Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-04-01
NEWS OF THE DAP.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
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At Scranton, Pennsylvania, yesterday, by
the breaking of chain connected with the
hosting machinery at the Diamond coal mines,
platform containing seventeen men was pre-
cipitated to the bottom of the shaft, one hun
dred and eighty-fve feet. Eleven men were
instantly killed, one has since died, and two
others cannot live. They leave eleven widows
and twenty eight orphans This is the most
disastrous accident that has happened in the
Lackawanna Valley coal fields for many years.
During the terrible storm Of Tuesday week,
and a little after midnight, a large grain ware
house, at Winona, Mimi, fell to the ground
with terrible crash. It was elevated above
the ground about six feet, and stood On piling.
The building contained about twenty thousand
bushels of wheat, four hundred bushels Of oats,
besides considerable other property, which was
dumped into pond OF water that had settled
beneath and around the warehouse.
It is stated that the summons to Gen. Rous-
seau to appear as witness in the lmpeaeh-
ment trial was made returnable April 10. The
summons was transmitted by the Sergeant at
arms, by telegraph, and an answer has been re-
ceiyed from Gen Rousseau, from Portland,
Oregon, that he will start Immediately.
The Legislature of New Jersey has adopted
resolutions requesting the President to protect
persons engaged in the guano trade in the Is
aud of Alta Vela, and to restore the island to
the jurisdiction of the u. s., and opposing the
purchase of any territory from the Government
of San Domingo until the island is restored.
In the Mobile City Court on Tuesday last,
the case against L. V. B. Martin, late U. S.
District Attorney, charged with assault upon
Judge Busted with intent to murder, was
called. The accused failed to appear, and his
bond was declared forfeited. I-,
Judge Pope, of the twelfth circuit Of Ala
bama, was arrested yesterday at Jacksonville
by the military authorities, and confined for
failure or refusal to execute jury orders. Judge
Pope was an original, and has been all the time
Union man. rt.;-
The New York Times has an extraordinary
charge made against Mr.. Van Wyck, the mem
Der of the Retrenehment Committee who was
so active in investigating the whiskey frauds.
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tool Of the whiskey ring, .,..
Gen. Grant, says the Cincinnati Commercial,
two years ago, while on visit to his home in
Ohio, expressed himself as unqualiGedly in ia
vor of giving the ballot to the c0ored men who
had entered the army Of the Union.
Several members of the Committee on Eec.
tions say it is not not true, as reported, that
the committee have decided to report against
the admission of Mr.. Hooper, the Mormon DEL
egate. The question has not been taken.
The New York Sun says that, owing to the
action Of the bricklayers' and carpenters unions
of New York, in the matter of hours Of labor
and wages, great many owners OF land have
abandoned their intentions to build this season.
The New York papers record the death Of
Dr. James NJ Quin, an eminent homeopathic
physician of that city, aged sixty. two years.
He was also distinguished for his great musi-
cal abilities.
In Kentucky, it is reported, there is much
resistance manifesting itself to the enforcement
of the revenue laws, and troops have been
asked for by the Government officers to enforce
the laws.
Brevet Brigader Gen. L. D. Watkins, COL
onel of the Goth infantry, died suddenly in New
Orleans, of congestion of the brain on Sunday
He was a son. in-law of Gen Rousseau.
A cotton fraud, involving $4,000, is being
unearther in New Orleans but the implicated
party is rusticating in Havana.
The Marquis De Bsssano, of the French Le-
CATION at Washington, will be succeeded by
Count Trivenne.
Efforts toward the formation of monthly
line Of steamers to this country are now making
in Denmark and Norway.
George Ashburn, prominent Radical poll
tician in Georgia, has been killed at Columbus,
Ia that State, by parties unknown.