Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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Baltimore is happy once more in having
its mails to and from Norfolk via the old
Bay Line.
Pinkerton, the Chicago detective, yester
day recovered bag Of je@elry worth
$4,000 which had been stolen in CoviRg
ton, Ky.
In the q. S. Supreme Court The six causes
known as the Virginia coupon cases" have
been advanced and assigned for hearing on
March Is.
Gov. Plttison announces that if there
should be an outbreak of socialists ri Pitts
burg it will be put down promptly by any
force necessary.
Francis Joseph Spangler, who fought un
der the first Napoleon at Moscow and
Waterloo, died in Lancaster, Pa, On Tues
day, aged 9S years.
At the last State linnar, given by the
President, last night, Mrs. Randolph Tucker
Was escorted TO the table by Justice Gray
while Mr.. Tucker escor! al, Miss Lena
| Nevns
| The North Carolina House II Delegates
hss passed bill to pension eXFtonfsderate
soldiers who lost limbs in the S.,yice of the
State, or by reason Of WnundS are incapaci
tatcd for manual labor, or for loss of an eye.
Paddy Ryan Tuesday formally signitied
his Willingness to meet Sullivan, with or
without gloves, anywhere, for any amount.
Sullivan has already agreed TO fight Ryan.
| Richard II. Fox oilers champions da'
mond belt and Il purse OF - 800 il the men
will meet at New Orleans.
Mr.. Sherman in the Senate, yesterday
presented petition signed by thrty-seven
cranks asking that the electoral votes OF
South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Lon
| i-ana and Tennessee he thrown out on ac-
count of violence, bloodshed &. No no
tice was made Of the vote Of Ohio.
Tn the House OF Representatives yester-
day another step in the direction of cheaper
newspaper postage WAS taken by the intro
duGion oil IL bill from the Postollce Com
mittce fixing the rate of postage on publ
cations of the second class al ono cont per
pound or fraction thereof when sent by
publishers 10 bona lide subscribers.
The democratic joint caucus OF the Illinois
Legislature, III Springfield, yesterday nomi-
mated w. Il. Morrison as IL candidate for I.
s Senator. 1t will require l03 votes in The
legislative session TO elect. On Joint ballot
the vote is: democrats, 102: republicans,
102. Haines. independent, !. The repub-
|
| ing.
Some of the colored residents Of Belle
| flower, Ills, have received letters warning
them to move away. Colored children have
been badly treated at the public schools and
colored people is reported in other central
Illinois precincts, especially in the towns OF
SAybrool:, Gilman and Sbley. This in the
State that boasts Logan
| During severe wind storm Tuesday al
ternoon, train for Denver on the Colorado
Central Railroad was blown from the track
into ditch. OF the twenty passengers on
| board, eighteen were more or less in jured.
The injured were taken to Georgetown rs
soon as possible, where they received every
attention. The storm did much damage in
the town. A large number Of chimneys
were blown down and plate glass fronts
wrecked.
| A special dispatch from Alexandria says
the attack by Osman Dignas followers upon
scouting party of British cavalry proves
to have been very narrow escape from q
wholesale slaughter. The British, who num-
bered only SO men, were enclrcled by 900
Arabs, most Of whom were we'll mounted.
After some severe fighting the British charg-
ed in close column through the Arab lines
and succeeded in gaining shelter under the
guns of Suakim.
John See, the ex convict who murdered
Miss Key, tho wealthy English lady, in her
mansion at Babbicome, near Torquay, on
the 14th Of November last, aud then set fire
to her residence, has been convicted ofmur
der and sentenced to death, in London. 1t
will be remembered that he forged letters
of recommendation and obtained employ
ment from Miss Key rs her valet, and con-
| fessed, when arrested, that ho had assaulted
| and murdered the lady because she had re-
| fused TO marry him, but afterwards retract
| cd the confession.
Colonel Samuel Schoolleli McMaster
one of the most prominent citizens OF Wor-
cester county, Nd, died ut Snow Hill yes
terday, aged 67 years. In the politics OF
| the State he was quite prominent. In 1916
| no was elected on the Wing ticket as
| member of the House of Delegates. In 1850
he was elected to the State constitutional
convention. After the death of the Wing
! party he was for short time member of
| the Native American party, and was elected
in 1857 to fill Il vacancy in the State Senate.
| He was also member Of the constitutional
convention OF 1867. He was Union man
during the war.
Thomas O'Brien; at one time prominent
figure in the Fenian Brotherhood, ana who
il supposed to possess some knowledge Of
the movements OF the Irish nationalist and
dynamitards, said, in an interview at Chi |
cago yesterday, that the recent dynamite
explosions in London were planned in Paris |
Referring to the shooting of Rossa he said {:
Every true friend of Ireland must regret
it, as it will have the effect of making |
hero and martyr of blatherskte who
has as much to do with the blowing up Of
London Tower as I have, bit who has &C
CURED fictitious Importance from his own
mouthings."
VIRGINIA NEWS.