Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-01
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The House of Representatives on
Saturday evening passed the agricultu.
raj appropriation bill, with it's usual
provision for the distribution of seeds.
The large hennery of S. W. Miller
Peters, at Berkeley Springs. including
incubators and five hundred chickens,
and other property were burned yes
terday.
Three representatives of a gigantic
London syndicate are in Cincinnati for
the purpose of gobbling up the big
breweries there, and success has so far
crowned their efforts.
Princess Louise, daughter of King
Leopold of Belgium, and wife of Prince
Philippe of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
brother of Prince Ferdinand of Bulga-
ria, has eloped with an Austrian Cap
tain of Hussars.
At Chicago Saturday night burglars
entered the shop of the A. II. Reeves
Gold Leaf Manufacturing Company,
15S Fifth avenue, blew open the safe
and secured 49, 900 in gold in various
stages of manufacture.
In Baltimore on Saturday the o. S.
grand iury ''rted Gen. Carlos Roloff,
DIR. JOSEF. !. ard John L. smith
for conspiring w firing to fit out the
Cuban flibustering expedition, said to
started from Baltimore July 8, 1895.
Frank Covely, to win bet, took
midwinter swim in East river at New
York yesterday. He jumped from the
side a vessel. Later in the day Miss
Agnes Schilling, of Brooklyn, hearing
of Covely's swim, said: Pooh! I can
do it." She then donned flannel
bathing suit, jumped from pier, and
swan like fish for 100 yards.
Ex.Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, is
in no way endeavoring to make a So
cial lion of herself during her stay in
Washington. While she has received
invitations to attend several social fun
tions she has declined tncm all. The
ex-queen spent yesterday very quietly,
going out but once and then to DR..
Talmage's church. Not caller ap-
peared.
Rev. DR.. H. Y. Satterlee, bishop of
the diocese of Washington, conducted
the ordination service yesterday which
conferred upon Rev. Alexander Rich,
of Trinity Church, Washington, the
full orders of the Protestant Episcopal
priesthood. The ceremony was per-
formed at the church named at the
morning service in the presence of an
unusually large number of the parish
toner's.
Bishop John ]. Keane, formerly rec
tor of the Catholic University at Wash
ington, and who was recently appoint.
ed bishop assistant al the pontlfical
throne in Rome, and who was later
made consultor to the congregations OF
the Propaganda and studies, has been
appointed canon of st. John Lateran.
BY making Bishop Keane an archbishop
and assistant at the pontifical throne,
the Pope has elevated his rank iu the
church so that there are but two high
err, those of patriarch and cardinal.
During the early hours of yesterday
two fires occurred in Hoboken, n. j.,
which resulted in the loss ofseven lives.
Many poor people were made homeless
and even had narrow escapes for their
lives. The fires occurred in different
parts of the city, and one OF them, at
least, is believed to have been of incen-
diary origin. The first fire started in
the three-story frame building at No.
40 Newark street. There a mother
and five children lost their lives. At
the other fire little girl was burned to
death.
Judge Ewing, of Chicago, has pro-
nounced one of the most peculiar SEN
fences upon Thomas Jackson, colored,
that has been heard in the criminal
court for several years. He sentenced
the man on five different charges, di-
recting that as soon as Jackson has
reached the limit on one he shall begin
the service of another. The charges
against the man were burglary, and the
limit of punishment in each case is u
years. Judge Ewing said that Jackson
deserved the full limit in each case, and
that he would so recommend to the
prison authorities.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
lies almost utterly helpless because OF
narrow ledge OF sunken rocks in the
Delaware river, above Marcus Hook
on which she struck heavily Satur-
day afternoon. Her lower double COM
partments, forward, were completely
stove in. The Brooklyn is still lying
at Marcus Hook, tied fore and aft to the
ice piers, and will not be moved until
there is absolutely no danger from the
huge cakes of ice which fill the Della
ware river. What extent the vessel is
injured cannot he ascertained until she
is dry-docked. There is plenty of wa
ter under the ships bottom where she
now lies.