Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-25
NEWS OF THE DAY.

SoAiihSeohs
A party of eleven adventurous gold
seekers, among them three women and
a girl of IA, set sail yesterday from Ho.
boken for the Klondike.
Mrs. Langtry's yacht White Ladye
was sold yesterday to Lawson Johnson
for $50, 900, which was less than half
what the vessel cost and what was
spent on her,
The national committee of the mid
dle.of,the-road populists, which has
been meeting in st. Louis, has called a
national convention of that party for
April 6. 1895.
The British steamer Rossmore, which
arrived at New York yesterday, gave
food in midocean to the starving crew
OF the schooner Elite, bound FROM Spain
TO Newfoundland.
The royalists of Honolulu are en-.
desvoring to raise money to send re-
representatives. to Washington to oppose
the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands
to the United States.
The Thompson. Esstbam murder
trial, at Parsons, w. Va, was re-
sumed ) esterday, with Judge Holt on
the bench. Little progress was made.
as the entire day was consumed in try
ing to get a jury.
There was another scene of disorder
and riot in the lower house of the
Austrian Reichsrath yesterday. The
opposing elements in the house became
involved in fstcuffs and fought in the
chamber for about o quarter or an hour.
DR.. Daniel Quinn, the head of the
Greek department at the Catholic Uni
versity, in Washington, and one of the
most eminent scholars of Greek In
America, has resigned his position as a
member of the faculty of that institu-
ton.
There was considerable excitement
and almost panic at fire at No. {
Primary School, on Mullikiu street
Baltimore, yesterday, but none of the
children were hurt. Two fremen
were injured by the breaking OF hose
carriage.
Gen. Weyler has written letter to o
friend in Malaga, saying he is prepared
to support any political leader ''to car
ry on the glorious heritage of Cano.
vas adding: IF II had been allowed
to remain in Cuba, the war would have
been ended in May"
The wedding of Miss Aline O'Don-
nell to Niscount Sayve, of Paris, which
was to have taken place at st. Mat.
thew's Church, Washington, yesterday,
has been indefinitely postponed on &C.
count of the illness of the young lady.
She is suffering with typhoid fever.
Col. John J. Wade, member of the
Baltimore bar, died suddenly yesterday
at Spring Grove Asylum, where he was
visiting his son, DR.. ]. Percy Wade
superintendent of the asylum. He was
born in Montgomery county, Va, in
1924 and served in the Confederate
army during the war.
F. D. Highly, of Chicago, who design
ed the silver statue of Ada Rehan, the
actress, for the Worlds Fair in 1898,
while in New York on his way to
Washington said he expected to obtain
the consent of President Mckinley to
pose fer gold statue for exhibition at
the Paris Exposition in 1900.
At bull fight at Terreon, Mex yes.
terday, the seats of the Arena gave way
and the spectators were precipitated to
the ground. Four people were fatally
and fifteen others seriously injured
The accident caused panic, and but
for the presence of the police May
would have been trampled to death.
The manager of the bull ring was fined
$3.50 for being responsible for the acct
| dent.
The French ambassador. NJ. Pate
| rotre, has received cablegram from
his government requesting him to start
for Paris on Saturday next. Accord
ipgly, be will present his letters of re.
call to President Mckinley tomorrow,
sailing the next day on the French
liner La Champagne. The ceremony
attending the recall will occur at the
the White House at II Is o'clock to.
morrow morning, when there will be
the usual exchange of formal addresses
of courtesy between the President and
the retiring diplomatic,
Richard Cookers announcement OF
the political alliance between Tam
many and United States Senator Muir
ply for the purpose, among other
things, Of retiring ex-senator David B
Hill from active participation in demo.
cratic politics in New York, has caused
political sensation. The effect of the
new combination will be far-resching,
and gives prominence to this new deal
in politics. 1t is said that it has for its
purpose the nomination OF Hugh J.
Grant for governor next year, the con-
troll of the next legislature, the re.elec
ton of Murphy to the United States
Senate in 1899, and the selection of the
democratic candidate for President in
1900.
a projected fashionable wedding at
st. Mary Abbott's Church, London,
Tuesday was frustrated by the action
of the clerical party in the Church Of
England, which constantly and public
ly protests against the remarrisge OF d.
yorced persons. The prospective bride
was Miss Liela Bsysrd Crooke, cou-
sin of the Hon. Thomas F. Bsyard, late
United States ambassador to Eugland,
and the would-be groom Mr.. Lyon,
who has divorced wife. There were
present twenty clereymen and forty
lsymen aud women who had come to
protest against proclamation OF the
church, and soon afterward q messen-
ger announced that the wedding had
been abandoned.