Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-07-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

a conference OF labor Leaders IN Fltts-
burg last night decided to recommend a
a settlement of the coal miners strike
by arbitration.
The republican conferees on the tariff
bill are making satisfactory progress.
Not until final agreement has been
reached will either of the two houses
be called upon to act.
Many peopled in the neighborhood
of Somerville, Mass, are suffering from
poisoned skin, caused by being touched
by the brown.tail moth, new pest in
that part of New England.
The Lansburgh Furniture and Carpet
Company, of Washington, has brought
libel suit against the Elmira Table
Company aud the Indiana Cabinet
Workers. Union for $50, 900.
1t is the general impression that Con-
gress will decline to enact any legisla-
ton after the passage of the tariff bill.
There is decided opposition to the pro-
posed currency commission.
Joseph Daniels, mulatto, who deals
in musical instruments, jewelry, &C.,
eloped from Baltimore yesterday with
Sallie Johnson, pretty 6fteen-yesr-
old girl, who was employed by him as
clerk.
Mr.. Clevelanus order reducing the
number of pension agencies from eigh.
teen to nine, which was to have gone
into effect September 1st, will be re.
voked by President Mckinley within a
few days.
E1.Queen Liliuokalani, of Bawaii,
left Washington this morning for the
summer, going first to New York and
later to Cape May. Newport and other
eastern resorts. In the autumn she,
perhaps, may return to Honolulu.
Of the $4,000 at the disposal of Con-
sui General Lee to aid destitute Ameri-
cans in Cuba, there remains "a 900 to
be expended. He has given relief to
every destitute American he could find,
and sent some of them Lack to the
United States.
The ambassadors of the powers, at
Constantinople, acting upon instruc-
tons from their respective governments
have presented collective note to the
Turkish government demanding q ces-
sation of the obstruction of the peace
negotiations between Turkey and
Greece.
Efforts on the part of the physician
in charge of the insane hospital for
women in the City of Mexico to discover
some safe narcotic which should pro-
duce sleep have resulted in bringing in
to use remedy prepared from the seed
of white zapote. 1t produces tran
quill sleep, and since it has been used no
deaths from cerebral congestion have
been known at the institution.
Miss Hattie Echols, young lady
prominent in Atlanta society, disap-
peared from her mothers country
place at Lithia Springs last Wednes-
day, and was found in q room in q
hotel in stupor from drugged liquor.
She said that she had met strange
man, whom she cannot now recognize,
who had brought her to the hotel, but
that was all she could say. The police
are endeavoring to find the abductor.
A blazing trolley car ran at high
rate of speed for seven blocks in Jersey
City yesterday, With the passengers I'm
able to escape, and surrounded by
burning curtains. The motorman of
the car was unable to stop it and the
car kept on until the electrical connec-
tions were burned out. Many of the
passengers were slightly burned, and
the women who were in the car had
their hands burned in beating out the
sparks that fell upon their dresses.