Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Germany has acquiesced in the Pope's
settlement of the Carolines question.
Mrs. Riel, on the day before her hus-
bands execution, gave birth to still-born
child
Gov Lloyd has been elected Senior Grand
Warden of the Maryland Grand Lodge of
Mssons.
The secret service division last year made
AL arrests and captured $305,5SO in couu
terteit money.
Secretary Manning has placed detectives
on each floor of the Treasury Department =
watch over the clerks.
Turkey has formally protested against the
Servian invasion, and reserves the right to
take military action in the matter.
President Cleveland has received from
King Malietoa, of Samoa, o present of o
number Of articles of Samoan manufacture.
Surgeon General Hamilton recommends
that the government purchase the land on
which is placed the Cape Charles quarantine
station.
Nipple Mitchell was elected U. S. Sen
ator from Oregon yesterday on the third
ballot, the democrats in the Legislature rot.
ing for him !!
The President had one hundred callers
yesterday, including q lady whom he de.
clined TO kiss and young lady with whom
he spent fifteen minutes in animated con.
versation.
During the progress of an investigation OF
the county insane asylum at Chicago yes.
terday, DR.. Herman testified that when he
took charge of the asylum q year ago he
found patients tied with ropes and in strait
jackets. Other patients were covered with
sores tied up with filthy rags infested with
vermin and maggots. Other witnesses tes-
titled to cases Of similar neglect and abuse
OF patients by attendants, in some instances
choral being given in large quantities to keep
patients asleep or too supplied to be trouble
some.
The convention of the p. E. Diocese OF
Easton yesterday elected Rev. DR.. George
Williamson Smith, president of Trinity Col
lege, Hartford, bishop of the diocese to sue.
coed the late Bishop Lay. Rev. DR.. Smith
is about fifty years old. He was ordained
in Maryland in 1860, and was for time as
sistant in Epiphany Church, Washington.
He was at one time chaplain in the U. S.
navy. He had long been rector Of a church
at Jamaica, Long Island, then went to the
Church of the the Redeemer Brooklyn, N.
Y, and then became president of Trinity
College, which position ho has held about
five years.
Annie Lyons, q progressing young Wo.
man, was arrested in Boston, yesterday, on
| charge of attempted wholesale poisoning
of the family and servants Of Chas. w. Par
ker, Of that city, by putting arsenic in the
-four used by the family. All of the family
and little beggar-girl, who was given some
| bread, were made sick, but all recovered.
The victims ate the poisoned bread for near
y three weeks without knowing what made
them sick. Upon examination it was dis
covered that handful Of clear arsenic was
hidden 10 the barrel. Miss Lyons had been
employed by Mr.. Parker as cook, but was
discharged because she could not agree with
other servants. The prisoner denies the
poisoning. She was held in $4,000 bail for
trial.
A terrible tragedy was enacted in Edge
field county, S. c., yesterday. One account
says Robert Jones occupied some land rent
ed by his relatives, Charles and Edward
Presley. They notified him they could no
longer pay the rent and that he must va
cate. Jones went to field where Edward
Presley, aged so, and his sons Charles and
Edward were blowing, and shot Charles
dead. Edward started in pursuit, when
Jones stabbed him MORALLY with knife.
Jones reloaded his gun aud killed the faith
er, old Mr.. Presley, who was the grand.
father Of Jones'5 wife. Jones then went to
the court house, entered the Jail and sur
rendered, remarking that he had killed
| three of the best men in the county. An
other account is that the Pressleys went to
the field where Jones was working, and
Jones killed them in self defence.