Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1872-06-07
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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The storm of Wednesday on the Eastern
coast was very disastrous to vessels The
schooner Jane. of Boston, from Bangor, with
lumber for Somerset, Massachusetts,, was drlv..
on ashore on Sounm Beach, aud Capt sAmes apd
ali hands lost The schooner, NJ NJ freeman,
If Dennis. went ashore at Folly Cove Cape
Ann. and only one maj. was sayed."~-sA aumber
of other vessels, mostly schooners, went ashore
and were lost, but the crews were saved. IL
is reported that, the Boston pilot boat Pet with
three boat REFERS on board, was dashed te
pieces on the Cohasset rocks last night IN the
storm and that all hands persisted u....
The strike of the stpkers at the Philadelphia
gas works still Continues, but about forty men
are at work The, strike. was, caused, by, the
men being charged with the price OF !, the shov-'
els used by them and other eXactlon5: The
trustees advertised for 500 mem this morning.
but very few applied. -Four hundred are on
strike. Last night the gas lights throughout
the CITY we're gradually diminishing, and it is
nrobable that in short time the city will be in
utter dark uess. / ri. II .4.
Within few months past several stores and
warehouses along the Mississippi river, between
St. Louis and Dubuque, Iowa, have been
robbed Of large amounts OF goods, ahd within
few days it has been ascertalned that an or
gauized gang of pirates exists IN that vicinity
| whose operations extend on and along the river
for several hundred miles above and below
St. Louis Some of the gang have been ar
rested. f.
Some of the strikers in New York threaten
to enliven their proceedings with murder if
certain parties who refuse to join iu:the strike
do not abstain from work So dangerous are
their movements that platoons OF extra police
men are held 10 readiness for service: 1t Is
feared that serious riots will occur IN different
portions of the city o.day.
A night or two ago young aud beautiful
GIRL about IS years of. age, named Emile
Liembergcr, arrived at the Union Depot Hotel,
in Pittsburg, and registered her name as being
from Baltimore. She was next morning,
breathing her last, having taken morphine. Ihe
suicide was caused by a love disappointment
There is convention now in session in New
York city which the members call THE Brew
ers' Congress-" Some of the largest manutac,
turers of malt liquors in the u. 5. are present
as delegates. The object Of the meeting seems
to be to discuss the excise laws and to demand
reduction in the tax on beer.
There is great excitement in the southern
portion of Arizona Territory, caused by the
depredatons of Apache Indians. 1t is reported
that the settlers. believing their lives to be IN
danger, have abandoned their houses and
growing crops and fed to Tuscon.
The Grand Lodge Of Alasons, now in session
at New York, yesterday passed resolutions re-
cognizing the Grand Lodges Of Utah and Brit:
ish Columbia, and elected Christopher Fox, OF
Buffalo, Grand Master.
Samuel Reed and j. B. futile, both we'll
known citizens of Aver, in Mass, have been
arrested and held to bail in $4,000 each,
charged with causing fire which nearly de-
stroycd that town on the 18th Of April last.
Three burglars, who hired room in build
ing adjoining the First National Bank in Jer-
soy City, succeeded in cutting through the
walls last night, but we're captured before they
had robbed the vaults.
An Exchange for the transaction of cotton
stock, bond and produce businesss was opened
10 Augusta, Georgia, yesterday. Its members
embrace the most prominent and substantial
merchants in the CITY,.
An organ-grinder of Taunton, Mass, has a
bank account of $4,000
The news of the triumph Of the Radicals in
Oregon is confirmed.