Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-02
NEWS OF The DAY.
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At Albany, yesterday, portion Of the east
wall OF a building 10 the process of demolition,
fell, carrying away the floors of the second and
third stories, and burying number OF people
in the ruins. A number OF women and child
rem were upon the first floor, gathering wood,
but how many were buried is unk nown: The
news created great excitement IN the vicinity.
Robert Fitzgerald, boy, was the tirst person
rescued. He was got out with little injury. A
ting the body of Miss Hogan, aged g. She
was dead when found. Subsequently the body
of Mrs Mcintyre was found 1t is believed
there are others in the ruins.
The Washington Star states that Sc cretary
McCulloch and Commissioner Rollins yester-
day had an interview in relation TO the appoint
ment Of Internal Revenue Supervisors, that
there was but little difference of opinion In re-
latlon to the appointments, and that the entire
list will soon be agreed upon. The Washing
ton Express, on the other hand, asserts that
charges will be preferred against Mr.. Rollins,
and that he will be removed from office.
The wife of a Philadelphia policeman on
Saturday threw her grandchild, three months
old, out of second story window, iracturlng
its skull The woman has been an inmate OF
an insane hospital for year or more, and was
released under the belief that she was fully
cured of her insanity. Before she was sent
there. she threw two of her own children out
of the windows of her house. ....
A speci al to the Democrat from Little Rock,
Arkansas, says that Governor Clayton of Ar
kansas has returned from Lewisburg, and re-
ports the instruction quoted, the court rein
Stated, and the trial resumed. The Governor
addressed the insurgents, ordering them to dis
perse, and the sheriff arriving with posse
three hundred strong, quiet was restored.
Warrants have been issued by Commissioner
Gatman in New York, for the arrest of proml-
nent revenue officials, at the instance Of solicit
tor Buckley, of the Internal Revenue Bureau.
Ex- Collector Smith is now in custody, and was
under examination at the Astor House. HE
charges against these officers have not yet been
made public.
On the 18th ult. nine negroes broke into Mrs,
Marks house, near Swain Mill, North Caro-
lima, violated her and her little daughter, and
as the latter screamed, they tore her tongue
from her mouth, and finally beat out her brains
against the jamb of the fire place. They then
killed Mrs Marks little boy, and set fire
to the house.
A spark from passing tug al Cleveland,
Ohio, ignited the refuse oil upon the river on
Saturday morning, and it blazed up furiously
1t burned for q half an hour. aud it was with
great difficulty that the fire was prevented
from communicating with buildings on the
rivers banks.
The statement OF the public debt for the
month Of August, which will be issued in few
days, will show an increase in the same OF
several millions cf dollars This is caused by
the heavy expenditures during the month, in
Guiding the payment Of the Alaska purchase
money.
|. The municipal election in Wilmington Del,
took place. yesterday. The contest was very
warm, and the vote is largely increased. Valen-
tine, the present incumbent Radical is cleo
ted Mayor by majority 100 greater than last
year
I The village of Sunnyilae, on the Northern
Railway, in Canada, caught fire from burn
ing forest on Saturday, and was entirely des-
troyed. Other villages ara threatened, as the
fires in the woods are still burning.
Two daughters Of Thos. B. Jones, Associate
Judge of Ocean county, N. j., were killed by
lightning yesterday in New Egypt, in that
county. They where aged II and II years. A
son OF Mr.. Jones was also severely injured