Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-02-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Rhode Island Locomotive Works,
at Providence, fled its petition in in.
solvency yesterday.
The Japanese government is serious
ly considering the retention of Wei.
HaiWei fer an indefinite period even
after China pays her war indemnity.
The petition of the Baltimore and
Ohio receivers to acquire $3.50 new
cars is opposed in the answer of the
mercantile Trust and Deposit Com
psny of Baltimore.
The President to-day sent to the
Senate the nomination of o. W. Petty,
to be postmaster at Charleston, W. Va,
| to succeed Mrs. Kenns, the widow oil
the late Senator Kenna.
| White people have so Systematically
boycotted Isaiah II. Loftin, the colored
postmaster at Hoganville, Ca, that bis
income from the Office has been reduc-
ed to eleven cents day.
An almost perfect fresco by Domenioo
del Chirlandajo, the illustrious Floren-
tine painter, has been discovered in g
church in Florence. 1t contains a por
trait of Amerigo Vespucci.
| Bushyhead, the famous Cherokee
statesman, died of Bright's disease al
Tia lequah, I. T., yesterday at the age
of rs He was the most cultured OF the
civilized Indians, and had held every
Office in the nation.
/ In his speech opposing the annexa-
ton of Hawaii, Senator White yester-
day criticised President Dole for couil G
to Washington when the treaty is un-
der consideration, and pronounced his
government fraud and irregular.
A merry party of four young per-
sons who were enjoying themssivt
90 the frozen surface of he Delaware
river, at Burlington, n. j., yesterday
evening, broke through the ice and one
of the party, Miss Nellie Fields, was
| drowned.
The general LAND Office at Washing
ton has decided the ca les of Archbishop
John Ireland, involving the right to
about 10000 acres of land in Mime
! sofa. In one case the decision is
| against the Archbishop and in the other
in his favor.
There were several exciting casual
| ties due to fire in various forms in
Philadelphia yesterday In conse
quence thereof two children are dead,
two others and their mother may die,
and four women were barely rescued
from terrible fate.
Thomas F. Donnelly. the democratic
leader in the New York assembly, yes
terday received letter from Mr.. Perry
Belmont, defending Senator Murphy
for his vote in favor of the Teller reso-
luton and contending that President
Mckinley had adopted similar course
at times in the past.
Several complaints of forgery and
false pretenses have been received at
Washington police headquarters against
Leslie Cook, the Baptist minister who
was arrested Thursday night as fugi.
tive from the Roanoke Jail. The prison
er will not be tried in Washington,
however, but will be returned to the
authorities at Roanoke.
During g personal debate in the
House yesterday Mr.. Norton, of Ohio,
in reply to remark made yesterday by
MIR. Ray, of New York, said with
due amenities and courtesies CT debate,
if the gentleman says that I did he lies
10 his throat. Mr.. Ray raised his
eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders and
leaned back in his seat.
A dispatch from Naples says that an
American lady by the name of Lily
Theurkauf has notified the police OF
her loss of dressing bag containing
vsluables worth 200, 900 francs on board
the steamer Furst Bismarck, from New
York, January %, on which she was a
passenger. No claim for the loss has
as yet been lodged with the United
States embassy at Rome.
The State Department has been mott
fed by Ambassador White, at Berlin,
of the modification of the original de.
cree issued by the Prussiau minister Of
finance, DR.. Miguel, prohibiting the i'm
portation of American fruit. Accord
ing to the ambassadors cablegram yes
terday. the decree does not apply to
dried fruits, while fresh fruit will be
admitted to entry If an examination
shows it's condition to be satisfactory.