Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-07-26
NEWS OF THE DAY.

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bered 1S7.
Secretary Bayard thinks the fishery trou-
bles will be amicably settled.
An electric motor manufacturing company
| has been incorporated in Baltimore.
The police of Wilmington, Del, made n
raid on policy shops Saturday evening.
The Washington baseball team on Satur-
day defeated the New York club 6 to l.
The impression prevails in Texas that
Mexico is determined not to give Cutting
up.
Boycotts have been declared in New York
against several of the jurors in the Thesis
Gaze.
1t is claimed that another successful test
has been made of the keely motor in Ralti-
more.
The funeral of the late Assistant Secre-
tary Hunter took place in Washington yes
terday.
A man named Rizzell was killed by light
ming at Swann's Point, Fender county, n.
c., Friday.
Lockwood. who murdered Miss Randell,
near Morris, Conn.,, was captured by mob
Saturday and lynched.
Miss Hattie Johnson, Of Brushy Fork, Ill,
was stung to death by hornets while gather
ing blackberries Saturday.
Henry Robinson, colored, was fatally shot
by policeman, in Hagerstown, Md, yes
terday, while resisting arrest.
John Yohe, bartender OF Bradford, Pa {,
was shot and killed Saturday by John
Thompson, a contractor of Washington.
In Austin, Texas, Saturday night Jere.
miah Sheehan was fatally stabbed by his
brother, Pat Sheehan, who was intoxicated.
A young lady in Port Clinton, Pa, has
refused TO marry man to whom she had
been engaged, for the reason that he had
| joined the Mormons.
Rev. Father Sherman, Of Red Hook, n.
V, has discarded his VOWS Of celibacy and
been married to Miss Tillie Mccoy by a
Protestant clergyman.
General Jubal A. Early has written let
ter denying the story recently circulated
that Gen. Lee courted death during the last
days of the Confederacy.
Mrs. Salle Baker, who lived at Holman's,
in Davie county, N. c., was struck by light
ming and instantly killed insthe presence OF
her little children, on Wednesday last
Jim Wilson, desperate negro, shot into
a posse who came to arrest him, in Robeson,
N. c., last week, killing one of the party.
He was Immediately riddled with bullets
Forty Russian Jews, most of them ped
oilers, and all of them paupers, were landed
at New York Saturday. They were detsio
cd, and will probably be sent back TO Eu'
rope.
Pretty Berthe Crawford, Of Washington,
who married Richard Stahl, the musical
director Of the Maid of Beleville" troupe,
has made the interesting discovery that
Stahl has another wife.
A Portland (Dakotal special says: ut is
estimated that the grain ruined by Fridays
hail storm in this section will aggregate
$50, 900 bushels, which at the present price
means loss of $3.50 OO0.
The evidence adduced in The trial of the
Chicago anarchists shows that they were q
compact organization, with wholesale muir
der as the recognized and accepted means
of accomplishing their ends.
Senator Berry, Of Arkansas, the successor
of Attorney. General Garland, has fondness
for chocolate caramels, and Congressman
Glover, Of Missouri, Can get away with more
chewing gum than school girl.
Charles the trustee ofthe Classon Avenue
Methodist Mission, in Brooklyn, n. y, who
was convicted of irdecently asSaultng Lulu
Peters, Is years old, and also his daughter
Jennie, was Saturday sen! enced to Stale
prison for 9! years
The United States Senate on Saturday
passed the sundry civil appropriation bill.
The House passed as q substitute for the bill
for the increase of the navy the proposition
agreed to by the committee on naval affairs
already published.
1t is now said that the final adjournm ent
of Congress may possibly take place the last
Of this week, hut concurrence Of the best
opinions on the subj ect leads to the belief
that it will be postponed until Monday Or
Tuesday Of next week.
The SchuyikiIl river bridge Of the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad at Philadelphia
has been completed, and the new line is now
on the east side Of the river, pushing its
way to tho depot Site corner of Chestnut
and Twenty.fourth streets.
A Miss Deeder, a young girl residing al
the foot of South Mountain, west OF Black
Rock, Md, had the nerve yesterday to kill
large rattlcsnake near her home. The
snake measured about fvo feet, and was
ornamentcd with eleven raltles and bull
ton.
A seventeen. year. old youth, fred with
the spirit of an Erostratus, attempted 10
initiate Brodie yesterday. He arrived on
the Brooklyn bridge and began to divest
himself of his clothing, but was hold by a
younger brother until o policeman took him
in charge.
The condition Of the three little girls who
were outraged Friday in Oldham county,
KY, by their teacher, one Wilson, is not SO
serious, and they will recover. Nothing has
been heard of Wilson since he was beaten
and driven half dead and naked to the
woods, where it is thought. be has since
died. s.Ei3.f SI
In fight at a German picnic at Glen
wood, Pa, near Pittsburg, last evening,
Henry Hans was killed and Thomas Illnart
and Gus. Dollar were hurt. The fight was
caused by Hans and his friends refusing to
give party of unknown roughs beer, which
they demanded without pay. A man named
McNally was arrested.
| F. Leon of Mansfield O. Saturday Der-