Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-08-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

1t has already cost $4,000 to try the
Chicago anarchists.
The DeKalb statue hss been placed in po-
sition at Annapolis.
Geo. Chatterton, n veteran Of the Hawkins
Zouaves, hanged himself in New York Tues
day.
A lace of one hundred and f7e miles be.
tween sixty Baltimore pigeons has been ar
ranged.
Mr. Pendleton, United States Minister at
Berlin, has received furlough and will
visit Switzerland.
Mrs. Cleveland has had several slight at.
tacks of illness lately, and her physician ad-
vises change of air.
Daniel Hagerty, Of Baltimore, has been
appointed assistant superintendent of the
railway mail service.
Senator Beck deprecates the talk about
resortiug to extreme measures in settling
toe Mexican difficulty.
Sister Mary Margaret Mckee, formerly of
Baltimore, died at the Convent Of the Vista
ton, Frederick, d,yesterday.
DR.. W. W. Keen, of Washington, D. c.,
was thrown from bis carriage at Ostervi!le
Beach, Mass, yesterday, and badly hurt
Sixteen young ladies received the black
veil, and twenty-three took the white veil
at the Malinkrodt Convent, Wilkesbarre,
Pa, yesterday.
Dolly Adams has Withdrawn her charge
of laI ceny against Col. Glider, upon which
he was arrested as he was leaving New
York for the North Pole.
All the conservative members Of the
House of Commons who were appointed 10
places in the new cabinet have now been
reelected without opposition.
The American Bankers Association met
ut Boston yesterday and received letter
from ex.Sscretary Hugh Nc Cullcch giving
warning of financial dangers ahead
There is movement on foot in Ohio to
remove the body OF President William
Henry Harrison from North Bend, Ind to
Spring Grove Cemetery, at Cincinnati.
Genera Parsival, young Italian laborer,
employed OH the Piedmont and Cumberland
Railroad, was killed last night by an ex-
press train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road near Rawlings.
The Indiana State democratic convention
| nominated ticket for State officers and
adopted a platform approving President
Clevel8nd's administration aud opposing
prohbitory legislation on the liquor traffic
A chemist says that there is alcohol in al.
NEST everything. Milk contains small guam
titles of it, and some experts claim that it is
to be found in water this is true, asks
an exchange, what is total abstinence man
to drink?
The Duugannon Patriotic Union will
send deputation Of loyalist orators to the
United States and Canada to address pub
lie meetings throughout both countries in
the interest of the Itish opposition to home
rule.
Miss Sadie Nichols, ofSturgeon Bay, Wis,
who has been ut the Cape House, Cape May
Point, for about six weeks, committed sui-
eide by drowning yesterday morning. Her
| body Wa1 found on the beach with Il sand
bag attached to the waist. She was known
to be out of funds and respondent.
Mrs. Mary OBrien, of Chicago, who is
said to have fallen heir to fortune in Aus
tralia, and who was recently sent to an in.
sane asylum, had rehearing yesterday and
| the Jury rendered verdict that she is in
sane, aud that it was due to family dissen-
sions, the death of her son, and unnatural
and cupable treatment on the part of her
husband and children.
A telegram from Sierra Leone announces
the death of Rev. Moses A. Hopkins, minis
ter resident and consu-general from the
United States to Liberia. He arrived with
his family at Monrovia December Q last.
| Hopkins was of unmixed African blood,
| born slave some forty years ago, and on
| graduating from Auburn Theological Semi
nary became an earnest laborer for The ele-
Walton of his race.