Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-25
EeWS OF the D6Y.

NeWs OF the Day.
A tornado on Thursday evening totally DO.
molshed a settlement in thu su burbs of Chicseo
and devastated the country. A farm house was
blown down Miss Bruner was instantly killed
and two young children were carried through
the air and hurled dead TO the ground twentv
rods away. A labor or was lifted from the ground
and his legs broken by falling. The Obstruction
of property is very serious. At Madison, Wis.
and shower of sticks, stones, boards and twig.
taken up from the sceno Of devastation at Min
eral Point. Fifteen or twenty barns vera de-
stroyed between Mount Vernon and Oregon
By the destruction Of p farm house two brothers
named Rergt wero killed. and a woman severely
injured. Three or four persons are reported
killed near Paoli.
AS workmen were engaged yesterday in tear.
ing down a large building at No. 80 Mercer e.
n. Y, portion of the second flooring gave swsv
and about dozen men were precipitated to the
basement in the midst of st least ton Of timber
plaster and bricks. One Of them WAS taken GU:
dead and four others wero found to be injured.
The name of the dead man WAS Fitzerald. The
| following is list of the injured: Patrick Hsr.
had his shoulder broken and also sustained in.
| ternal iDju which may proved fatal Michael
| Keran was severely Injured about the back and
| legs, but no bones were broken Geo. Mulgsn
was also slightly injured.
TIE House Committee on Elections has SUI
| thorized Mr.. Harris Ct Virginia, to report ts
rorably on the pending bill fixing the 81
of October IS the date fo- holding the cleo
ton for Representatives to the Forty Sixth Con-
gre:s in the State of West Virginia. The report;
in the South Carolina contested election case Of
Richardson against Rsiney were yesterday com.
| pleted by the committee. The maj orty report,
| recommending q new election, is signed by all
the democratic members, and the minority re.
port, declaring Raney, the sitting member, on
titled to the seat. is signed By all OF the repu5ii
can members.
| The bill! introduced in the Senate yesterday
by Mr. Kellogg to restore to the pension rolls tbs
names of certain soldiers OF the Mexican War,
proposes that action IN regard TO all persons
whose names we're dropped in pursuance Of the
act of February 4, 1852. and the joint resolution
| of March z, 1867, on the ground that they en-
couragsd the rebellion or wsro not known to
have Deen opposed TO it. The bill also apple:
| to the surviving widows of all such persons, bu!
provides that no money shall BIO paid on sccoun!
of pensions for the time during which the names
remained stricken from the rolls
Within week or two past i. was discovered
that stocks or bonds of the city CT Baltimore
amounting to about $50, 600, in which tho ostste
of q minor had been invested by order Of tn.
| Orphans Court # that city had been abstrscled
| from their place Of deposit, surrendered to the
| city register, and her bonds Issued in differ
emit name on which "a savings bank had made
advances. The matter Was placed in tho hands
| detectives, and yesterday evening thoy arrested
George w. Bishop, an ex-judge of the Orph.n='
| Court, charged with the fraudulent transfer and
| conversion Of the bonds.
Several reductions, ranging from to T. pc!
| cent in the wages Of the employees OF the Pacific
Mills, at Lawrence. Mass, will tako effect on
| Monday. The mechanics and yard hands, whose
wages were reduced q few months ago, will no.:
be affected this time. This is the second reduc-
ton in the Pacific Mills within four months. 1t
creates no excitement among the operatives, who
wages will be placed at the old figures. The re.
duction in the weaving department will average
ten por cent.
| Senator Johnston delivered IN argument yes
terdsy before the senate committee on railroads
on the bill introduced by him granting aid TO
| extend the Tex. Pac and Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio lines to ri Psso, there to con
| meet with the Southern Pacific road and also
aiding the connecting roads from FL Paso east t.
| Now Orleans, Vicksburg and Memphis. and
providing that each Of said roads shall pro rat"
and be subject to government control and opcrst-
| cd as through continuous line.
Captain j. Rhode, the diver, CT Bradford
Penn, has arrived in New York on his way t."
London Last September Rhodes dove oil TIA
| Sus 2onsion Bridge at Niagara Falls. On Iund
| T. he is to dive from London Bridge into tbs
| Thames. Rhodes says that if he has time AMI
| is permitted he will dive from tho Brooklyn
| Bridge.
The Conference Of tho Nj. Il. Church South,
| at Atlanta, has determined TO meet on tho lr:t
| Wednesday in May, 1882, st Nashville, Tenn
The Conference adopted various reports on
minor changes in tho discipline and then adj
| journed sine die.
Five dwellings and ten business houses in
| Parkersburg, w. Va, wore burned yesterday
n,ornino ho q irn ORIGINATING in q negro Lighting
coal ire with coal oil. Firo engines wero
brought from Marietta TO assist in putting out the
fire. The loss IS supposed to be about $50, oOo.
George Watson and Alfred Rankin at Belle
fonte, Pa, yesterday swallowed carbolic acid by
using the wrong bottle for their morning bltter;,
| One Of them died and tho others recovery Is not
| expected.
Emile Hon.lon, who was to have been execul'
| ed at Columbus Texas, yesterday for tho muir
| der Of Malche, committed suicide in his cell by
| swallowing poison.