Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-02-08
NEWS OF THE DAY.

A storm of great severity swept over
the southern and eastern sections of the
country on Saturday, and did consider
able damage.
A report comes from London that Sill
Julian Pauneefote, the British ambas
sador at Washington, will retire when
the arbitration treaty is accepted.
The Southern Railway is making g
desperate fight against the bill pending
in the North Carolina Legislature to
annul its lease of the North Carolina
Railway.
Mr.. Charles W. Brooks, the we'll
known criminal lawyer of New York
died yesterday at the S. R. Smith In.
Urinary at New Brighton, S. l., o.
peritonitis.
It is reported that the Gar of Russia
is suffering with epilepsy, and that his
condition is alarming to Europe's royal
families. He has been advised to allow
the new council of state to attend to
his imperial duties.
Mr.. Mark Hanna has decided that
he will accept no place in Mr.. McKin-
ley's cabinet. He proposes remaining
q candidate for the seat 10 the United
States Senate which Mr.. Sherman will
soon vacate, and will fight for it if nee
essary.
Jack the Slasher, colored, who terri
fe1 Washington couple of winters
ago by his deprcdations in the dead OF
night, when he mutilated carpets and
cut up clothes unmolested for several
months, has been sent to the insane
ward OF the Albany penitentisry.
Report of ghostly revel in q grave
yard at Stevens Corners, N. Y, broke
up dance on Saturday night and a
young woman, when young farmers re-
fused to investigate, went into the
cemetery alone and found an inebriated
friend who had caused the alarm.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland's step father,
DR.. Perrine, of Buffalo, is in luck. His
good fortune has come through the aid
of Secretary OF the Interior Francis and
other government officials, who have
decided that he is entitled to $4,000
acres of land in southern Florida.
The fires in Canea. Island of Crete,
started as a result of the conflicts be-
tween Christians and Mussulmans,
have broken out afresh, and several
villages in the suburbs are in flames.
Continual fusilades are kept up outside
the walls of the city, the soldiers siding
with the Mussulmans.
The President has signed, on the
recommendation of Secretary of the In.
terror Francis, an importat order re-
ducing the number of pension agencies
in the United States from eighteen to
nine. The object of the order is to eff.
feet very large saving to the govern
ment without mountaineering the pen
sioners.
In Washington on Saturday Judge
Cole dismissed the rule on Col. E. B.
Hay and Mr.. John W. Albaugh to show
cause why they should not be punished
for contempt of court. 1t was charged
that Colonel Hay and Manager Albaugh
had assisted Mr.. Mansfield, the actor,
to evade the deputy marshals who
were trying to serve process upon
him when he WIS playing at the La
fayette Square Theatre several weeks
ago.
Rev. Gilbert F. Williams, for ten
years past rector of Christ Church, near
the Navy Yard, in Washington, the
oldest Episcopal parish in the city, has
resigned and will go into retirement at
sanitarium. His health has been fail
ing since his daughters death. He
went to South Carolina six months ago
to recuperate, but was followed by dis
turbing rumors involving his pastoral
work. Rev. T. S. Childs, archdeacon
of Washington, will be in charge of the
church for the present, at least.
A freshet in the Patuxent river, Md,
on Saturday, flooded the lowlands of
Howard, Anne Arundel and Prince
Georges counties at Laurel. The tim
Der supports of the iron bridges at AL
berton were swept down the Patapsco.
The freshet was high in the Potomac
river at Williamsport. In Frederick
county the streams were so high that
some of the star route mails were inter-
rupted. The ice in the Susquehanna
river has established a gorge at Port
Deposit. A freshet and ice gorge in
Elk river carried away a bridge at Elk
ton and damaged several vessels.