Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The sub committee of the House
committee on currency and banking
will submit complete currency bill.
I A new issue of the counterfeit -
treasury note has made its appearance.
l. bears the check letter 3 and plate
No. IS.
The accomplice OF Karditza, who at
tempted to assassinate King George Of
Greece in at Athens last Saturday, has
been arrested.
Michael F. Dryer, the well-known
American turf man, is dying at Graves
end, n. Y. His sons, Charles F. and
James Dryer, are at his bedside.
Miss Mamie Osmcn, aged twepty-one
years. committed suicide ut her home
in Baltimore, yesterday evening, by
swallowing carbolic acid, after quar-.
rel with her lover.
The National League baseball meet
ing at St. Louis yesterday adopted
measure that will do away with obscen-
ity and vulQarity on the field in the
presence of spectators.
The one hundredth and fourteenth
session of the Baltimore Annual Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church commenced this morning at
Waugh Church, Washington, with
Bishop Merrill presiding.
1t is reported that Spain yesterday
purchased three CHILEAN warships,
VII ch have been in the market for
more than o year. The Armstrong;,
who are building the three battleships,
have heard nothing of the report.
At Hagerstown, Md, yesterday ever
ing the jury brought in verdict of
guilty against Thomas Barry, Samuel
Newcomer, Odd Sharer and Harry
10y, on the indictment charging them
with destroying the Castle monument
in the Riverview Cemetery, Williams
port.
The Navy Department has ordered
the ram Katahdin and the double-tur
reted monitor Miantonomah to be put
in commission by March 10. 1t is ex
planned that the purpose in putting
them in commission is to make places
for the survivors of the Maine now at
Key West waiting on the court of in
curry.
A dispatch from Washington says;
The southern republicans in the House
have determined to revolt against the
leaders aud to enter into combination
with such other republican members as
sympathize with their purpose and
with the democrats in order to pass
bill to pay meritorious war claims ad-
Indicated by the Court of Claims with
out further delay.
Count Esterhazy has applied to Gen.
Billot, French minister of war, for per,
mission to fight a duel with Col. Pic
quart, to whom he has already sent
seconds. Esterhazy's action is taken
in conss quence of Pcquart's testimony
at the lola trial, and the previous zeal
on the part of Picquart in endeavoring
to fasten upon Esterhazy the crime for
which Dreyfus is now serving life sen
tencs of confinement on the Isle Gu
Diable.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, yesterday, Sher-
iff Martin took the stand in his de-
Tense in the trial of himself and deputies
for the Lattimer shooting on Septemte d
10. The chief points of his testimony
we're that in response to the demands
of the coal companies in the Hazleton
region for protection to their properties
he had come to the city of HszletoD,
sworn in men as deputies whom he had |
every reason to believe were good, re-
liable citizens, and had impressed upon
them no. TO use their firearms unless
to save his or their lives; his life was in
danger when the deputies shot at La
timer, but he had not given the order
to fire, and he bad never been able TO
find out who had.
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