Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-08-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The King of Siam visited Queen Vic
toria at Osborne yesterday.

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toria at Osborne yesterday.
Plans are being prepared to push to
completion the project to connect New
Yosk with Jersey City by tunnel.
The domestic exports for the fiscal
wear, which ended on June 80 last,
were the largest in the history of the
United States and established new
record.
Miss Mabel Parrish, q beautiful young
woman of San Antonio, Tex, hiss disap-
peared from the Leland Hotel, Chicago,
in such way as to lead to suspicion
of foul play.
The Astor House, the oldest hotel In
New York, will soon be torn down, as
the lease expires shortly and the owner
will not grant a renewal. The hotel
was first opened In 1882.
John Cudshy, of Chicago, is at the
head of a corporation to be capitalized
at $25, 900, 900, which is to own and de-
velop nearly all the gold quartz mines
in eastern Alaska, which have been
discovered up to this time.
The Turkish newspapers say the
Turkish feet, which left the Darda-
nelles on Tuesday, has only been order
ed out for ev. lution. 1t had been pre-
viously announced that the fleet was
going to Crete and that collision with
the foreign feet there was feared.
1t is again stated that Senator Cor.
man, of Maryland, will not be a candi.
date for reelection. The reasons fol-
his determination are given by one Of
the Senator's friends, leader of the
Maryland democracy, who says the
causes are of q personal character and
his health is one of them.
Jim Key, a marvelously well edu
Gated horse, owned by VIM. Key, 8
highly-respected negro of Shelbyville,
Tenn, and which has been on exhibi
ton at the Centennial Exhibition fol
two months, has been sod Lo o. G. Duff
field, of New York, for $4,000 and
shipped to that city. Key devoted
seven years to teaching and training the
horse.
Charles Selby, carpenter, was tried
in the Police Court of Washington yes
terday, on the charge of selling q keg
of beer without license. 1t was shown
that his children were sick and desti
tute and that he was forced to sell the
beer in order to buy medicine. Sen
tence was waived by Judge Scott, who
took pity on the man and gave him pc
cuniary assistance.
Yesterday Miss Minnie Winters
daughter of John Winters, farmer
while gathering huckleberries at Au
rora, Preston county, W. Va, q shorl
distance from Oakland, was criminally
assaulted by two strange men. The
girl came home in precarious condi
ton. A large party of lumbermen are
out searching for the sssailants, and i
caught they will doubtless be summari
ly dealt with.
]. B. Sewall, once a prominent law
yer at the Birmingham, Ala, bar, dice
Tuesday night OF alcoholism, aged 81
in the rooms of cheap lodging house
Sewall was a granddaughter of Presi
dent Tyler, and was native of Virgin
ia, where he was highly. connected. HI
especially requested before death tina
his remains be inferred at Birmingham
so as to put his relatives to no trouble
or expense. Sewall went to Birmipg
ham nine years ago.
A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va.
says Except in the Fairmont region
where ]. w. Rae and Joseph Wood ap
pear to be making some Roadway, the
strike leaders are losing courage. Thu
strike in the Kanawha Valley is fail
ure thus far, while in the New River
region there has been but little to len6
encouragement. On the Norfolk anc
Western there is nothing to indicate
that strike was ordered, aside from G
few disheartened agitators, who are mel
coldly by the miners.
The Vigilant proved her superiority
once more yesterday when she wor
the race of the New York Yacht Clut
from New London to Brenton's Rec
Lighthouse. The Navahoe pushed her
to the finish, and led from the moment
the gun sounded up to the time they
squared away for the lighthouse. In
the schooner class the Colonis Won
with the Emerald second. The official
time of the leaders was as follows
Sloops, Vigilant, 2:10; Navahoe, PA.
Schooners. Colonia, 2:42:40; Emerald,
2:44:41. Newport, R. l., which is now
crowded with leaders of fashion and
many persons distinguished in politics
and other fields, gave fete yesterday
in honor of the North Atlantic squad
ron and the New York Yacht Club.