Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-04
NEWS OF THE DAY.

terday while bathing.
Mr.. Charles Todhunter, superintendent of
the Baltimore City Passenger Railway Co.,
died last night in that city.
The new president of Mexico has sent an
agent to New York to try to negotiate a
loan OF $50 900, 900 for that Republic.
The top of the Washington Monument is
now 507 feet above ground, the marble
portico being 49O feet, based on blue stone
Of II feet elevation.
Walter r. Foard, colored, of Baltimore,
grew tired Of his paramount last week, and
first robbed her and then set fire to the
house in which she was sleeping.
Three children of James Burgess, Ct
Grindstoue Island, St. Lawrence river were
buried while playing under bank day or
two ago. They were dead when found
The majority of the delegates to the
nominating convention, elected by the re-
pubIicans of Ex-Speaker keifer's district,
are opposed to returning him to Congress.
A duel took place Saturday at Cotton
Port, La, between Messrs. Ducote and
Lemoina. The former was dangerously
wounded in the lower portion Of the abdo-
men.
AilOti, a. 1ullSluS NIIlSo GWcHGS-e III
miles from Binghampton on the Albany
road, was half destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. The conaagration started shortly
after midnight and ragged for four hours and
a-half. The losses aggregate 5000.
Mrs Ellen McAdams, Of New York, was
arrested yesterday on the charge of NAL
practice. 1t is alleged that she practced
as midwife without proper license, and
that the death Of an infant of Mrs Hearne
was owing TO her carelessness and want of
skill.
In Cleveland, Ohio, Maud S. on Saturday
trotted n mile without skip, without a
mate and without urging in 209i. Bair,
the driver, made $4,000 by the mares
work, as by his contract he is to receive
$4,000 for beating Jay-Eye-See's best time
and $1,000 for lowering the mares own
record.
a prayer hospital was opened in Erie,
Pa, last week with most impressive re-
ligious exercises. The building, which is
large and commodious, has been secured
by n number Of ladies who prefer prayer to
physicians, and has been fittad up for the
reception of persons given up to death by
physicians
The steamer Pilgrim, of the Fall River
line, which left Newport about 10 o'clock
Saturday night for New York, when four
miles southeast of Beaver Tail, struck and
sunk the schooner Mariana Munson, jr, of
Port Jefferson, owned by Charles Taylor, for
Newport, with cargo of coal. The crew
was saved.
The San Francisco Chronicle published
yesterday morning four-column communi-
cation from W. M. Ketson, the original at
torney for Hiss Hill in her suit for divorce
against ex Senator Sharon. After stating
his reason for his withdrawal from the case,
he reaflirms that the word ''wfe" in the my
dear wife" letters is forgery.
A man by the name of Sleek man, residing
near Hagerstown, Md, was drowned at dam
6 on Wednesday evening willie attempting
| 10 cross the river in an improrised boat made
out OF Il box. Although he was an excellent
swimmer he was swept over the dam, and
his body was recovered on Thursday He
was 90 years Of age and leaves family.
1.-THE "Nourmahal,n Mr.. William B. AS
| tors private yacht, is said to be the finest
ship in the world. 1t is as large as many OF
the first class ocean steamers 1t is tuilt OF
| steel, is 232 feet long, 30 broad, and twenty
deep. 1t carries ] 400 horse power engine
| / 800 gallons of fresh water aud machine
which will make 500 pounds of ice daily.
Mr.. William Daniel, the candidate of the
prohibition party for Vice President of the
United States, spoke at the Druid Hill
Park gate (Raltimore) temperance meeting
yesterday. In the course of his remarks he
said the editor Of the Baltimore Methodist
lied when the latter said the prohibiLionists
had soft money plank in their platform.
Mrs. Francis Stegall, widow of Nicholas
Stegall, who died near Monroe, Union CO.,
N. G., on her death-be made the startling
confession that thirty years ago she had
murdered her husband by pouring molten
led in his ear while he was in a stupor of
intoxication. Stegall died suddenly while
on spree, but in all these years no foul
play had ever been suspected.
Yesterday afternoon Jacob Snavely, a
wealthy and prominent citizen of Keedys-
Vile, near Hagerstown, Nd, committed
suicide by hanging himself to the rafters Of
his wash house. He had been in i'll health
for some time, and was only missed fifteen
minutes before he was found. He was dead
when cut down. He was IS years of age,
and leaves q wife and several children.
d. w. and S. f. Middleton, of the bank
ing firm of Middleton & Co., of Washington,
which failed for q large amount some weeks
ago, were arrested Saturday upon warrant
sworn out by David r. Bremen, clerk in
the Agricultural Department, charging
them with the ENLIGHTENMENT of $4,000 of
his money. Both gave bail for their APP
pearance to day.
On Saturday night last, while Mr.. George
Hester and family, of Caswell county, N. c.,
were from home his smoke house and gra-
nary were burned down, and the body Of a
supplemented man named McNIurray, who
had lived with Mr.. Hester, was found hang
ing by the neck near the site of the smoke
house. Some think that the man committed
suicide after burning the houses, perhaps;
others that the houses were plundered and
burned and the man hung by the plunderers.
When between Lake Bluff and Lake For
est, ILL.,, day or two ago passenger train
on the Northwestern road ran over swarm
of bees, which had come out of the trunk of
an old tree standing in the pasture by the
roadside. The bees, angered at the death
of their queen and comrads, flew suddenly
through the open windows into the coaches