Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-27
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

Friday. The loss will reach probably
5000.
One hundred thousand Sir Knights
Templar of the United States drank a
toast on Christmas to the Most Emf
nent Grand Master, w. La Rue Thomas,
vino resides in Baltimore.
1t is reported in Ohio that Governor
Bushnell will declare for free silver and
will receive the democratic vote for
United States Senator, together with
that of the antiHanna republicans.
Secretary Sherman, by direction OF
the President, on Friday evening issued
an appeal to the public asking for con-
tributinns of money, provisions, cloth
ing, &c., to aid the suffering in Cuba.
On the Carolina grounds the fishermen
are occasionally catching white chad
and taking large quantities of fine rock
just now. The Norfolk markets, how
ever, are we'll supplied with shad from
southern waters.
It is reported from Shanghai that
seventeen British warships are of Che
mulpo, Corea, to support the British
copsul's protest against the Kings
practical yielding of the government Of
| Corea to the Russians.
General Miles, commander of the
army, and other officers are said to
favor change in the uniforms of the
army by which the cavalry would be
attired like foreign hussars and the in
fantry and artillery in buff and blue.
o. S. Long, clerk of the West Vir-
GINA Supreme Court, and lieutenant
commander of the Scottish Rite Mason
~ for the Southern Jurisdiction of the
United States, died at Charleston
last night of dysentery, after short
illness.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
the Washington executive has made
overtures TO Denmark for the sale OF q
narrow but carefully defined stretch OF
land in northwestern Greenland,
where the Americans intend to estab.
ish naval coaling stations.
A crowd of 100 or more men and boys
we're firing Christmas salute from an
old cannon on the outskirts Of Ashe-
Vile, N. C., on Saturday when can OF
thirty pounds of powder exploded 10
the thick of the crowd. Thirty or forty
persons were injured, but none, tits be-
lisved, fatally.
On Christmas Emperor William pre-.
sented the Empress with beautiful
! bracelet, consisting of miniatures OF
himself and their seven children, set in
diamonds. In the centre is the por-
trait of Princess Luschen, and below
it is the Emperor's portrait in heart
shaped setting.
Count Mstsoukata, the prime minis
ter of Japan, and the minister of me-
rine have resigned. 1t is probable
Marquis Ito will be the premier. The
Imperial Diet has been dissolved before
the House of Representatives bad
started discussion of the motion OF no
confidence in the Cabinet.
Milton Neal and his aged wife were
shot to death by an unknown assassin
at their home near Jacksonville, Pa,
some time during Christmas. Their
bodies were found that night by their
son, who was passing the house and
stopped to pay Christmas call on his
parents. Neal was one of the most
prominent and prosperous farmers OF
the vicinity in which he lived. The
murderer has not been apprehended
A Mrs. Jarvis and her nine children,
the youngest baby, were burned tc
death at o'clock yesterday morning
in four-room cottage occupied by the
Jarvis and two other families in Lon.
don. The unfortunate family occupied
the upper floor. The occupants of the
lower floor escaped. By strange CO.
incidence Mr.. Jarvis, the woman's hus.
band, who had been suffering from con.
sumption, died in the workhouse mfr
mary that afternoon without having
heard of the disaster.
Miss Anna Virginia Wells, daughter
of Judge Lewis S. Wells, and young
lady we'll known in social and musical
circles, committed suicide at her fatt-
er's home in Washington about Two
o'clock, by shooting herself through
the yesterday heart. Miss Wells was SO
years old. She had been in i'll health
for the past four months and was con-
fined to her home the greater portion
of the time. The suicide of Miss Leila
Herbert last week also added to Miss
Wells's depression ofspirits.
The wife of Jacob Peyer, living near
Park River, N. D., on Saturday poison
ed her four little children with strych-
nine and then took poison herself. Mra.
Peyer had quarreled with her husband.
The children died with scarcely a
tremor, but the woman suffered hor-
ribly. She lived long enough to see
her husband while conscious, though
insane, and went out of the world
haunting him over the bodies of their
lifeless children. The husband and
wife had quarrelled short time before
the latter committed the terrible deed.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
Russia is preparing temporary quarters
for 10000 troops at Port Arthur The
dispatch adds that there is evidence
that the British policy of complaisance
and apathy is ended. A British squad
ron oil thirteen ships has left Port Ham
ilton and is proceeding north along the
coast of Corea, it is believed, with the
idea of supporting Great Britain's a.
titude against Russia. Another dis
patch says it is reported from Toxic
that England and japan have reached
complete understanding as to the
Chinese question. The attitude Of the
United States toward the dismember-