Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.

the New York Stock Exchange will
be opened on Good Friday for the first
time in years, owing to the possibility
OF war.
The Ohio legislature yesterday de-
feated the much discussed measure reg
ulating marriages on grounds of public
health.
The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
arrived from Southampton at New
York yesterday in FIVE days and TWEEN
ty hours.
The democrats won in municipal
elections in Chicago yesterday and o
silver democrat was elected mayor of
Milwaukee.
Rev. DR.. julius E. Grammer, pastor
of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church,
Baltimore, has published an article in
which he makes a strong argument
against war with Spain.
The Savannah Cotton Exchange yes.
terday evening by vote of 81 to y
voted in favor of averting q conflict
with Spain or any other country so far
as it can be done honoraoly.
A joint resolution providing for the
erection in Washington of monument
to the late Albert Pike, to be presented
to the United States by Scottish Rite
Masons, were yesterday adopted In the
Senate.
Local racetrack bills were passed by
the recent session of the Maryland ley
islature for Cecil and Hartford counties,
and general law, from which Wash
ington and Prince Georges are ex-
empted.
Baltimore was startled yesterday by
reports that shortage of 1880 had
been discovered in the accounts of DR..
James F. McSbane, former health COM
missioner. DR.. McShane refused to
make statement.
The middle States and the valley OF
the Ohio were very generally visited by
a fall of snow yesterday. The snow
was accompanied by biting winds and
freezing temperatures. Much damage
was done to budding fruit.
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Briggs, the ia
nous Presbyterian theologian, who has
resigned from the New York Presby-
terry, says that ne has been confirmed
in the Protestant Episcopal Church by
Bishop Potter, and has applied for holy
orders.
The home OF James Michaels, near
Sistersville, W. Va, was destroyed
by fire Monday night and the wife of
Michels and his two-year-old child
were found side by side in room.
The remains were burned to crisp.
Foul play is suspected.
Richard F. Lopez, vice president and
general manager of the Guarantors' Fl
nance Company, of Philadelphia, which
recently made an assignment, was held
in $25, 900 bail yesterday to answer at
court the charge OF conspiracy to de-
fraud the Peoples Bank.
A late dispatch from Shawneetown,
ILL.,. says that twenty-three known dead,
seven more missing, fifteen hundred
persons in actual need of food and
clothing, seven hundred persons home
less and damage to the amount of $500,
900 is the net result of the flood caused
there Sunday afternoon by break in a
levee.
Prince Alfred Impey, Of South At
RIGA, who went to Raleigh, N. c., last
August to attend Shaw University for
eight years and study theology and
medicine in order to prepare himself
for missionary work among his people,
died yesterday morning at the Colored
J Sanitarium at Southern Pines of rapid
consumption. He was not quite twenty
years old.
The War Department and the Gen.
eral of the Army are considering the
question of utilizing the eleven square
miles which the government owns at
the Chickamaugs Military Park as the
point for concentrating troops in the
South for organization and instruction,
also as the location of such reserves as
may be needed for the Gulf and South
Atlantic Notifications from New Or
leans to Charleston.
The Senate bill to pay the heirs of
the late John Roach the sum of $780,
154. AZ for losses alleged to have been
sustained in his ship building contracts
by reason of the governments seizure
of his yards, was passed after several
hours debate in the House of Repre-
sentatives yesterday evening. Several
other private bills were passed and at
the evening session the usual batch OF
pension bills were ground through.
William G. Henry, bookkeeper and
collector for McGill & Wallace, the
printers, in Washington, has disappear
ed. Henry cashed hundreds of dollars
worth of bogus checks, robbed his en-
ployers of hundreds more by false en-
tries in their books, carried off all the
fees and dues collected by him as an
officer OF Masonic lodge, and secured
complete outfit of clothing on credit
before he left Washington. Henry has
been a prominent leader in church
| work.
The election in Brownsville, Texas,
yesterday resulted in much bloodshed,
as result OF the contest between the
two factions known as the Reds and
the Blues. Two men were killed and
two wounded. Shortly after this q
mob broke into the Jail, where was con-
fined the man who had done the worst
work of the day, and killed him. They
dragged his body out into the street
and were about to burn it when wise
counsel prevailed, and it was taken to
an undertaker's. The Red ticket, with
Eben Cohen at ts head for Mayor, was
defeated. John Carson, who had first
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