Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-04-21
NEWS or THE D.a Z.

tx Governor John A. Dix is lying at tue
point of death at his residence ID New York
Row. G. G. De La Matyr, sreopbsok COO
gresham from indiana, preached twice in l>as
timore yesterday.
Phjladalnhis has spent quarter q! q ulac
dollars on Pinatorc, from which MT. Jeho 1.
Ford his nettcd about $4,000.
1t is re ported that Birdie Bell, othel"lEs:@ hrS.
Barrett, who recently shot Washineioi NATHAN
10 a New York hotel, is 10 PhiIadc!phla, ln =
diving condition, caused BY nervous pFosiration'
Patrick Sullivan was killed early yesterday
morning at Shaft No. OF the GuunoSjcrr
Water Works Of Baltimore. his supposed
murderer has been arrested.
About !, 700 COMMUNISTS paradcd tbn streets
of Chicago yesterday aod displayed irit .mUa-
torv banners. Abou; 400 of them were arEicu.
No disturbance occurred.
The steam engine and boiler works st " 'S-
pesboro', Pa, arc now running eleven hours
Ter day and two hours extra at night. OTcr
80 men are employed ID turning out farm ano
portable engines, saw mills ~.
Mrs. Howard. the woman who vas found dead
| ia house iu Washington. and her rcmalGa
| mutilated BY rats, was the owner OF real estate
valued at 81 200. There arc several claimants
| for the estate.
The suit of Eborherd Trushnim Of Washing.
| ton. aralust the Baltimore and Potomsc Ral!
| road, claiming $40 600 damages to his property
by the rapid running of trains, has been decld
| ed By q verdict for the Railroad Company
L,roy Nichols, a vel! known Wall street,
New York, broker, committed suicide IN room
of the st. Charles hotel, Now York, Saturday
morning, By taking ohloroforn. He was short
Of stocks and otherwise financially embarrassed.
| w. Fl. Bczette, author Of Moral Advice to
the Young" has boon sent to lall at WINNIE
ton. n G., charged with the commission oil
series of robborics from school houses. Among
the articles stolen were melodeon, seven chars
and books sufficient to make respectable
| library.
In tho trial at Lebanon, Pa, Saturday,, ci
| the six conspirators charged With the murder
of oseph r ,ber, iu d acembcr last Tor tie pur'
pose OF obtaining $4,000 lille insurance.
Mrs. Peters, daughter Of Charles Drew, QUO
| Of the prisoner, corrobnrated the testimony Of
her husband, dou!gi1g the Conspiracy.
jack S,crrctt. B. g. Jones and 0: B. Long,
charged with being threU of the highwaymen
| engaged in the late daring mail coach robbcclcs
10 Texas, have been arrested and sent to jail at
! Austin. Sterrett is son of Hou. Robt. Ser
rett, Of the Kentucky Legislature; Jooes fer
merl y held position Of honor snd trcst in St.
| Louis. and Long is PROMINENT hotel man OF
Fort Worth, Texas. ?
Horse thieves entered the house Of Mir. Eos
ter, an old settler, near Fort kearney, Wyo,
| ming, Tue SHAY night last, and hung him phil
| nearly dead to make him tell the Whereabouts
Of large sum of money they supposed him to
have. They failed in their purpose, theo huoa
him again. ransacked tho house. stole S'3. the
savings of bis children, and went otl, csirglng
also nis three horses with them.
% the Kansas City branch of the Hsonha
| and St. Joseph Railroad. Saturday moinirg, a
fr,ipht train ran upon trestle bridge which
was discovered to be on fire when /! was too
late to stop the engine, aud fourteen Cars 5r2kn
through. and the cars piled up in an llrlnnns!
wreck. took fire and were consumed. lwa men
sleeping in car filled With hous>hnd goods
were buried 10 the wreck, one OF them, i,!F.
Bailey, being rescued badly hurt. The ether
could not be found.