Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-02-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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4 dispatch from Neenah Wisconsin, says
that john Hess. who had been confined in jail
at Oshkosh escaped on Saturday night and
Immediately went to Neenah, his former home;
thence to the home of his divorced wife and
murdered her first shooting, and then cutting
her throat from ear to ear. The murderer
then repaired to his brothers house and hid in
the attic, where he was discovered yesterday
morning, and an effort made to arrest him:
when he shot himself through the head.
Everett L. Wedgwood was arrested at Alden,
Wisconsin. on Saturday. as one of the robbers
of the United States Express Company ou the
Missouri and Pacific railroad. last fall He was
| brakeman on the railroad at the time of the
robbery He was arrested at the house of his
father. where he has been living during the
time since the robbery. He had loaned his
| father $1,000.
The [. S. Supreme Court yesterday render
| ed decision in the case of the Municipality OF
Baltimore VS.. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, affirming the Judgment Of the Cir
cult Court, which was that. he city should pay
| the income tax on loan made to the Company
prior to the passage of the Internal Revenue
act.
4 meeting of the coal miners Of the Lehigh
district was held at Hazeton on Saturday. and
resolutions adopted not to resume work unless
their demands are acquiesced in. Delegates
| from all the mines to are meet atPittston to-day
for discussion and it is thought that they will
propose conference by which terms may be
| agreed on.
The French Relief Committees in Baltimore
| l,, tn he
sum of SIS, 1925 \ dispatch yas received in
New York yesterday from MIR. Moran: Secre-
tav of the American Legation at London call
ing for supplies to be Immediately sent: as they
are most urgently needed in France.
Yesterday morning four new three story and
basement brick buildings. in course Of erection
in South Brooklyn fell with tremendous
crash. Heavy rains sapped the foundations.
which were upon made ground The buildings
are complete wreck. No one was injured.
The engine Of an express train on the Baltl
more and Ohio railroad ran off the track near
Warrington. yesterday. James Baker. Ell
gineer. after shutting off steam: jumped from
the engine. and was so badly injured that fears
are entertained Of his recovery
Governor Clayton: Of Arkansas. telegraphs
that in order to save the republican party in
that State from inevitable disruption. through
the present troubles there, he has decided to
resign his position as Senator-elect.
Captain Tyler, of one of the oyster schooners
sailing from Baltimore. had u hearing before
L. S. Commissioner Rogers yesterday On the
charge of matreating one Of his crew, and was
! discharged.
On Thursday week three Newburghers.
named respectively Charles F. and George June
and Gilbert Carpenter. skated from Newburgh
to Albany. distance of 100 miles in seven
hours and five minutes.
Theextcnsivc cotton batting factory of Grand
jeau 4 Ketcham. Patchhogue, L. l., wls burn
ed yesterday morning. Loss $4,000; insured for
1000. The property was owned by Oak
smith & Tale
1t is said that Mr. Charles Reade has chosen,
as the heroine Of his new novel, "A Great
Temptation. notorious courtesan, who has
been the talk of London for several years past.
The Joint High Commission held all intor-
NAL meeting in Washington yesterday morning
All the members were present except Sir John
Macdonald and Sir Stafford NorthcOte.
At Frederick, Md, yesterday, the Radicals
elected the Mayor: all the Board Of Aldermen,
and a majority of members Of the Council. The
majority is nearly two hundred.
In the Court of Common Pleas Of Baltimore
City yesterday the libel suit Of Louis Est against
the American was decided in favor Of The
American.
The Savings Institution of Wheeling, West
Virginia. yesterday failed. A detaultng cash
Ter was the cause.
Alvin G. Morton, one Of the most eminent
civil engineers in the United States, died in
New YOrk on Sunday.
4 New York undertaken advertlses whole
funeral for s2j,' consisting of IA coffin for
adult, hearse and one carriage.
THE LONG BRIDGE. What relates to the
Long Bridge is by act Of Congress in the
hands of the Pennsylvania Central Railway
Company, who are now constructing Il bridge
under the auspices Of competent engineers. who
will seek to make such structure as will
stand the test of the annual foods which usual
y carry away portions OF the Long Bridge.
10 this end they do not propose to destroy the
''causeway," but rather to raise it, while
at the ends of it pier bridges are to be built
which will be of such width and so numer-
Gus as to give assurance that the greatest floods
will pass harmlessly BY The reason that
they do not do so now is because the wooden
structures at each end of the causeway are only
partially piers, while much the larger portion
is 4 sort of heavy post and timber. work,
through which the water barely finds its
way and which is almost as much an obstacle
to the passing Of water in times o. foods as the
causeway itself Doubtless the extensive piers
that will supply the place Of the cumbrous
frame work in question will allow full and
free passage Of the water at all times and
if anything can be done to turn the current of
the river, or portion Off so as to deepen the
channel on the Washington side, (which has
been filled up by the effect Of the wretched
condition of the Long Bridge such pier work