Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-10-20
NEWS 0E TEsE DAX

Thousands of tons of grapes were frozen
along the Hudson river during the recent
cold wave.
The whole French infantry will be pro.
vided with new rifles next spring, at cost
of $2O,OOO,0 900.
Senior Don Louis de Potestad third secre-
tary to the Spanish legation, died yesterday
Afternoon ia Washington.
Rev. Charles Woodruff Rankin, S. I'd,
rector emeritus of St. Luke's Church, Carey
street, Baltimore, died last night after a
short illness.
Mrs. Elizabeth Magruder, widow Of the
late DR.. VIM. Magruder, of Washington,
died at Rockville, Md, on Monday after
brief Illness
Both branches OF the Baltimore Council
have passed the ordinance to indorse $780,
600 Of the bonds Of the Eastern Shore Rail.
road Company.
The second game for the base balI cham
pionship, between the Chicago League and
the st. Louis, Association clubs. at Chicago,
yesterday, resulted in victory for the St.
Louis by score of y to 0.
The twenty-flty anniversary of Emperor
Williams coronation and the ffty-ffth an.
nversary of the birth of Crown Prince
Frederick William were observed quietly by
the imperial family yesterday.
In the Vermont Legislature yesterday the
Senate gave George F. Edmunds 90 votes
| for United States Senator and w. II. Bing-
ham one. The vote of the House stood ::
Edmunds, 1919; Bingham, %; Veazy, 5; alb.
sent or not voting, S.
One Of the ushers at the White House
says his record shows that 1927 newly mar
ried couples have visited the Executive
Mansion within the past ten days. AS he is
considered an expert in picking them out,
his count may be regarded rs official.
Julian Revenels house on East Battery,
| Charleston, S. c., for which 900 was Of.
| fered before the earthquake, sold at auction
yesterday for SIG, l20, Notwithstanding the
! fact that the purchaser knew it would cost at
| least So, 600 TO repair the damage caused by
the quake.
A pseudo American doctor named Vivian,
who was concerned in recent notorious
elopement case at Birmingham, England
has been sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment for committing robbery in q Birming.
ham hotel. 1t was proved that he had
previously been convicted several times.
The Tammany, County Democracy and
| NCiuu Ol lDe
ninth congressional district of New York
last night nominated S. s. Cox for Congress.
The Tsmmany Hall and county democracy
conventions of the tenth congressional dis
trict nominated Gen. Francis II. Spnola for
Congress.
At Charlottesville, Ind, yesterday, S. G..
Whitaker, in bicycle race against time,
did one hundred miles in six hours one min
ute and fifteen seconds, twenty min
utes ahead Of the worlds record Two
hundred miles was done in fifteen hours
and thirty seconds. He stopped in twenty.
three hours forty-six minutes sixteen and
three.fifths seconds, forty.one miles ahead
ofthe best previous twenty -four-hour record
A Berlin dispatch says that reliable pri.
vate advices from Baden affirm that the bull.
letins reporting Emperor William as being
in good health are positively untrue Ac-
cording to those adeices the Emperor is
subject to daily attacks of syncope aud pro.
longed drowsiness. and recently was in a
ssmi-coma.ose condition for twenty hours
from which the doctors were unable to
rouse him. His condition is aggravated, it
is said, by chronic disease of the bladder
1t is feared that it will be impossible, with
the utmost care, to preserve his life for more
than few months longer.