Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-08-05
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| r. 3, Conaut, cashier cf the Elliott National
Bank of Boston, ia Gellulter to the amount
| of $40, 900.
! Switzerland has received a grand diploma Of
honor at the Paris Exposition for tho display
of watches, and also nine gold medals.
Tho Cincinnati grocery firm of r. NJ. Bishop,
tho head of which is the present Governor OF
the State, has suspended. The liabilities
amount to $500 0QD.
| A bill has been introduced into The Parlla..
ment of British Columbia imposing tax OF
sixty dollars per annum for every Chinese per
son in the province.
Yesterday was the anniversary Of the cmancl'
patton Of the colored race in the West ludlee,
and the walters ut tho Stockton House, Cape
| May, celebrated the event by appropriately
decorating the tables in the dining room.
An insane woman twenty seven years old, the
daughter Of Tbaddeus Frost, al Belmont. Mas
sachusetts, on Friday last poured kerosene over
her head and clothes. and setting fire to 1t, WAS
| 80 terribly burned that death cEsued.
A. NJ. Tullis, wealthy cattle raiser Ct Grand
Island, Sacramento county, CaI,, was murdered
on Friday evening while at work 10 his orchard.
1t is suspected that he has been murdered be
cause OF his refusal TO discharge tho Cinnamon
employed by him as ralchmcn.
Mike VIM, living near West Randolph, VT.
on Saturday morning shot his infant child and
his wife. a son made his escape, and giving
the alarm, his father Was pursued, and ne,
| finding his lurking place was discovered shot
| himself dead The child will probably live
On Saturday afternoon G. II. Stone, while
carrying package containing $40, 900. intended
to pay the hands in llale's piano factory in
New York, was garrotcd By two men, who selz
| ed tho money and escaped in butchers cart
which they had left the moment before.
| The tow boat Brilliant exploded her boilers
opposite Gallipolls, Ohio, on Saturday, and
sunk almost Immediately, carrying down ono OF
| tho barges she had in tow. Captain Shumaker
and John George were killed, three others tat.
ally and three slightly injured.
| Michael Reese, whose estate in California is
valued at ten millions, has died 10 Wellensteln,
| Germany. 1t is believed he has left tho greater
portion of his wealth to benevolent institutions,
though he may have altered its disposition by o
| later will.
The silly PRACTICE of lighting fires by the use
of kerosene, found another viotim on Saturday
at Cohoes, New York, in Mrs. Rose Boudro,
who was literally roasted alive by the bursting
| Of can while she was using it Tor that pur-
pose
The military commission Tor the rcorganzi
ton of the army agreed upon bill during their
session at the White Sulphur Springs, which,
it is thought, if passed By Congress will tend
to improve the service. No antagonsm to the
army was displayed.
A dispatch from Toronto says:-A terrific
thunder, lightning, and hail storm, passed over
this city to day. Pellets of ice as largo as wal
nuts fell 10 large quantities, doing great damage
to fruit, ornamental trees and all gardens plants.
The damage to glass was quite serious.
The hostile Indians in Idaho arc still com
hitting ravages. Four Cinnamon were butch
cred, and another was spared in order to cook
their breakfast They told him he had better
leave, as three hundred more Indians from
Oregon would soon be there.
Josie Deisinger. aged II, and Myrtle levin,
aged l6 years, Philadelphia girls have beeu
arrested in New York and returned to the for
mer city, the former charged with the larceny
of some jewclry aud female wearing apparel,
and tho latter with having stolen S23 from her
mother.
| The Salem Conservative ays:-"Firgna
has made rapid progress 10 tho past decade.
Richmond has nearly or quite doubled its pop
ulation. Tho manufacturing interest OF the
capital city amounts to millions OF dollars an
nua|ly, whereas ten years ago it was almost
nAthiog.
Albert G. Dpng, formerly Ct Charleston.
| Kanawha county. West Virgiuia but living
near Lexington, Mo-, for the past fifteen years,
committed suicide on Wednesday last by TAX
ing strychnino and ohloroform. lie was aged
about seventy years. Financial troubles were
| the cause of his death.
Governor Cuom, of l!linois, has been ap
pcaled to for company Of militia to protect
the coal mines at Stanton, Macaupin county,
which arc threatened with destruction by the
striking miners lie has ordered the sheriff OF
| tho county to The scene OF the disturbance, with
orders to call to his aid such forces az may be
| deemed necessary,
The New York Herald correspondent accom-
panying Gen. Grant writes that tho eX Presl.
dont's reception throughout Scandinavia has
been remarkable On the oath nit. the General
reached Stockholm. Hero he was rendered a
dinner at the Embassy and was serenaded. He
has started by way of the Baltic for st. Peters
burg
The Chicago Tribune Of Saturday publishes
report showing that be winter crop OF wheat
of 1878 in tho United States outside Of Cali.
fornia is &C per cent. of our whole crop. In re.
gard to spriog wheat it is claimed, there will
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total of both wnter and spring wheat OF Is per
cent, or 50 per cent. above an average crop.
John G. King, pickle manufacturer, New
York, was robbed on Saturday of $4,000,
consisting of $4,000 in United States four
per cent. bonds, $40, 900 in currency and 1000
10 gold. EntraDce to Kings premises was eff.
lccted through tho roof, and the thief descend
cd to the second floor, and breaking open
closet took ont valiso containing the money
and bonds.
a highway robbery was committed in New
| York shortly after midnight yesterday morning
A detective arrested oDo Of the robbers and
| fired three shots after the others, who were es-
Gaping. Ooe of the balls struck Rudolph Heo,
entering his lung and infioting fatal wound
The wounded man declared he had nothing to
do with the robbery. The detective gave him.
self up.
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