Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.

NGWO VI LILY In
Ex.Congressman VIM. E. Mason was
nominated for Senator from Illinois by
the republican caucus at Springfield
yesterday.
Ex-President Harrison is in Wash
ington. He says he has not been Of
fered the post of ambassador to the
court of st. James.
N. G. Hansbrough was yesterday re-
elected United States Senator from
North Dakota by total vote of IS to
25 for W. A. Bentley, populist.
A dispatch from Teheran, Persia, says
than an earthquake occurred on the is
land of Kishm, in the Persian Gulf, on
January II, attended by enormous loss
of life.
In Wa! -" Yesterday Represen-
tative Wiiber, ol New York, filed Pc
tition for habeas corpus for the recov-
cry of his daughter, Edith, in the GUS
tody of her mother. This evening she
was assigned to her fathers custody.
The conferees of the two houses OF
Congress on the immigration bill have
reached an agreement. 1t has been
modified in several important particu-
lars and will probably be reported to-
day.
King Oscar of Sweden and Norway
opened the RigsdAg at Stockholm yes
terday and expressed qualification at
the request made to him to cooperate
in the arbitration of the future Anglo.
American disputes.
President Roosevelt, of the New
York police board, has declared him
self in favor of boxing and all forms of
rough, manly sports, while Commits
sioner Grant believes State lottery
would be an outlet for the gambling
spirit.
Alfred Ashbrook, millionaire sheep
owner, of Melbourne, Australia, died
in 1896, and left his estranged daugh-
ter, Edith, one-third of his vast estate.
The heiress is supposed to be in Chicago
or its vicinity, AID detectives are trying
to find her.
Jeter c. Pritchard, republican, re-
ceived Sc out of ITO votes for United
States Senator in the separate balloting
of the North Carolina legislative houses
yesterday. II he receives the same
number of votes on the joint ballot to-
day he will be elected.
Louis Croker, said to be brother OF
Richard Croker, the ex-Tammany lead
er, was stricken with valvular disease
of the heart in his room, in Georgetown,
yesterday morning and died at Emer-
gency Hospital about two hours later.
He died in poverty.
The board of health of New York
city has declared formally that con-
sumption is an infectious and oommuni-
cable disease and by an amendment to
the sanitary code physicians are COM
PEELED to report all case that come un
der tn Dir observation.
The action for divorce brought by
Prince de Chimay against Princess de
Chimay, formerly Miss Clara Ward, OF
Detroit, Mich, was heard at Charleroi,
Belgium, yesterday. The decision will
be rendered in fortnight, but, accord
ing to general opinion, it is believed
that the court will grant an absolute
divorce without hearing any testimony.
Gov. Lowndes. of Maryland, yester.
day appointed Friday, March II, for
the execution of George Matthews, the
murderer of James ]. Irwin, at Aliens
Fresh, Charles county, on August 2,
1896. Matthews was the paramount OF
Emma Irwin, the murdered mans
wife, who was on Monday acquitted in
the Baltimore court, charged with be-
ing an accessory to the crime.
The gold fever is on at Dahlonega,
Ca, and it is running higher every day.
Old prospectors from Cripple Creek
and South Africa are pouring in, and
capitalists are taking options as fast as
the can obtain them. There is no stalk
ing claims there as the property is held
under title. One hundred mines are
being developed within radius of two
miles of that town, where the United
States mint was located before the war.
John Johnson and Archie Joiner,
who, according to the confession of the
former, are guilty of the murder of the
five members of the Cotton family near
Amite, La, some time ago, and Gus
Williams, who is accused of numbering
his wife, were taken from the Jail there
last night by mob and lynched. A
force of deputies guarded the jail and
made stubborn resistance, but were
overpowered. Williams was hanged
in front of the Jail. The mob then pro-
ceeded from Amite with the other two,
to Tickfaw, La, where at 8 o'clock this
morning Johnson was burned at the
stake and Joiner was shot to death al
Tickfaw. Johnson was taken to the
home of the Cotton family, his victims,
bound to a stake, the touch applied to
the fagots and slowly tortured to death
He denied some of his former state
ments and blamed Joiner, but admitted
that he was guilty of the murders with
which he was charged.
SECRETARY CARL1sE's RECEPTION
The Secretary of the Treasury and