Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Massachusetts criminals will no lonl
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! Secretary Olney will not accept the
professorship of international law at
Harvard University.
George G. Tyler, wholesale lumber
dealer and box manufacturer of Balti-
more, filed a deed of trust yesterday.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
that the Russian press accuses England
of being at the bottom of the disturb
ances in Crete.
A bill providing for separate railroad
coaches for the white and colored
races passed the South Carolina House
of Representatives yesterday.
Bourke Cochran sailed for Europe
from New York yesterday. He said he
was going abroad on business, and
would return in FIVE weeks.
Thomas J. Beall, one of the leading
citizens of Montgomery county, Md,
died near Norbeck, yesterday evening,
in the sixty-sixth year of his age.
Mr.. Sanger Pullman, second son OF
the sleeping car magnate, has left his
fathers Chicago palace to become a
champagne salesman in New York.
1t is rurorcd that Andrew Carnegie
and John ID. Rockefeller have formed
an offensive and defensive alliance to
control the steel market of the world.
Mrs. H. NJ. Wise, niece of General
Sickles, who eloped from New Rochelle,
New York, year ago, had her hus-
band arrested on Tuesday for abandon
ment.
Mary c. Fulton, of New York, COM
mitted suicide in Bronx Park, that city,
on Tuesday, because consumption had
made her despair of recovery and mar
riage.
The butler employed by w. F.
Chrystie, of New York, recently dis
covered a lot of family records in the
attic, and sold them for old PAPER to q
junk dealer.
A special committee of the North
Carolina House of Delegates yesterday
reported favorably bill to annul the
lease of the North Carolina Railway to
the Southern Railway.
Mr.. William A. Saks died at the res
idence of his son, Isadore Saks, in
Washington, yesterday. Mr.. Saks was
a native of Germany, but came to
America over half century ago.
The Senate yesterday passed the az
ricultural appropriation bill, and MIR.
Morgan withdrew the Nicaraguan Ca
nal bill after a bitter speech. The
bankruptcy bill succeeded to it's posi-
ton.
Miss Middleton, a delicate young
woman, after being held up and robbed
of her pocketbook in Madison avenue,
New York, on Tuesday, led the chase
after the thief, who was caught by two
citizens.
George E. Brown, thirty.fve years
old, elevator conductor in the Federal
building in Baltimore, met horrible
death on Tuesday, being caught be-
tween the car and the wall of the shaft
and crushed.
Prince George, of Greece, sailed
from Athens yesterday with the Greek
torpedo fotilla with orders from the
King to prevent, by every means pos
sible, the landing of any Turkish
troops on the Island Of Crete.
At the conclusion of the final scene
of the opera "Martha" at the Metro
politan Opera House, in New York
last night Armand Castelmary, the
well known singer, reeled and before
assistance could be procured he fell
dead. Heart disease was the cause.
Phillip McElhone, son of the late j.
J. McElhone, formerly official reporter
at the Capitol, and Lewis Mex. Tur-
ner, both employees of the Congress
sional library, were arrested in Wash
ington yesterday charged with larceny
of autograph letters from the library.
The will of the late George B. Rob.
erts was admitted to probate at Nor
ristown, Pa, yesterday. The bulk OF
the estate is left to the widow and chill
dren of the testator, and $4,000 is to
20 to several charities. The amount
of the estate is not mentioned in the
will.
In dispatch from Caracas, Venezu-
ella, it is stated that Senior Michelena,
formerly Venezuelan minister to Great
Britain, has again attacked the bound
airy treaty with great bitterness, &C
cusing Secretary Olney of conspiracy
and England of singular turpitude in
her dealings with foreign nations.
Adjutant- General Stuart, of Pennsyl-
vania, yesterday advised the COM
manding officers of the National Guard
of Pennsylvania that owing to complica-
tons that have arisen regarding trans
portation the guard will not be pa
raded at the Inauguration of the Presi-
dent. elect on March next.
John NJ. Macbeth, a carpenter at
work on the new American Security
and Trust building in Washington, fell
from the sixth floor to the basement
yesterday afternoon. He was taken to
the Emergency Hospital, where it was
found that be had sustained a severe
fracture of an arm and two ribs, and it
is feared he has internal injuries which
will cause his death.
William Leming, of New York
city, well-dressed man about forty
five years of age, attempted suicide
by severing the arteries of his left wrist
with q razor yesterday at the Hotel
Raleigh, in Washington, where he
was q guest. He was taken TO
the Emergency Hospital, where at
an early hour this morning he was
resting quietly, though in serious con-
dition owing to the great loss of blood.
The Emperor intends to give a great
costume ball in Berlin on February "a