Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-05-07
News Of the DaY.

NEWS OF Enc DAY.
The Imports of specie to New York last
week ware two hundred and ninety-lhree thou
sand dollars, principally ia silver coin. The
exports OF specie Ter the same time were two
millions three ia udred aud ten thousand dol
lars, OF which one million Diue hundred thou.
sand Was gold coin and the balance silver. The
aggregate OF fresh beef shipped from New
York co Saturday was about two million
pounds, while canned meats filled several thou.
sand cases. The shipments of corn were some.
thing over one hundred Thousand bushels, be
sides those Of wheat and rye The cargoes of
other descriptions o! provisions were also nota
bly, large.
About Il week ago Mrs Shaw. wife Of rep
ut&ba citizen Of Miiledgevle, Ca, was found
dead in hvr house, terribly beaten and shot
through the head. Her little four.year old
daughter witnessed the deed and declared that
her father committed it, after two colored men
had been arrested on Suspicion Shaw was
then arrested. Mrs. Shaw's mother testified
that the murdered woman had said the night
before The murler that Shaw was very angry
with her aGd she requested her to rear the
child 10 ease he murdered her Shaw made an
inconsistent statement and Was committed for
trial.
Nicholas Mccoy, "a cattle dealer, arrived st
New IolE Saturday lrora The West with $1,000,
Intending to proceed to Austria An Italian,
whom McCOy had informed Is to the money he
carried, accompanied him. In the afternoon
hicCoy .til in with stranger who had vaiise
which he said contained large amount Of gold.
By the CID coCt!icnc. game Mccoy Was per-
suaded 10 bacG over his money and take charge
Of the va!isa. The co1fIence mau disappear
ed and Mccoy found himself 10 possession Of
a valso full Of rolls OF lead pipe. The police
are at To.t on the CASE.
y union meeting Of the engineers employed
GU the railroads running through New Jersey
was held Saturday in jersey City, at which
representatives, from over forty divisions OF
the Eaeinecrs' brotherhood attended. Reso
lutions were adopted sympathizing With the
engineers Gu strike along the Reading rail
road 10 Philadelphia, and heartily endorsing
their ac!ioa. The resolutions pledge the
Brotherhood IT the State 10 sustain them
and contribute to their support until the strike
is over
at the convention Of the American Labor
Reform league, in New York last Saturday
Resolutions were offered denouucing both repub
iican and democratic parties. and declaring tina
~ candidate viii receive Labor reform vote
who IS not opposed 10 property in land, money
monopoly, compulsory taxation, and every de
vice giving Increase 10 property and an lncomt
without labor 10 its holders, and that men aoc
women should be pail, equally Tor the same la
Dor.
The appciu!lI:ut ot Noses d. Wickcrshau
as postmaster at Mobile is very obnoxious t
the people OF that city, Wickcrsham is
Pennsylvapia carpet baggcr who Was formerly
postmaster at Mobile, but removed by Presl
dent Grant on account Of Irregularities connect
ed with his management OF the Office. To-day
a protest against his appointment will be tclc
graphed !rom Mobile signcd by INC leading
bankers and merchants.
4 Bismarck, y. T., dispatch says the rush
Of immigration 10 the Black Hills continues uu
abatcd, ard every stage for DcaaToGd goe
fully loaded. Six companies OF the Eleventh
Infantry, four OF the F!!s. iofaDtry and clever
Of the Seventh cavalry haze left Bismarck tt
join the column undcr the command Of Genera
Miles. The lptantry went by steamer, and the
cavalry ere marching.
The body O! john I. DAILY, the missing New
York millionaire AID rroprielo: OF the Wind
sor Hotel Of tia! city, was found hanging 10 al
old house on Long Island yesterday. 1t il
thought that he committed suicide by hanging
after shooting himself.
The Supreme Court, at Harrisburg, to day
reversed the sentence Of death against Blasiu
PistoF;us, = Catholic priest, who was tried las
MAJ and coavicrnd Of the murder OF lsaa
Ja1uatt, near MorEis.oTu, Pennsylvania, il
Juiy, 1915.
Crazy Horse and band, numbering 1906
souls, together With 300 ponies and larger
quantity o! arms, surrendered at Camp Robin
sou, Nebraska, yesterday afternoon. Every
thing passed off very quietly
The boilers Of the steamer Sidonian, 0
Glasgow, from New York to Bristol. exploded
on the 29;h ult., killing the captain three en-
ginccrs, two fircmen and one trimmer.
The Virginia Slate Baptist Convention vii
commence in Danyi!!e on the 9th inst. 4 large
pumbcr Of delegates will be present from a!
parts OF he State.