young
man we'll known in society. They will
travel extensively for year.
At Parsons, W. Va, yesterday the
Eastman murder trial was resumed.
The testimony was on the same line as
it has been for several days past; name
ly, to show that Colonel Eastman had
made threats upon the life of Frank
Thompson, and other testimony lead
ing up to the shooting on the train.
Henry Traylor committed suicide by
hanging with a handkerchief in cell
| in the Central Police Station, Baltimore
yesterday. He bad been locked up be-.
cause of intoxication. The act may
have been prompted by remorse. In
mis- pocket was pledge promising,
with divine help, not to take another
drink of liquor.
MIR. Bryan yesterday expressed him.
self az follows on tie Presidents mes
sage: 1.-THE message indicates an inter-
ton on the part of the President to aid
in turning the issue of paper money
over to the national banks and in the
meantime purpose to give gold fur
Their superiority over silver as money"
Two German warsbips arrived at
Port au Prince yesterday and presented
an ultimatum giving Hayti eight hours
10 which to comply with Germany's
demand for indemnity for the alleged
illegal arrest of Emil Lueders, Ger
nan citizen. 1t is said Hayti has indi-
Gated her willingness to comply with
the demand.
A cable from Rome says there has
been marked falling of of the receipts
of Peters pence, which constitute the
main source of the papal revenues. 1t
is therefore proposed at the Vatican to
cause to be placed in every Catholic
Church throughout the world statue
of ST. Peter, together with an aims box,
and appropriate inscription for the col.
lection of Peters pence. The United
States was formerly among the largest
contributors, but its offerings have fall
len off sadly in late years.