Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-01-18
NEWS OF THE DAY.

G. n. r. ' n. republican, has de-
cided not ~ ~ i"st the election OF
Robert L. Taylor, democrat, as govern.
or of Tennessee.
The census of Germany, just COM
pleted, shows the total population OF
the empire in December, 1895, to have
been So, 279,9O1.
Sixteen children were burned to
death by the fire which destroyed the
Buckner Orphan Home, at Dallas,
Texas, on Saturday.
According to advices from Havana,
via Key West, the insurgents are burn
ing the extensive cane fields in the
province of Havana.
Three masked men on Saturday
evening bound the inmates and robbed
the house of the Potomac bridge keep
er at Brunswick, Frederick county, Sc
curing $3.50.
The interesting ceremony of invest.
ing the Rev. T. ]. Conaty with the Of
fee OF its rector will be held tomorrow
at the Catholic University of America
in Washington.
The man at the Maryland University
Hospital, OF Baltimore, who could not
remember his name or whereabouts,
recollected that he was John V. Allen,
of Suffield, Conn.
Five men were injured in a collision
between B. & o. through train and
local train on the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway at Skillman's station,
N. j., on Saturday evening.
1t is said in the event that Senator
Pritchard is not elected it is possible
that the republicans of the North Caro-
lima Legislature may combine with the
democrats and elect democrat.
Mr.. Mckinley, it is stated, is having
trouble in placing the Treasury port
folio. 1t has been offered to three mem
bers of Congress and to several well
known business men and declined by
them.
Capt. B. Frank Kirby, of the steamer
Castor, of the Baltimore Steam Packet
Co., running between Baltimore and
Norfolk, died suddenly of heart disease
Saturday at his home in Baltimore,
aged fifty-fiv years.
March Is is still the date for the
opening of the extra session of the next
Congress, according to the latest word
faom the President-elect, who proposes
to issue his proclamation as soon as
inauguration day is over.
Right Rev. Richard 81. Wilmer,
Episcopal bishop of Alabama, is lying
critically i'll at his home at Spring Hill,
seven miles from Mobile. He was born
in this city in 1916, while his father was
rector of st. Paul's Church.
Henry Rinehart. aged 60 years, OF
Baltimore, has applied for partial d.
vorce from Annie Rinehart, aged 90
years, and for an injunction restraining
Der from contracting debts in his name
They were married two years ago.
Mr.. M. A. Hanna is an avowed car
didate for the United States Senator
ship to succeed Senator Sherman who
will be Secretary of State in Mr.. Nc
Kinley cabinet, 1t is said, however,
that he will be opposed by Senator
Foraker and Governor Bushnell.
Yesterday summons was sent to
Berlin for Prof. Bergman, the distin-
flushed German surgeon, to 60 to st.
Petersburg to perform an operation
upon the Car to prevent the extension
of an osseous excrescence, which has
appeared in the region of the Uranium.
A great storm has been raging in
Minnesota and the Dakotas for the past
twenty eight hours and last night the
temperature dropped over degree an
hour. The fall of snow has been very
heavy and the wind has ragged from
twenty. eight miles an hour at Mankato
to forty-two at Detroit.
VIM. S. Moore, the theatrical agent
who was the cause of Capt Chapman
raiding the famous Seeley dinner at
Sherry's, in New York, by repeating
that his step.daughter, Annabelle, the
dancer, had been asked to do an i'm
modest dance, died at his residence in
that city yesterday of pneumonia.